Dashun Wang

Kellogg Chair of Technology at Kellogg, Founding director, Center for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern University

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

🔥Download the Science of Science book for FREE🔥

We're VERY excited to make the whole book freely available: https://t.co/F63RwwBxEj

Please help us RT & let everyone know of this resource!

#ScienceOfScience

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

fantastic work by an awesome group of people! bravo! check it out!!

[William J. Brady @william__brady]

✨New paper out @SpringerNature✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we custom-built. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional content + does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

Wonderful new work by Eddie and team! Wow!! 🤩

[Eddie Yang @ey_985]

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

Another hit from @yian_yin's lab! this time, super timely, important, and scary!!!

[Yian Yin @yian_yin]

📄 Excited to share our latest preprint: the first cross-field audit of LLM-hallucinated citations in science
⚠️ Across arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN & PMC, we estimate 147K fake citations in 2025 alone — threatening both the quality and equity of scientific work.

[Ari Holtzman @universeinanegg]

Dashun Wang talking 'airplanes for the mind'

🛩️ are heavier than air, but can fly faster than sound—remind you of another technology that "shouldn't" be able to work, but does?

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

Fascinating - Newton's gravity law turns out to be ... correct! largest scale validation. 3 centuries later, are we still doing Newton's homework for us?

https://t.co/rofHSd1lCu

[Yian Yin @yian_yin]

Fantastic analysis from journal submission data. It is also encouraging to see key findings from our recent @ScienceMagazine paper on #AI impact on science — increased productivity, more complex scientific writing, and emerging quality concerns — echoed in this setting.

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

New paper led by Minsu Park, showing that high impact interdisciplinary papers disproportionately come from deeply disciplinary grants. Check it out!

[Minsu Park @likeateenspirit]

A belated self-promotion of our new paper in @PNASNexus. We ask how the interdisciplinarity of a supporting grant and that of the focal paper jointly shape the paper's scientific impact (https://t.co/lrQQ5qixnk). Much assumed, rarely tested; so we tested it at scale! (1/n)

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

Check out the paper: https://t.co/YHfeDo0z9l

and the press release: https://t.co/eN6Vqehfhl

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[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

🚨Bipartisan-cited science is rare, unevenly distributed, and disproportionately influential. 🚨

Check out our latest paper in PNAS, led by @zfurnas

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[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

Bipartisan-cited science thus highlights both the limits of science in bridging polarization and its potential to provide a shared evidentiary foundation for addressing pressing challenges.

Key Q going forward is how to improve the evidentiary basis for policymaking.

Can gen AI help? or make it much worse? Stay tuned for more!

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[Chenhao Tan @ChenhaoTan]

Abstract is due in two days! Join us for an exciting day!

[CASBS @CASBSStanford]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | CASBS 2026 Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS)

July 26-31 | App deadline: May 8

AIMS brings together scholars from across the social sciences for a week of learning, practice & collaboration

DETAILS & APP: https://t.co/4RpBdxfDRp

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

@MishaTeplitskiy 💰 or put more positively, the success of science itself.

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

Join us in the beautiful Boulder this summer! Get your abstract in by April 6!!!

[ICSSI @ICSSIConference]

The abstract submission window for ICSSI has been extended by a week to April 6, 2026 @ 11:59 PM AoE!

Find guidelines, templates, and submission link here: https://t.co/COAFlLGxfv

See you in Boulder June 29 - July 1, or come on June 28 for the hackathon!

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

Excited to share that our SciSciGPT paper is featured on the cover of Nature Computational Science.

Special credit to Hanna Renedo — this is also the first piece coming out of our newly launched CSSI art studio. More to come.

[Nature Computational Science @NatComputSci]

🚨Our March issue is now live, including an AI collaborator for science of science, a method for property-guided molecule generation, a Comment on the future of density functional theory, and much more! https://t.co/awhHBEQn9V

📰Cover: https://t.co/vRSrupJW2l