Jack Tang

Assistant Professor of Digital Comm @BamaAPR @uaccis | Advocacy Comm, Social Media, Computational Social Science | PhD @USCAnnenberg | @CUHKofficial Alumnus

[Jack Tang @jackltang]

New pub with @lgmx721 and Dmitri Williams in the @JMP_Hogrefe: Sticking to Your Guns – Testing Competing Effects of Social Identity and Competition Motivation in an Online Multiplayer Game | Journal of Media Psychology https://t.co/ZEPd1mTRDH

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

The only AI that won't invent your citations just dropped.

Everything else is gambling with your credibility.

When researchers ask LLMs to synthesize scientific literature, they get confident answers. But...

Wrong paper. Invented author.
Looks legit. Isn’t.

OpenScholar just changed that:

[Chenhao Tan @ChenhaoTan]

Really enjoyed this piece by Munger et al. on the future of peer reviewing: https://t.co/Jfrrxj73Dt

Highly recommend everyone to read! The explicit incorporation of LLMs in technical checks should be considered by CS conferences as well!

[David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand]

🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?"
We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (@grok & @Perplexity):
📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps
📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok
📌Bot agreement with fact-checks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers
https://t.co/g3fy9S16Uh
w @captaineco_fr @_mohsen_m

[Jack Tang @jackltang]

💡Check our latest JCMC paper on intergroup contact in a multiplayer game with @lgmx721, Alex Bisberg, Steffie Kim, and Dmitri Williams

Intergroup contact, contact heterogeneity, and cross-group friendship: evidence from a global prosocial mobile game https://t.co/6kC3PCQ8gF

[Winston Lin @linstonwin]

This is one of the best short articles I've read on P-values, CIs, and significance tests

[Jack Tang @jackltang]

@Prolific Luckily I found the ticket number: 8984965. Appreciate it if you can quickly take a look at it.

[Jack Tang @jackltang]

Is there any human client support team behind @Prolific ? I submitted a ticket a few days ago and no one responded and in the meantime your system keeps sending over 30 automatic emails to bomb my inbox.

[David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand]

🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

[Kobi Hackenburg @KobiHackenburg]

🚨 New today in @ScienceMagazine !!🚨

We’re publishing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues

We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more…

🧵:

[Jack Tang @jackltang]

@Prolific Thanks for getting back to me. Unfortunately the ticket submission system you offered is a chat-bot based system and provided no ticket number in the chat records or any kind of submission receipt via email.

[Robert Youssef @rryssf]

Holy shit… this might be the most unreal academic-writing upgrade I’ve ever seen 🤯

A team from NUS just dropped PaperDebugger an in-editor, multi-agent system that lives inside Overleaf and rewrites your paper with you in real time.

Not copy-paste. Not a sidebar chatbot.

Actual agentic editing inside your LaTeX editor.

Here’s why this is insane 👇

→ You highlight a messy paragraph, and it launches a full critique + rewrite pipeline
→ Returns clean before–after diffs like Git, then patches your document instantly
→ Runs Reviewer, Enhancer, Scoring, and Researcher agents in parallel
→ Uses Kubernetes pods to scale multi-agent reasoning inside the editor
→ Taps an MCP toolchain for literature search, reference lookup, and section-level enhancement

Deep research mode is even crazier:

It pulls relevant arXiv papers, summarizes them, compares your method against them, and generates citation-ready tables… all inline while you're writing.

It’s basically a mini committee of reviewers embedded in your document rewriting, critiquing, sourcing, and polishing without ever breaking flow.

If this scales, Overleaf stops being an editor… and becomes a full AI-assisted research environment.

[Chenyan Jia @JiaChenyan]

Our new study in @ScienceMagazine built an LLM-powered browser extension to rerank social media feeds without requiring platform cooperation. In a preregistered 10-day field experiment (N=1,256), we found that algorithmic ranking can both raise and lower levels of affective political polarization. https://t.co/XW9MRySStp

[Gabriel S. Lenz @GabeLenz]

New paper in PNAS: Your homicide risk follows you around the country. If you’re born in the historically violent Wild West, Appalachian Highlands, or Deep South, a higher risk of violent death trails you wherever you go. 🧵1/13

[Yingdan_Lu @YingdanL_kk]

Postdoc Opportunity at @NorthwesternU @NU_SoC @BuffettInst! Our Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group is seeking a postdoc starting Summer 2026. If you are working on LLMs and computational social science, this may be for you. Apply by Jan 16, 2026👉[email protected]

[Renwen (Alice) Zhang @renwenzhang]

I’m recruiting a postdoc at Nanyang Tech U (Singapore) to study the socio-emotional impacts of AI agents. Background in comm/psych/soc/HCI/info sci + strong quant/computational/NLP skills.
Lab website: https://t.co/7kJS7fj14f
Email CV 👉 [email protected]

[Hai Liang @cuhkhailiang]

We are hiring! One position in advertising, one in AI communication, and another senior professor in any area.

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[Jack Tang @jackltang]

Thanks for promoting my talk : ) and so excited to see that many amazing scholars in the audience. Your inspiring comments & suggestions are going to help me move forward this line of work.

[UA Advertising and Public Relations @BamaAPR]

Congrats to Dr. Jack Lipei Tang for presenting his research on the Top Papers in PR panel at #ICA25!

[UA Advertising and Public Relations @BamaAPR]

We’re seeking a full-time Instructor to join our nationally ranked program. You’ll teach two courses per semester and create design work for the college’s Office of Communication and Advancement. For more info: https://t.co/pH8R5F3v4B