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Talks, papers, appointments, and other notes of record.
Our preprint on industry influence in social media research was covered by Science: Nearly one-third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry.
Gave the CITP Seminar at Princeton on Scientific Barriers to Evidence-Based Tech Policy — watch the recording.
New preprint on The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research, with Cailin O’Connor, Carl Bergstrom, and Jevin West.
Taught as faculty at the Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies in Bogotá, Colombia.
UNDP released Development at Risk: Protecting Gains and Unleashing Opportunities Amid Crisis. I served as a Consulting Expert.
The UNDP’s flagship Human Development Report 2025, A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI, was released, for which I served as a Consulting Expert.
Joined the University of Washington as a Research Scientist.
Joined the Santa Fe Institute as an External Applied Complexity Fellow.
Alongside Co-PI Carl Bergstrom, our project Coalescing a Crisis Discipline was awarded funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation ($255k).
The Protzko et al. study was retracted from Nature Human Behaviour following concerns I raised, as covered by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Began work for the United Nations as a Consulting Expert on their 2025 Human Development Report.
New paper in Science Advances: Addressing climate change with behavioral science — a global intervention tournament in 63 countries.
Gave Varying effects and the reliability of the scientific literature for the Frontiers in Social Evolution seminar — watch the recording.
Joined Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center Institute for Rebooting Social Media as an Assembly Fellow for 2022–23.
The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2021/22, Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives, was released. I contributed background research.
Started as an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Journalism School’s Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security.