Jack Tang

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:

Really enjoyed this piece by Munger et al. on the future of peer reviewing: osf.io/preprints/soca… Highly recommend everyone to read! The explicit incorporation of LLMs in technical checks should be considered by CS conferences as well!

🚨BREAKING: Google just dropped another hit! It's called PaperBanana and it generates publication-ready academic illustrations from just your methodology text. No Figma. No manual design. No illustration skills needed. Here's how it works: A team of AI agents runs behind the scenes → One finds good diagram examples → One plans the structure → One styles the layout → One generates the image → One critiques and improves it Here's the wildest part: Random reference examples work nearly as well as perfectly matched ones. What matters is showing the model what good diagrams look like, not finding the topically perfect reference. In blind evaluations, humans preferred PaperBanana outputs 75% of the time. This is the recursion we've been waiting for AI systems that can fully document themselves visually. Waitlist’s open, Link in the first comment.

🚨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 osf.io/preprints/psya… w @captaineco_fr @_mohsen_m

💡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 academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/3…

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

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

@jackltang Hi Jack, do you know your latest ticket number? Will see if we can chase it for you, and have passed the email feedback on!

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.

🚨 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

🚨 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… 🧵:

@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.

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.

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. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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

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👉comap@northwestern.edu

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: renwenzhang.com/sweet-lab Email CV 👉 renwen.zhang@ntu.edu.sg

We are hiring! One position in advertising, one in AI communication, and another senior professor in any area. cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/… cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/… cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/…

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.

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: careers.ua.edu/jobs/fe3b88aa-…

🚨🚨Call for special section in Public Relations Review co-edited by @jordanmorehou & yours truly! This special section invites public relations scholars to explore innovative methodological approaches in public relations research. Check out the full call! tinyurl.com/2en4nnv3