Kristina Lerman
@kristinalerman
Senior Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute. Using data, networks and AI to better understand social groups.
BlueSky, what’s wrong with you? More people are talking about “AIPAC” and it’s not even close. Reading the posts, it’s like Jews are the source of all evil.
A new version of Political Compass just dropped (credit, Econ prof in Ukraine)
No no no. I am an AI optimist as much as the next guy, but fully formed replies is a bridge too far. @developers.google.com I am not interested in delegating online connection to chatbots. Quick, 1 sentence replies are one thing, but reminiscing about hallucinated experiences is something else.
If you are in NYC, here is an opportunity to take a stand against Jew hate
This should put the nail in the coffin of pandemic learning loss denialists. Our students are graduating with academic skills a full year behind.
I hope a political scientist can explain the significance of this alignment. I see Iran (IRGC) flag, I see Palestine flag. But no Ukraine flag. In fact, I see co-opted Soviet symbols on the red flag. Why does Russia get the “get out of colonialist jail” card?
Continuing my lonely crusade against antisemitism in academia. The chilling line “what did Jews do to make themselves so hated?” Is one I hear often without a hint of shame or self awareness. Here is exhibit A from a current law suit.
Yeah, I wish I had some skis today. Snow in Bloomington is rare I hear.
You shoulda seen the view from my office at USC information sciences institute. Sadly, I gave it up to move to a college town in Midwest. 😆
Went out for lunch with students in the beautiful Marina Del Rey. This guy is a regular - likely lives on a boat in the Marina. I would have like to talk to him to find out what made him out this text - front and back - but am worried I would start arguing instead.
🚨New preprint on a verboten topic: social correlates of views on abortion. Analyzing millions of geolocated tweets, we find a gender gap in abortion stance, show it widens in conservative states and identify the structural factors involved. w/ @ashwinrao.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2507.05443
This is Los Angeles now. We are surrounded by fire. Thousands of homes are destroyed. Businesses, schools, entire neighborhoods. It is apocalyptic.