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Brihi Joshi
Reasoning about the "why" behind user behavior can improve LLM personas! ✨🧠📈 📝Excited to share our new work: Improving LLM Personas via Rationalization with Psychological Scaffolds 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2504.17993 🧵 (1/n)
Oct 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Letter — NEW CIVIC FUTURE
Whether you’re rooted locally or approaching this work nationally, we invite you to join us by reading & signing onto this letter.
Citizen Participation (@oliverescobar.bsky.social)
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Citizen Participation (@oliverescobar.bsky.social)
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
The Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
An Open Letter to CONCORD-DEEEP, CIVICUS, GCAP, Civic Society Organizations and Activists Working for a ‘Better’ World. This article is co-authored by Bayo Akomolafe and Marta Benavides. With deep gratitude for the stories of transformation now emerging across the planet, and for the renewed hope we share for a different kind of world, we greet you from our hearts.

Connecting Research with Community - Civic Innovation Lab
Welcome to Civic Innovation Lab, where we drive social impact through collaborative solutions and empower communities. Join us in fostering sustainable development, co-creating initiatives, and advancing inclusive governance for a better future.

ME SEN Delegate Meeting Results (Nicholas Anastácio/National Journal's Hotline)
ME SEN Delegate Meeting Results (Nicholas Anastácio/National Journal's Hotline)
Civic, Citizen and Grassroots Science: Towards a Transformative Scientific Research Model | Request PDF
Request PDF | On Jan 1, 2013, Jessica McCallum Breen and others published Civic, Citizen and Grassroots Science: Towards a Transformative Scientific Research Model | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

PARA
Civic social infrastructure for communities, governance, and public participation.
in progress works
lightweight accountability community and journal for your side projects
Great new-ish paper by @zephoria.bsky.social I have a few thoughts …
Check out this thread and contribute your papers if you'd like to share!
Rafael M Batista
I’ve created a Collection on @semble.so for #IC2S2. It’s open for anyone to throw in a link to their paper. If that’s too much work, you can reply here with a link and I’ll do it for you and send you the “card” Semble is proving to be a great tool for discovering new research @ic2s2.bsky.social
Good news, everyone! I have a short piece coming out in The Conversation on Monday that explains the main issues with this study. It's impossible for me to have the same media reach as the original press release. So I'd be extremely grateful if people could help me share it as widely as possible 🙏
G. Willow Wilson
Good news, everyone cnn.com/2026/05/14/health/arts-ageing…
I’ll be at #IC2S2 this week! I will be presenting two papers from my lab, led by my amazing students @laylab.bsky.social & @elhamagk.bsky.social. If you’re interested in narratives,mental health, stigma, or NLP, let’s connect! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, and meeting new people.
A great write-up on #ATmosphere from New_ Public Expert-In-Residence @cjtait.bsky.social!
Reflections on ATmosphere Conference 2026...
leaflet.pubCognitive Architectures for Language Agents
Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

Warnings for pattern matching
Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: A Survey with Focus on Repository-Level Approaches
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
TDOP Pratt