Joe B. Bak-Coleman

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news

May 17, 2023 New comment out in Nature: Create an IPCC-like body to harness benefits and combat harms of digital tech
Nov 21, 2022 New opinion piece out in Scientific American: Twitter Is Not Rocket Science—It’s Harder
Jun 23, 2022 New publication out in Nature Human Behavior: Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation
Mar 1, 2022 New article out in Scientific American: A High-Speed Scientific Hive Mind Emerged from the COVID Pandemic
Nov 24, 2021 Op-ed published in The Conversation :The thousands of vulnerable people harmed by Facebook and Instagram are lost in Meta’s ‘average user’ data

selected publications

  1. The wisdom of stalemates: consensus and clustering as filtering mechanisms for improving collective accuracy
    C Winkylmayr, A Kao, J Bak-Coleman, and 1 more author
    Proceedings B, 2020
  2. Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups
    PNAS, 2019
  3. The wisdom of stalemates: consensus and clustering as filtering mechanisms for improving collective accuracy
    C Winkylmayr, A Kao, J Bak-Coleman, and 1 more author
    Proceedings B, 2020
  4. Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups
    PNAS, 2019