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How scientists are making the most of Reddit

Reddit mentions may help predict changes in cryptocurrency value

AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn

How Elon Musk and Reddit are leading a war on AI web scraping

People who post on Reddit content marked false by Snopes fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor — Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group

On Reddit, truth gets more engagement than falsehood and fact-checking is efficient

Of 85 representative Reddit posts, in r/erectiledysfunction and r/AskMen, only 14 of 57 erectile dysfunction treatments discussed in threads aligned with evidence-based guidelines

Great news Reddit -- Harvard ejaculation study: "Compared to men who reported 4–7 ejaculations per month across their lifetimes, men who ejaculated 21 or more times a month enjoyed a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer."

Among social media users, YouTube was considered to be the least civil, followed by Facebook. Twitter and TikTok ranked in the middle. Reddit and Instagram were considered the most civil. (N = 1,105; N = 1,035)

More than one in eight Reddit users publish toxic posts

Namespotting: Username toxicity and actual toxic behavior on reddit

Reddit moderators do $3.4 million worth of unpaid work each year

Thanks Reddit! Man's incredible picture of the Andromeda Galaxy wows internet—"Stunning"

Reducing verbal aggression levels using an AI-equipped bot targeting those who attack others on Reddit with normative and empathetic interventions

Multifaceted analysis of suicidal declarations on Reddit with the goal to better understand how those at risk of suicide write/speak and in the future find them automatically and provide professional help

Personal attacks decrease user activity on Reddit

You can donate your computer's unused processing power to run simulations to help scientists understand COVID-19 via Folding@Home. A reddit community called Banano is currently the top team contributor to this project with thousands of volunteers & they've helped creating vaccines!

Brian Cox on Twitter: I’ll be doing a Reddit AMA in Reddit.com/r/space on Thursday at 5pm GMT / 12 ET / 9 am Pacific if you’d like to ask me things …. Let’s be honest though it’s to promote my US / Canada Live shows in April / May / June - why bullshit? Tickets here : profbriancox.live

Webb Telescope Reddit AMA in r/AskScience on Dec. 16 from 1-2 pm ET! Hear from Webb experts at NASA, ESA, Canadian Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, Northrop Grumman & Ball Aerospace

For my cake day: Follow the anniversary of Apollo 17 in Real Time. The website is 6 years old this year, and I'm 10 years on reddit today.