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Joe Bak-Coleman is a computational social scientist and Researcher affiliated with multiple institutions. He currently serves as a Collaboration Partner at the University of Konstanz’s Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, an external Affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a Consulting Expert for the UNDP’s Human Development Reports Office. Previously, he was an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security. He earned his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University (2020) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.
His research focuses on collective decision-making under uncertainty, particularly in contexts like animal groups, social media ecosystems, and metascience. He explores how digital technologies shape collective behavior and advocates for evidence-based tech policy. His work has been published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science Advances, and PNAS.
Bak-Coleman’s contributions include co-authoring a UN Human Development Report (2025), critiquing social media’s impact on teen mental health (NBC News 2024), and proposing frameworks for governing digital technologies (Nature 2023). He is also authoring a forthcoming book, Of Fish and Fascists, to be published by Princeton University Press (2026).
His expertise spans interdisciplinary collaborations, policy advocacy, and open science practices. He frequently engages with media and academic audiences to discuss challenges in computational social science and digital ethics.
