Kayla Duskin

Kayla Duskin

PhD candidate at UW

kduskin[AT]uw.edu

About Me

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Washington where I conduct research with the Center for an Informed Public. I am advised by Jevin West and Emma Spiro and supported through the National Science Foundation as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

My research encompasses topics across computational social science, primarily focusing on online political discourse and issues of misinformation and polarization. My current work focuses on the relationship between deployed algorithmic systems and problematic online information environments. I leverage data science, network science, and machine learning to better understand the social environment in which algorithm systems operate and how we might design future algorithmic systems with prosocial outcomes in mind.



Recent News View all

2025-08-24

🚲 I successfully biked from my home in Seattle to Vancouver, BC over the course of two days with thousands of others as part of the annual RSVP event – my longest bike ride yet!

2024-10-25

We were selected as 1 of the 3 winning interventions in the Prosocial Ranking Challenge .

2024-05-21

🏆 I am honored to receive the PhD Symposium Best Paper Award at the Web Science Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.

Recent Research View all

The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter’s Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election

Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Alexandros Efstratiou, Jevin D. West, and Emma S. Spiro

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 2026

ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter during the 2022 U.S. Midterms

Joseph Schafer‡, Kayla Duskin‡, Stephen Prochaska, Morgan Wack, Anna Beers, Lia Bozarth, Taylor Agajanian, Michael Caulfield, Emma Spiro, and Kate Starbird

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media. 2025