What are the worst ethical disasters in NLP history?
(I'm teaching "ethics of NLP" tomorrow and history is good for teaching this topic.)
Most are data breaches/releases (AOL search logs, OKCupid profiles, Finnish therapy records...) but what others?
I'll put some other examples in thread --> 1/n
View over the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen
Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026.
We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....
Here is the line-up (Berlin time, CEST): April 23, 2:15 pm. Akin Ünver (Özyeğin University), Title: "@Grok Is this True? Performative Fact-Checking During Contested Events in Polarized Digital Spaces" May 7, 2:15 pm. Rebecca Adler-Nissen (University of Copenhagen), Title: "Geopolitical Struggles of the Emerging Global Tech Order" June 11, 2:15 pm. Andreas Jungherr (University of Bamberg), Title: "Public Opinion on Military Uses of AI: Technology Beliefs, Moral Boundaries, and Security Contexts" June 24, 2:15 pm. Margaret E. Roberts (UC San Diego), Title: "How Partisanship Affects Preferences for Large Language Model Output"
At @scripts-berlin.eu, Genia Kostka and I are organizing an online speaker series on AI and the global order - join us! We have a rockstar line-up. Sign up here (all times are CEST): fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sit...
@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!
Hvis man kun leder der, hvor der er lys, finder man ikke altid det, man har brug for. I år fejrer vi 150-års jubilæum i Carlsbergfondet. I 150 år har vi altså støttet den frie grundforskning. Men hvad er grundforskning? Se den fulde film👉 bit.ly/grundforskning #CF150aar #dkforsk
The 'Information from Abroad' workshop starts today. @aarhusbss.bsky.social
Glad to bring together a great group of researchers working on how citizens and elites respond to foreign signals (especially relevant amid war, tariffs, and election interference). Grateful for support @carlsbergfondet.dk
16 years of cultural and demographic annihilation and savior narratives may do the same though
Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience
uu.nl/en/organisation/worki...
New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social : "Immigration, Public Housing, and Support for the French National Front."
How does expanding public housing affect far-right support? The answer depends heavily on local conditions, and specifically on local immigrant shares.
Paper: doi.org/10.1086/736361
We're live 🥳 Check out the programme for this year's GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science at gesis.org/fallseminar and feel free to share with potentially interested colleagues and students in your networks (and of course reach out in case of any questions 😊)
I’ve heard Venmo is where it’s at. Still
Blows my mind that transactions are public by default!
The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (cogtoolslab.github.io) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27.
Full-Time Lab Manager: forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km....
IRiSS Predoc Researcher: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-....
Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.
And for good measure
Muss ein Teil dieser wiederkehrenden Moden sein.
graphic reading 'lse fellow in advanced quantitative methods, applications close 26 april 2026'
We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods‼️
We are seeking an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in advanced quantitative methods and computational social science🚨
Apply here before 26 April👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
So this is why American Nutella comes in plastic instead of glass jars
It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling: Pure fictions are on the brink of being treated as scientific and political knowledge.
(@leifw.bsky.social and @beenwrekt.bsky.social, The New York Times-unlocked)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...
🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨
Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).
Review begins April 10
Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...
Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇
The smart(er), hallucinating models lingo might turn some off, but the takeaway is on point "[t]he moment you use the machine to bypass the thinking itself [...] you have crossed a line that is [...] very difficult to uncross." Not just for astrophys, for sociology, CSS & likely all scholarly fields
For the quants in Baraqua, it's linear regression all the way (source: www.reddit.com/r/economicsm...)
For the quants in Baraqua, it's linear regression all the way (source: www.reddit.com/r/economicsm...)
Ok!! I am happy to be opening registry.blue for beta use!
It's a wishlist/registry app built on atproto. It stores all the data in your PDS.
It's also a great way to compile mutual aid lists, lists of causes to donate to, or list of community needs.
To join the beta, you'll need to follow me.
A screenshot of the part of the accessibility settings with the option of “Require alt text before posting” selected
Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!
Which would make it an interesting test case. At the same time, the institutional trust that supports this massive data gathering may also be related to the absence of (income) targeted policies, at least historically.
Any idea (papers) on, to what extent this is a policy- &or (US) context-specific issue? In 🇩🇰 the gov is slated to send out checks to buffer food inflation w/ big debates about (high) hh inc cutoff & cost. Registers should make admin simple though & univ checks would be prohibitively expensive.
Data Visualization: Language and Migration
@aaeg182.bsky.social's new #Socius visual demonstrates the #linguisticdiversity of unaccompanied #migrant #children in the #UnitedStates, visualizing patterns of colonialism, internal migration, and international migration.
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999).
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year.
34 nodes, 1156 edges.
https://networks.skewed.de/net/freshmen#t3
Ridiculogram:
