Working with web search data? Ever wanted to get access to historical data on what was trending in different locations - beyond the 7 days of such history that Google's Trending Now provides? We've got you covered with the new dataset paper, accepted at ICWSM, preprint here arxiv.org/abs/2603.21871
We're happy to announce our new collaboration with @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social! Together, we will research the impact of AI on society and democracy with a focus on Switzerland. Stay tuned for results from the project 🚀
Billions of people scroll every day. But what’s actually going viral on social media? 🤷♀️
We asked the platforms for one simple thing: their most-viewed posts.
They all said no 🙃
Help us demand transparency now:
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@algorithmwatch.org @scg-uzh.bsky.social @lessurligneurs.bsky.social
A joint work with Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social, Dr. Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social, Elsa Lichtenegger, Robin Christopher Forsberg Aniko Hannak from UZH and colleague Christo Wilson from Northeastern University.
Are you a pregnant women, a young parent or soon to become one? This paper led by Desheng Hu (He/Him), is definitely a must read !
New paper from our group member @nicolo-pagan.bsky.social and colleagues 🤓
Desheng gave a talk on “Auditing Google’s AI Overview and Featured Snippets: A Case Study on Baby care and Pregnancy”
and @aurman21.bsky.social presented a poster about the fact-checking limitations of LLMs, a joint work with @joachimbaumann.bsky.social and colleagues.
Elsa presented a poster on an interactive study design to unveil users’ underlying motivations in web search, and gave a talk on a conceptualization of web search intent through a user-centered taxonomy .
About last week's conference 😏
Elsa Lichtenegger, Desheng Hu and @aurman21.bsky.social presented their ongoing work at the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON) conference in Hamburg last week 🔍 🌐 .
Dr. Meirav Segal is interested in various aspects of trustworthy AI, including fairness and robustness in dynamic, uncertain environments.
🚨 New Postdoc joining our group starting from today 🤠
Dr. Meirav Segal earned her PhD from the University of Oslo, where she worked on algorithmic fairness and recourse for allocation policies.
A very warm welcome to the team 😃
While the outcomes of this one day collective work is currently kept secret 😈, we can still share our initial results recently presented at EWAF 2025 www.canva.com/design/DAGrQ...
About last week’s internal hackathon 😏
Last week, we -- the (Amazing) Social Computing Group, held an internal hackathon to work on our informally called “Cultural Imperialism” project.
If you thought that LLMs are reliable annotators... we have bad news for you 🫣 🤷
Check out the new paper from our group members @joachimbaumann.bsky.social (freshly graduated 😜), @aurman21.bsky.social and colleagues 😎