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....
BREAKING: Opposition leader Péter Magyar is on track to topple Hungary’s longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after a bitterly contested election, according to early official results.
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The tech bubble largely underestimate public feelings (and the power of public narrative) towards AI.
One of the good reasons why is pivoting towards companies and business clients is that the consumer market is not really "receptive". :D
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🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The same water we'll eventually need to drink in order to survive.
Trust is a key part of that. Trust in the (imperfect) process of people thinking before writing. Trust in the (imperfect) process of people having opinion about things they know (or they think they do). When we put AI reviews out (or flood journals with AI papers) we're simply polluting the water.
What do we think we are doing? Do we think that polluting academia / science / conferences / journals with AI content comes at no cost? Do we really think that saving ourselves some time is worth the damage? Science exists because of the social processes that enable it.
#AI #academia #science The problem is us. There is no way around it. I'm finalising my reviews for a well-known conference and I can see what the other reviewers wrote. One is so clearly AI generated that it hurts reading it. Not "drafted" by AI and revised ... it's a full copy/paste job.
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
There has hardly been a moment in history when our reliance on goods that are shipped across the world has been more evident. @itu.dk is bringing research closer to the needs of this key part of our world.
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📣 Some news on upcoming events: I'll be speaking at @gesis.org Cologne on Monday 30 March 14:30 CEST and at ZeMKI Bremen on 7 April 18:30 CEST. Details for both talks are here: snurb.info/node/3558.
And the GESIS talk will be livestreamed on Zoom too, so join in if you can... 📺
causes those design decisions. The uncomfortable fact that these platforms rely on a business model that doesn't scale in any other way seems to be a blind spot. When we'll acknowledge that, we'll realise that we know how to deal with business models that are harmful to people.
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Nice discussion on @theverge.com about meta's loss in court. @reckless.bsky.social does a good job at moving the conversation away from "the content" and to focus on the design of the algorithm. Yet, the current US debate always falls short from focusing on what
That this kind of test is more and more successful?
@mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy just made a super interesting analysis of how much actual voting behaviour is aligned with the political alignment emerging from the online tests that allow you to "make up your mind". As expected the answer is "not so much" and the question then becomes how is
📣 PhD and Postdoc call: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness
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with @jonassjuul.bsky.social
present some of the results of the PolarVis project on the visual imaginary of climate change. If you're in Barcelona or nearby consider joining: se3ds.eu/se3ds-launch...
On April 16th I'll be in Barcelona speaking at the SE3DS Lab workshop: Bridging Social, Ecological and Digital Systems Science for transformative change. In the afternoon we will discuss how digital platforms reconfigure value creation and nature perception. It will be a great opportunity to
Friends! The ITU is hiring! We're looking for a tech-savvy person who can help us develop the games program and the Center for Digital Play research profile: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!
Artemis III was supposed to land on the moon with a modified starship... But that's nowhere to be seen.
Is this the same? (found it in the south of Sweden a month ago)
📢📢📢 We are thrilled to announce our 3rd speaker for the next #databeers #copenhagen @ #Absalon event on March 10th!
Anastassia Vybornova will explore data ethics through storytelling 📖
We are SOLD OUT❗ Remember to cancel your ticket if you can't attend.
3-part photograph: Top left: Smiling young female researcher in black, in front of title slide, Right: PhD Committee: 3 middle-aged researchers and one young researcher, Bottom left: Many colleagues celebrating in a pub
Arianna Pera @ariannapera.bsky.social defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web
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Trust is an incredibly complex social construct and it's easier when we think than "the other" understands "what's at stake". This is going to be incredibly hard to achieve by AI.
In the whole debate "AI is coming for your job" basic medical profession (like GPs) seem often to be "the next one soon after coders". As often happens, reality is complicated and as humans in societies we operate based on "trust" more than we do on "accuracy".
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we wrapped up the first of our meetings at @cais-research.bsky.social for our post-polarvis initiative. Despite the rocky start (between people falling sick and delayed trains) it was a very productive 2 days. We managed to make real progress. More to come in the next meeting.
📢Publication alert 📢
LLMs are an awesome technology, but they come with trade-offs!
Paul Balluff, @justinho.bsky.social, @seanhp.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @lrossi.bsky.social, Irina Shklovski, Chung-hong Chan and I commented on these trade-offs in #commsky research. Out now and open access!
New report out on the Hungarian elections 🇭🇺 🗳️
AI generated videos circulating via Facebook and misleading speeches from both candidates.
Important campaign monitoring ⬇️
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new ideas, maybe we should pause for a second to consider how solid is the knowledge that we are producing in this way, and if newer & larger (and I would add faster) is always better. This opinion piece is the result of a fun panel we had at @comptext.bsky.social last year.
🚨📄🚨 LLMs are revolutionizing social and communication science. Tasks that used to require either complex technical skills or abundant resources for crowdsourced solutions, are now easily done with a prompt. While this speeds up research and facilitates
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