📣 #CallforParticipation — #WebSci’26 18th ACM #WebScience Conference, May 21–26, 2026 📍TU Braunschweig, Germany. 🌐 Theme: Managing Risks in the Era of Generative AI 📄 Paper submissions due today (Dec 17, AoE) 🛠️ Workshops & Tutorials: Jan 9, 2026 📌 Posters & PhD Symposium: Feb 18, 2026 🔗 websci26.org

Brave Conversations Sri Lanka was a success! Led by Anni Rowland-Campbell, Trustee of the Web Science Trust, with support from Dr. Oshani Seneviratne, Deputy Director of the Web Science Trust Network Labs, and Fernando Spadea, Computer Science PhD student at RPI.

Brave Conversations UCSC Colombo 2025: Helping to Create Smarter Humans Facilitated by WST Trustee Anni Rowland-Campbell, WSTNet Deputy Chair Oshani Seneviratne, and RPI Web Science PhD student Fernando Spadea, they will discuss what it means to be smart in a digital world.

🌐 The Fall 2025 kickoff meeting for the Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories (WSTNet) took place yesterday and outlined plans for community growth.

Announcing the WebSciX 2025 community-building workshop on October 14-15, 2025, in Bengaluru, India, featuring a plenary panel discussion on Preserving Indian Knowledge Systems in the Age of AI! Date: October 14–15, 2025 Venue: J N Tata Auditorium, IISc Bangalore Register: tinyurl.com/yetu4tb4

📢The Call for Papers is now open! We invite submissions on a wide range of topics relating to #webscience. 👉 Full details: websci26.org?page_id=77 Spread the word and submit your work by Dec. 10! #websci26 @websciencetrust @TheOfficialACM

📢 Save the Date: May 26-29, 2026! 📅 We’re excited to announce the 18th ACM #WebScience #Conference 2026 🎉 📍 TU Braunschweig 🇩🇪 ➡️ websci26.org Mark your calendars — we can’t wait to welcome you! #WebSci26 @websciencetrust @tuBraunschweig @TheOfficialACM

Registration is now open for the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (WebSci’25), which will be held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA from May 20-23, 2025. web.cvent.com/event/2e093a... is open until 21 April. Learn more about WebSci’25 at www.websci25.org.

The Steering Committee of ACM WebSci is seeking statements of interest from organizations or consortia interested in hosting the 19th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2027). Please contact us ([email protected]) for more information webscience.org/websci27-sta...

Registration is now open for the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (WebSci’25), which will be held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA from May 20-23, 2025. web.cvent.com/event/2e093a... is open until 21 April. Learn more about WebSci’25 at www.websci25.org.

Friends, the 2025 ACM Web Science conference is coming up at #Rutgers this May. We have fantastic presenters and keynote speakers lined up. The schedule and registration just went live on www.websci25.org. Do come and join us! cc @websciencetrust.bsky.social @shugars.bsky.social

Web Science Institute Director, Dame Wendy Hall, joined the BBC Newsnight panel to share her take on the UK Government's plans to use AI to modernise the Civil Service. Watch the full episode on BBC iPlayer here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

EMPOWER YOUR INNOVATION JOURNEY Open call to #citizenscience projects and #industries: Join our pilots to solve #innovation challenges through citizen science and the co-design of new business models. More info on our eu-citizen.science platform: eu-citizen.science/ecs_project/... When: 1-15 April

Free Webinar: Data-Centric AI #8 – Optimizing AI for Sensitive Industries, Wed 19 March Join Pierre-Carl Langlais (Pleias) & Elena Simperl as they discuss how small, optimized LLMs can be designed for regulated industries. 🔗 Register now! theodi.org/news-and-eve...

🚨 UPCOMING EVENT: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms, April 10-11 at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online. In collaboration with Senior AI Advisor @sethlazar.org & co-sponsored by the Knight Institute and @columbiaseas.bsky.social. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

"Bringing Collections to Life" in our libraries the Stichting Internet Archive held a meeting in the beautiful WAAG in Amsterdam to find how to help New foundational LLM model for a small language was demonstrated Look at the fabulous room! @stichtinginternetarchive.nl stichtinginternetarchive.nl

If you missed our webinar on data scraping, catch up now. Watch Lee Tiedrich and @esimperl.bsky.social discuss the current data scraping legal and policy landscape and potential approaches for encouraging responsible and legally compliant behaviours. #AI

NEW: Researchers at @oii.ox.ac.uk have found employers in the artificial intelligence sector are increasingly prioritising skills over formal education, with practical expertise commanding higher salaries than university degrees alone. More info ⬇️

Check out the No Way Out podcast interview with Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It’s a must-listen for anyone eager to understand how web archiving works & why it matters. 🎧 ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/4zP5... #digitalpreservation #archives @mark.bsky.social

From trust in news to disagreement: is misinformation more controversial? arxiv.org/abs/2401.12053

Professor James Hendler has been awarded the prestigious 2025 AAAI Feigenbaum Award for his groundbreaking contributions to knowledge representation, planning, and the Semantic Web.   Based at RPI in the US, he is a current trustee and former chairman of the Web Science Trust.

WebSci'25 Call for PhD Symposium ACM WebSci’25 17th ACM Web Science Conference May 20-24, 2025 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA www.websci25.org/call-for-phd...

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