🏆 We have won a Methods Recognition award at #CSCW2025 for our paper about Narratives of War in the Ukrainian memetic warfare! Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2309.08363 With @yelenamejova.bsky.social , Arthur Capozzi, @gdfm.bsky.social and myself. Huge thanks to @acm-cscw.bsky.social !

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare

🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!

➡️ out at PLOS Climate: The role of science in the Climate Change discussions on Reddit 😱 only 1 / 25 post links is to a scientific resource journals.plos.org/climate/arti... Paolo Cornale @mictiz.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social @isi.it

📢 Deadline Extended! 🚨 6th Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable at #ICWSM2025! 🗓️ New Deadline: April 7th, 2025 Submit your abstract or paper 🔗 tinyurl.com/DWMV25 #DataForSocialGood @yelenamejova.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @isi.it @icwsm.bsky.social

📢 Meet the keynote speakers of the upcoming #ICWSM Workshop on #Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable 👉 Paddy Brock at World Bank & UNHCR Joint Data Center 👉 @robysinatra.bsky.social at University of Copenhagen Join us! Submission deadline: March 31 sites.google.com/view/datafor...

🚨Happy to share our latest study on the resilience of the mobility network to first and second wave Covid-19 interventions in Chile. 🦠 Thanks to Pasquale Casaburi for leading this and the team! 🔗 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

📢 CfP: #ICWSM2025 Workshop on #Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable 👉 #AI #NLP #epidemiology #demography #sociology #humanitarian #datascience submit your abstract, or short or long paper by ⏰ March 31 sites.google.com/view/datafor... w/ @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social + Daniela Paolotti

👉 preprint: The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit how was science cited in the past 14 years? preprints or journals? find answers are here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05026 w/ Paolo Cornale @mictiz.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social Daniela Paolotti

Thanks to everybody who made last week’s 2024 Freedom of Thought Report launch such a success, especially the report’s authors at Humanists International! If you weren’t able to join us live for last week’s event, you can catch the recording of the event in its entirety here: youtu.be/Bx0fquWehNo

EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

📅 Only one week left! Submit your application by February 3rd, 2025

Welcome! We are so lucky to have you 💪

CS2Italy in Trento is off to a great start with @mtizzoni.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social and a a packed room of computational social scientists! cs2italy.org Università di Trento, @isi.it , CNR ISIC, FBK

Excited for the start of CS2Italy in Trento, Italy - first Italian conference on Computational Social Science! cs2italy.org First: collecting Big Thick Data using DataScientia datascientia.disi.unitn.it @isi.it

Similar polarization that exists among users (a) is reflected among Community Notes users (b). Read the full article cacm.acm.org/opinion/can-...

We are excited to bring back ICWSM-Global Initiative also this year, 2 pg. applications due 15/01 for: - Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025 - Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...

Call for 10 scholarships for research on Data Science for Social Good at @isi.it , supported by Fondazione CRT 's Lagrange Project #dataforgood #data4good More details here ➡️ www.isi.it/news/2024-12...

📣 We are hiring! CEU Department of Network and Data Science is looking for a new assistant professor. We seek applications from candidates with a background in Computational Social Science. The review of applications will begin on January 15. 🔗 careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

If you are a journalist, community scientist, or academic who cares about these issues, I encourage you to join the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, which works to advance, support, and defend independent research on technology and society: independenttechresearch.org/manifesto-th...

🚨Job alert!🚨 Come join us at the Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de We’re hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join our group at IT:U, Linz, Austria. skewed.de/lab/call.html Deadline is 30 Nov 2024. (Next Saturday!) Spread the word. #networkscience #complexsystems

Kicking off the EcoSocEpi workshop at @isifoundation.bsky.social. #epidemics

From today, you can follow us also here to stay updated on our initiatives, events, projects, and research 🔬 📊 👉 Follow us now at @isifoundation.bsky.social

🦟 We've completed the monitoring of Dengue in Italy from participatory digital surveillance InfluWeb that took place from May to October 2024. Important insights on awareness, behavior and concern in the Italian population. 🔗Read it here influweb.org/dengue (IT & EN version available)

📢 CFP: 5th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2024) at @ICWSM invites research, position, short, and demo paper submissions! 🗓️ Deadline: March 24th 🔗 Instructions: cy-soc.github.io/2024/ 🚪Submission portal: easychair.org/account/sign...

Apply TODAY: Are you a fresh Masters degree graduate interested in #datascience for #socialgood? Apply to the ISI Foundation Lagrange #Fellowship to lead 1-year #research project and visit us in Turin, Italy! sites.google.com/view/lagrang... Applications due on > Feb 12 < #jobs #italy #scholarship