Funded PhD position available with me (and other supervisors) based in the School of Biosciences, looking at measuring impact of food systems chemicals on health. @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social @shefcmi.bsky.social findaphd.com/phds/project...

Very proud to say that I've been selected to represent GB at the forthcoming European Blind Baseball Championships. Not bad for a middle-aged visually impaired academic with T1 diabetes. Now for lots of kit buying. #thiswomancan #blindbaseball #blindsport #nevertooold #universityofsheffield #t1d

Excited to be talking this evening about the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media at the University's public engagement event "Pint of Science". It's not often I get to give talks in pubs about my research. pintofscience.co.uk/event/say-wh...

Come and work with us! We have a part-time RA post on Computational Social Science / Journalism looking at data on abuse against journalists. Please share widely. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU035/r... @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social

A lovely report from our latest @atrium-eu.bsky.social #TNA visitor Tenia about her research visit to our GATE team @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social to study NLP applications in food research. gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2025/02/expl...

Call for Papers Now Open for CARMA 2025! We can't wait to see you in Rome, Italy, from July 2 to 4, 2025, for an inspiring event focused on Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences. Roma Tre University. Deadline: March 7, 2025. carmaconf.org/call-for-pap...

New report "Academic Access to Social Media Data for the Study of Political Online Safety" w. @georgidag.bsky.social @benoloughlin.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so... As new threats reach the social media environment, platforms continue to obstruct independent research. It’s time to act!

In December we hosted our first ATRIUM research visitor. Tasos. Here's how he got on with his project "Using NLP to understand trends in political and social debate" gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2025/01/gate... You can apply for a visit here: atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/ @atrium-eu.bsky.social

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) can be used by journalists to investigate war crimes, reveal sanctions evasion, and uncover corruption. Read how @bellingcat.com has used OSINT in their Africa investigations here:

Are you an undergraduate student or recent graduate with an interest in journalism and/or international affairs? Apply to become our next communications intern! More information: https://buff.ly/3YqCLUh

🎄We’ve been looking at the whole life carbon emissions of real and fake Christmas trees to work out which is more sustainable and… it’s complicated 1/4

There's still a couple of weeks to apply for a fully funded research visit to our team in Sheffield, working on a project combining NLP and social sciences/digital humanities. @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/

Excited to announce that our first Retrotones album "Bad Romancing" was released yesterday, and with it our first video! Here's our take on (a slightly different!) Lady Gaga's Bad Romance youtu.be/-kxpRATqLNw?... #theretrotones #cre8ivestation #badromance #ladygaga #cover

Cass and I are looking for a #PhD student to work on multimodal LLMs @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social. This is a fully-funded scholarhsip (including stipend), open to home and international candidates. Deadline: 29/1/2025 Please spread the work! #nlproc www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 We are seeking #PhD students for a fully funded research project (open to local & international applicants) @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social . This project is supported by a cross-discipline supervision team and opportunities. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...