@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

NYT STUDIE: Der er markant forskel på politikernes svar i valgtest og deres stemmer i Folketingssalen "Statistisk set er forskellen så stor, at det mere eller mindre vil svare til, at politikerne slog plat eller krone, når de stemmer." 👉 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press... #valgtest #dkmedier #dkpol

📣 PhD and Postdoc call: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness nerds.itu.dk/2026/03/18/p... with @jonassjuul.bsky.social

Jonas Juul wins two grants for maritime-focused network science research nerds.itu.dk/2026/03/19/j...

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

Don't miss the opportunity to show your work at TENET at @netsciconf.bsky.social, submit before Monday 10PM AoE, time is running out! ⌛️

NERDS over time update 🤓

Our paper with @toinebogers.bsky.social "Analyzing the Effects of a Human-in-the-Loop Candidate Recommendation Algorithm at Jobindex" has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems. You can access the full paper via: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

NEW Preprint out 🚨 Given the upcoming general elections in Denmark, it’s a perfect time to post about our new preprint (w. @robysinatra.bsky.social & Giovanni Astante) --> arxiv.org/abs/2603.03532 (this work was deemed important and highly relevant for FAccT, but also rejected 🫠) 🧵 1/7

Our full paper "Human, Algorithm, or Both? Gender Bias in Human-Augmented Recruiting" with @toinebogers.bsky.social has been accepted for publication at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT 2026) #FAccT2026.

I give you Principles for Proper Peer Review jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...

Arianna Pera @ariannapera.bsky.social defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/27/a...

🚨📄🚨 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 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our Clement is presenting today 16:30 CET - Don't miss him!

Luigi defends his PhD: Polarisation in an Evolving Social Media Landscape nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/12/l...

Big congrats to @luigiarminio.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD at @itu.dk during the last three years he has done some amazing work to understand online polarization and I'm sure he'll keep doing high quality research.

WE ARE BACK! 🚀🚀🚀 📢 #databeers #copenhagen x Absalon is back on March 10th, SAVE THE DATE! Many thanks to our sponsors, the Danish Data Science Academy and the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Speaker announcement and tickets out soon, stay tuned!

Second news of the day. As part of a stellar group led by @gboccia.bsky.social our FemVision project was funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social in the context of the "CL2-2025-01-DEMOCRACY-05 - Countering and preventing radicalisation, extremism, hate speech and polarisation" call. More will come but

It's time for a few professional updates. Together with the team behind the PolarVis project and with @flxvctr.bsky.social we have been invited by @cais-research.bsky.social to organize three workshops in Bochum. The workshops - between February and May - will expand on our understanding o visual

This week I have started my research visit with @lajello.bsky.social at @nerdsitu.bsky.social. I am looking forward to my time here in Copenhagen. So far the weather has made sure that I feel right at home ☃️

⏳ Final days to apply! @isi.it in collaboration with Fondazione CRT, offers 10 one-year applied research scholarships in data science & AI, focused on public health, humanitarian response, urban development, and sustainability. 📅 Deadline: February 2nd, 2026

Our recent work (with Veronica Jude, @lajello.bsky.social, and @cerenbudak.bsky.social) on U.S. union Facebook messaging got featured by @poweratwork.bsky.social: poweratwork.us/the-words-th... Thanks to Seth Harris and Dane Gambrell for the helpful feedback! 📖 Full paper arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science to join us in Turin on May 19-21 We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more For more: cs2italy.org

The #bicycle network field has grown so much that there are now papers out analyzing its citation network, haha 😆 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198225004610 Fun to see how this has evolved! Our nodes are: orozco, szell, vybornova. Several friends also visible 😍

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

Jacob Liam Curran-Sebastian has joined NERDS nerds.itu.dk/2026/01/02/j...

Manuel Knepper has joined NERDS nerds.itu.dk/2026/01/02/m...

Identity improvements to NERDS nerds.itu.dk/2026/01/01/i... Happy new year! 🎉

ssh tiny.christmas a global christmas carol in the terminal :)

With several fresh fathers and Italians in our group, a relevant link to share: www.ilpost.it/2025/12/21/p...

Very good. All public institutions, like universities, should follow suit!

Excellent news! Our full paper "The Influence of the Communication Medium on Data Storytelling" based on the thesis of my former master's student Tamara Nagel has been accepted for oral presentation at #chiir2026! See you in Seattle!

More great news: our other full paper "Tip-of-the-Tongue Search in the Wild: Analyzing Human and LLM Performance and Success Factors on Complex Search Requests" was also accepted at #chiir2026, this one together with @maria83.bsky.social, Mark Hall, Marijn Koolen, Mette Skov and Vivien Petras!

Michael, Anastassia and Manuel win Innoexplorer Grant! nerds.itu.dk/2025/12/11/m...

#kv25 Since I keep reading and reviewing papers using #LLMs to simulate social dynamics I think it's just fair to see how they would do in simulating the outcome of the local elections we had yesterday in #Copenhagen. The plot below shows the "predicted" value obtained via gpt4o

🔈 *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

Yay, datasci.social is now 3 years old! 🥳 Same as last year, so I don't bother with a new post: https://community.datasci.social/blog/2024-11-15/two-years-old/ stable users - no issues - 99.9+% uptime - muchas gracias to our supporters!! 💖 Only new thing: Given bluesky's predictable moderation […]

A short thread of observations using Max Andrew's tool to explore the network of relationships revealed in the Epstein estate email cache. @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com 🧵 1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim. epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com

Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.

I just got 3.1 mil DKK, so if you are interested in uncovering how climate change 🏭☁️⛅⛈️🌊🌪️🌬️ affects our movement patterns and mobility related behaviors, then I will be opening a PhD position later this year

Best poster I've ever seen -- check how the shape reflects the contents! (By Anastasia Vybornova & @trivikrama.bsky.social) #ODISSEI2025

If you're a student in need of a personal website (and if you're doing research, yes, you need a website!), I keep a list of nice examples here, most of which are reusable: www.are.na/maria-antoni... For example, I just spotted this beautiful website by Catherine Yeh: github.com/catherinesye...

Vedran wins Independent Research Fund Denmark Grant! nerds.itu.dk/2025/11/03/v...

Two new NERDS papers: Algorithmic bias, street network simplification nerds.itu.dk/2025/11/03/t...

How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality. 🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Join us for a Data Discussion on Friday, November 7! 📅 Daniel Juhász Vigild will start by exploring how government use of AI impacts its trustworthiness, while Stephanie Brandl will examine whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism. Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

Find his lecture slides here: uscuni.org/talks/slides...

Martin gave a fantastic talk today about his personal path and insights about #opensource in front of a 100+ people audience, impressing also many students!

Martin Fleischmann @martinfleischmann.net will present in 1.5 hours at ITU, AUD 1: "Open source inside out"

Excited to share that my first journal paper (w/ Dr Craig Robson & @alistaircford.bsky.social) has been published in the Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research! Read more (open access) here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... Thanks to @geospatialcdt.bsky.social and Craig and Ali for enabling this!