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!

📢📢📢 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.

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

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". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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 ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/fearmo...

🚨📄🚨 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....

#PleaseShare PhD position on Human-Computer Interaction, AI, and Disinformation: Develop AI tools for fact-checking & media literacy, tackle disinformation & create open science resources Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026 👉 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246 @hheuer.bsky.social

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.

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

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Renee Good’s vehicle after an immigration agent fatally shot her, but Trump administration officials ordered them to stop investigating. About a dozen prosecutors have since resigned, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

A European Army is not naive- it is the only thing that will keep us safe 🇪🇺 Volt has been talking about a European Army for years. Now the rest of Europe is finally catching up. 27 little armies will never fight as well or as efficiently as one European Army. Enough talk- let’s start building it

Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by @snurb.info. Full program and registration details at: www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...

If you know someone who could be interested in a MA on digital media, I would seriously consider this one! Great University and stellar group of teachers!

Excited to see this out! congrats to @tahayasseri.bsky.social & all contributors!

Of course it f&&king is. Please don't use GenAI for news. Please don't use Grok for anything. Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting www.theverge.com/news/844443/...

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

There are lots of myths about the Australian #SocialMediaBan for under16s. One is that it will stop cyberbullying. It won't. Here's a short, blunt piece from me in @theconversation.com explaining why: theconversation.com/australias-s...

This! 👇(and a good number of the places in this list are on that triangle of Italy between Romagna, Marche and Toscana.

Once more. When there is no understanding all the safety measure that one can imagine can only be based on explicit examples and some weak ability to narrowly generalize.

I'm very pleased this piece co-authored with @antmandan.bsky.social is out in the @aunz.theconversation.com this morning. theconversation.com/australia-is...

Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social 🌟 Online on Feb 16, 2026, 4:00–5:30 pm CET / 10:00–11:30 am EST 📆 Register 👇 forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw

#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

"dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap" hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

New DFF grant at @itu.dk in the @nerdsitu.bsky.social group! @vedrandzihic.bsky.social will leverage GPS data to understand how climate events affect human mobility! nerds.itu.dk/2025/11/03/v...

@paoloburelli.bsky.social og hans kolleger ved ITU's brAIn Lab arbejder i krydsfeltet mellem digital teknologi og neurovidenskab. Ved hjælp af kunstig intelligens søger de at skabe en forståelse af, hvordan den menneskelige hjerne fungerer 🧠 www.itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...

This will not come as a surprise to any social media or internet researchers. "Today, the European Commission preliminarily found both TikTok & Meta in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the Digital Services Act (#DSA)." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Michelle has been invaluable in that role for nearly a decade now, but the time has come for @aoir.bsky.social to find a new coordinator to take on these vital duties. 2/2 Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...

Unprecedented opportunities for researchers to access data from very large online platforms and search engines! ⏰ Join us this afternoon to learn about the potential generated by Digital Services Act #DSA Article 40 on data access. 📅 22 October 2025 ⏰ 13.30 – 15.30 CEST 💻 link.europa.eu/pjRBFK

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Three new NERDS publications: Polarization, image-to-text-mapping, and candidate recommendation nerds.itu.dk/2025/09/30/t...

@lajello.bsky.social is giving his inaugural lecture as full professor at @itu.dk . A story in 3 parts about "how the web failed us". So well deserved.

ITU er særdeles flot repræsenteret ved #ESA2025 i Warszawa, Europas største konference for algoritmeforskning 👏 👉 Hele 10 pct. af de optagne artikler stammer fra ITU-forskere. 👉 Best Paper Award går til ITU's Eva Rotenberg og Ivor van der Hoog ESA’s for deres arbejde med Dijkstras algoritme.

I'm hiring a postdoc at ITU Copenhagen with experience in NLP, who is keen on improving citizens' experience of health emergency triage in an exciting project with the Danish emergency helpline and the University of Copenhagen. Knowledge of Danish is helpful. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

This Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30, our Professor Luca Aiello @lajello.bsky.social will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen! en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Pr...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Few days ago I posted about our new article on semantic clustering with VLLMs (here if you missed it journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... ) and I wrote that the method is better than some alternative because it offers cultural awareness and interpretability. Let me explain what I mean by cultural

Prof. Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social will join us in Copenhagen on Wed, Sep 24, 12:30-13:15 to present at an exciting data science seminar! Topic: Why Use An Evolutionary Perspective To Study Culture? To attend, see: nerds.itu.dk/event/data-s...

#computationalsocialscience Our work on using VLLMs for semantic visual clustering is out on SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.

Roberta Sinatra and Vedran Sekara talk at Rigsrevisionen nerds.itu.dk/2025/09/18/r... @robysinatra.bsky.social @vedransekara.bsky.social

I will not stop using my em dashes out of fear of a reviewer accusing me of using AI!

Stort tillykke til Marco Carbone, nyudnævnt professor på ITU! 🥂🥳 Marco forsker i softwarekorrekthed og samtidig programmering. Læs mere om hans forskning her 👇 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...

More than 500 researchers have signed an open letter against the dangerous EU proposal on chat control. The proposal remains ineffective, undoes decades of results in E2E encryption, and threatens the privacy of half a billion citizens. csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Just noticed the AIs available in the "AI studio" in Instagram. I understand that meta needs to find a way to justify the tons of money used on GPUs.. but who seriously imagined this could lead to something different from soft porno and cursing characters?

I understand the need to investigate how future techs are perceived by the public and shaped by that perception ... But the consequences of "quantum AI" seems a little bit to much.

Have you recently used a crowdsourcing platform to collect data or annotations? We are running a study about the use of LLMs in crowdsourcing platforms. If you want to help, fill in this 10 min survey 👉https://tinyurl.com/39ab55wf #NLProc

After some time of dealing with students that work with #LLMs for their projects, I can say that the major problem is that students develop some kind of laziness and they simply prompt their way out of everything. An example are simple data cleaning tasks that now are done (in a less reliable way!)