🤔 Can networks be fair? This simple yet tricky question stood at the center of a workshop hosted by @lespin.bsky.social and Fariba Karimi at CSH. Participants explored how connections shape opportunities, how inequalities emerge, and how fairness can be measured concretely in decision-making.

📢 Reminder: The deadline for #ICWSM 2026 workshop proposals is Jan 30th, don’t miss your chance! Find all the details here 👉 icwsm.org/2026/submit.... @lespin.bsky.social @msaveski.bsky.social

🎺 On May 21/22 @lespin.bsky.social , @doriantsolak.bsky.social, and I host “Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS” in Vienna Keynotes: @lauraknelson.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows (Deadline Jan 23rd, 2026)! 💫 Reach out and apply if you're interested in working with me! I'm especially excited to work with postdocs on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs.

PNAS: Perception of own centrality in social networks https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420334122?af=R

Early bird reg approaching, NetSciX in New Zealand, Feb 2026. And you can travel down the north island for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium the week after. netscix2026.github.io www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/... @cna25.bsky.social @cssociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026! We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation? Want to answer these questions? details below!

I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂 Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about! Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!

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

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Honored to be invited! Looking forward to the conference to learn about new directions in complex networks research and to share my work on Network Inequality and Network Fairness. See you in Zaragoza!

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

Here is the first piece in a series of short articles I'm doing about the DSA and researcher access to publicly available information. It focuses on categories of researchers under the DSA, and what data they are each authorized to use. 1/ verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

⏰ Reviewers, today’s the day! Please upload your reviews by the end of day (Oct 24) AoE 🙏 Thanks for all your work! Authors: we plan to send out notifications by Oct 31. #NetSciX #NetSciX2026 @mluczak.bsky.social @ProfMSmall @droneale.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @gabridibo.bsky.social

ERC Workshop on data access under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA is an European legislation that specifies a set of rules to make the digital space safer. Article 40 brings unprecedented opportunities for researchers to access data from very large online platforms and search engines.

Come join next Wednesday if you want to rant about society's love-hate relationship with LLMs!

📣 Yale workshop, Oct 16-17! 📣 How could/should content ranking work? What's new in content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgori...

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In June, I asked to one of the co-authors of the AI Scientist paper: would LLMs favor LLM-written papers and reject human ones? Could we be heading toward an echo chamber of machine-reviewed machine papers? We didn’t have answers then. Glad to see this work.

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

New preprint: From Birdwatch to CommunityNotes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation. Includes a complete literature review, preliminary analysis, and a gigantic dataset #researchgoldmine arxiv.org/abs/2510.09585

🚨 Deadline extended! Apply by Nov 5 Join the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱 📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social @krivitsky.net @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, Diego Palacios, @gvegayon.bsky.social 💻 Group projects · Network models snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

🚀 ELLIS partners with the newly launched 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝗜 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 to expand doctoral opportunities across Europe. Fully funded PhDs with dual supervision: one advisor in ML/AI, one in an application domain, with optional ELLIS co-advisors. 📅 Oct 1-31 🔗 ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... @maxplanck.de

Great piece in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social on why AI won't solve the loneliness epidemic: "presenting AI as a scalable solution to the loneliness epidemic risks overlooking the structural and societal roots of the problem and may allow us to abdicate our responsibility as a society."

This was a fun talk to give. Our new results show that "Meta-learning optimizes predictions of missing links in real-world networks" (arxiv.org/abs/2508.09069). tl;dr: graph neural networks are a limited tool for predicting missing links in most networks www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYz...

🤩 Fantastic new network plotting package available in Python by Fabio Zanini. The package supports both networkx and igraph networks, and has a wide variety of styling options. iplotx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

📢 Last call! Applications for the 2nd Summer School on Social Network Research (ChiSocNet) close on October 6. Meet our instructors - leading experts in social network analysis 🌐 👉 Apply now: snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/ #SocialNetworkAnalysis #ChiSocNet

Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)? Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR... ▪️ All career stages welcome ▪️ All fields welcome ▪️ Be compensated for your time

A few hours left to submit your extended abstract!!! Friday, Sep. 26, 23:59 AoE.

🚨Call for papers for the 2026 Inequality conference in Konstanz. I'm co-organizing it and we welcome submissions from Computational Social Science. The deadline is approaching quickly! inequality-conference.de

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"? In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text! arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163 🧵 (1/7)

University of Zurich | Ethics in Complex Systems: Perspectives and challenges Registration deadline: October 1 #Ethics #ComplexSystems #Workshop #Society ./3 @yasasgari.bsky.social amahury.github.io/posts/worksh...

Most of the #EurIPS workshops now have their websites online 🙌 A lot of them have active call for participation and/or papers, so if you see something relevant to your field of research please consider submitting! Links for most workshops are available at: eurips.cc/workshops/

A couple of weeks ago @LiuhuayingYang & Paul Kahn hosted the annual Data Visualization Workshop at @csh.ac.at. @DanieleBarolo & I joined as invited scientists to share our research with artists, designers & data journalists. It was so much fun ✨ 🧵1/5

📢 We’ve heard your requests! The deadline is extended to: *Sep 26 (AoE)* ✅ Registration is open & we're exploring a support fund for attendees. 🔗 netscix2026.github.io @mluczak.bsky.social @ProfMSmall @droneale.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @gabridibo.bsky.social @netplace.bsky.social

I strongly recommend applying! I worked with @juhi153.bsky.social during my master’s thesis (she was my supervisor, mentor, and became a great friend). She’s great, supportive, and makes science fun. :-) Plus, you get to live in Finland: great social system, clean air, and even the northern lights!

We are hiring multiple PhD and postdocs for two newly funded projects at the intersection of mental health and political polarization at the CS Dept at Aalto, Finland. The PIs are Juhi Kulshrestha, Talayeh Aledavood, and Mikko Kivelä. Full call text and link to apply: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

Last week for submissions to the NetSci-X 2026 conference to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, in February 2026! netscix2026.github.io

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

💡📚 Passionate about emotions, gender & migration? We’re hiring a Research Associate for the #PROTEMO project at @uni-saarland.de! 🌍 Focus: migrant women’s experiences of domestic violence & how emotions, security & politics intersect. 📝 Apply by 10 Sept 2025 👉 www.protemo.eu/news-post/we...

📢Take a breath, you have extra days to finish! Due to technical issues with @openreviewnet this week, we’ve extended all deadlines by 2 weeks. 🗓️New deadline for abstracts: Sept 19, 23:59 AoE 📷 More info: netscix2026.github.io @MLuczak @ProfMSmall @droneale @danielapaolotti

Excited to announce the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱! 📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social & @krivitsky.net @insna.bsky.social & @netscisociety.bsky.social Apply by Oct 5 👉 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

As we are approaching the submission deadline for NetSci-X 2026 in Auckland this week, here is another opportunity to contribute to the conference: Host a thematic session for your sub-community. Call for session proposals is open now and will close on Sept 15th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 Reminder: Abstract submission closes in 1 week: Sep 5, 23:59 AoE. Don’t miss #NetSciX2026 in Auckland, New Zealand! 🌐 More info: netscix2026.github.io @mluczak.bsky.social @ProfMSmall @droneale.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social

#Call #GESISPanel Collect Your Own Linked #WebTracking and #SurveyData with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample Panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior is recorded.