Being part of this community makes the work so worthwhile. Honored to be recognized among such a dedicated group of reviewers ✨ #ICWSM2026

🚨 Big news! #ICWSM '27 is heading to Edinburgh, Scotland 🏰 More details on dates and venue coming soon ✨ ❗How submissions work: • May 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Sept '26 • Sept 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Jan '27 • Jan 15, 2027: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → May '27 (→ ICWSM '28)

Thrilled to share that our work has been accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026 🌟 Thanks @cerenbudak.bsky.social and @lajello.bsky.social for the great collaboration! 📖 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

We are thrilled to announce our 4th speaker for the event on March 10th! 🚀🚀🚀 Christopher Cox will tell us about the effect of parental leave on mental health in men and women. Join us at #databeers #copenhagen x #Absalon1720 We are SOLD OUT❗️ Remember to cancel your ticket if you can't attend

🚀 Excited to introduce our 2nd speaker for the next event on March 10th! Join us at #databeers #copenhagen x #Absalon for a session on personas prompting in large language models with Arnav Arora @rnv.bsky.social ! ❗We are SOLD OUT! Remember to cancel your ticket if you can't attend

The #ICWSM 2026 Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award is now accepting nominations and self-nominations! 📅 Deadline for this year's award: March 15th, 2026. Don't miss out on this great opportunity! More info: icwsm.org/2026/submit....

📣 Excited to announce our first speaker for DataBeers x Absalon on March 10th! @paddybrock.bsky.social will tell us about how he uses data science to find new ways to support refugees and asylum seekers 🌟 Get your tickets at: absaloncph.dk/begivenhed/d...

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!

New deadline is Jan 23. If you're based in a low- or middle-income country and work on computational social science, particularly using online data, please consider applying.

Today’s the day! Remember to submit your work by Jan 15th, 23:59 AoE. Good luck, everyone 🤞

📢 Updated deadline: Jan 23rd! Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM’26, and prepare a Sept 2026 submission. 💥 Apply with a max 2-page proposal More details: icwsm.org/2026/submit.... #icwsm @journalqd.bsky.social

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

🚨 Spread the word! 🚨 The #ICWSM 2026 Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award is now accepting nominations and self-nominations! 🌟 📅 Deadline for this year's award: March 15th, 2026 More info: www.icwsm.org/2026/submit....

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.

Happy 2026! 🎉 📅 The ICWSM January submission deadline is just ten days away (Jan 15) Find all the information to submit your full paper, poster, demo, dataset, and tutorial proposal here: www.icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🔔 Note that the deadline for workshop proposals is Jan 30!

🌍 Are you new to #icwsm or @journalqd.bsky.social and based in a low- or middle-income country? 🚨 There are only 10 days left to apply to ICWSM/JQD Global Initiative! 🚀 Apply by Jan 15: www.icwsm.org/2026/submit....

🚨 Only a month left to apply for the Global Initiative! New to #ICWSM or @journalqd.bsky.social and based in a low- or middle-income country? This is your chance! 📢 Details and call: www.icwsm.org/2026/submit....

🌍 Are you new to #icwsm or @journalqd.bsky.social and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

Ready for #ICWSM2026 in LA next May? 🌴 📅 Deadlines: • Jan 15, 2026 – Full papers, posters, demos, datasets, tutorials (note: posters/demos/datasets submitted in Sep 2025 are reviewed only after this deadline) • Jan 30, 2026 – Workshop proposals 🔗 Details: www.icwsm.org/2026/submit....

How does online communication adapt to organizational context? In a new pre-print with @cerenbudak.bsky.social and @lajello.bsky.social, we study US labor unions’ Facebook use of discourse frames around wins and losses in representation elections. 🧵 📖 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

A great collaboration! In this study led by Theodora, we found that positive emotions are more present at distinct stages of activism (calls-to-action, expression of intention, report of participation), showing how emotion and mobilization interact in spoken discourse 🗣️

Finally out 🇮🇹 Ever wondered about the stability of Italian political discourse on Twitter? Check out our work, where we uncover hidden swing voters' vulnerability to propaganda techniques during the 2022 elections 🗳️ ✨ @ariannapera.bsky.social and @luciolcw.bsky.social 🔗 shorturl.at/FztcO

Just back from #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping! I presented a poster + talk on VLLM-based clustering of social media images around climate change polarization. Huge thanks to the organizers and the whole community for the great discussions and inspiration! #Polarvis #NERDS #ITU

The work “Extracting Participation in Collective Action from Social Media”, in collaboration with @lajello.bsky.social, at @ic2s2.bsky.social today! Check out the paper ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... and models huggingface.co/ariannap22 Feat. poster and research buddy @alessianetwork.bsky.social ♥️

Presented our work, “Cultural and Cognitive Insights from 2.6 Billion Drawings,” at @ic2s2.bsky.social this morning. Big thanks to Mauro Martino, Nima Dehmamy, @douglasguilbeault.bsky.social, @lajello.bsky.social, and @baronca.bsky.social for the collaboration ✨ Stay tuned for more results!

The Climate TikTok tour stops by Norrköping for @ic2s2.bsky.social 🌱 I presented “Mapping the climate change discussion on TikTok” at the poster session – had fun with my friend and poster buddy @ariannapera.bsky.social next to me. Vote for poster 32 and check out the paper: tinyurl.com/23atjxny

NERDS at #ic2s2 😍

🚨 The deadline for submitting proposals to host ICWSM 2027 is extended! Send your proposals (and questions) to Ceren Budak by August 15

Congrats to the best SPCs and the best reviewers of this year! #icwsm

It’s a wrap ✨ One more edition of #icwsm is over. Amazing research outputs, insightful conversations and many new, exciting ideas! Thanks to all the organizers, chairs and volunteers who made the event possible, and to all the participants for making ICWSM 2025 a memorable edition 🇩🇰

Adamic-Glance Awardee Keynote: @gvrkiran.bsky.social on misinformation on whatsapp through the lens of a large data donation program #icwsm

Today’s presentation at #icwsm on extracting participation in activism from social media data 📱 Check the models at: huggingface.co/ariannap22/m... @icwsm.bsky.social @nerdsitu.bsky.social @itu.dk

Detecting participation in collective action from social media text. Great tool to build large-scale ground truth about collective engagement online. Fantastic work by @ariannapera.bsky.social at #ICWSM. Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Code: github.com/ariannap13/e...

Featuring several NERDS - can you spot them?

🥳 The result of a great group effort started at @complexity72h.bsky.social came out today, check it out!

What actually happens on social media when users get access to integrated AI?🤖 In our new preprint, we present a controlled experiment testing the impact of generative AI (4 treatments + control) on a social media platform, using a representative sample of nearly 700 U.S. participants.

📢 Meet the keynote speakers at #ICWSM 2025: Silvia Merisio, Policy officer in the DSA team of the European Commission “From Regulation to Research: The DSA’s Impact on Social Data Science” + Panel Discussion 📅 June 24 🕑 9 AM 📍CSS 35.01.05

Planning your trip for @icwsm.bsky.social ? Add DETOX workshop to your schedule! 🎤Submit for pitch talks - 2 minutes to share research, spark discussions, or introduce your work. Dynamic back-to-back format, established researchers & newcomers welcome! ⚡ Info here: tinyurl.com/mvn9zbmh

⏰ Less than two weeks to go until #ICWSM 2025! Can’t wait for the conference? You can already explore this year’s accepted contributions! The proceedings are now live: 🔗 www.icwsm.org/2025/schedul...

[5/5] Yes, in this crazy week, I also presented some research! 🎤 Talk at Understudied Networks satellite on climate change discourse collection methods + Thursday poster - both exploring TikTok's climate conversations. Check out the datasets: zenodo.org/records/1513... and zenodo.org/records/1484...

📢 Meet the keynote speakers at #ICWSM 2025: Kiran Garimella, Rutgers University Academic-Glance Awardee Keynote “Misinformation on WhatsApp: Insights from a large data donation program” 📅 June 26 🕑 8.30 AM 📍CSS 35.01.05

Congratulations to @theamoldovan.bsky.social, who defended her Master's thesis: "Exploring Collective Action in Black Lives Matter Podcast Conversations".

🚨 Special Session at #ICWSM2025 From biased algorithms to inclusive research: science and practice Join Roberta Sinatra & Jakob Feldtfos Christensen to explore bias in science and inclusion in practice. 📅 June 24 🕑 12:00 PM 📍CSS 35.01.05

Last week I kicked off my research visit at CEU in Vienna! Over the next month, I’ll be collaborating with @maxfalken.bsky.social to explore climate discourses in parliamentary speeches 🌱

Our work on measuring participation in collective action has been accepted to #ICWSM 2025! Check out the paper and models, and see you in Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Yesterday @lajello.bsky.social and I had the opportunity to present our work on the language of collective action at the CSS Seminar Series at @uu.se 🇸🇪 Big thanks to Matteo Magnani and @dvladek.bsky.social for inviting us, and to the whole UUInfolab for the warm welcome and insightful conversations!

Anastassia defends her PhD: Urban Data Science for Sustainable Mobility nerds.itu.dk/2025/04/01/a... Congrats! 🎉🎓

Luca Maria Aiello becomes Full Professor nerds.itu.dk/2025/04/01/luca-m Congratulations Luca @lajello.bsky.social, well deserved! 🎉👨‍🏫

We have several open positions, both Phd & Postdoc: nerds.itu.dk/positions/ On the topics of epidemic preparedness, and network science & AI & #ScienceOfScience #SciSci Deadlines in April and May!

🎉 Acceptance notifications have been sent—congratulations to all the authors! 🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant 📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/... ✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...