Happy to announce the 2nd edition of our Summer School in Computational Social Science that will take place in the beautiful Villa del Grumello on Lake Como between June 22-26, 2026! *** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: February 15, 2026 (firm deadline) *** More details here: css2.lakecomoschool.org

For those of you who missed it, the recording of Petter Törnberg's talk is now available!

📜 New paper alert! Paper Link: lnkd.in/gCauNwFS 🔎 In this study, we explore the differences in English and Spanish language content of Breast Cancer on Facebook.

Work!! 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥 Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci 🗓️ DL November 1 Spread the word 📣 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

New preprint! 🚀 We ask: What happens when you bring human team science into the design of multi-agent LLM systems? In particular, how do team structure, diversity, and interaction dynamics influence how AI agents collaborate? 📄Full Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07488 👩‍💻Code: github.com/Rasikamurali...

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

🚨 First OSoMe Awesome Speaker of the year! 🚨 📅 Sept 12 | 12pm ET 🎤 Patrick Warren (Clemson University) 📍 Zoom Measuring the Impact of a Large State-Sponsored Narrative-Laundering Campaign: The case of the Storm-1516 attack on Zelensky 🔗 Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In Norrköping, Sweden for #IC2S2! Excited to present my collaborative work with @baottruong.bsky.social and @yyahn.bsky.social! 🔎 Where to find us: Scaling of Community Rules Across Mastodon Servers 🚨 Parallel Talk- Social Media & Networks| Jul 24, 11 AM | Vingen 3&4

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵