A really great read overall on how Wikipedia has survived the Internet, and the challenges it still faces. Going straight on my students' reading lists!

A depressing juxtaposition of news stories, there is such a disconnect in the national conversation. A public figure directly calling for violence against trans people is met with police sympathy and instead we get phone ban campaigns to tackle online harms 🙃.

Troubling news as Wikimedia's claim against the OSA is dismissed. This opens the door for onerous new requirements such as ID verification and stricter content moderation. These measures run antithetical to Wikipedia's practical operation and core principles as the encyclopaedia anyone can edit.

For even more WikiResearch at #IC2S2, I'm presenting our work on WikiReddit on Wednesday 14:30 in 'Social Media II' 🧑‍💻 I'll explain how these complementary platforms are powered by the magic of ✨𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲✨, and how our dataset can be used to study cross-platform flows of information and attention 🔀

Great session on Wikipedia at #IC2S2 with some very cool research. Strong themes of multilingual analysis and coordination dynamics @smfsamir.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social

I am pleased to announce the launch of the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research manifesto.wiki. As my co-authored Big Data & Society commentary explains, the manifesto is dedicated to a humanist and critical tradition of taking Wikipedia's importance seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Had a great time meeting everyone and seeing all the interesting work @icwsm.bsky.social. I presented our study on the Wikireddit dataset - exploring Wikipedia’s role in fact-checking, discussion, and cross-platform attention on the web. Thank you to the organisers! 📄: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Important starter pack research in action! I received lots of follow notifications during this talk - hopefully this work prompts more ICWSM activity here!

Very cool work at #ICWSM tracking information manipulation in response to national regulation on the Russian Wikipedia fork From Mykola Trokhymovych, @elaragon.bsky.social, @e-migrante.bsky.social & others

I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs. For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky! Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7 Let me know if I missed anyone!

You can still sign up for our My580 Methods Short Course 👉 Modern Text Analysis and NLP with Python, by @gildersleve.uk 📆 Tuesday 27 May, from 10am - 3pm 🖱️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-tex...

Next up on our My580 Methods Short Courses 👉 Modern Text Analysis and NLP with Python, by @gildersleve.uk 📆 Tuesday 27 May, from 10am - 3pm 🖱️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-tex...

We are challenging the lawfulness of the UK’s Online Safety Act Categorisation Regulations, which determine our obligations under UK laws. These rules create unacceptable risks for Wikipedia’s volunteer users, such as disempowering those who wish to keep their identity private. Read ➡️ w.wiki/E3XD

⭐ New Lecturer: Dr. Mona Elswah⭐ We are very excited to welcome @monaelswah.bsky.social to the Communications team!

I have two postdoc positions for a computer scientist and a social scientist to work on my ERC-funded project HUMANET Human-Machine Social Systems at LSE. Please read more and apply at jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/.... More information about the project is available at humanet.science.

📣Call for papers! 1️⃣ week left to send your 250-word abstract for @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and ‪@dandekadt.bsky.social‬'s two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

📄 Excited to share a new dataset preprint! WikiReddit: Tracing Information and Attention Flows Between Online Platforms A collaboration with @beeeeeers.bsky.social, Viviane Ito, Agustin Orozco, and @ftripodi.bsky.social at @citap.bsky.social .

📣Call for papers! Dr Daniel de Kadt and @audreyalejandro.bsky.social are hosting a two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves. slate.com/technology/2...

🚨New preprint! 📰The News Comment Gap and Algorithmic Agenda Setting in Online Forums w/ Flora Böwing We study: 1) The differences in comment preferences between journalists and readers 2) How comment ranking algorithms prioritise different kinds of comments to display to users 🧵

Excited to be at #IC2S2 2024! I’ll be presenting “The News Comment Gap and Algorithmic Agenda Setting in Online Forums” in session 3C, Friday 11am. Say hi if you want to connect👋

Milena Tsvetkova, @gildersleve.uk and I are teaching an LSE summer school course on social #network analysis in July/August! Send interested students our way! www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Delighted to share that I will be starting as Lecturer (≈ TT Asst Prof) in Communications and Artificial Intelligence at @uniofexeter.bsky.social this September. Looking forward to this new chapter! 🥳 x.com/ExeterComms/...

New from me: the ultimatum game facing TikTok on both sides of the Atlantic

Super proud of my MSc supervisees who graduated from LSE last week. All achieved distinctions in their dissertations and degrees, including the top MSc project award! 🎉

I've penned a blog post on my shiny new website: "Elon Musk is right about Wikipedia". Elon has taken to Twitter to criticise the last best place on the Internet. Does the man destroying his own social network have a point? gildersleve.uk/Elon-Musk-is...