Today we celebrate our extraordinary professional team, whose commitment and dedication make the remarkable achievements of ADM+S researchers possible. Our professional team spans across 8 Australian partner universities. #ResearchAdministratorsDay

A new ADM+S Submission is available on APO for the Productivity Commission Pillar 3: Harnessing data and digital technology Interim Report. 🔗 Read the submission: apo.org.au/node/332205 #AIpolicy #PrivacyRegulation #ResponsibleAI

New article from The Conversation by ADM+S researcher @tjthomson.bsky.social with Samuel Cornell (UNSW). They explore the consequences for young people when consuming violent and disturbing viral content on social media. #viralvideos #socialmediaharms 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/466Ui7Q

New ADM+S submission: Research ahead of the 2025 Federal Election reveals astroturfing is mainstream in climate & energy debates. Calls for stronger laws, transparency & platform accountability to protect democracy. Read more bit.ly/41MbRYn #PoliticalAdvertising #Astroturfing #DigitalTransparency

A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals & communities navigate the overwhelming & often unreliable online information about sexual & reproductive health by building digital & data capabilities @katha.bsky.social bit.ly/3Vu0cKh

Join us online Thurs 11 Sept for the launch of the Digital Capabilities for Sexual & Reproductive Health Final Report & Website. Featuring leading voices across sexual health, policy, advocacy & community. 👉 admscentre.org/DDCSRH-Launch #DigitalHealth #SexualHealth

The September edition of the ADM+S Newsletter is out. Explore the latest ADM+S research, news, publications, and events admscentre.org/September-news

We just released a *big* working paper on Voice AI and Authenticity as part of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society @admscentre.org.au It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done Check it out at Australian Policy Online here: apo.org.au/node/331920

Voice technologies are being rapidly integrated into AI systems, raising new questions & intensifying old ones, across everyday life. This paper surveys the history & current developments, highlighting emerging responses in real-world settings. apo.org.au/node/331920 #AI #VoiceTech #Authenticity

Today ADM+S proudly celebrates Wear It Purple Day. A day that strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people #WearItPurple #Inclusion #DiversityMatters

As AI reshapes how we search, they’re no longer just tools for finding, they’re turning into engines for answering, filtering, and even shaping what we know. Read more in this latest ADM+S Medium article bit.ly/4mCMPmL #SearchEngines #AI #DigitalSociety

New ADM+S Podcast episode: PhD researcher Samantha @floreani.bsky.social explores her study on the growing influence of digital technologies in the residential real estate sector. 🎧 Listen now: admscentre.org/461k5OE

AI “companions” offer comfort to some but raise serious risks. ADM+S researcher Henry Fraser warns: “We’ve seen chatbots encourage harm… what you can break now is much more tangible. A more sober, responsible attitude is desperately needed.” #AIethics #AIcompanions bit.ly/4fMFVc6

What if the digital economy worked for communities, not corporations? A/Prof Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social shares real-world alternatives from over 60 countries in this presentation. Listen now on the ADM+S Podcast bit.ly/4fBkbzT #DigitalCoops #PlatformCooperativism #DigitalEconomy

ABC RN Breakfast: As debate grows over how to regulate AI, ADM+S Chief Investigator Prof Kimberlee Weatherall says we cannot afford to wait years for legal reform @kimweatherall.bsky.social #AIregulation #ResponsibleAI bit.ly/3H2Jz4N

Congrats to Dr Thao Phan, winner of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 2025 Max Crawford Medal for her exemplary scholarship investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture @thaophan.bsky.social #AlgorithmicCulture #MaxCrawfordMedal #GenderStudies admscentre.org/47nJF1g

Call for Papers – International Conference on Platform and AI Society in Asia. Submissions invited from scholars across disciplines to examine the intersections of platforms, AI, and society in and across Asia.https://bit.ly/45Bm63M

Congrats to team members Prof Flora Salim, Breeze Chen & Wilson Wongso from ADM+S and other team members Xiaoqian Hu & Yue Tan from UNSW who placed 3rd in the highly competitive KDD Cup 2025 Meta CRAG-MM Challenge @florasalim.bsky.social #KDD2025 #WearableAI #VLLMs admscentre.org/4mu7lFx

ADM+S researcher Dr Ashwin Nagappa from QUT has been awarded the 2024 AXA Research Fund postdoctoral fellowship. He is one of only eight early-career researchers worldwide to receive this prestigious grant. More: admscentre.org/axa-research-fund

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🙌 Thanks to all my co-authors and to the editors who make the work shine. I'm also grateful to the team at @admscentre.org.au for helping amplify our work. 🔗 Fancy a read about AI, visual culture, visual communication, or inclusion? Check the articles out here: theconversation.com/profiles/t-j...

Prof @jeanburgess.bsky.social on ABC News Mornings (from 33:12) responding to the Govt’s proposed under-16 social media ban to include YouTube. The move raises questions on defining social media, media literacy & rights to media access. #MediaLiteracy #SocialMediaBan iview.abc.net.au/video/NU2513...

Leaders and professional staff from ARC Centres of Excellence across Australia gathered in Melbourne for the annual ARC CoE Summit - building collaboration, capability, & shared vision across the ARC CoE Directors & professional staff community. admscentre.org/4o8O51Z

A team from the ADM+S at RMIT University has taken out first place amongst 70 teams across 27 countries in the LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, showcasing world-class innovation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies admscentre.org/3IBFe8Z

AIO is at IAMCR 2025 this week! Dr Amanda Lawrence presents our work on large-scale research infrastructure for platform observability. Strengthening transparency and accountability online. @ardc.edu.au @admscentre.org.au Read more: internetobservatory.org.au/post/aio-at-... #IAMCR2025

Congratulations to ADM+S researchers Luke Munn & @jathansadowski.com on being awarded ARC Future Fellowships. Their projects tackle the urgent challenges of climate change, digital labour, and risk governance. Read more admscentre.org/4nHItLX

Is AI writing your news? Is it a problem if it does? Artificial intelligence in journalism ADM+S researcher Phoebe Matich is trying to discover the extent to which AI is being used in our newsrooms, & how journalists and audiences feel about it. More via ABC Media Land www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

ABC Listen: What checks and balances are needed when government departments use AI and automated decision making? Presented by Damien Carrick, ABC Law Report - hear panelists from the #ADMS2025 Symposium discuss essential learnings from government AI systems such as Robodebt bit.ly/3TwWIWh

ADM+S researchers T.J. Thomson & Daniel Angus with Samuel Cornell examine a new U.S. State Department policy that requires university & exchange visa applicants to disclose and make public their social media accounts from the past five years. More: admscentre.org/4lKnKWh #digitalprivacy #DataEthics

Day 2 of the 2025 ADM+S Symposium brought together ADM+S researchers, technologists, social service professionals, and policymakers. Sessions showcased innovative responses to the challenges of building inclusive, ethical, and responsible automated social services for everyday Australians. #ADMS2025

Day 1 of the 2025 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Social Services – Building Inclusive Digital Futures has brought together ADM+S members and partner organisations for critical conversations about building inclusive, ethical, and responsible automated social services. #ADMS2025

We look forward to hearing from our speakers and participants at the 2025 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Social Services this week. Public recordings of key sessions will be made available after the event. #ADMS2025

Looking forward to Damien Carrick (ABC RN) chair the upcoming session 'Current governance settings and challenges for ADM/AI governance post-Robodebt', with @kimweatherall.bsky.social, Terry Carney AO, Kate Allingham (EJA) & Alexandra Sinclair at @admscentre.org.au Symposium. Recording post-event.

Now on ADM+S YouTube: International Approaches to Incorporating Public Service Media Values into Automated Systems—a panel with experts from BBC, NPO & ZDF, hosted by ADM+S & ABC. 📺 Watch: youtu.be/X-AVtcmOYYs #PublicServiceMedia #MediaInnovation

Congrats to Prof Axel Bruns on being elected a Fellow of the International Communication Association - an honour recognising his influential work in media & communication & his impact on how we understand social media, technology, & society @snurb.info @qutdmrc.bsky.social admscentre.org/3I09sCo

ADM+S researcher Kaixin Ji has been awarded the prestigious 2024 China Scholarship Council Outstanding Self-funded International Student Scholarship Read more: admscentre.org/4jVqYon

💎 NETWORK ANARCHY AND UNSTABLE DIFFUSIONS 💎 7 - 8 July Naarm/Melbourne @blueskychris.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @eryk.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

Australia needs a regulatory framework that builds public trust in data & tech—while enabling innovation in #AI and digital systems. Read the new submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into Pillar 3: Harnessing Data and Digital Technology from ADM+S researchers. 🔗More: bit.ly/44jiiUh

Congratulations to the ADM+S team from RMIT, one of four global finalists in the #SIGIR #LiveRAG Challenge- hosted by the Technology Innovation Institute. The team includes Dr Oleg Zendel, Dr Damiano Spina, Kun Ran, Shuoqi Sun, with colleague Dinh Anh Khoi Nguyen. More: admscentre.org/4l998ze

Congrats to ADM+S's ‪@danulah.bsky.social & Kacper Sokol on winning the 2025 Google Research Scholar Award in HCI. Their project will develop tailored, interactive explanations that help users better understand the decisions of AI systems ‬ #ResponsibleAI #HCI admscentre.org/444MaCu

In the @admscentre.org.au we recently used the tool to track political advertising throughout the Australian Federal Election and have upcoming studies on alcohol, reproductive health, gambling and more. www.admscentre.org.au/australian-a... #ica25

AI in the Street: Drone Observatory has won the STEAM Award at the New Media Film Festival in LA. Filmed in Logan, QLD, it explores life under drone delivery trials. Created by ADM+S researcher @thaophan.bsky.social & filmmaker Jeni Lee. admscentre.org/43VtZPE

ADM+S researchers @tjthomson.bsky.social, Ashwin Nagappa and Shir Weinbrand unpack how Google’s new AI-generated summaries are transforming the way we discover information. 👉Read the article: bit.ly/3Zsyeku #AI #GoogleSearch #Google

AI chatbots can offer support on a bad day—but they’re not therapists. Researchers Centaine Snoswell, Aaron Snoswell & Laura Neil warn that while engaging, AI raises concerns about misinformation, emotional dependence, and long-term reliability bit.ly/3ZqQ4nS #MentalHealth #Chatbots

Researcher Spotlight 💡 ADM+S researcher Jiaman He explores human searching behaviour on LLM-based search engines. Jiaman will present the co-authored paper 'Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data' at the 2025 #SIGIR conference admscentre.org/4dIFb6y

Google’s new SynthID tool claims to detect AI-generated content—but only if it’s made with Google’s own models. Researchers @tjthomson.bsky.social @jeanburgess.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social explain how it works & whether watermarking can meet the challenge of #GenAI authenticity bit.ly/43Lj2jB

Explore the latest from AIO in our May 2025 newsletter: platform transparency, TikTok research (@admscentre.org.au), election ad tracking, and more. Stay informed on tools, events, and insights shaping digital accountability. Subscribe for more updates: 📩 mailchi.mp/47656dbe5d00... @ardc.edu.au

While new online industry codes aim to protect children from harmful content, experts warn they could unintentionally restrict access to vital sexual health and education resources, particularly for young and marginalised groups. @katha.bsky.social #SexEd #DigitalRights bit.ly/45szRlO

Still time to register for this event at: admscentre.org/HacksHackers

Expressions of interest now open to attend ’Re/Framing Field Lab.' Participants will work across disciplines to develop outputs such as papers, NTROs, white papers, infographics, tech demos and more. 👉 More info: admscentre.org/3SNgpIT