A new study analyzing 10,800 science-related TikTok videos found that White male science communicators consistently received higher engagement than female communicators and communicators of color, even after adjusting for audience size and other factors. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Computational social science is a huge deal in Turkey and great to finally have a Turkish language compendium of some pioneering social data science works produced by Turkish scholars. Took more than two years to build and out today! bilgiyay.com/kitap/sosyal...

Computational social science is a huge deal in Turkey and great to finally have a Turkish language compendium of some pioneering social data science works produced by Turkish scholars. Took more than two years to build and out today! bilgiyay.com/kitap/sosyal...

See you all at Duke next week 🙌🏻

in Brussels for the EEAS FIMI conference - anybody want to talk disinfo and DECONSPIRATOR, let me know

My new obsession: Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid-1920s casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...

Check out past SICSS_Istanbul curricula: lnkd.in/dNAKTMqJ Learning materials from SICSS_Istanbul 2023: lnkd.in/g6Bwyqd Help us spread the news!

📍Application deadline approaching: 2 March Not much time left to wrap up statements of purpose and reaching out to your professors for a recommendation. Looking forward to hosting you at SICSS_Istanbul this summer.

‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?

FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back! Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY Application deadline: 2 March 2026 Announcement of decisions: Mid-April 22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp' 6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat

The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back! Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY Application deadline: 2 March 2026 Announcement of decisions: Mid-April 22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp' 6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat

Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 başvuruları açıldı! Son gün 23 Ocak 2026. Detaylar ve başvuru formu bağlantıda. bilimakademisi.org/bagep-2026-b...

As our world descends further into chaos, I have three new lecture videos geared towards data science newcomers. In three videos, I show you how to: Part 1 - Download R and find your way around RStudio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2eJ...

Interesting. "Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge" "[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"

this, but for reviewer-2

"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.

NEW - Interstate Conflict Increases the Appeal of Undemocratic Candidates - https://cup.org/3Lx7bjx "undemocratic candidates are evaluated more positively under conflict compared to peace" - @kristianvsf.bsky.social & Lasse Laustsen #OpenAccess

Data science people; which free APIs do you use to teach students how to use them? I'm searching for some free (can be registration-based) APIs I can use to teach students how to get and use API keys to get some good online open data. 😇

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

This looks almost painfully relevant right now 👇

celebrities as lord of the rings characters: thread

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

Munich drone sightings force airport to cancel flights in latest Europe disruption

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says

As our world descends further into chaos, I have two new introductory tutorials on data science with R for first timers www.linkedin.com/posts/akinun...

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The Orbanization of America… “Two independent journalistic voices, CBS News and CNN, could soon be combined into something potentially almost unrecognizable, something way too close to what is served up on a daily basis by the Murdochs.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

📢 D3.1 - Methodology Working Paper: presenting a framework to identify & analyse domestic actors that support or amplify FIMI campaigns in Europe. The methodology includes typology, data collection, & network analysis. Full deliverable available here: deconspirator.eu/deliverables/

📢 New #Deliverable publicly available! D8.2 – Dissemination & Communication Plan v2.0, led by White Research. It reviews year-one dissemination & engagement activities, showing strong impact from social media, events & collaborations. Full deliverable available here: bit.ly/45ZAGB4

🚨 BREAKING: Russia has struck the EU delegation building in Kyiv. Read the developing story: ow.ly/N2RW50WNllP

From one shameful chapter to another, it's disturbing how a site once used to unjustly imprison Japanese Americans is now being used to detain immigrants. Different era, same failure to uphold human rights. We should be learning from history, not repeating it. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Geçen sene Ahmet Kurnaz ile Dışişleri Bakanlığı metinleri üzerinde bir LLM benchmarking çalışması olmadığını farkedip biz yapalım demiştik. Bu sene düzenlenen @ieeeras.bsky.social 'da sunduk ve sonuçları yayınlandı - ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🎉 After 8 amazing years, Hoaxy is retiring! Its legacy lives on in OSoMeNet—our new, unified tool for social media research. Thank you for supporting Hoaxy! 🙌 osome.iu.edu/tools/osomen...

In the context of #IC2S2 2025: I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science. What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead? It’s a short, AI-led interview. Interested? Start your interview here: www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...

If you're @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and are looking for a faculty position, get in touch. @uni-saarland.de is hiring. Right now, there's an open call in Computer Science @saarland-informatics-campus.de: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... Soon, there'll be open calls in the Social Sciences.

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 Aqsa Farooq and I explore how aesthetic realism and emotional salience influence authenticity judgements of AI-generated disinformation images. #GenAI #disinformation #authenticity #commsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What happens if you cross Trump? I combed through 53k of his tweets and found 30 Republican members of congress King Donald has feuded with 10 stood down 9 were primaried (3 won) 7 reconciled (4 resumed) 3 are unresolved And John McCain died www.economist.com/united-state...

So weird. They’re all just so fucking weird.

Authoritarian governments are fundamentally transnational organized crime syndicates, or what @moisesnaim.bsky.social calls “Mafia States.” youtu.be/iftBTs8FrA0?...

"Within the Meta AI app, a “discover” tab shows a timeline of other people’s interactions with the chatbot. ... While some of the highlighted queries and answers are innocuous ... others reveal locations, telephone numbers, and other sensitive information, all tied to user names and profile photos."