We welcome @theamoldovan.bsky.social as a new PhD student at the lab! Theodora will work on fairness in social network analysis.
We welcome @anmen.bsky.social as a new postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Dept. of Information Technology, and as a new member of the InfoLab.
New article out: The seven roles of generative AI: Potential & pitfalls in combatting misinformation. Thomas Nygren, Emily R. Spearing, Nicolas Fay, Davide Vega, Isabella I. Hardwick, Jon Roozenbeek, and Ullrich K. H. Ecker. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
Congratulations to @dilettagoglia.bsky.social for successfully presenting her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication"!
New article: "Climate Clash: A Multimodal Analysis of Movement–Countermovement Interactions in the Digital Sphere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #polarvisproject @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social
New article out, led by @lorenzo-mannocci.bsky.social, moving towards the "unflattening" of the study of online coordination: "Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies". Full text here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mUYo4ZQEN...
New paper to be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): Gradient-Based Diversity Optimization with Differentiable Top-K Objective, by Tianyi Zhou, Sebastian Dalleiger, @calikus.bsky.social & Aristides Gionis. Available here: openreview.net/pdf?id=cuzWo...
This Friday, Jan. 30 at 10:15 @dilettagoglia.bsky.social is giving her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication". You are welcome to join in person at the Ångström Laboratory (Uppsala), room 101127, or online:
uu-se.zoom.us/j/61715956924
We have an open PhD position on Fair Social Network Analysis (focused on method development but also on integrating social theory and real data analysis). Please consider applying if this is something of your interest or share this to potentially interested candidates. uuinfolab.github.io/joinus/
It's time for a few professional updates. Together with the team behind the PolarVis project and with @flxvctr.bsky.social we have been invited by @cais-research.bsky.social to organize three workshops in Bochum. The workshops - between February and May - will expand on our understanding o visual