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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · Jan 15

I'm glad to announce that I just started as co-Editor-in-chief of EPJ Data Science with @yelenamejova.bsky.social
Looking forward to building the community around one of my favorite journals!
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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · May 8

➡️ out at PLOS Climate:
The role of science in the Climate Change discussions on Reddit
😱 only 1 / 25 post links is to a scientific resource
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
Paolo Cornale @mictiz.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social @isi.it

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Apr 1

📢 Deadline Extended! 🚨
6th Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable at #ICWSM2025!

🗓️ New Deadline: April 7th, 2025
Submit your abstract or paper
🔗 tinyurl.com/DWMV25

#DataForSocialGood

@yelenamejova.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @isi.it @icwsm.bsky.social

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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Mattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · Feb 26

🚨Happy to share our latest study on the resilience of the mobility network to first and second wave Covid-19 interventions in Chile. 🦠
Thanks to Pasquale Casaburi for leading this and the team!
🔗 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Resilience of mobility network to dynamic population response across COVID-19 interventions: Evidences from Chile

Author summary Population response to public health interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic exhibited strong heterogeneities associated to socio-economic factors, labour structure and demographics ...

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Feb 25

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.

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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · Feb 11

👉 preprint:
The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit
how was science cited in the past 14 years? preprints or journals?
find answers are here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05026
w/ Paolo Cornale @mictiz.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social Daniela Paolotti

The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit

Collective and individual action necessary to address climate change hinges on the public's understanding of the relevant scientific findings. In this study, we examine the use of scientific sources i...

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WIRED @wired.com · Feb 4

EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...

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American Humanist Association @americanhumanist.bsky.social · Feb 3

Thanks to everybody who made last week’s 2024 Freedom of Thought Report launch such a success, especially the report’s authors at Humanists International! If you weren’t able to join us live for last week’s event, you can catch the recording of the event in its entirety here: youtu.be/Bx0fquWehNo

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ISI Foundation @isi.it · Jan 27

📅 Only one week left!
Submit your application by February 3rd, 2025

ISI Foundation @isi.it · Dec 16

Call for 10 scholarships for research on Data Science for Social Good at @isi.it , supported by Fondazione CRT 's Lagrange Project
#dataforgood #data4good
More details here ➡️ www.isi.it/news/2024-12...

Progetto Lagrange-Fondazione CRT 2024/2025: Call for 10 scholarships for research on Data Science for Social Good - ISI Foundation

The ISI Foundation and the CRT Foundation confirm their commitment for the year 2024/2025 to the social impact of data, renewing their support to the Applied Research Scholarships of the Lagrange Proj...

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