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Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social · Sep 12

📣 Yale workshop, Oct 16-17! 📣 How could/should content ranking work? What's new in content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgori...

New Directions in Social Algorithms Research on October 16-17, 2025 at Yale University

As social media algorithms increasingly mediate social experiences, there has been a rapid increase in research on the effects of how these algorithms are configured, alternatives to engagement-centri...

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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 1d

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 1d

In June, I asked to one of the co-authors of the AI Scientist paper: would LLMs favor LLM-written papers and reject human ones? Could we be heading toward an echo chamber of machine-reviewed machine papers? We didn’t have answers then.

Glad to see this work.

Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 1d

📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 1d

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

One postdoctoral Research Position

Deadline: November 15th, 2025

stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 1d

New preprint: From Birdwatch to CommunityNotes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation. Includes a complete literature review, preliminary analysis, and a gigantic dataset #researchgoldmine
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09585

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ChiSocNet @chisocnet.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 Deadline extended! Apply by Nov 5
Join the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱
📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile
Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social @krivitsky.net
@franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, Diego Palacios, @gvegayon.bsky.social
💻 Group projects · Network models
snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 15d

🚀 ELLIS partners with the newly launched 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝗜 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 to expand doctoral opportunities across Europe.

Fully funded PhDs with dual supervision: one advisor in ML/AI, one in an application domain, with optional ELLIS co-advisors.

📅 Oct 1-31
🔗 ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

@maxplanck.de

ELLIS Partners with New Max Planck AI Network to Expand Doctoral Opportunities

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 7d

Great piece in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social on why AI won't solve the loneliness epidemic:

"presenting AI as a scalable solution to the loneliness epidemic risks overlooking the structural and societal roots of the problem and may allow us to abdicate our responsibility as a society."

Can AI really help solve the loneliness epidemic?

Advances in artificial intelligence offer an enticing solution to a global problem: perhaps interacting with large language models (LLMs) can help all…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 8d

This was a fun talk to give. Our new results show that "Meta-learning optimizes predictions of missing links in real-world networks" (arxiv.org/abs/2508.09069). tl;dr: graph neural networks are a limited tool for predicting missing links in most networks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYz...

GraphGeeks Talk: Meta-Learner That Finds the Best Link Prediction Model

YouTube video by GraphGeeks

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 11d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 12d

🤩 Fantastic new network plotting package available in Python by Fabio Zanini. The package supports both networkx and igraph networks, and has a wide variety of styling options. iplotx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Gallery of various network visualisations.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 13d

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

ellis.eu

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · 13d

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data!
Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us.

👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

Details

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

www.gesis.org

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ChiSocNet @chisocnet.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Last call! Applications for the 2nd Summer School on Social Network Research (ChiSocNet) close on October 6.
Meet our instructors - leading experts in social network analysis 🌐
👉 Apply now: snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
#SocialNetworkAnalysis #ChiSocNet

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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 13d

Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?

Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...

▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time

GRAND Recruitment

Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).

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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 18d

A few hours left to submit your extended abstract!!! Friday, Sep. 26, 23:59 AoE.

Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 25d

📢 We’ve heard your requests! The deadline is extended to: *Sep 26 (AoE)*

✅ Registration is open & we're exploring a support fund for attendees.

🔗 netscix2026.github.io

@mluczak.bsky.social @ProfMSmall @droneale.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @gabridibo.bsky.social @netplace.bsky.social

Skyline of Auckland, New Zealand at sunset with the Sky Tower prominent. On the right, bold text reads “CALL FOR ABSTRACTS.” Subtext says “You’ve got 1 more week to submit your work and join the dialogue on diversity in network science.” A yellow banner highlights: “Deadline 23:59 AoE, Friday, 26 September 2025.” The bottom includes the conference URL: netscix2026.github.io.

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 19d

🚨Call for papers for the 2026 Inequality conference in Konstanz. I'm co-organizing it and we welcome submissions from Computational Social Science. The deadline is approaching quickly!
inequality-conference.de

In_equality Conference 2026

The "Politics of Inequality” research center invites interdisciplinary & international researchers to Konstanz, Germany, for the In_equality Conference, 15-17 April 2026.

inequality-conference.de

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Chantal @chantalsh.bsky.social · 20d

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"?

In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text!

arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 22d

University of Zurich | Ethics in Complex Systems: Perspectives and challenges

Registration deadline: October 1

#Ethics #ComplexSystems #Workshop #Society ./3

@yasasgari.bsky.social

amahury.github.io/posts/worksh...

University of Zurich Ethics in Complex Systems: Perspectives and challenges

This one-day interdisciplinary workshop aims at bridging the gap between researchers in complexity science and ethics and offers a new perspective on why ethics discussions are necessary in such a com...

amahury.github.io

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 21d

Most of the #EurIPS workshops now have their websites online 🙌

A lot of them have active call for participation and/or papers, so if you see something relevant to your field of research please consider submitting!

Links for most workshops are available at: eurips.cc/workshops/

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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 23d

Huge thanks to @LiuhuayingYang & @csh.ac.at for creating such a creative space every year. 👏👏👏

If you want to explore how science & data can be translated into playful, pedagogical, and artistic forms, apply for the next edition in 2026!

vis.csh.ac.at/vis-workshop...

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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 23d

For our work on ranking audits doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05434-1:

- SHROOM BOOM board game [visualizing-complexity-science-group4.netlify.app]
- Hidden Network interactive exhibit
- Network interactive tool
- Rave of Fairness visual + audio learning [adrigabzu.github.io/rave_of_fairness]

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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 23d

For our work on auditing LLMs in scholar recommendations (arxiv.org/abs/2506.00074) 3 groups created:

- The Invisibles: UV light exposing overlooked scientists
- Artificial Intelligence: Pepper's ghost illusions
- GroundTruth: coffee filter metaphor [dizzy-swarm-74427371.figma.site]

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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 23d

I presented my work on inequalities, biases & fairness in socio-technical systems (node ranking, and LLM recommendations).

What amazed me: participants reimagined my research in ways I'd never have thought of: beyond scatterplots & bar charts. 💡🤯

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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 23d

A couple of weeks ago @LiuhuayingYang & Paul Kahn hosted the annual Data Visualization Workshop at @csh.ac.at.

@DanieleBarolo & I joined as invited scientists to share our research with artists, designers & data journalists.

It was so much fun ✨

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