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Information Studies @ Aalborg University
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juttahaider.bsky.social
We need to start calling out big tech for their algorithmically faciltated emissions and their climate collapse by design default. Read our comment in Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design - Jutta Haider, Malte Rödl, James White, 2025
This commentary discusses the role of increasingly artificial intelligence-infused big tech platforms in facilitating and normalising high-emission lifestyles a...
doi.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
For PW, I wrote about the persistent gender gap in fictional animal characters—a pattern I noticed while analyzing 100s of picture books with @puddingviz.bsky.social.

It's a more interesting (and pervasive) problem than I first thought.

#kidlit #booksky

🔗: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A dot plot titled '"nthropomorphized Animals in Popular Children's Books (*Animals That Appear in 10+ Books)" showing the proportion of animals depicted with gendered pronouns. Animals toward the left side are more often represented as male (he/him), and those toward the right are more often represented as female (she/her). Birds, ducks, and cats lean female. Bears, monkeys, dogs, elephants, foxes, wolves, and frogs lean male. Each animal is represented by a colorful, illustrated face. Screenshot of Publishers Weekly article titled "The Sneaky Gender Bias in Picture Books: Animal Characters" that includes photo of the author, a woman with brown hair and glasses. Text reads: "Melanie Walsh is an assistant professor in the Information School and an adjunct assistant professor in the English department at the University of Washington. She uses data to analyze contemporary culture, especially literature and publishing. She is currently at work on a book, When Postwar American Fiction Went Viral: Protest, Profit, and Popular Readers in the 21st Century, which follows the surprising social media afterlives of five iconic American authors. Here she shares her investigations into the subtle gender imbalance often at play in picture books featuring animal characters. I recently published a data analysis with The Pudding, a digital publication known for data-driven storytelling, about animal characters in picture books. We read approximately 300 popular English-language picture books from the past 70+ years and noted the gender of any anthropomorphized animal character that was important to the story. We found that male animal characters were twice as common as female characters across all the books. Some strong animal stereotypes also emerged: frogs and dogs were boys; birds and cats were girls. Even more surprising, according to our data: this disparity is not obviously improving, even over the last 25 years."
August 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
flo-meier.bsky.social
We also just got a paper desk rejected because the journal couldn't recruit reviewers for it 😕
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 16
1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.

This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
So they just… re-traumatized a bunch of kids so as to create yet another surveillance technology that will not & indeed most likely CANNOT reliably work, but will nonetheless likely be widely used on (weaponized against) already marginalized communties to justify our further oppression?

…Well fuck.
July 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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alessianetwork.bsky.social
On Tuesday, this happened! Thanks to my EDI-buddy @elisalvai.bsky.social — built this session together from scratch and had fun doing it ✨ Big thanks also to our invited speakers @robysinatra.bsky.social @feldtfos.bsky.social for making the session so interesting — not easy during a lunch break!
icwsm.bsky.social icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Jun 24
EDI Special Session: @robysinatra.bsky.social on quantifying bias and inequalities in science and @feldtfos.bsky.social on making equity, diversity and inclusion work in research projects.

Big thanks to the EDI co-chairs @alessianetwork.bsky.social and @elisalvai.bsky.social for organizing!
June 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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ingmarweber.de
#ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social would be nothing without its community. Here are some of the heroes who work hard to guarantee that authors receive useful reviews: @aldayelabeer.bsky.social @chibold.bsky.social @lespin.bsky.social @elaragon.bsky.social @shrutiphadke.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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icwsm.bsky.social
Best paper and honorable mentions 🏆
Congrats to all authors! #icwsm
June 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
flo-meier.bsky.social
It was a pleasure working with you all 🙌
ingmarweber.de Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de · Jun 25
Organizing #ICWSM is not always easy, but working with such great, dedicated people makes it enjoyable. Thanks @juhi153.bsky.social, Eni, Mathieu, Florian (who's with his newborn), Meredith and others from @realaaai.bsky.social, and the whole community who helped put @icwsm.bsky.social together.
June 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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gildersleve.uk
Had a great time meeting everyone and seeing all the interesting work @icwsm.bsky.social. I presented our study on the Wikireddit dataset - exploring Wikipedia’s role in fact-checking, discussion, and cross-platform attention on the web. Thank you to the organisers!

📄: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Presenter (Patrick Gildersleve) in front of a screen summarising the WikiReddit Dataset project. The slide describes it as "Every Wikipedia mention and link on Reddit, 2020-2023", includes some example usage, describes the scale of the dataset, and offers suggested use cases.
June 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
flo-meier.bsky.social
#changeispossible
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 25
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
June 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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ingmarweber.de
A lively poster session at #ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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aaai.org
The 19th International AAAI Conference on Web & Social Media (ICWSM) is underway in Copenhagen. We are enjoying seeing everyone at the conference so far! Lots of valuable information exchange and networking.
June 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
flo-meier.bsky.social
Happy that I could at least join @icwsm.bsky.social #icwsm25 for some time this morning and listening to Richard Roger's keynote on algothimic auditing ... with one slide on the "history" or phases of this method
June 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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tunazislam.bsky.social
Kicking off 1st day @icwsm.bsky.social at beautiful Copenhagen University campus 🇩🇰. Done with presentation of our long paper titled “Discovering Latent Themes in Social Media Messaging: A Machine-in-the-Loop Approach Integrating LLMs” #icwsm #icwsm2025 #icwsm25 #nlproc #PurdueCS #PurdueUniversity
First page of the slide Presentation was going well after technical glitch My ICWSM 2025 badge Beautiful campus- Copenhagen University
June 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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lajello.bsky.social
Detecting participation in collective action from social media text. Great tool to build large-scale ground truth about collective engagement online. Fantastic work by @ariannapera.bsky.social at #ICWSM.
Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Code: github.com/ariannap13/e...
June 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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icwsm.bsky.social
EDI Special Session: @robysinatra.bsky.social on quantifying bias and inequalities in science and @feldtfos.bsky.social on making equity, diversity and inclusion work in research projects.

Big thanks to the EDI co-chairs @alessianetwork.bsky.social and @elisalvai.bsky.social for organizing!
June 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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icwsm.bsky.social
Day 1 morning sessions wrap-up: multimodal meme analysis, memes and multimodal media, and networks, norms, discovery. Chaired by @chibold.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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icwsm.bsky.social
Still going strong—afternoon sessions are packed with energy and ideas 💥
June 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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icwsm.bsky.social
Good morning #ICWSM ☀️

Ready to kick off the workshop and tutorial day in building A!

📍 Find your badge at the registration desk and your room in the schedule www.icwsm.org/2025/schedul...
June 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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icwsm.bsky.social
The countdown to #ICWSM 2025 is on! 🎉

🌞 Expect warm summer days in Copenhagen! Tap water in Denmark is safe and delicious. Just bring a refillable bottle to stay hydrated! 💧

Don’t forget to check out the “Know Before You Go” guide for essential info:
📄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ICWSM'25 - Know Before You Go
Know before you go This document is long but contains only the information that we think is critical for your stay. Please read carefully! Quick Links Conference Program Conference Proceedings Places ...
docs.google.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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andersgiovanni.com
We find a clear duality between the use of AI tools and participants’ perception of the content. All that and much more on our blog and in the paper:

🧠 Blog: ai-research.andersgiovanni.com

📄 Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14295
The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study
ai-research.andersgiovanni.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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icwsm.bsky.social
⏰ Less than two weeks to go until #ICWSM 2025!

Can’t wait for the conference? You can already explore this year’s accepted contributions! The proceedings are now live:
🔗 www.icwsm.org/2025/schedul...
a man in a blue shirt and tie is screaming with his hands in the air
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is screaming with his hands in the air
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June 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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archive.org
Welcome to the public domain, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), the surrealist short from Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí that shocked cinema with dream logic, stark imagery & one gruesome eyeball.

More. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomain #InternetArchive
May 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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icwsm.bsky.social
🎉 Acceptance notifications have been sent—congratulations to all the authors!

🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant
📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...
March 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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akhilarora.bsky.social
I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk.bsky.social to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more).

Details: www.cs.au.dk/~clan/openings
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Please boost!

cc: @aicentre.dk @wikiresearch.bsky.social
Open positions and projects
### Open semester and Master's projects If you're an AU student looking for a semester project, a Bachelor project, or an MS thesis project, please refer to [this list](projects). ### Prospective PhD ...
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March 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM