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📢 Last call for abstracts!

Submit your work to the DACH-CSS Conference 2026, May 21–22 in Vienna, hosted by CSH & CEU.

Accepted abstracts: 3-minute talk + poster session.

🗓 Deadline: TODAY (Feb 20)
📝 Registration open

Details: computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

#CSS #DACH #Vienna

Thinking about submitting some inequality-related research to ASA, but not sure what session it should go in? Or feel like it doesn't fit any of the session topics? Perfect! I’m organizing the Open Call session for @asa-ipm.bsky.social. Deadline: Feb 25.

(Now back to working on my ASA paper...)

🤔 Can networks be fair? This simple yet tricky question stood at the center of a workshop hosted by @lespin.bsky.social and Fariba Karimi at CSH.
Participants explored how connections shape opportunities, how inequalities emerge, and how fairness can be measured concretely in decision-making.

📢 Reminder: The deadline for #ICWSM 2026 workshop proposals is Jan 30th, don’t miss your chance!

Find all the details here 👉 icwsm.org/2026/submit....

@lespin.bsky.social @msaveski.bsky.social

🎺 On May 21/22 @lespin.bsky.social , @doriantsolak.bsky.social, and I host “Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS” in Vienna

Keynotes: @lauraknelson.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social

computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows (Deadline Jan 23rd, 2026)! 💫

Reach out and apply if you're interested in working with me! I'm especially excited to work with postdocs on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs.

PNAS: Perception of own centrality in social networks
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420334122?af=R

Early bird reg approaching, NetSciX in New Zealand, Feb 2026. And you can travel down the north island for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium the week after. netscix2026.github.io www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/... @cna25.bsky.social @cssociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026!

We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation?

Want to answer these questions? details below!

I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂

Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about!

Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!

I just got 3.1 mil DKK, so if you are interested in uncovering how climate change 🏭☁️⛅⛈️🌊🌪️🌬️ affects our movement patterns and mobility related behaviors, then I will be opening a PhD position later this year

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks

Honored to be invited! Looking forward to the conference to learn about new directions in complex networks research and to share my work on Network Inequality and Network Fairness. See you in Zaragoza!

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)!

We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓.

See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

Using the DSA to Study Platforms

Here is the first piece in a series of short articles I'm doing about the DSA and researcher access to publicly available information.

It focuses on categories of researchers under the DSA, and what data they are each authorized to use. 1/

verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...

Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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A reminder graphic for NetSciX 2026, showing a person editing a printed paper with red pen. The text reads: “REVIEWS DUE TODAY — Only a few hours left! Please complete your reviews & recommend each paper for oral, lightning, or poster presentation. Deadline 23:59 AoE, Friday 24 October 2025. More information: netscix2026.github.io.”

⏰ Reviewers, today’s the day! Please upload your reviews by the end of day (Oct 24) AoE 🙏 Thanks for all your work!

Authors: we plan to send out notifications by Oct 31.

#NetSciX #NetSciX2026 @mluczak.bsky.social @ProfMSmall @droneale.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @gabridibo.bsky.social

ERC Workshop on data access under the Digital Services Act (DSA) Article 40 The Digital Services Act (DSA) is an European legislation that specifies a set of rules to make the digital space safer and more trustworthy for users.

ERC Workshop on data access under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The DSA is an European legislation that specifies a set of rules to make the digital space safer.

Article 40 brings unprecedented opportunities for researchers to access data from very large online platforms and search engines.

Come join next Wednesday if you want to rant about society's love-hate relationship with LLMs!

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...

📣 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...

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...

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.

One postdoctoral Research Position Deadline: November 15th, 2025

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.

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

🚨 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/

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...

🚀 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

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…

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."

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

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...