Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
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
Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
to join us in Turin on May 19-21
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
For more: cs2italy.org
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
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The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
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/
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Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
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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.
Congratulations to our @dvladek.bsky.social for being appointed Docent in Computer Science!
🚨 New paper out! 🚨
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.21092
[read comments for more!]
Special thanks to my co-authors @dvladek.bsky.social and Alessio Gandelli from @uuinfolab.bsky.social !
#ComputationalSocialScience #OnlineSocialNetworks
@arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social
Our new study provides the first large-scale look at how collective action is expressed in spoken digital discourse, using #BlackLivesMatter as a case study.
Many thanks to @ariannapera.bsky.social @dvladek.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social for the collab
Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197
Congrats to these awardees!
No better place than a Swedish #ic2s2 to present our population-scale network of Sweden! 🇸🇪
Very grateful to discuss ideas and challenges with colleagues (future collaborators?) working with similar data.
You can find our preprint here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
We did a thing, and we are presenting it today at the @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 poster session:
A model to study Manipulative Language.
Work led by @dilettagoglia.bsky.social, in collaboration with @calikus.bsky.social and myself. Find Diletta at poster #26.
@uuinfolab.bsky.social @ #ic2s2
Day 2 Keynotes kicked off with Laura Nelson's inspiring presentation, “Why Qualitative Research Needs Computational Social Science”. What is the state of this maturing field called qualitative computational methods? What are the ongoing debates and futures? #ic2s2
Now happening: keynote by Brandon Stewart! #ic2s2
This week many of us are in Norrköping for the International Conference on Computational Social Science. In the thread, a list of our presentations. #ic2s2
Job alert! There is still some time to apply. If you are at @ic2s2.bsky.social feel free to send me a DM or say hi!
I will be at @ic2s2.bsky.social with the rest of the @uuinfolab.bsky.social team in a couple of weeks. Feel free to say hi if you are interested! We would love to hear what you have been up to
Interested in interdisciplinary research (incl. data science, network analysis) at the intersection of computign education research and social trends in digitalization? PostDoc call open/deadline Aug 4th uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... @icwsm.bsky.social @insna.bsky.social @wins-society.bsky.social
Congrats to the best SPCs and the best reviewers of this year! #icwsm
New preprint: we delve into the challenges of finding coordination in short-video platforms In this work led by @ingakwoh.bsky.social with @matmagnani.bsky.social and Alexandra Segerberg we propose a multimodal network-based method to identify possible coordination in TikTok arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05868
This week we had the pleasure to host our colleagues and friends from Università della Calabria. @luciolcw.bsky.social delivered a well-attended intensive course on Large Language Models, and Andrea Tagarelli presented the research done by his team. We look forward to new collaborations.
Congratulations to @giorgospanay.bsky.social for his half-time PhD seminar: "Fair and Scalable Multilayer Network Community Detection".
Congratulations to @theamoldovan.bsky.social, who defended her Master's thesis: "Exploring Collective Action in Black Lives Matter Podcast Conversations".
Thanks for the visit! It was a pleasure hearing all the cool things you hace been doing. See you soon!
Yesterday @lajello.bsky.social and I had the opportunity to present our work on the language of collective action at the CSS Seminar Series at @uu.se 🇸🇪
Big thanks to Matteo Magnani and @dvladek.bsky.social for inviting us, and to the whole UUInfolab for the warm welcome and insightful conversations!
Open PhD positions at Uppsala University on interdisciplinary mathematics projects - including our project on #networkscience & #datauncertainty (project 9) www.uu.se/en/centre/in...
