Alisson Soares

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Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

🚀 dashboardr is out!

An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.

Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included).

📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/

Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

Together with Lisa Ginsborg we are happy to share that our edited volume on "Disinformation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis" is now published!

A long journey which involved many esteemed authors, with whom it was a great pleasure to work and to which we are grateful

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

Meet Netha, the Wikipedia editor who quietly debunks medical myths for millions #Wikipedia25

@carapanarana.bsky.social @bicicreta.bsky.social

🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷

Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social

Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le

A política externa de Trump não opera em eixos tradicionais –aliados versus adversários, democracias versus autocracias, competição estratégica versus cooperação. Opera em um cálculo mais simples: Você consegue revidar com força suficiente para machucá-lo? Se a resposta for não, e você tem algo que ele quer, você é um alvo. Se for sim, ele fará um acordo.

www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/ian-...

Me pareceu acertado trocar hemisfério de influência por lei da selva.

semantic network of Trump's speeches today about Maduro's arrest.

Example of Trump's phrases about oil: "Well, in terms of China and Russia, yeah, uh, well, Russia, when we get things straightened out, but in terms of other countries that want oil, uh, we're in the oil business, we're gonna sell it to them."

I scraped a transcript of Trump, Rubio, etc. speech today about Maduro's arrest. It is freely available at this link. One curiosity: Trump’s speeches about Maduro’s arrest featured oil in 17 phrases and democracy in none.
#rstats
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The great advantage of having multiple bathrooms is the variety of windows as entry points, as there is no door to enter the house.

Para quem se interessa por #HumanidadesDigitais, está dias 26 e 27, o 3rd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM2025), gratuito para assistir online, presencial em Braga, Portugal. A maioria das falas tem sido em português e algumas em inglês.

ceh.elach.uminho.pt/ddhum

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process

The merchants of doubt 💰

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between... Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks...
#disinformation

A screenshot from the Gab AI page advertising its AI tools as promoting Christian values and free thinking: “The One AI They Can’t Control.” They provide an example of responses from different AI models to the question “who is the biggest perpetrator of political violence in America,” with ChatGPT and Gemini answering “right-wing” and Gab’s Arya answering “left-wing.

I was analyzing data from X/Twitter from 2023 concerning #disinformation and #conspiracytheories and discovered
the link to the Gab's AI

"The One AI They Can't Control", "Our exclusive AI model trained to uphold Christian values and traditional principles in every interaction."

If you frequently run #LLM models locally in Linux through the command line using #ollama, your life can be a little bit easier with ollama-run. This simple shellscript frees you from typing the name of the model and the possibility of misspelling it.
github.com/SoaresAlisso...

Abstract

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

"U.S. President Donald Trump was the dominant source and
spreader of #disinformation in our content analysis.... There is a correlation between the rise of Trumpism on one hand and the loss of trust in journalists as ‘watchdogs’/‘truth seekers’ on the other, "

www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...

Weintraub repete acusações contra universidades com base em reportagens Ministro da Educação, convocado para Câmara, reiterou que universidades são usadas para produção de drogas sem apresentar novas provas

Important point that I forgot to mention. The allegation that universities are producing drugs came from the former right-wing Brazilian education minister.

exame.com/brasil/minis...

At least in Brazil, the far right began by criticizing the humanities and quickly moved on to claims that “universities are woke” and “public universities are drug factories,” cutting funding for all higher education. The humanities are the first step, then they go to biology, health sciences...

The "validate, validate, validate" (GRIMMER, 2014) principle of Text Analysis/NLP never gets old.

If you feel uneasy using LLMs for data annotation, you are right (if not, you should). It offers new chances for research that is difficult with traditional #NLP/#textasdata methods, but the risk of false conclusions is high!

Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇

Transformers Models Timeline
Interactive timeline to explore models supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library

#transformers #LLM #bert #IA
huggingface.co/spaces/yonig...

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

"We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task."
"The insidious effect... is that it shifts the burden of the work, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work."

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Discurso de Lula na Assembleia Geral da ONU. Palavras mais frequentes. #rstats

YouTube video by Rationality Rules How Jubilee Accidentally EXPOSED Jordan Peterson’s 1 Trick

... há performance. No entanto, ele funciona com fenômeno social, muito novato terá seu contato com estes assuntos através deste formato e seria problemático deixar falando sozinhos. Um caso interessante no Jubilee foi do Jordan Peterson www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdO...

o principal é convencer a plateia, plantando sementes de dúvidas aqui e ali. A conversão não é automática diante de um bom argumento, não atinge todos e leva tempo. Mas ela pode sim ter efeito. Para meu consumo próprio, acho estes debates muito pouco informativos e concordo que não há debate real...

Sim, eles "weaponizam", mas nessa de disputar narrativa, ao menos aqui no Brasil, houve diversos casos de sucesso, de desmoralização de debatedores como vazios e fúteis. O objetivo principal não é convencer o oponente, que geralmente monta um modelo de business baseado em moralismo, o principal é...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...