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Check out our latest pre-print (to appear at RecSys 2025, @recsys.bsky.social)

All retracted articles should immediately become open access.

A huge milestone was achieved today in the EU towards our common understanding of risks in the online world. If you are a researcher interested in studying societal risks related to very large online platforms and search engines, this is for you!
#DSA
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

Abstract Wikipedia is not AI.

Some women, notably Judit Polgar (the strongest woman chess player of all time) are opposed to the separation, because it implies that women cannot be at the same level of men.

In fact, there are basically two types of tournaments with regards to gender: women's only and "open", which is for everybody. By the same logic, FIDE created women's titles (from Woman Fide Master (WFM), to Woman Grandmaster (WGM)) with lower requirements. 2/

Also not an expert, but in short, also yes. Women's tournament have been created because historically, women's level in chess is lower than men's and it is a way to (1) encourage participation; (2) create a safer space for participants. 1/

At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :)
bsky.app/starter-pack...

Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Honorable Mention for the Test of Time Award to "It's a man's Wikipedia? Assessing gender inequality in an online encyclopedia" by @clauwa.bsky.social et al. @icwsm.bsky.social

A U.S. judge ruled that while Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training is #fairuse, storing pirated copies isn't. It’s a mixed decision, bad for both sides, but a potential win for AI platforms overall. aifray.com/claude-ai-ma...

🎤 Day 2 kicks off with Richard Rogers on algorithmic auditing

🎤 Silvia Merisio from @ec.europa.eu on the DSA’s impact on Social Data Science and an insightful panel discussion with Oana Goga and Krishna Gummadi, moderated by @frapierri.bsky.social

Going to www.overleaf.com results in Error: Server Error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.

Nothing says upcoming NeurIPS deadline like Overleaf being down.

Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts Countless digital documents hold valuable info, and the AI industry is attempting to set it free.

Hello, it's me, talking about getting data from PDFs again.

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Nothing to see here, just Mr. TC (I just looked up his name, it's Alec) laying out a beautiful piece about algorithms and how we interact with them.

synthwave style image with starry background, grid ground, a prism. It says "man I love archivists preserving the web"

This is my Internet Archive Scholar fan art <3

How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ In a world of publish or perish, academics will too often turn to our helpful robot friends and ask a chatbot to write the text of a paper for them. Sometimes they don’t check too closely if the re…

How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’

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Probably an effect of "Publish or Perish"

(source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/scie...)

Meet the Mobile Apps team. The Mobile Apps team works to improve the Wikipedia mobile apps, making them faster, easier, and more personalized to read and edit.

Have you tried the Wikipedia app yet?

The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. These are the individuals behind it ⭐🧵⬇️ (1/5)

We miss you every day, Aaron.

public outrage and actual enforceable regulation are the only 2 things big tech responds to

Years ago, together with @hirokisayama.bsky.social and dozens of colleagues from the #ComplexSystems community we have built the complexityexplained.github.io website w/ interactive explorables.

Amazingly, the booklet (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) has been translated in 15 languages to date, just added 🇫🇷

GAME CHANGER?
Italian Court orders Cloudfare to assist in combating piracy "
@Cloudflare ordered to cease providing CDN, DNS, and proxy services to websites involved in illegal streaming of Serie A matches." advanced-television.com/2024/12/23/i... #piracy #copyright #footballstream #SerieA

Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence

For @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies.

As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?”

My latest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Wallace: Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace.

Young soldier: William Wallace is 7 feet tall.

Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. I AM William Wallace.

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya

"In Kenya, it traumatised 100% of hundreds of former moderators tested for PTSD … In any other industry, if we discovered 100% of safety workers were being diagnosed with an illness caused by their work, the people responsible would be forced to resign..."

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

The real question is "what's up with the tribal tattoo?"

... well, I have probably followed you from the @woahworkshop.bsky.social list.

Hello! Nice to meet you!