Alexandros Efstratiou

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09.12.2024 12:52 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Huge news for science communication/metascience research!

04.12.2024 09:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CIP seeks applications for up to 2 postdoctoral fellows The University of Washington Center for an Informed Public (CIP) invites applications for up to two CIP Postdoctoral Fellows who will be hired as Postdoctoral Scholars.

We're currently seeking applications for up to two @cip.uw.edu postdoctoral fellows who will be hired as postdoctoral scholars.

Learn more: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/12/03/c...

03.12.2024 22:56 — 👍 28    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 3

For anyone who is interested but missed this, the recorded talk is now live at www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/.... Please feel free to ping me if you have any thoughts or questions!

29.11.2024 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Here's Your Evidence": False Consensus in Public Twitter Discussions of COVID-19 Science | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an extraordinary rate of scientific papers on the topic that were discussed among the general public, although often in biased or misinformed ways. In this paper, w...

For anyone interested in the full paper, it was published earlier this month at dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... (open-access)

25.11.2024 14:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OII | From tribes to tropes: Network polarisation and false consensus around COVID-19 science In this talk, we cover recent work showing that COVID-19 science was vastly misrepresented on the Twitter platform, owing mostly to a large misinformation cluster that engaged in selective citation of...

This Friday (Nov 29th), I'll be speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute about our latest paper on how COVID-19 science was misrepresented on Twitter, leading to false consensus effects. The event is remote, and you can register at: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

25.11.2024 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

UW campus, Drumheller Fountain and Rainier Vista.

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I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW!

I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd

More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/

cc @uwischool.bsky.social

13.11.2024 09:10 — 👍 31    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 2

In case you missed our panel today on how counter-consensus communities (mis)use science, check out the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWz...

Ft. @alextheefstra.bsky.social @beeeeeers.bsky.social and Rod Abhari

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10.07.2024 21:01 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to announce that my paper has just been accepted at The Web Conference (WWW) 2024! I analyze how users willing to engage with opposing views differ in terms of language they use and rewards they receive in their home communities. Preprint coming soon!

23.01.2024 11:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great, thank you so much!

13.10.2023 16:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m hitting the job market looking mainly for tenure-track asst. professor positions (2024)! 

My core research informs how we should curate content on online platforms — and I’m also interested in how large language models will impact on the Web in the upcoming years.

13.10.2023 14:41 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Ross! When is the start date for this, and how long will the fellowship be?

13.10.2023 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0