Center for Computational Social Science, University of Bologna

our CSSC team has some good news for u!

new corpus, freely available:

#cssc #info_war #russia #ukraine #military_bloggers

our CSSC team has some good news for u!

new corpus, freely available:

#cssc #info_war #russia #ukraine #military_bloggers

An image of the IEEE-CH Award for the Best Research Paper "An Empirical Assesment of Hacker Groups' Behaviour in Cyber-Attacks"

A paper entitled "An Empirical Assessment of Hacker Groups' Behavior in Cyber-Attacks: A Small World of Bad Guys" and
presented by the CSSC's Team at the IEEE -Cyber Humanities Conference (Florence, Italy Sept.8-10) won the "Best Research Paper Award". Congratulations folks! 💫

I am happy to see that this paper written in collaboration with an amazing team of Australian modelers (@praty1931.bsky.social @camzachreson.bsky.social and others) is finally out in Royal Society Open Science!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

One-year position for a full stack Web developer - ISI Foundation Opportunity for a full stack Web developer to join our multi-disciplinary team and contribute to the development and deployment of a Web platform for infectious disease monitoring. In ISI you will fin...

We’re hiring!
One-year position for a full-stack Web developer.
Further information here 👉 www.isi.it/news/2025_01...

Of course the Italian government's ban for Deepseek for privacy issues does not affect the downloadable models (including the 670B). We pulled it from the Ollama repository with no fuss 😑

At CSSC, we tested deepseek-r1:7B, locally, on a MacBook Pro with 24G RAM. Replies were "ok", fast (even when "thinking") but not always precise or most efficient. We would judge it on par with similar models, but not superior. Admittedly, it's a far cry from the 670B model used for the API 🤔

And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at NetSI London working with me and the @nplab.bsky.social on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems.
Application deadline: 16th February 2025.
Bring your A game!

PhD Position in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and climate change Climate change is reshaping our world, and its impact on the spread of infectious diseases is profound. Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasingly frequent extreme weather ...

I’m looking for a PhD student to work at the intersection of modelling infectious diseases and climate change.

Deadline of applications: 31st of May, but applications are evaluated on a rolling basis.

Please repost and help me spread the words!

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/311728

New tool to estimate the level of participation in collective action expressed in natural language.
Applied to social media, it can produce large-scale and granular estimates of behavior change wrt collective action.
github.com/ariannap13/e...
@nerdsitu.bsky.social @itu.dk @carlsbergfondet.dk

The new geopolitics of AI is reshaping global alliances 🤔 A world divided into:
✅ Trusted partners
⚠️ Semi-trusted collaborators
❌ Strategic competitors.
The NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/u...
The original document (definitively TLDR): public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-00636.pdf

List of countries that will be exempted from limitations in buying US-produced AI chips, outgoing US Dept. of Commerce's last acts:

Australia
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Republic of Korea
Spain
Sweden
Taiwan
United Kingdom

NYU Abu Dhabi Opening: Computer Science Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, T/TT - Open Rank!

Deadline Feb 28, 2025!

apply.interfolio.com/161449

#AI #ML #MachineLearning #NLP #NLProc #AIjobs #MLjobs #BigData #DataScience #AIcareers #DataJobs #JobSearch

Junior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social Science Deadline: 7th of January 2025

🚨 Assistant Professorship in Computational Social Science 🚨

Konstanz has a call for a 6-year junior professorship.

stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

This is an amazing department & a strong community.

Happy to share more about my own (great) experience there!

Deadline SOON: 2 DAYS left ‼️

Assistant Professor (f/m/d) Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

📣 We are hiring!

CEU Department of Network and Data Science is looking for a new assistant professor. We seek applications from candidates with a background in Computational Social Science.

The review of applications will begin on January 15.

🔗 careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

I'm hiring! Fully funded, full-time PhD position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Marburg. It's an open topic position, so you will have the chance to shape your own topic within the research areas of the group. If you have any questions or doubts please get in touch. #NLP #NLProc

Only one week left to submit your abstract:

"Living Among Intelligent Machines: Psychological and Social Consequences of AI Dev."

#HCI #AI #AffectSci #CogSci #CogPsyc #cssky
#LLM #medsky #mentalhealth #MLSky #PhDSky
#PhilTech #psychotherapy

czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pp...

The Center for Computational Social Science, hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Univesity of Bologna, Italy has now joined Bluesky. Happy to be here!