Social Data Science Lab @QMUL

London, UK
Joined March 2020
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Interested in doing a PhD on automated #factchecking? Together with @arkaitz I am looking for one student through the CSC. Shoot me an email or a DM for more details! Applications through here, deadline January 31st: qmul.ac.uk/scholarships/item…
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On measuring #IPFS, by Yiannis Psaras. Full paper 👉dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3… (with @dtrautwein_eu, @aravindhr_am @Gareth_Tyson @willscott @physikerwelt @BelaGipp & Yiannis)
Learn how researchers who are studying the InterPlanetary File System #IPFS are improving the ways we measure & improve the performace of the #decentralised web pulse.internetsociety.org/bl…
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
Happy to announce another round of papers looking at @ietf decision making using public emails 🎉 If you're interested in the data, feel free to fire a DM. #ACL2023NLP
2 papers (main & findings) @ #ACL2023NLP "Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation" led by @prash_khare & "An Email Dataset for Analyzing Large-Group Decision-Making" by Mladen w/@Gareth_Tyson @Ignactro @csperkins @lumisota @Pat_Healey @mpurver
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#FundedPhD positions available on the AI for Drug Discovery Programme hosted by DERI at QMUL. Further details here - Deadlines in April 2023: qmul.ac.uk/deri/ukri-aidd-do… #PhDposition #Funding #Bioinformatics #AI #DataScience
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📢PhD position in my group (for UK domestic students). The topic is open. Deadline: April-30th eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-stud…
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Income shows in what you post: 1) the richer have more positive sentiment, 2) discuss crime more, 3) we can infer the income of the poster by just looking at the text. Check our #ICWSM 2023 pre-print analysing a large US & UK Nextdoor dataset arxiv.org/pdf/2304.05232.pdf 1/n
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
🚨 We're recruiting 11 PhD students across 7 European countries as part of the HYBRIDS doctoral network! Including a position based at @QMSDS hybridsproject.eu/jobs/dc11/ Drop me an email for any questions!
📢 Attention PhD candidates! 11 fully-funded positions are now open for the @HYBRIDS_MSCA on Hybrid Intelligence, tackling #disinformation and abusive language in democracies. 🗓️Deadline April 26th 🗃️Check out the specific calls👉hybridsproject.eu/jobs/ @MSCActions
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
🗓️ We are looking for submissions to the @TheWebConf workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse -- you can submit by 6th Feb! 👇👇👇 osnehm.iit.cnr.it/
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
🥳 Our new @icwsm paper here! @arkaitz and I address online sexism in low-resource languages (e.g. Chinese) by exploring how to make pre-trained embeddings more domain-knowledgeable and reusable. Preprint is available at arxiv.org/abs/2211.08447 #NLProc #HateSpeech #sexism
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📢We're currently accepting submissions for an OSNEM special issue on decentralized social networks (e.g. #Mastodon, #Pleroma) with Andrea Tagarelli, @luciolcw and @Ignactro. Paper submission deadline is 15th January! sciencedirect.com/journal/on…
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We're looking for a postdoc to join us @QMSDS working on social data science and online harms as part of the @ap4lproject jobs.ac.uk/job/CUU622/resear…
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
@narnolddd and @miratepuffin talking about “From papers to product – What to do next with the cool library you have created”. They shared their experience developing @raphtory #CCS2022 youtu.be/1ZxQ4n2hMOY – at Palma, Spain
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
We are presenting our poster “Exploring online manifestations of real-world inequalities” at ACM #IMC2022 in Nice, France, Nov 25-27 2022. Feel free to drop by and have a chat about our work. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35177… @Ignactro @Gareth_Tyson @gsuareztangil
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Feel free to drop by our poster during poster session in ACM #IMC2022 on November 26, 2022 and have a chat about our work on Nextdoor. @Ignactro @Gareth_Tyson @gsuareztangil – at Nice, France
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
🗓️ This week on Thursday we have one more seminar! 🔹 "Who makes the Internet? A longitudinal analysis of the IETF" by @Ignactro, Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London, UK ➡️ You can follow it online: networks.imdea.org/whatsnew/…
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📑new paper on the generalisability of abusive language detection models and the role of slurs and profanity in training! 💭non-abusive swearing and implicit abuse are often confusing for models. _how_ do such biases come into play? 💡open access on: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
Interesting discussion thread on Free Speech Extremist about our recent work on content moderation in the Decentralised Web (e.g. Pleroma, Mastodon). freespeechextremist.com/noti… @anaobii @aravindhr_am @Ignactro @harisbinzia @emilianoucl @nishanthsastry
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Social Data Science @ QMUL retweeted
Excited that our work in characterising the social graph of Internet standardisation community IETF, title-“The Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF” is accepted at @icwsm .Great team-Mladen @lumisota @Gareth_Tyson @Ignactro @mpurver @Pat_Healey @csperkins #ICWSM
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