Super busy week! -27th, learning about medical disinfo w/ @IRIS_Academic -28th, discussing "Impact(s) of human, data, and algorithmic bias" @ JRC disinfo meeting -29th, "What should AI learn from Biology?" @dwp_movement summit -29th, find us @Neuro_CF for super @exploREsearchAT

Congratulations to @almeida_d_c for his MSc defense in #DataScience @FC_UL! With @mjoanasa + @CPesquita, David built a large dataset of news, tweets, online searches and looked at salience of different topics (science, politics, climate...) from year -1 to year 1 of #COVID19

Our most used words on rocketchat, in 2021 (thanks @pddalm!) We are still thinking and thanking (and hiring) SPAC now includes psychologists, jurists, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, engineers Wishing you a great 2022! (email if you'd like to join us!)

Missed the first round? Here's a new chance to come work with us. If you have programming skills, we offer a working contract and a welcoming environment. Equal opportunity, students or part-time encouraged. socialcomplexity.eu/job/juni…

Today, 9 am (EST), @Dr_Lil and @mjoanasa will be presenting their most recent work at @Networks2021. They will present a model of information spread on Twitter and discuss how Tweets can be a good quantitative model for studying cultural evolution. #WomeninNetSci #Networks2021

In 2020 SPAC moved to @lipwebapps +@istecnico, started @ERC_Research grant, grew to include @JoseM_Reis @alxdavids @pedrorio_ Rita Saraiva+Cristina Mendonça, kept (somewhat) sane. As a Xtmas gift, @pddalm made a wordcloud of the chat channel. Here's to people knowing +thinking!

In part inspired by #COVID19 we will be publishing some thoughts on the relationship between confidence and behavior. Here is the 1st one, comments welcome: scienceandpolicy.eu/2020/04/…

Next Tuesday, don't miss the opportunity to know more about this project and how it can push society forward #FakeNews #society #information Enroll here >> bit.ly/2FymcMT

Not to be missed today in Jornal da Noite (@SICNoticias, 8pm), the "Brave New World" brings us Joana Gonçalves de Sá, @mjoanasa, who will discuss some of 2019's great advances in understanding fake news and online behavior. #FakeNews

@mjoanasa talk at @complex_nets raising a lot of discussion: how do we, as a community, deal with the negative sides of our work? “We need to deal with sensitive data as if we were dealing with ebola: not everyone should have access” #BigData #ethics