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Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social · 16d

Curious about Bluesky and its potential for researchers?
Join me on October 16, 7–9 PM CEST for a hands-on 2-hour #webinar.

You’ll discover:
🔹 Why Bluesky matters
🔹 Hands-on with #Nodiux
🔹 Mentions, hashtags, community detection
🔹 Datasets & slides included

👉 www.eventbrite.it/e/the-rise-o...

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Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social · 19d

Thrilled to contribute to KNIME’s Meet Your Customers with my chapter on social media data collection using APIs and KNIME — showing how to extract, process, and analyze user-generated content for actionable insights.

knime.com/knimepress/meet-your-customers

#knime #lowcode #dataanalysis

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 20d

Doing some social network analysis around #REF2029 using
@nodiux.bsky.social
some really interesting themes coming through.

A network diagram of social media posts and a list of hash tags

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Computational Social Science @coss-eth.bsky.social · Apr 11

Charting culture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIh...

Charting culture

YouTube video by nature video

www.youtube.com

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Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social · 26d

Direi di sí. Still here?

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 29d

The 4th edition of our Master in Computational Social Sciences (UC3M) kicks off! We had the pleasure of starting with Prof. Ana Tajadura (@anatajadura.bsky.social) and her inspiring ERC Project BODYinTRANSIT.

Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · May 8

Super happy to announce that my methodological article about #SNA applied to historical dance and theater is out! Available here: revistas.uned.es/index.php/RH...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join us 9/25 for DH scholar & data artist @sararribas.bsky.social discussing+debuting her new exhibit, using string art to visualize & analyze historical social networks around a pivotal Spanish flamenco event: cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/eve... Please do register—open to the public+refreshments.

Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Aug 30

Got to meet @sararribas.bsky.social in person+see her amazing data art! Coming soon: on display in @scholarslab.bsky.social w/tour app+free public artist's talk. The physical visualization=can see overlapping relationships much better than on a screen scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/work/string-...

Photo of Sara Arribas Colmenar's data art using colored string and painted nails to map social relationships among 20th century performers, on a large white board. There are photos and legends for understanding the string darts art too.

Closeup photo of Sara Arribas Colmenar's data art using colored string and painted nails to map social relationships among 20th century performers, on a large white board. Closeup lets you see beneath the top layers of networked colored string so you can better trace all the overlapping relationships represented by the string and nails.

Photo of the legends pieces of Sara Arribas Colmenar's data art using colored string and painted nails to map social relationships among 20th century performers, on square white boards. The legends cover how people, events, and more are represented by agents of the string data art.

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Dr. Verónica Espinoza @verukita1.bsky.social · Sep 3

✨ Gephi Plugins Landscape (September 3, 2025)

I invite you to read my new article I just published on Medium about Gephi Plugins.

👉[ medium.com/@vespinozag/... ]

#Gephi

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · Sep 3

#OnlineWorkshop: Network #Analysis with Gephi–Demonstration & Discussion

Martin Grandjean, an expert in historic network analysis, will address these questions. In the 1st part, Martin will introduce and discuss some use cases of network research.

www.etf.uni-bonn.de/de/veranstal...

#gephi

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Nodiux @nodiux.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks to the valuable feedback from our brave beta testers, we have fixed several bugs and added some new features:

👉 Upload external data
👉 Adaptive timeline graph
👉 Improved networks for better exploration
👉 Download networks in various formats

The best is yet to come!

#socialnetworkanalysys

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Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social · Aug 29

www.hdblog.it/scienza/arti...

Twitter è sempre più affollato da spam, contenuti promozionali, bot e post estremisti, con un netto calo della qualità delle interazioni e un'impennata delle esperienze negative. Al contrario, su Bluesky l'ambiente si è rivelato più accogliente. 👇

Bluesky è il nuovo social di riferimento per la comunità scientifica online

Ormai Twitter è solo un lontano ricordo.

www.hdblog.it

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Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · Aug 28

A study I did had an article written about it and then the internet turned a screenshot of that article into a meme about dick jokes. What a time to be alive!

(To be clear I think this is funny)

Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · Aug 27

i'd like to thank my lord and savior jesus christ and your dad for being out of town so often

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Nodiux @nodiux.bsky.social · Aug 28

#Bluesky has a "vibrant and healthy online science community," while Twitter no longer does. And many Bluesky users reported getting more bang for their buck, so to speak, on Bluesky. They might have a lower follower count, but those followers are far more engaged.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 28

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

www.wired.com

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Andrea Fronzetti Colladon @andreafc.com · Jun 27

What links an edited telegram, a hidden dictator, and a dream speech? They shaped history, not with armies, but through #words and #connections.
Our new book shows how #language and #networks drive #change, and gives you tools to analyze them. 🧪
🔗 andreafc.com/sna
#TextMining #SocialNetworkAnalysis

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Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Nodiux in action at the #PolNetPaCSS Conference at Harvard! 🚀 Powered the collection and analysis for #MFT research.
Join the beta and take your social media research further 👉 www.nodix.net

#networkanalysis
#digitalhumanities

Todd R Vogts, PhD @toddvogts.bsky.social · Aug 13

Presented a poster as part of the #PolNet-PaCSS Conference at @harvard.edu. It focused on #JacobGroshek and my work developing the Misinformation Finds Them #MFT perception and @nodiux.bsky.social by @alezonin.bsky.social as a way to collect social media research data. It was a great session!

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Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Happy to have contributed to the #MFT research — so proud to see it presented at such a prestigious conference!!

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Nodiux @nodiux.bsky.social · Aug 8

Playing around with #bluesky network visualization.

Mapping hashtags co-presence and identify most recurring topics and thematic clusters related to #vibecoding

Want to create one like this? Join our beta test program 🚀

www.nodiux.net

#networkanalysis #socialnetworkanalysis
#digitalhumanities

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Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Playing around with @nodiux.bsky.social a newborn #networkanalysis tool to analyze #bluesky conversations as a graph.

If interested join the beta test program

🚀 digitaldatastories.it/2025/07/28/n...

Nodiux @nodiux.bsky.social · Jul 28

#NetworkAnalysis of Bluesky posts with #NetSci2025 during last International Conference on Network Science @netsciconf.bsky.social. The mentions network below is a directed graph where edges connect users to those they mention within the same post.

Made with nodiux.net

#networkanalysis #nodiux

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Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social · Nov 26

🗺️ Hi Bluesky! We're Humap, a map platform built with and for #GLAMA, #DigitalHumanities, and #CitizenScience

Here are some of the amazing projects on our platform 🧵

An archival history of #Tampa #Florida created by the University of South Florida tampa-through-time.humap.site

#USHistory #USA

A screenshot of a trail on Tampa Through Time

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Dr. Verónica Espinoza @verukita1.bsky.social · Jul 18

😉Learn how to use Word Cloud Plugin for Gephi

✨I share my Medium tutorial
medium.com/@vespinozag/...

🙍‍♂️ Plugin Developer
@seinecle.bsky.social

#Gephi #NetworkScience

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Clément Levallois @seinecle.bsky.social · Jul 27

July 30: join NodeXL' Summer School on Social Media Network Research - which is an online event!

As a guest speaker, I'll do a tutorial presentation on nocodefunctions.com: a free tool to turn textual data to networks that you can visualize and interact with - without coding skills needed.

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Fondazione Giannino Bassetti @fondazionebassetti.org · Jul 4

The 2025 NINA Festival saw the debut performance of Error01HUMAN: System Overdrive, a creation of Bassetti Foundation contributors Jonathan Hankins and Luca Severino alongside performance artist Lisa Mos. Here a vision (and a concert) www.fondazionebassetti.org/archi_vivo/2...

Immagine del concerto dal titolo "Error01HUMAN: System Overdrive" per il festival NINA (Neither Intelligent Nor Artificial) a Milano

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