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Luca Gallo @lgajo.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are starting again with our next invited speaker, @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social, who will talk to us about machine learning for social good #CCS2025

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Sep 4

“We’re rushing into something we don’t understand” @lajello.bsky.social on the rapid integration of AI agents in everyday systems.

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Chiara Zappalà @chiarazappala.bsky.social · Jul 17

📌 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲!

We're proud to welcome Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social as a keynote speaker at our #ComputationalSocialScience Satellite, taking place during #CCS2025!

📍Siena, Italy
📅 Sep 4

💡Discover how data can drive good, and stay for the insight!

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · May 23

Honored to receive the 🏆 Best Paper Award at @WebSciConf with Jacopo d'Ignazi & Mariano Beiro for our study on the role of moral values in user engagement with news on Twitter 📰

📎 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12009

@isi.it @upf.edu Universidad de San Andres &Conicet
#NLP #SocialMedia #News

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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · May 8

➡️ out at PLOS Climate:
The role of science in the Climate Change discussions on Reddit
😱 only 1 / 25 post links is to a scientific resource
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
Paolo Cornale @mictiz.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social @isi.it

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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · Mar 31

One day remaining to submit to our #ICWSM Workshop on #Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable -- submit your short and long papers by March 31!

sites.google.com/view/datafor...

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Mar 27

New cool paper in our Special Issue on "Data for the Most Vulnerable" at EPJ Data Science! Check it out! www.springeropen.com/collections/...

Editors: @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social @kaltenbrunner.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social

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naushirvanov.bsky.social @naushirvanov.bsky.social · Mar 24

Read the full study here: epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

#DisasterResearch #Wildfires #SocioeconomicInequality #EmergencyResponse

Thanks to Erick Elejalde, @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social, @elisaomodei.bsky.social, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, and Leo Ferres.

@ceu-dnds.bsky.social

Evacuation patterns and socioeconomic stratification in the context of wildfires - EPJ Data Science

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and intense, leading to increased evacuation events that disrupt mobility and socioeconomic structures, impacting access to resources, employment, and housing. Und...

epjdatascience.springeropen.com

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Mar 21

If you work on migration, displacement, or mobility, join us! We are organising a webinar on AI and New Data Technologies to Assess Conflict-Induced Child Displacement!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@mherranz.bsky.social @unicef.org #mobility #displacement #migration #data4good

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AI and New Data Technologies to Assess Conflict-Induced Child Displacement . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webi...

How can diverse data sources, statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, and geospatial information extraction techniques be effectively combined to tackle pressing challenges for children on t...

us06web.zoom.us

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Mar 14

The first project I participated as part of the @unicef team is now published!! ❤️

Reaching the unreached with life-saving vaccines through data science and geospatial technologies

data.unicef.org/data-for-act...
#dataforgood #ai4humanitarian #MLbias

Reaching the unreached with life-saving vaccines through data science and geospatial technologies - UNICEF Data for Action Blog

Each year, around 6 million children in West and Central Africa do not receive any lifesaving vaccines, making them ‘zero-dose children.’ To find and serve these children—who are often living in remot...

data.unicef.org

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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢 Meet the keynote speakers of the upcoming #ICWSM Workshop on #Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable

👉 Paddy Brock at World Bank & UNHCR Joint Data Center
👉 @robysinatra.bsky.social at University of Copenhagen

Join us! Submission deadline: March 31 sites.google.com/view/datafor...

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS!
The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Stylized map of Detroit (MI) showing the highway network, and the network of social connections between urban residents. The connections intersecting highways are sparser than elsewehere. Image credit Karo Berghuber (Insta: @kariot.lines)

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Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · Mar 4

🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science.

I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science.

📍 Start: flex summer 2025
📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

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Riccardo Di Clemente @riccardodiclemente.com · Mar 4

Understanding Urban-Rural Disparities in Mobility Inefficiency for Colombia, Mexico, and India, finally out! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01810 and Datavis: www.riccardodiclemente.com/projects/rur...
thanks to Nandini Iyer and @maxluca.bsky.social in and thanks to @netmob2024.bsky.social and cuebiq!

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Mattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · Feb 26

Great team Pasquale Casaburi @lo-dallamico.bsky.social @ngozzi.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social Anna Sapienza @rschifan.bsky.social Tiziana Di Matteo Leo Ferres and Fondazione ISI @isi.it

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Elisa Omodei @elisaomodei.bsky.social · Feb 13

📣 Thrilled to announce that our 2nd invited speaker is Michelle González Amador @michelleg06.bsky.social who will talk about how network science can be leveraged in development work, particularly in education

And don't forget: abstract submission deadline is today!⏳
sites.google.com/view/netsci4...

Elisa Omodei @elisaomodei.bsky.social · Jan 14

The @netsciconf.bsky.social satellite Network Science for the Sustainable Development Goals is back!

Are you working on #networkscience methods for analyzing the #SDGs, including understanding and measuring vulnerabilities? Submit your abstract by Feb 20 👇

sites.google.com/view/netsci4....

NetSci4SDGs

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, constitute a roadmap of the broad set of challenges that our society is facing today - from ending pov...

sites.google.com

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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · Feb 12

📢 CfP: #ICWSM2025 Workshop on
#Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable

👉 #AI #NLP #epidemiology #demography #sociology #humanitarian #datascience
submit your abstract, or short or long paper by
⏰ March 31
sites.google.com/view/datafor...

w/ @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social + Daniela Paolotti

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Feb 11

Check out our new preprint on the role of science in the climate change discussions!

Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · Feb 11

👉 preprint:
The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit
how was science cited in the past 14 years? preprints or journals?
find answers are here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05026
w/ Paolo Cornale @mictiz.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social Daniela Paolotti

The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit

Collective and individual action necessary to address climate change hinges on the public's understanding of the relevant scientific findings. In this study, we examine the use of scientific sources i...

arxiv.org

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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · Feb 11

👉 preprint:
The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit
how was science cited in the past 14 years? preprints or journals?
find answers are here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05026
w/ Paolo Cornale @mictiz.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social Daniela Paolotti

The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit

Collective and individual action necessary to address climate change hinges on the public's understanding of the relevant scientific findings. In this study, we examine the use of scientific sources i...

arxiv.org

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Jan 28

Come join us! #scholarship #research

ISI Foundation @isi.it · Jan 27

📅 Only one week left!
Submit your application by February 3rd, 2025

ISI Foundation @isi.it · Dec 16

Call for 10 scholarships for research on Data Science for Social Good at @isi.it , supported by Fondazione CRT 's Lagrange Project
#dataforgood #data4good
More details here ➡️ www.isi.it/news/2024-12...

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ISI Foundation @isi.it · Jan 27

📅 Only one week left!
Submit your application by February 3rd, 2025

ISI Foundation @isi.it · Dec 16

Call for 10 scholarships for research on Data Science for Social Good at @isi.it , supported by Fondazione CRT 's Lagrange Project
#dataforgood #data4good
More details here ➡️ www.isi.it/news/2024-12...

Progetto Lagrange-Fondazione CRT 2024/2025: Call for 10 scholarships for research on Data Science for Social Good - ISI Foundation

The ISI Foundation and the CRT Foundation confirm their commitment for the year 2024/2025 to the social impact of data, renewing their support to the Applied Research Scholarships of the Lagrange Proj...

www.isi.it

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Mattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · Jan 20

🚨Happy to announce that EpiMob is back for a 4th edition @netsciconf.bsky.social 🙌
🏃‍♂️🦠Interested in behavioral data and public health? Join us in Maastricht in June 2025 🦠🏃‍♀️

The call for abstracts is open! Deadline is February 15
👉 epimob.weebly.com/call-for-abs...

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Jan 17

Perhaps the most eye-opening takeaway; evacuation behavior is deeply influenced by socioeconomic status—lower-income groups tend to evacuate for longer periods and seek refuge in nearby areas, highlighting disparities in resilience and recovery.

Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Jan 17

Just presented at the 1st #CS2Italy our work on how socioeconomic inequalities reflect on the evuation patterns during wildfires
Leo Ferres Tim Naushirvanov @martonkarsai.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social Erick Elejalde @isi.it ceu l3s #humanitarian #datascience

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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · Jan 16

CS2Italy in Trento is off to a great start with @mtizzoni.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social and a a packed room of computational social scientists! cs2italy.org

Università di Trento, @isi.it , CNR ISIC, FBK

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Elisa Omodei @elisaomodei.bsky.social · Jan 14

The @netsciconf.bsky.social satellite Network Science for the Sustainable Development Goals is back!

Are you working on #networkscience methods for analyzing the #SDGs, including understanding and measuring vulnerabilities? Submit your abstract by Feb 20 👇

sites.google.com/view/netsci4....

NetSci4SDGs

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, constitute a roadmap of the broad set of challenges that our society is facing today - from ending pov...

sites.google.com

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Dec 17

It's that time of year! The call for Scholarships at @ISI_Fondazione is now open!
Come work with us on projects at the intersection of #DataScience & #humanitarian #response!

sites.google.com/view/lagrang...
tinyurl.com/5b3rntpr

Lagrange Fellowship Call

The Lagrange Project started in 2003 and it is regarded as one of the pioneering and most innovative European projects on complex systems science and data science. It is promoted and funded by Fondazi...

sites.google.com

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Kyriaki Kalimeri @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social · Dec 13

Are you working on topics related to migration or on models that can be applied there? At @UNICEF we are preparing a compendium and a webinar series on AI/Data Science on children on the move! Reach out to me!

#mobility #AI #DataScience

tinyurl.com/29r49cpw

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ISI Foundation @isi.it · Dec 12

We’re hiring!
Open postdoc position on spatial analysis and epidemic modeling in the framework of an interdisciplinary Horizon project SIESTA.
Further information here 👉 bit.ly/3D53v4n

Open Position - ISI Foundation

1-year PostDoc contract at ISI Foundation in designing synthetic populations for epidemic modelling of infectious diseases Opportunity for a post-doctoral research associate to join our multi-discipli...

www.isi.it

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · Nov 28

📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement:

Jari Saramäki, Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University

"Networks in Time and Space"
#NetSci2025 @jsaramak.bsky.social

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