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Jiahui He @hejiahui.bsky.social · Jul 11

In our recent PETS paper, we have been looking at whether Personally Identifiable Information (PII) removal services (e.g., DeleteMe, Optery, Incogni) are effective in protecting user privacy by removing users' private information from the data broker. [1/8] arxiv.org/pdf/2505.06989

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.

For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7

Let me know if I missed anyone!

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Gareth Tyson @garethtyson.bsky.social · Apr 26

Dear world, I'm heading off to the Web Conference in Sydney this week. If you're around, please do ping me!

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Apr 19

That's our paper, nice :) @asonur.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social

Laurens @laurenshof.online · Apr 18

Bluesky Report - this week's news:

- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs

fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...

Bluesky Report – #112

Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.

fediversereport.com

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · Apr 18

Bluesky Report - this week's news:

- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs

fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...

Bluesky Report – #112

Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.

fediversereport.com

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 28

Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites.

Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly.

theblue.report/week/

The Blue Report

The top links on Bluesky, updated hourly

theblue.report

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Gareth Tyson @garethtyson.bsky.social · Mar 15

ACM IMC is running another Shadow TPC this year. If you're a student looking to learn about the peer review process, I strongly recommend: conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2025/sha...

ACM IMC 2025 - Shadow TPC

conferences.sigcomm.org

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Lucio La Cava @luciolcw.bsky.social · Feb 19

🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon?

👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎
📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io

📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions!
📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025

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Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · Feb 25

“Academics should learn how to incorporate AI into literature reviews.”

Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · Feb 25

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Google
is tripe kosher
All
Images
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Shopping
Forums
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Al Overview
Learn more :
Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~
Generative Al is experimental.

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Michał Król @harnen.bsky.social · Feb 23

Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com

Bluesky Research

bsky.leobalduf.com

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · Feb 5

University College Dublin is recruiting 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows programme (~ tenure-track Assistant Professorships).

– Excellent research support
– Salary: €62k–€99k
– Application deadline: 21 Feb
– All positions: www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...
@ucddublin.bsky.social

Statistics about University College Dublin

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Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · Jan 30

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST!

More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist...

Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis)

#LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI

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Andrea Baronchelli @baronca.bsky.social · Jan 29

Bluesky has just surpassed 30M users. Starter packs have been a key feature - how have they worked out so far?

Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · Jan 29

Come work with us – faculty position in Computer Networking in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Computer Networking

Job Purpose The University of Glasgow, established in 1451, is a member of the UK's Russell Group of leading universities. The University is committed to enhancing its position as one of the world'...

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk

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TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social · Jan 28

Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit führender Beteiligung der TU Darmstadt hat nun die erste weitreichende Datenanalyse zu #Bluesky vorgelegt: Offenheit, Transparenz, Partizipation und eine gleichmäßigere Machtverteilung sind die größten Vorteile der dezentralen Plattform, so die Studie.

X-Ersatz mit Benefits

Der boomende Kurznachrichten-Dienst Bluesky stellt nicht nur eine geeignete Alternative zu X dar, sondern bietet Nutzenden echte Vorteile: Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein Forschungsteam mit führender Bet...

www.tu-darmstadt.de

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jan 27

Oh hey, our most recent work on @bsky.app was cited by Nature! :o

Nature @nature.com · Jan 24

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

go.nature.com

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Michał Król @harnen.bsky.social · Jan 26

@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow.
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Cat Power @power-eats.bsky.social · Jan 25

My secret hiding place where nobody can see me.

A green-upholstered wooden rocking chair on a wooden floor. There isn't a black and white cat sitting underneath with her head obscured. You can't see her feet poking out.

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Nature @nature.com · Jan 24

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

go.nature.com

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Gareth Tyson @garethtyson.bsky.social · Jan 19

If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449

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Tori @buildwithtori.com · Jan 17

We’re building the atproto TikTok and IT WORKS!!

Spent the last 48 hours coding!

👇🏾check it out

Follow along
@skylight.social
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social

#atproto #atprotocol #tiktokban #skylight

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Drew Benvie @drew.battenhall.com · Jan 12

In one 24hr period Musk posted 153 times, 48% of posts about the UK, containing a wide range of misleading and falsified information aimed at disrupting public opinion and destabilising government.

A must watch analysis by the BBC’s @rosatkins.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline

The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.

www.bbc.co.uk

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Dec 10

We are excited to bring back ICWSM-Global Initiative also this year, 2 pg. applications due 15/01 for:
- Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025
- Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field

More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...

ICWSM '25

www.icwsm.org

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Gareth Tyson @garethtyson.bsky.social · Jan 9

theconversation.com/how-britain-...

How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet

Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.

theconversation.com

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Gareth Tyson @garethtyson.bsky.social · Dec 30

If you're doing Mastodon research, you might wanna check @harisbinzia.bsky.social useful tool for Fediverse data collection: github.com/harisbinzia/...

GitHub - harisbinzia/mastodoner: Mastodoner is a command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network.

Mastodoner is a command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network. - harisbinzia/mastodoner

github.com

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