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Sofia Gil-Clavel
@sof14g1l.bsky.social
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Researcher, Research Engineer, and Lab Manager at the @societal-analytics.nl, @vuamsterdam.bsky.social | Former @sc3team.bsky.social, @mpidr.bsky.social & @unigroningen.bsky.social | Computational Social Scientist.

https://sofiag1l.github.io
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jbgruber.bsky.social
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!

Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered

jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
Since last year, I have been planting local flowers in my neighborhood. 🌱🌻

It is so nice them bring life back. 🐞🐝🦋🪲

#GuerillaGardening
How radical gardeners took back New York City
YouTube video by Vox
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
Thanks for the invitation!
I’m looking forward to being part of this event. 🤩
silviamajo.bsky.social silviamajo.bsky.social @silviamajo.bsky.social · 8d
Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase @icacm.bsky.social Registration is free and open to colleagues interested in computational methods! DM me if you have questions 1/2
aytalina.bsky.social aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · 8d
Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social 🌟
Online on Feb 16, 2026, 4:00–5:30 pm CET / 10:00–11:30 am EST 📆
Register 👇
forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
I just finished reading #Supremacy by @parmy.bsky.social .

A great book that summarizes the #AI race and the roles Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman play in it!
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
I received the results from this campaign. We collected 7500EUR to perform my research! 🙌🏽🤓

I am very happy that the community finds my research relevant. I will definitely keep you up-to-date on the progress and outputs that will come.
sof14g1l.bsky.social Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · May 22
The first research project where I am PI, “Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in government agencies”, was selected by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to seek sponsorship!

Everything is in Dutch, but it can be translated with the Google translate plugin.
Verantwoord AI-gebruik bij overheidsinstanties - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Verantwoord AI-gebruik bij overheidsinstanties
vu.nl
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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posit.co
Have some free time this weekend? How about 2,500 hours?

The recordings from posit::conf(2025) are now online!

Learn about the innovations and insights from conf. We celebrated #RStats and #Python, with a focus on next-gen tools & #AI integration.

See the info here: posit.co/blog/talks-a...
Talk recordings and workshop materials from posit::conf(2025) - Posit
2500+ hours of posit::conf content just landed on YouTube.
posit.co
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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comptext.bsky.social
SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!
University of Birmingham photo
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
Sometimes #music is all what you need.
a cartoon character is wearing headphones and holding a cassette player
ALT: a cartoon character is wearing headphones and holding a cassette player
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
Ooh well, it seems students do not like my way of teaching...
There are days when academia is tough.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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jmcphers.bsky.social
My keynote about data science tools at posit::conf is now online! I originally meant it to be a talk about Positron, but as I was writing it, it took a left turn through the history of RStudio and into the philosophy of tool design & how to build stuff for people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...
10 Years of Data Science Tools...and What Happens Next (Jonathan McPherson) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
How depended are societies to the internet?

Check the last #LongRead from the @theguardian.com for an eye opening story:
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet
open.spotify.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reposted by Sofia Gil-Clavel
pettertornberg.com
Most people study what misinformation says.

We decided to study how it looks.

Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war.

Here's what it means 🧵

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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indiiigo.bsky.social
Do LLMs represent the people they're supposed simulate or provide personalized assistance to?

We review the current literature in our #ACL2025 Findings paper and investigating what researchers conclude about the demographic representativeness of LLMs:
osf.io/preprints/so...

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Screenshot of our paper "Missing the Margins: A Systematic Literature Review on the Demographic Representativeness of LLMs" Details about what we annotated in our systematic review
July 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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odissei.bsky.social
Are you looking for a way to analyse textual data? @sof14g1l.bsky.social
describes how the researchers can interact with AmCat, Amsterdam Content Analysis Toolkit
#ODISSEI2025
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
Are you at the #ODISSEI conference?
Then don't forget to pass by my poster, where I talk about what shapes the #ClimateChange narrative in #Mexico.
November 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
"For the sick, the anxious, the isolated and many other vulnerable people who may lack medical resources and attention, AI’s vast knowledge base, coupled with its affirming and empathetic tone, can make the bots feel like wise and comforting partners."
‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice
The Long read: Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see ...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast

Let's roll.
Detail of the "Glasses Apostle" painting in the altarpiece of the church of Bad Wildungen, Germany. Painted by Conrad von Soest in 1403, the painting is considered to be among the oldest depictions of eyeglasses north of the Alps
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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anavaldi.bsky.social
Very glad to see this piece by the @nytimes.com on data center struggles from Mexico to Ireland:

"Government support worldwide has helped tech firms build with little accountability, said Ana Valdivia, an Oxford University lecturer studying data center development."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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jowolff.bsky.social
This well-known aquatint by Goya came to mind as symbolising where we are right now. It’s called The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.
Monotone image of man asleep at a desk surrounded by monsters.
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
sof14g1l.bsky.social
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jenchristiansen.com Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · Oct 15
We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM