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GenAI seems to be a good adviser. So it is obvious which jobs in academia will be replaced by it.

Forthcoming Magnagement Science paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2506.03707

My Advisor, Her AI and Me: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Human-AI Collaboration and Investment Decisions

Amid ongoing policy and managerial debates on keeping humans in the loop of AI decision-making, we investigate whether human involvement in AI-based service production benefits downstream consumers. P...

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Jun 10

The very interesting discussion has begun.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.23796

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · May 4

arxiv.org/abs/2504.19305

Rumor propagation on hypergraphs

The rapid spread of information and rumors through social media platforms, especially in group settings, motivates the need for more sophisticated models of rumor propagation. Traditional pairwise mod...

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Apr 24

Researchers whose work is cited in Wikipedia generally trust the platform’s representation of their research. Wikipedia is increasingly seen as a valuable gateway to scholarly work.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Research citations building trust in Wikipedia: Results from a survey of published authors

The use of Wikipedia citations in scholarly research has been the topic of much inquiry over the past decade, however little is known regarding perceived Researchers trustworthiness of Wikipedia citat...

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Apr 24

Today’s manga artists mostly read manga—and end up making more of the same. Tezuka didn’t. Miyazaki barely watches anime. So, what about researchers? Can reading papers every day really lead to innovative research?

Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Mar 20

Academia’s biggest paradox: everyone sees their own reviews as polite and precise, yet reviewer's comments on their own papers often reads like clueless nitpicking.

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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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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Mar 5

Expertise diversity of teams predicts originality and long-term impact in science and technology arxiv.org/abs/2210.04422

Expertise diversity of teams predicts originality and long-term impact in science and technology

Despite the growing importance of teams in producing innovative and high-impact science and technology, it remains unclear how expertise diversity among team members relates to the originality and imp...

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Dec 3

Beginners Propaganda and Disinformation course - Udemy: www.udemy.com/course/propa...

Propaganda & Disinformation - Level 1 (Beginners)

Understand how manipulative propaganda and new technologies can be used to influence our world

www.udemy.com

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Feb 26

"The seductive futility of network visualization"

skewed.de/lab/posts/ha...

Untangling the hairball using statistical inference – Tiago P. Peixoto

Inverse Complexity Lab

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Echoes of authenticity: Reclaiming human sentiment in the large language model era

Abstract. This paper scrutinizes the unintended consequences of employing large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for editing user-generated content (UGC

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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Feb 21

The #IC2S2 2025 abstract submission closes next Monday, Feb 24, at 23:59 (AoE). Don’t miss out—submit your abstract now!

International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Feb 14

🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Abstract deadline is just around the corner—Feb 24, 2025
Submit your abstract now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-abstr... and join us in Norrköping, Sweden.
Tutorials announcement coming soon!

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Feb 21

I notice that the submission deadline for IC2S2 2025 is February 24, 2025, at 12:00 AM UTC-0.

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Arkaitz Zubiaga @zubiaga.org · Dec 4

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media

🗓️ submit by 31st March 2025!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Online Social Networks and Media | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Online Social Networks and Media | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Online Social Networks and Media at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ugur Kursuncu @ugurkursuncu.bsky.social · Feb 11

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
We’re excited to announce the 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats hashtag#CySoc2025 that will be held at hashtag#ICWSM2025 in Denmark! 🎉

🌍 Spotlight Topic: "Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI."

📅 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

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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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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Feb 15

Many studies explore success, but how many truly address luck? Though some models treat ideas or grants as random, we rarely admit how much luck really matters. Even if statistics account for randomness, luck stays hidden—an inconvenient truth we often overlook.

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Feb 10

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How Well Can Large Language Models Reflect? A Human Evaluation of LLM-generated Reflections for Motivational Interviewing Dialogues

Erkan Basar, Xin Sun, Iris Hendrickx, Jan de Wit, Tibor Bosse, Gert-Jan De Bruijn, Jos A. Bosch, Emiel Krahmer. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2025.

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Feb 10

I have been experimenting with DeepSeek locally, letting them chat with each other.