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JHU Computer Science @jhucompsci.bsky.social · 3h

10 new CS professors! 🥳

@anandbhattad.bsky.social @uthsav.bsky.social @gligoric.bsky.social @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social

hopkinsdsai.bsky.social @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social · Aug 25

#HopkinsDSAI welcomes 22 new faculty members, who join more than 150 DSAI faculty members across @jhu.edu in advancing the study of data science, machine learning, and #AI and translation to a range of critical and emerging fields.

ai.jhu.edu/news/data-sc...

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 22d

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use.

In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Sep 8

5 fully funded visiting researcher positions in Oxford and Stanford! ‼️

samuelemarro.bsky.social @samuelemarro.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to launch the Institute for Decentralized AI, alongside 5 fully funded visiting researcher positions in Oxford and Stanford!
Our mission: build the protocols, standards, and tooling that make decentralized AI work in the real world.

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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · Aug 4

The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs

The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...

docs.google.com

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Last day of #ACL2025NLP but there's still lots to do: attend the #WikiNLP workshop, where we explore how NLP and wikipedia can help each other!

We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters!

Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...

Join us in room 2.31!

WikiNLP workshop program with keynotes, dataset panel, poster session, discussions with Wikipedia editors and more.

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Kristina Gligoric @gligoric.bsky.social · Jul 21

Excited to co-organize the Bridging Human and LLM Annotations for Social Science tutorial at #ic2s2 tomorrow!

Join us at 1:30pm CEST to learn how to combine Qualtrics+Prolific, MTurk, & LLMs for automated annotation and valid estimates.

Code&materials: github.com/kristinaglig...

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Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de · Jun 26

#ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social would be nothing without its community. Here are some of the heroes who work hard to guarantee that authors receive useful reviews: @aldayelabeer.bsky.social @chibold.bsky.social @lespin.bsky.social @elaragon.bsky.social @shrutiphadke.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social

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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · Jun 23

Looking forward to giving a tutorial on Social Media Feed Ranking Algorithms with @tiziano.bsky.social at @icwsm.bsky.social today! Come join us at AAU, Room 2.1.083.

Title slide for an ICWSM tutorial titled "Social Media Feed Ranking Algorithms: Guide to Field Experiments" by Tiziano Piccardi and Martin Saveski, featuring stylized social media posts and an alert icon highlighting emotionally engaging content.

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'd love to! I'll be around starting in September. 😄

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Jun 2

I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me

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Kristina Gligoric @gligoric.bsky.social · May 30

I'm excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Computer Science department at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor this Fall! I’ll be working on large language models, computational social science, and AI & society—and will be recruiting PhD students. Apply to work with me!

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · May 15

100 Years of Engineering @ Stanford!

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Apr 30

Deadline today! 🚨

Join us at the 2nd WikiNLP Workshop on NLP for Wikipedia, co-located with #ACL2025 in Vienna. We welcome both in-person and virtual attendees!

🗓️ Submission deadline: April 30
🔗 Details: w.wiki/CumQ

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Mar 16

New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...

Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research & Technology Fund/Wikimedia Research Fund - Meta

meta.wikimedia.org

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JHU Computer Science @jhucompsci.bsky.social · Mar 10

2⃣ seminars coming up on Thursday with @tiziano.bsky.social and @uthsav.bsky.social! Check them out at bit.ly/3Fv5n7C and bit.ly/3FssGPr

Computer Science Seminar Series. Tuning Our Algorithmic Amplifiers: Embedding Pro-Social Values Into Online Platforms. March 13, 2025, 228 Malone Hall. Refreshments available 10:30 a.m. Seminar begins 10:45 a.m. Tiziano Piccardi, Stanford University.

CS & BME Seminar Series: Machine Learning for Spatial and Network Biology. March 13, 2025, 12 p.m. 228 Malone Hall. Refreshments available at noon. Seminar begins 12:15 p.m. Uthsav Chitra, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at Broad Institute.

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Mar 5

Book announcement: with Melissa Valentine, we are publishing "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work." It's a leadership book synthesizing a decade of Stanford research on how computing, online platforms, and AI reshape teamwork. Coming October from @mitpress.bsky.social!

Book cover of the Flash Teams book. "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-enhanced, on-demand work". A lightning bolt image made out of square pixels.

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thanks to @tilmanbayer.bsky.social for covering our work on Wikipedia readership in the latest Wikimedia Research newsletter!

➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939

WikiResearch @wikiresearch.bsky.social · Mar 2

In the new issue of our monthly newsletter:
▸ What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia
▸ Italian Wikipedia is the hardest to read
▸ "open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia" than those behind a paywall
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...

chart "Fraction of OA citations by publication date of citation" (figure 3 from Puyu Yang, Ahad Shoaib, Robert West, Giovanni Colavizza, "Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia", https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05163-4 , BB BY 4.0)

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Kristina Gligoric @gligoric.bsky.social · Feb 17

🤖🍲 What can LLMs do for sustainable food? 🤖🍲

We collaborated with domain experts (food scientists and chefs) to define a typology of food design and prediction tasks.

LLMs can assist in food and menu development, saving food scientists' time and reducing emissions!

URL: bit.ly/3ERJbUV

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NLP for Wikipedia workshop (at ACL 2025) @wikinlp.bsky.social · Feb 6

The call for papers for the second edition of the #WikiNLP workshop at @aclmeeting.bsky.social is out!

We welcome contributions on #NLProc + Wikimedia, especially on datasets, and ideas to advance its mission.

More details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...

WikiNLP workshop flyer inviting contributions for provocations, datasets, and ongoing work on NLP+Wikimedia

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Akhil Arora @akhilarora.bsky.social · Jan 16

📢 Call for #ICWSM2025 workshop proposals!
icwsm.org/2025/submit/...

All Web + social media topics are welcome!
Especially emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating results of exploratory research.

Due Fri Jan 24th AoE!

ICWSM '25

icwsm.org

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Jan 5

How do people *really* read Wikipedia? 📖 👀

We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939

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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · Dec 20

Thrilled to share that the Handbook of Computational Social Science manuscript was finally submitted to the publisher in full! Huge thanks to all the authors and reviewers who made this possible.
Check out the Table of Contents!

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Dec 15

Yes, that's the next step! The firehose gives you the full text and the post language. Right now, I get a stream of around 71 posts/s. The average compound sentiment score from Vader on English posts is ~0.15, slightly positive.

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Dec 15

Great point, thanks! Emojis with gender and skin tone modifiers are now counted as their base version!

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Dec 15

Weekend exercise: testing the Bluesky firehose. Who doesn't need a real-time dashboard to track EVERY emoji in messages?

😭, 😂, 🤣, ❤️ are topping the leaderboard!

feeds.feedwizard.org (counters just started)

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