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This is not new, and it is mainly driven by co-authorship growth, as we showed here journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…. Calling them "hyperproductive" is misleading. Since they don't "produce" each paper. They just co-author many. Ioannidis is an example of being such a "collab-hub", too!

We are looking to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction. This position is a 1 year appointment with the possibility of extension for a second or third year. To apply visit usf.edu/work-at-usf/ca… and search job id 36089

We are thrilled to announce #JCMC’s newest special issue on Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces edited by Sandra González-Bailón & Emőke-Ágnes Horvát. Read the introduction to this special issue here: doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/z… Articles include:

🚨📢 I’m delighted and proud to share our new nature paper “Online Images Amplify Gender Bias” nature.com/articles/s4158… What better day than Valentine’s Day to learn about gender stereotypes?🩷A thread 🧵

In 1996, the #iSchoolUI launched its Leep (MSLIS online) program. In 2024, the program turns 28 (or 7 Leap years!). Today we'd like to recognize Leep students and alumni as well as Professor Emerita Linda C. Smith, who was instrumental to the program's development and success. 🐸

Dr. Loni Hagen selected as a 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar usf.edu/arts-sciences/…

🚨CAN GENERATIVE AI IMPROVE SOCIAL SCIENCE?🚨 I spent the last year trying to answer this question with the help of some very thoughtful reviewers (and editors) for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (ungated) : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

"How did an election fraud narrative spread online? Testing theories using machine learning and natural language processing" won the best poster award at Flairs conference! USF Research USF School of Information | iSchool University of South Florida Cyber Florida Digital Government Society journals.flvc.org/FLAIRS/article…

Our first keynote by Kate Starbird: Facts, Frames, and (Mis)Interpretations: Understanding Online Rumors as Collective Sensemaking #ICWSM24

Today we're hosting the first-ever Risk Communications, Crisis Communications, and Community Engagement Summit at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. Check back for updates!

It is wonderful to see this paper published in Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications "A global perspective on social stratification in science" It was a great joy to collaborate with @andres9886 and @lariviev Open access nature.com/articles/s4159…

Congrats to #RUSCI #LIS Asst. Prof. Jessica Yi-Yun Cheng! The IMLS has awarded her funding for the project “Storytelling Across Time: Building a Community Around Provenance (B-CAP)! More: go.rutgers.edu/w77aa7wo Jessica Yi-Yun Cheng Rutgers University

We're so excited to start our IMLS project about provenance! Stay tuned for our updates & events in the Fall! @RBettivia CONNJUR

📢New paper alert📢 Our paper “A conceptual model for tracking the provenance of activities in knowledge organization systems" is now published on the Journal of Documentation!! doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-…

Exciting new findings with Lutz Bornmann: ChatGPT can help identify disruptive papers! Check out our Letter to the Editor: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #AI #Research #Innovation

Out iScience journal "Echo chamber formation sharpened by priority users" (doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…). We show the upshot of making changes in complex systems without properly addressing emergent behavior: verified users can drive polarization & echo chambers' formation in social media

New paper out on Recommendations for sharing network data and materials. Great team led by Zachary Neal. doi.org/10.1017/nws.20…

Excited to share that our new paper “An experiment on the impact of relation types towards taxonomy alignment problem” is now live on the Information Processing & Management journal! 🎉Ly Dinh Check it out at: doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.… #taxonomy #taxonomyalignment

We just released a new report on AI trust and knowledge in America: naiom.net/reports/ We examine trust in AI, the companies that use it, and the content it generates. We also measure how much people know about it. (🧵1 of 6)

When Simmel wrote about triads (versus dyads) in the 1890’s, he was making a similar point. ;-)