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📢 Exciting news! 🎉 Our paper "Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter" has been published in Scientific Reports! nature.com/articles/s4159… Follow Yelena's thread for more ⬇️⬇️⬇️

What you suspected is true: THERE IS a correlation between political orientation and opinions about vaccines. We found it by analyzing Twitter data in 17 (!) European countries, during 2.5 years (before & after the COVID19 pandemic).

AI-fuelled election campaigns are here — where are the rules? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Last week, I had an amazing experience at the complex networks workshop in Lipari! I connected with inspiring people and had the opportunity to present our preliminary research on what drives engagement on Telegram. Excited for future collaborations!

🚀 Exciting Opportunity at TU Graz! 🚀 We are hiring a PhD. Student in Computational Social Science. Join our innovative team and contribute to cutting-edge research in a dynamic academic environment. 📅 Application deadline: August 4th ℹ️ Info: jobs.tugraz.at/de/jobs/54e87f…

1/3🧵Exciting news! We are organizing the 1st Workshop on AI for Financial Crime Fight at ICDM 2024 🌟 We'll discuss how AI is used to detect crimes such as frauds, money laundering & terrorism fianncing! 🗓️Submission deadline: Sep 10, 2024 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/ai4fcf/

Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter nature.com/articles/s4159… "...users who follow politicians from right-wing parties, and those associated with authoritarian or anti-EU stances are more likely to endorse vaccine-hesitant content, whereas those following

Off to Belo Horizonte 🇧🇷 for 6 months as part of a period abroad for my #PhD! I'll be doing research at the Social Computing Lab (LoCuS) under the supervision of Prof. Jussara Almeida at UFMG. Not sure if X will work again in Brazil, but see you on other platforms 🤩

Guess who's back! 🇧🇷🎉 "Brazil lifts ban on Musk's X after it pays $5m fine" bbc.com/news/articles/…

The Lagrange Prize 2024 is awarded to Marta C. González, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley for her pioneering work on human mobility, network science, and their impact on cities and sustainability. Congratulations, Prof. González! isi.it/news/lagrange-…

Unpopular opinion: I appreciate receiving mails that are clearly generated/refined by an #LLM, because it means that the author cares that the text is understandable.

Do a PhD in a field you are passionate about and you’ll never work a day in your life, because there are no jobs.

1/ 🔍 Finding high-quality resources in Speech Pathology Analysis and DEtection (SPADE) is crucial yet challenging for our community. At #SPADE2025 during #ICASSP, we’re building a Resource Hub to make it easier for everyone in the field to access valuable information! 🎙

🚀 Hey community! Meet CoDÆN, our open-source tool for evaluating community detection algorithms in dynamic networks. It builds synthetic graphs & lets you shape dynamic scenarios with 9 key transformations. Check it out! The paper on ACM Transactions on the Web: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

Curiosity is a drive state that motivates organisms to explore and seek novel stimuli (Berlyne, 1954). Turns out it also drives people to join Telegram conversations! Oh, and our paper just got accepted at #ICWSM25! If I’ve just sparked your curiosity: arxiv.org/abs/2503.13635

Here we go! Catch you at the coffee break — and don’t miss the 10th session of ICWSM Join the Chat: How Curiosity Sparks Participation in Telegram Groups ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…

ICWSM "Join the Chat: How Curiosity Sparks Participation in Telegram Groups" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS… (Paoletti Giordano et al) Great analysis of factors motivating Telegram group participation using classical graph-based and temporal metrics, over a very recent 2025 dataset. #ICWSM2025