Honored to be speaking alongside dries and Kush Amlani on this #MozFest panel on the regulation of deceptive design/#darkpatterns in the EU!  Join us in person on June 21st mozillafestival.org/en/house/ or watch live here linkedin.com/events/7074128…

📢 Calling all folks working in the intersection of #law and #NLproc #legaltech! 📚🤖 The #NLLP workshop is hunting for papers that unite the realms of law and NLP! 🚀 Let's break boundaries and submit those great papers now! 💥 ⏲️ Sep. 18th 📅 Dec. 7th EMNLP 2025

Personal update: I'm super happy to share that I've successfully defended my PhD, with Distinction and Honour! 🥳 Additionally, I'll be in Toronto this week sharing insights from 3 papers at #ACL2023NLP. 👇

👋Hello world! One year into our European Research Council (ERC) project we're sharing our activity so far. You can find out more about our team and our research here: humanads.eu

💫✨Meet our team!✨💫 The HUMANads project brings together talented researchers from different disciplines, passionate about social media research. Say hi to Taylor Annabell Haoyang Gui Thijs Kelder & Jacob van de Kerkhof!

We won the Area Chair Award (Society & NLP)! 🎉🎉 Catalina Goanta Nikos Aletras #AACL2023

Good morning Amersfoort! At the Handhaving en gedrag congres with Margje Camps to present research done with Jerry Spanakis 🟥 🦋 gerasimoss.bsky.social thales bertaglia & Anda Iamnitchi on child & family influencers in the Netherlands. Project report (in Dutch) coming up in the next weeks!

First day at our Rechtsgeleerdheid Universiteit Utrecht Utrecht University office for thales bertaglia, who joins HUMANads_ERC as a postdoctoral researcher in computer science, content monetization and regulatory compliance. Welcome to the team Thales, so incredibly happy to have you on board!

Join us for Nadia Feci Seminar on ‘The Audiovisual Media Services Directive in the Context of Influencers’ on Monday 8 April 14:00 - 16:00 in Utrecht

Congrats to thales bertaglia Lily Heisig, Rishabh Kaushal & Anda Iamnitchi for their ICWSM paper on synthetic data for sponsored content detection on social media! arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15214…

📢 I am #hiring!! #Postdoc position on 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 at UM Department of Advanced Computing Sciences 🔹 Duration: 24𝐌 (2 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬) 🔹 Deadline: 14 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 👉 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: academictransfer.com/en/342747/post…

📣The first HUMANads_ERC influencer web measurement study was accepted at ASONAM Conference! We make a cross-platform (TikTok, Youtube, Insta), cross-language (NL/EN) overview of ad disclosures in the content of Dutch influencers registered with Commissariaat voor de Media arxiv.org/pdf/2407.12451

Here’s a feeling that some researchers will never understand... Thank you for "translating" that into words, Tom!

A very special vibe check today as thales bertaglia defended his PhD, making his promotors (Anda Iamnitchi & me) incredibly proud. His work lays a novel, multidisciplinary fundament for computation influencer/creator studies. So happy we can continue collabing with HUMANads_ERC 🫶

congratulations to Dr thales bertaglia who beautifully defended his PhD on the creator economy yesterday. His research on influencers and monetisation, controversy and compliance with regulation grapples with issues of transparency and toxicity from multiple entry points (1/2)

🎓 We are looking for a PhD candidate! 🎓 Are you passionate about AI and fascinated by cybersecurity & cybersafety? Ready to explore how AI is reshaping the digital world—while having fun along the way? Apply here by Dec. 15: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-…

In two hours I will be defending my PhD thesis on the regulation of #darkpatterns in EU consumer law Law in Maastricht. If you’re interested, brief summary & link to tune in can be found here: maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/phd-def…

Our legal computational paper led by thales bertaglia w Jerry Spanakis 🟥 🦋 gerasimoss.bsky.social & Anda Iamnitchi is out in Online Social Networks & Media! We look at self-disclosure practices by 400 influencers from 4 countries (NL, DE, BR & US) in 1m Instagram posts across 10 years. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Taylor Annabell thales bertaglia & I just came back from Universität Siegen where we met the wonderful ‘Personal Data Industries’ project team from Collab. Research Center 1187 Media of Cooperation including Max Becker, Marcus Burkhardt & YarSk, to synergize with HUMANads_ERC. Looking forward to the next steps!

Join us in Utrecht or online next month to discuss the ✨politicisation of influencers✨ with Johanna Arnesson and Hanna Reinikainen. Register for workshop hosted by HUMANads_ERC and Governing the Digital Society on 5 March 14:00-16:00 (CET) ⤵️ forms.office.com/e/YwHA3EB0gg