In my interview with BusinessDayNG today, I respond to questions on frontier risks that AI systems pose and how countries can build techno-legal resilience against these risks. See Page 28 of today’s Business Day Newspaper or read online: businessday.ng/interview/arti…

I would love to visit Paris. Which Paris? Paris, France or Paris, Virginia, or Paris, Texas. Welcome to annoying problem of toponym disambiguation Greatness Emmanuel-King (William & Mary Data Science, Microsoft) tested a dozen tools for this: github.com/wm-newslab/top… You're welcome!

I'll be AAAI on 2/27-3/2. My student Yang Li Yang Li will present "Population Aware Diffusion for Time Series Generation", a diffusion model that generates time series data with better population-level property preservation. Poster: 2/27 at 12pm. Happy to connect!!

The Local Memory Project features an interactive map that lets you easily find local news sources. news.wm.edu/2025/03/20/a-v…

Something really useful 👇

Thanks William & Mary News for highlighting our work on the Local Memory Project. Support your local media! x.com/WMNews/status/…

Doug Schmidt B.A. ’84, M.A. ’86, the inaugural dean of William & Mary's new School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics, will present the spring Tack Faculty Lecture on “Surfing the AI Wave: A Human-Centered Approach to Innovation and Ethics.” news.wm.edu/2025/03/26/wms…

Fascinating look at quantifying uncertainty of social media bot detection by Giroux, Gangani Ariyarathne, Alexander C. Nwala & Fanelli in EPJ Data Science doi.org/10.1140/epjds/…

New paper: Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media Simulations informed by social media data yield a worst-case bound on additional infections due to exposure to online vaccine misinfo. nature.com/articles/s4426…

We've released an extended version of our contribution on the WS-DL Group, ODU CS blog. Cliff was instrumental in helping OAI-PMH and SFX/OpenURL get started, and thus had an outsized impact on our early careers. #CNI25S ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/04/cliff-…

The slides for my #iipcWAC25 talk, "What You See No One Saw" are available at matkelly.com/presentations/… #webarchiving

At #WebSci2025? Join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era. 📍Where: ABE 2400 (15 Seminary Place) ⏰When: Tue, May 20, 9-12. 1/2

Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25

What does the web mean to you? As we celebrate 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine, we want to hear your story. Why does preserving the web matter to you? 📝 Share your story now: forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe2p… #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s41597… 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info 💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

What is the impact of censorship (withholding accounts in certain countries) on X? In our new #CIKM25 paper, we find that censored (but not suspended) accounts lose 25% engagements on their subsequent tweets and experience a 90% drop in follower growth ACM CIKM 2025

What's Your Wayback? We've archived 1 trillion pages. Now we need your help! Share the top 5 web pages or sites you want to preserve for future generations. We'll start: 1️⃣ The first ever web page at CERN 2️⃣ Wikipedia 3️⃣ GeoCities 4️⃣ WebArchive 96 5️⃣ Wayback Machine 🔗 ⬇️

New paper 🧪 We propose a field experiment to study the effects of friction interventions for curbing the spread of misinformation. ABM simulations suggest that when combined with learning, friction could significantly increase average post quality doi.org/10.1038/s44260…

Next week! Inside the Kremlin: A Conversation with Jill Dougherty Jill Dougherty, moderated by Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her) Nov. 13, 6PM, William & Mary Music Arts Center, Comey Recital Hall Dougherty, currently CERES, will discuss her journalism career and new Simon & Schuster book!