NEW REPORT: How should newsrooms respond to the risks and opportunities offered by artificial intelligence? CSDI's Jenina Ibañez, Nishtha, and Chris Tenove explore this in the report, The Promise and Peril of AI for Journalism. Read: democracy.ubc.ca/platforms/jour…

🧵CSDI's latest report The Peril and Promise of AI for Journalism emerges from our illuminating November event on Journalism, Disinformation, and AI.

🌐 Exciting opportunity for Graduate Student Fellows at UBC's Faculty of Arts. Dive into computational social science with $5,000 in research support. Apply by April 1, 2024. Application link here: air.arts.ubc.ca/centre-for-com… For more info, check out: docs.google.com/document/d/1Vt…

Join the UBC CS Public Lecture on Trustworthy AI, exploring the intersection of machine learning and systems security, with Dr. Lorenzo Cavallaro. Date: Wednesday, March 20th Location: UBC Robson Sq. C680 HSBC Hall Register here: my.cs.ubc.ca/event/2024/03/…

🌞Summer Opportunity Alert!🌞Dive into computational social science with SICSS! Join workshops, lectures, and global networking. Limited scholarships available. Apply now at sicss.io/locations to start your summer discovery! #SICSS #Tech #GlobalResearch #SocialScience

You're invited to Bytes & Bites, our Monthly Computational Social Science Meetup every first Thursday at noon at UBC's Law Cafe. Engage in discussions exploring the fusion of computation and social sciences. Next event on April 4th. Don't miss out! #ComputationalSocialScience

Join us for a workshop on how to use R Markdown and turn your analyses into high-quality, elegantly formatted, and fully reproducible output by putting together narrative text, code and plots. bit.ly/4alYJve

Join us for this workshop to learn how to design and customize dashboards with Tableau. bit.ly/4aKWpOd

Join us for this workshop to learn the key concepts/skills required for searching and documentation when undertaking a systematic review/knowledge synthesis review project. bit.ly/3Wo3Si9

🚨Exciting news! We're launching a new project to study how local governments and civil society can promote constructive, inclusive, evidence-based conversations about climate policy. Heidi Tworek Chris Tenove

We're delighted to collaborate with the Dais and UBC colleagues Laura K. Nelson | @[email protected] (UBC Centre for Computational Social Science) and David Tindall (UBC Sociology). This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada (Canadian Heritage). Details: canada.ca/en/canadian-he…

June commemorates Indigenous History Month in Canada, encouraging people to learn about, appreciate and acknowledge the rich history, heritage, resilience, contributions and diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. Find events and resources: bit.ly/45UhQe9

🇬🇧On the eve of the UK’s federal election, Professor Prof Kate Dommett raises concerns about transparency and regulation in digital campaigning. This article is part of a series exploring the connection between technology and electoral processes. cigionline.org/articles/conce… CIGI.

Join us for this workshop to gain a solid foundation in building and deploying machine learning models for clustering and classification tasks. bit.ly/4cpAVHT

NASA awarded Don't Use This Code a grant to train researchers and scientists via a virtual cohort. Learn Git/GitHub, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Zenodo, and more! Register below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #OpenScience #NASA #CCSS #TECH4ALL

The Text Analysis Pedagogy (TAP) Institute 2024, powered by Constellate from ITHAKA, offers free courses and webinars in text analysis. Register to master advanced concepts and earn digital badges! Sign up here: constellate.org/tap-institute

A heat warning is in effect for Metro Vancouver. For health, safety and cooling centre info for UBC Vancouver, please go to ubc.ca.

Email overload remains a persistent issue, but how can employees reclaim some of that time and free up space for more strategic work? Discover four habits you can build to quickly clear inboxes, reduce stress, and better draft emails: msft.it/6015ln3rV

CCSS is co-sponsoring an event with UBC Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, The Connected Past Research Group connectedpast.net , and SAMR on network analysis in archaeology and history. For more info, check out: ccss.arts.ubc.ca/ccss-co-sponso…