🎙️New episode of the CFOM podcast is now available! We talk to Fiona O'Brien Susan Coughtrie and Dr Peter Coe about the impact of SLAPPs on journalists, the threats that they pose to journalism and how we can try and tackle them Sheffield Journalism. Listen here: cfom.org.uk/podcast/

Congrats to my PhD student Liam (and team) for getting this paper into NLP4DH.

The CFOM Online Seminar Series is back! Leading libel solicitor David Hooper will be talking to us about his experience surrounding being subject to #SLAPPs and how we can tackle them moving forwards. Sign up below! 📅7 November ⏰3pm UK Time tickettailor.com/events/centref…

Yesterday I was lucky enough to get to perform the Skye Boat Song with my choir at our Project Sing concert in Manchester Cathedral youtu.be/wiF0PuNJ-E0?si… via YouTube

And here's a song I wrote in 1987, which has never been performed publicly until yesterday's concert! Nerves slightly got the better of me, but I'm my own worst critic. youtu.be/MyfAync3QRo?si… via YouTube

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🗳️Our next online event is taking place next week! Join us Sheffield Journalism for three presentations on: Elections, Disinformation and Journalism: Taking Stock of 2024 📅5 December 🕒3pm UK Time Sign up here: tickettailor.com/events/centref…

Excited to announce that our first Retrotones album "Bad Romancing" was released yesterday, and with it our first video! Here's our take on (a slightly different!) Lady Gaga's Bad Romance youtu.be/-kxpRATqLNw?si… #theretrotones #cre8ivestatio

There's still a couple of weeks to apply for a fully funded TNA research visit with our team in Sheffield, working on a project combining NLP and social sciences/digital humanities.

📰First Keynote Speaker for CARMA2025 Conference! We are extremely delighted to announce that Dr. Diana Maynard will be our first keynote speaker at the CARMA2025 conference in Rome! carmaconf.org/keynote-speake… Diana Maynard The University of Sheffield

We are excited to have Diana Maynard as a keynote speaker at the next CARMA Conference in Rome!

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New report: "Academic Access to Social Media Data for the Study of Political Online Safety", w. Georgia Ben O'Loughlin: osf.io/preprints/soca… As new threats reach the social media environment, platforms continue to obstruct independent research. It’s time to act!

We’re hiring! The Centre for Machine Intelligence at the University of Sheffield is seeking an Academic Fellow in AI for Health. This 3-year Fellowship offers the chance to conduct cutting-edge research. Find out more: sheffield.ac.uk/machine-intell… Deadline: Thurs 18 Feb #AI #AIjobs

A lovely report from our latest ATRIUM Research | @atrium-eu.bsky.social #TNA visitor Tenia about her research visit to our GATE (gate.ac.uk) team Sheffield NLP to study NLP applications in food research. Sheffield Comp Sci gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2025/02/explor…

Come and work with us! We have a part-time RA post on Computational Social Science / Journalism looking at data on abuse against journalists jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU035/res… CFOM Sheffield NLP

Excited to be talking this evening about the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media at the University's public engagement event "Pint of Science". It's not often I get to give talks in pubs about my research. pintofscience.co.uk/event/say-what…

A lovely welcome from CARMA participants yesterday. Happy to be in a very hot Rome talking about our work on online abuse.