This exciting lecture is happening on Monday!💡

On June 10th DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo and Emilie Munch Gregersen facilitated a workshop introducing the functionalities of EthNote at Grafo UAB

We're proud to announce that Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen received a DK Frie Forsk.fond Sapere Aude grant for his research on intelligent learning tools. 🧑‍🎓 He'll use real-world classroom data to test if these tools actually help students perform better, across social backgrounds. dff.dk/en/apply/suppo…

Soon, Rosa Lavelle-Hill and team will start a new Novo Nordisk-funded ICARUS project, on how humans deal with heat. 🌅 Among other things, they will develop an algorithm that can give personalized health advice. Learn more: sodas.ku.dk/research/the-i… 📷Jonas Weckschmied on Unsplash

A new study uses artificial intelligence to analyze over 55,000 images shared on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) by more than a thousand diplomats worldwide, finding lots of sameness: meeting rooms🪑, handshakes 🤝, and flags. ⛳️ More here: socialsciences.ku.dk/news/2024/dipl…

Today, the new edited book "The Economic Lives of Platforms: Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets" is published. Among the editors are professor Morten Axel Pedersen and former DISTRACT PhD Eva Iris Otto. Bristol Uni Press 🔗 bit.ly/4cqTFWZ

Thrilled to share I’ll be starting a PhD Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science this fall. 🇩🇰

We are looking for a student assistant to work at DISTRACT, so if you or someone you know want utilize and improve skills in programming, data vizualization, and preparing papers for publication check out this posting and share with someone you know 💻 🔗 jobportal.ku.dk/alle-opslag/?s…

Are you looking to integrate AI into your professional workflow? Join SODAS' very first hands-on professional training course to master LLMs for data tasks, content creation, and more! The course is taught by Yani Kartalis. Learn more and sign up here bit.ly/4fMGItg.

The first SODAS Data Discussion of the fall is on August 23!📣 Torben Heien Nielsen discusses the role of healthcare professionals in spreading ideas, while Jens Bjerring-Hansen explores using language models to analyse literary and social trends💡📚 Event: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas-d…

Join us this Friday for the first SODAS Data Discussion of the fall!🍂📢

Join us September 6th for a DISTRACT Talk where Gregory Eady will talk about experiments using Large Language Models to understand online discourse. 🔗 to see 🕦 & 🏡 bit.ly/470urNC

In a new study, SODAS researchers and co. use a smartphone app to show people make vaccination decisions 💉 in the real world, where feedback (getting sick or not) is delayed, and infections happen through social networks. 🦠 Paper: journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/… Thread: 👇

Having fomo about the Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology 2024? Join us on 🔵🏙️ to see what Johanna Gereke, Huyen Nguyen & Carina I. Hausladen are presenting: t.ly/NSKk6 #ACES2024

We are proud to announce that Kristoffer Albris has received a DK Frie Forsk.fond Sapere Aude grant for his research on people's expectations of sea level rise and storm surges🌊 Read more: dff.dk/ansog/stottet-… 📷 Mads Bødker, Flickr

Join us for the first Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science lecture of the fall on September 13! 📅 Friedrich Götz will present on the relationship between geography and psychology, emphasising that to understand who we are, we need to understand where we are🗺️ Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas-l…