Join me as a postdoc in the Social Computing Group at Uni Zürich! More details at: ancsahannak.me/files/PD-call.…

HIRING: research associate (any education level) + postdoctoral researcher to join my group at MPI-SWS. Work on computing & society (sex work, COVID19, digital inequity, etc.) & hang out in Europe :) Apply by November 1! bit.ly/MPIPositions The Communication & Technology Division of ICA #AcademicJobs

Awesome summary from David Garcia about our new study on the politicization of medical preprints.

Thanks for shoutout. Here's my analysis nytimes.com/2020/05/14/opi… Nice work David Garcia Ancsa Hannak Aleksandra Urman and Stefania Ionescu!

Did you guys ever experience this thing where google scholar indexes your preprint rather than the main publication and the pointer is wrong for a long time? If yes, can you share which outlet? thanks!

🇨🇭 We are thrilled to announce the launch of AlgorithmWatch Switzerland – a Swiss organization with its own team and new exciting projects, made possible by @EnMigros 👉 Follow AlgorithmWatch CH on Twitter and learn more on the brand new website! ⤵️ algorithmwatch.ch/en/

dgarcia.eu/2020/12/22/pos… Come and work with us! Doctoral and postdoc positions open at the CSS Lab in TU Graz. Send me a private message if you want to know more.

dgarcia.eu/2020/12/22/pos… Last two days to apply to work in my lab at TU Graz as doctoral student or postdoc. Don't miss this chance!

Hey CSS Twitter! Have you ever experienced Twitter's new academic API returning tweets that seem to be deleted? (e.g., not accessible anymore if you try to get to them without the API)

New paper by Aleksandra Urman, Ionescu, Garcia & Ancsa Hannak in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media! Preprints on Twitter became seemingly ubiquitous during Covid. The authors find "a stark increase in attention to medical preprints" and evidence of partisan polarization. Link: journalqd.org/article/view/3… 🧵⬇️ 1/

Dear fellow academics, when you write or publish something (even blog posts if you have a huge audience) on the war in Ukraine now, please collaborate with people who have domain expertise and speak Ukrainian and/or Russian and/or Belarusian (depending on the specific topic).

If you see a sad Hungarian on Monday, don't ask, just give them a hug, buy them a drink. (Those who are happy will hug each other plenty.) edition.cnn.com/2022/04/03/eur… #hungaryelections

Quite an extensive body of research has explored how migrants are visually represented in the media. But what about online platforms and search engines in particular? We've explored this in our new paper (open access!) Happy to see this one out 🎉nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to bring all you ICWSM'ers here in 2024. I will prove that it isn't only snow and chicken wings, we have lots to love. If you have ideas, concerns, etc., please reach out!

How gendered is the clothing offer for children? For our Süddeutsche Zeitung data analysis, we examined 20,000 shirts and shorts from H&M Deutschland, Zalando and ABOUT YOU that they offer online for children under 10. The results show: Current children's fashion cements gender images. 🧵

Come join our motivated and multidisciplinary group in Zürich, we have a postdoc position open! We study the role of platforms and algorithms in society, identify problems and come up with solutions, using a variety of methods. More here: ifi.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:f6a2a1…

After only 7 years of work, Ancsa Hannak, @DanLarremore, Andrei Cimpian, and I have a paper in press at JPSP that uses data from ORCID Organization to look at the relationship between beliefs about brilliance and gender segregation across academic fields! Link: drive.google.com/file/d/10FPFmx…

🌟 This work is now out at JPSP: Ancsa Hannak Kenny Joseph @DanLarremore & I used ORCID Organization profiles to understand gender differences in academics' career trajectories Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1037/pspa00… Supplement: doi.org/10.1037/pspa00… GitHub: github.com/kennyjoseph/OR…

Want to do a PhD about the way search results influence people's knowledge and opinions? We at Social Computing Group in Zurich led by Ancsa Hannak have 2 PhD positions open! One is focused on algorithm auditing, another one on HCI, all details here ifi.uzh.ch/en/scg/jobs.ht…

Our group has open PhD positions! Want to research the way search results influence people's knowledge and opinion? We have a position for you whether you like experiments or analyzing data sets. See the details about the application below: ifi.uzh.ch/en/scg/jobs.ht…