Super glad (and relieved) to have crossed this milestone! Now on to the actual work. 😅

🚨Scoop: WhatsApp could soon become a major search engine for key government schemes, powered by ChatGPT and a local languages crowdsourcing project. Small team at MeitY working on it, demos showed to Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. My report The Indian Express indianexpress.com/article/techno…

Have you ever had the necessity of creating a list of words from scratch that addressed a specific topic you wanted to research? Now you can do it with LEXpander. Just published in #psynomBRM with the precious help of my co-author David Garcia at Complexity Science Hub link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Anna Goldenberg beim Falter hat eine wichtige Story zu Publikationsdruck & prekären Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft geschrieben, und wie Qualität & Innovation darunter leiden. Ich hab dafür von meinen Erfahrungen im System Wissenschaft erzählt. 1/5 falter.at/zeitung/202303…

Budget should never be the reason why a researcher is left outside of a conference! For NetSci 2023 we are offering a novel Open Arms Grant to cover the fee, travel and/or accommodation for people from low and middle-income countries. Deadline: April 21 netsci2023.wixsite.com/netsci2023/cal…

📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this. 8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N

Check out the impressive work of a collaboration between academics and Meta out today in Nature and Science. I could read the papers ahead of their release and wrote a summary here: nature.com/articles/d4158…

📣 Calling all coders, physicists, data scientists, and science scholars from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka! Join us for the fully funded #ComplexityGlobalSchool with IIT Bombay Apply now! ow.ly/4Me150PwHtp 🇧🇩🇧🇹🇮🇳🇲🇻🇳🇵🇵🇰🇱🇰

I have questions. How do you get IRB approval for an experiment that affects election outcomes? How does anyone who works on India assume that journalists are unbiased? If they really shifted 3 million votes because of this research - they did actual damage.

I successfully defended my PhD thesis. I want to thank my great supervisor, David Garcia, the Dean of Studies Ursula Augsdörfer and the reviewers of my thesis, @dhelic and @josh_c_jackson. This PhD has been a wonderful experience! I'm looking forward to see what the future holds for me

What are the challenges of misinformation research in the Global South? How should scholars study misinformation in such settings? With @KhariBiskut we address these questions in a new article - part of a special issue by Lisa Fazio and Gordon Pennycook sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We just published our 2023 article in our Holiday Paper Series: Abusing Large Language Models for Advice Generation and Behavior Simulation. Take a look for a crazy read about LLMs generating advice and simulating human behavior. osf.io/x8pqr

Very happy Kiran Garimella and I are able to make this available to others...and to finally be able to collect our own data! It has been a long process involving technical, ethical and logistical decisions with many stakeholders in at least 4 countries. It took a village... 1/3

Deadline has been extended to June 21! Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE)

If you plan to use a source-based approach to identify misinformation (especially Newsguard), you have to read @lue_jula 's latest pre-print 👉 osf.io/v6e4b

📢 We are thrilled to host #COMPTEXT2025 in vibrant Vienna on April 24-26! Mark your calendars for 3 days of engaging discussions and interactive workshops on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data ✨Stay tuned for the CfP and more details! 🙌

⏳ Less than a month left to submit your paper, panel, or data proposals for #COMPTEXT2025 Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science 🤩 Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX

🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨 🧰 Data donations and digital trace data 📖 Narratives in large datasets 🖼️ Visual data analysis 🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits 🧐 Bayesian text analysis …and more! Submit your abstracts by Jan 15 👇 shorturl.at/AmocX