We are delighted to introduce the theme for #WORK2025fi Conference: “Work in the Era of Unruly AI”! Visit our brand new website work2025.fi for more information!

Mardi, les universités se sont massivement opposées au projet de loi de finances du gouvernement (démissionnaire) qui réduirait leurs moyens de 500M€. De telles coupes pourraient conduire plusieurs dizaines d’établissements à fermer leurs portes. Comment en est-on arrivé là ?⤵️

A pioneering study that uncovers the dynamic history of prediction in science and engineering over four centuries. Ann Johnson & Johannes Lenhard's "Cultures of Prediction" is available now (in a free #openaccess edition, too!) 👉 bit.ly/49rXDOY

rspatialdata: a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data with #rstats 💻🗺️📊 👉 rspatialdata.github.io

When I drafted the UNESCO consultation paper about emerging AI regulatory approaches, this AI bill from Brazil was one of the examples that offered new regulatory instruments beyond the EU’s AI Act. Here’s the UNESCO paper: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0…

ChatGPT has emerged as a powerful tool that can assist data scientists in various tasks, from coding to data analysis. pyoflife.com/chatgpt-cheat-… #DataScience #rstats #DataScientists #ChatGPT #coding #datavisualization #MachineLearning #DataAnalytics #GenerativeAI

Join us at the #RegulatableML workshop at #NeurIPS2024 to learn about AI regulations and how to operationalize them in practice. 🗓️ Date: Dec 15, 2024 (East Meeting Room 13) 🕓 Time: 8:15 am - 5:30 pm 🔗 Details: regulatableml.github.io We have an exciting schedule: ⭐️ Six

Nicolas Perreaux Certes, les dominés étaient structurellement "liés à la terre" et leurs déplacements (sociaux et spatiaux) limités et étroitement encadrés. Mais comparer ça avec le fait qu’il est difficile de quitter Twitter/X ou de désinstaller telle appli est un raccourci anhistorique.

Very large online platforms will be asked to illustrate how they address systemic risks under the #DSA in an upcoming series of workshops. The intent is to turn up the heat on the platforms and nudge them to improve their risk assessment exercises. mlex.com/mlex/technolog…

My #paper on #digitalsovereignty in the EU is now published Academy of European Law's Conf Proceedings. It identifies economic & normative conceptions and analyses some challenges. As 2025 approaches, this will undoubtedly remain a vital theme, esp. in the #EU. Link: rdcu.be/d3Dn1

🚨 New publication alert: exploratory study comparing [to a reasonable extent] political activity on extreme right WhatsApp and Telegram groups in Chile. With dear colleagues Guillermo Bustamante-Pavez Antonia Flores and Jorge Ortiz Fuentes. Tks to Catalan Journal of Comm & Cultural Studies and team for enabling this.

🎉 My new journal article “TikTok and the Algorithmic Transformation of Social Media Publics” has just been published on New Media and Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

An important new contribution to the historical literature on the labour process scienceopen.com/hosted-documen…

I am thrilled to announce our (w/Tianling Yang Milagros Miceli) research article "What Knowledge Do We Produce from Social Media Data and How?" won Best Paper Award at ACM GROUP Conference (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…)

New meta-analysis (2024) finds human-AI collaboration is task-dependent: performance increases for creative & open-ended tasks (like content creation), but performance drops for decision-making tasks; human-AI collaboration seems to work best when humans already outperform AI

🚨 Studies are starting to show what many of us feared: AI use might lead to overreliance and human disempowerment. Below is the SHOCKING conclusion of this particular study [download for future reference]: "1. We surveyed 319 knowledge workers who use GenAI tools (e.g.,

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Abstaining from social media does not significantly affect positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction, finds Laura Lemahieu Yannick Vander Zwalmen Mennes ernst koster Karolien Poels, in a meta analysis doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

a new article forthcoming in Sociological Science! we use an original survey of 2,117 American adults to examine how often people report discussing social and political issues tapped by 88 questions in the GSS. the preprint is up at SocArXiv: osf.io/vqp2g_v1

Excited that my paper on the antitrust economics of search engine defaults will be published in the Journal of Law and Economics. Link to preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…