For data scientists and data engineers interested in democracy, please see positions posted Northeastern U. for positions at the Internet Democracy Initiative (pls RT): northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Bo…

Understanding and predicting human mobility in urban areas is very important. Unfortunately, there are no large, standardized, and open datasets to compare different models. Here, we introduce a new open, anonymized dataset of 100k individual mobility trajectories. Check it out!

I am seeking a paid research collaborators for two months to study AI-generated misinformation in India.

If you have worked on creating such misinformation, or have experience studying deepfakes and/or folks who generate such content, please contact me.

This week Network Science Institute we were lucky to be joined by Kiran Garimella discussing his efforts to build data donation infrastructures that can estimate population-level misinformation spread on WhatsApp (!)

One of the most immense data collection endeavors I've seen networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/kiran-ga…

I'll be at Network Science Institute in Boston this Thursday/Friday and give a talk about our recent work monitoring WhatsApp for misinformation.

Say hi if you're around!

this paper was sent out of anger to unsubscribe from a low-quality research journal's mailing list but ended up getting accepted

The NYU Social Psychology Program is looking for people passing through New York next year who want to share their research in our Speaker Series.

We welcome self-nominations and scholars from all career stages. Just add your info in this form:
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NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned.

My latest for Rest of World: restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

Assistant professor position on algorithms and data analysis in KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology, funded by WASP Research. More details and online application: kth.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo… Deadline: May 3, 2024

Ahead of the #GeneralElection in India, an excellent and immersive workshop on the mechanics of #misinformation by Professors Kiran Garimella, Sunandan Chakraborty and Jimmy Narang organised at University of Michigan and joyojeet pal

The Social Media & Society in India conference University of Michigan is on Apr 8-9, 2024, the largest conference of its kind featuring talks and workshops on culture, politics, industry, policy, and misinformation.

Register free to attend:

influencers.conference.si.umich.edu

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity, Please share! 🚨

Leticia Bode, Lisa Singh and I are seeking a postdoc to work with us at Massive Data Institute (MDI) on our project on GenAI, Misinformation, and Social Media. Full-time research, no teaching required. Please reach out!

apply.interfolio.com/143997

After years of work, we (w/ @simonchauchard) are releasing our new tool to collect WhatsApp data at scale! Introducing WhatsApp Explorer, a tool to collect data in a privacy preserving, opt-in, legal and practical way

paper: osf.io/k6qv5

whatsapp.whats-viral.me

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