Review of applications for a postdoc at Penn State's Center for Social Data Analytics begins soon. Get your applications in! psu.jobs/job/84876

All are invited to visit Penn State's newly established Center for Social Data Analytics, C-SoDA, for its Open House on Jan 28, noon-2:30! (Lunch at noon, lightning talks at 12:30, posters / open house after) bdss.psu.edu/events/csoda-o…

Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics student Markus Neumann speaking CAPR brownbag today (Jan 30), noon, Pond 302, on his work involving audio and video processing: “Hooked With Phonetics: The Strategic Use of Style-Shifting in Political Rhetoric”

Correction, 12:15 start time.

Today (Apr 10): C-SoDA Speaker Series, Yu-Ru Lin (Computing & Information, U Pittsburgh), "Spatio-Temporal Learning for Forecasting Human-Societal Activity." 12:15 in the Databasement (Sparks B001) w/ lunch available at noon). bdss.la.psu.edu/events/csoda-s…

TODAY (Nov 6), 2:30, Rayid Ghani, "Doing Good with Data: Fairly and Equitably," in PSU AI for Social Impact Seminar Series sites.psu.edu/ai4sgseminars/

Coverage of recent work by C-SoDA grad fellow Sangyeon Kim, former postdoc Howard Liu, and director Bruce Desmarais.” x.com/icds_psu/statu…

We are excited to welcome many new faces, and returning faces in new roles, this year, including visiting scholar @Roanbuma, graduate fellow Muhammed Kafi Cifci, postdocs Yuehong Cassandra Tai and Isaac Pollert, associate director Liying Luo, and director Bruce Desmarais. Follow for news and updates!

C-SoDA Accelerator Award Seed Grant Open for Applications soda.la.psu.edu/news/c-soda-ac…

Congratulations to this year's -C-SoDA postdoctoral fellow, Isaac Pollert. The article he co-authored was recently published in Cambridge University Press. cambridge.org/core/journals/… Isaac Pollert

JOB ALERT!!🚨🚨. Penn State Political Science is searching for an open rank TT position in Political Science and Social Data Analytics, co-hired w/ PS Institute for Computational & Data Sciences. I'm chairing the search. #PSJMinfo cc womenalsoknowstuff, @POCalsoknow, FirstGenScholars psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j…

Congratulations to C-SoDA Assoc. Director, Liying Luo. She was awarded a $1.8 million NIH grant for research that was initiated by funds awarded to her by C-SoDA's Accelerator Seed Grant. psu.edu/news/liberal-a…

Congratulations to Diane Felmlee, Faculty Affiliate for C-SoDA, a who was recently awarded the American Journal of Sociology’s (AJS) 2022 Roger V. Gould Prize for her co-authored article, “With Friends Like These: Aggression from Amity and Equivalence.” psu.edu/news/liberal-a…

Congratulations to Muhammed Cifci. He has been offered and accepted a data science job at Ntrepid, a firm that contracts with government agencies operating in the national security realm. He will be starting in this position next semester.

Congratulations to Bruce Desmarais and Medha Uppala for having their article "Contagion, Confounding, and Causality: Confronting the Three C’s of Observational Political Networks Research" published in Political Analysis. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our NSF proposal "Toward Privacy Equity through Contextual Understanding of Self-Disclosure" has been awarded! I'll be working with colleague Sarah Rajtmajer on studying relationships between socioeconomic status and #privacy behaviors in social media. nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

Considering the hit rate with NSF proposals it feels like magic when one actually gets funded. Needless to say, questions about privacy equity desperately need to be studied and I’m grateful to have the chance. (+Shoutout to Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics for the seed funding that got us started.)

Congrats to Zicheng Cheng and Rachel Peng for having their work published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…