Gabriela Pinto at ICWSM #VulnerableWorkshop speaking on the aftereffects of the attempted coup in Peru through the lens of TikTok w/ Keith Burghardt 🇺🇦 Kristina Lerman 🇺🇦 Emilio Ferrara Read it here: workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/abstract.php?i… org w/ ISI Foundation Daniela Paolotti Kyriaki Kalimeri

New paper out in E&P B: Urban Analytics and City Science: "Analyzing #urban #scaling laws in the United States over 115 years" using HISDAC-US, #historical road network data and Microsoft #building #footprint data. Lead by Keith Burghardt with Johannes H. Uhl, Stefan Leyk and 🇺🇦 Kristina Lerman 🇺🇦.

"...trust in physicians & hospitals decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic." Lower levels of trust "associated with lesser likelihood of pursuing vaccination." Key: other research shows much of the distrust CREATED by embrace of #misinformation. Study jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

What can be done to combat rising misinformation on X? channel4.com/news/what-can-…

This is Fendi. She is a triple threat. Beautiful, majestic, and also geometric. 13/10

Diffusion is the rising tide that eventually submerges all frequencies, high and low 🌊 Diffusion is the gradual decomposition into feature scales, fine and coarse 🗼 Diffusion is just spectral autoregression 🤷🌈

For USC’s Abigail Horn, helping people make healthier choices starts with using AI to evaluate their options. 🥗 Read about it here --> bit.ly/3z65jbM USC Viterbi School #AI Abigail Horn Keith Burghardt

Uncovering Coordinated Cross-Platform Information Operations Threatening the Integrity of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Online Discussion w/ Emilio Ferrara Marco Minici Federico Cinus View our findings here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Terrific dinner with Captain Mark Kelly and Garry Kasparov discussing our joint efforts to combat malevolent disinformation. It's time for the US to step up to the plate and actually start to fight!

Is X really policing content? I think all platforms need to do a better job (Telegram especially) but X is all too willing to turn a blind eye to hate. latimes.com/business/story… Back in 2023, we found a disturbing trend about the spread of hate on X: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…

I'm so excited to finally introduce Fields of The World (FTW!) - the largest & most diverse ML dataset for field instance segmentation in satellite images. FTW has >70k samples from 24 countries (4 continents), with semantic & instance labels + Sentinel-2 RGB-NIR from 2 dates. 🧵

BREAKING: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour just did what AI couldn’t—pushed NeurIPS by a whole day! 🤖 🤣🤣🤣 #NeurIPS 2024 Conference Date Change The conference start date has been changed to Tuesday December 10 in order to support delegates arriving on Monday. neurips.cc

Just out! We evaluate how well large-scale, nonprob, survey data do in estimating COVID infection rates. We find that these surveys do a remarkably good job at matching admin and wastewater data. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Google AI Overview winning again!

New NYT article on hate after Musk bought Twitter (I and Paul Smaldino had the pleasure of sharing our thoughts in this article) nytimes.com/2024/10/12/tec…

The surprising ineffectiveness of counterspeech (speech that counters hate speech) viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/10/t…

La primera imagen #Landsat de las inundaciones de la #Dana de #Valencia procesadas por ALSO Space Impactante imagen. Ánimo a los compañeros valencianos y los servicios de emergencias 💪

If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.

This is Gracie. She went for the most magical car ride last night. The whole world twinkled like it was excited to see her. 13/10