Transmitting child porn is prohibited under Nigeria's cybercrime laws too. You could spend 10 years in prison and/or be fined N20 million. But you don't even need laws to know it's terribly wrong.

My sixth title, "Python Data Analysis for Healthcare," is now live on LinkedIn Learning! linkedin.com/learning/pytho… It's a scenario-based, practical course where we'll work through end-to-end use cases together in Python. I've been wanting to teach it this way for years, and I'm

SAVE THE DATE: The African Investigative Journalism Conference returns to Wits University in 2024 for its 20th edition, promising another packed schedule of lectures, masterclasses, workshops and networking sessions with Africa's finest journalists and trainers. 🗓️ October 30 to November 1. See you there!

Incredibly proud to announce that the Wits Centre for Journalism has been awarded a New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP) post from the HigherEducationZA for a permanent appointment at Assoc Lect/Lecturer level. Please look out for the ad which will be out by next week. #JournalismMatters

#TrendWatch #SocialMediaInNigeria Several Twitter accounts belonging to a Nigerian network identified and christened the ‘AR Crew’ by Digital Africa Research and Safety Lab as part of a 2021 investigation into a dodgy Alex Saab ‘influencer’ campaign are currently promoting Engr.Adamu Hussaini Asba- FNSE’s #ASBALithiumPlant

📢 New Publication! Aytalina, Nicola Righetti, & Annie Waldherr @[email protected]’s paper on connective protest-repression dynamics and coordination patterns on Russian Twitter is out in New Media & Society 🎉 #CSS #commscience Read open-access 👇 bit.ly/3Ksu8AI

Interested in what you can (and can't) do with large language models in social science research? I gave a workshop for beginners with my colleague Joshua Cova outlining use cases, validation, and model selection. You can find the slides here: drive.google.com/file/d/1pjtbIl…

📣Calling all early-career researchers in social sciences! Join our FREE 5-day workshop on #LargeLanguageModels Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 23-27 September 2024! We offer in-depth lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research projects!🤓😍llmsforsocialscience.net

RECEIPTS: Ethiopian Airlines called me a liar, so I tracked down the passenger in my viral video who was offloaded for a minister. ET called police on Aisha and her husband, forced them to delete their videos & left them stranded in Addis for 24hrs. They’ve received no apology

"I was among the people they paid 5,000 naira not to protest."

🚨PhD Postion (Pol Comm) at IKMZ For our SNSF project on political influencers and their effect on youth political engagement, Frank Esser and I are looking for a PhD student who enjoys working with data to join us for the next 4 years: shorturl.at/c4p5T

Dear ZARA CARE Zara South Africa I have a delivery due since July 30. No update on the strange delay and your team is not providing any tangible assistance. Can you please attend to my complaint?

ICYMI: Registration for the 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference is officially open! Be sure to take advantage of the early bird special of 20% off, which runs until Aug 30. Keep an eye out for speaker announcements, coming soon. 🎟 bit.ly/3yx5Vaf 🗓 Oct 30 to Nov 1 📍 Wits University

Opinion piece w/ Samuel Olaniran (who also did some heavy lifting and made editorial choices on our behalf) We looked into the hunger protest in Nigeria that took place at the beginning of the month. "Observing #EndBadGovernance protests from the sidelines" thecable.ng/observing-endb…

Join my lab! I’m currently recruiting new students (MSc & PhD) for admission in the fall of 2025 at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA mila.quebec/en/prospective… Are you interested in multilingual NLP? I would encourage you to apply. Deadline: December 1

In our #BrownBagSeminar next week Matti Pohjonen Matti Pohjonen will talk about the promises and perils of understanding the “context” of digital politics globally. Join us on Wednesday 30.10. at 12.15 to listen & discuss! Read more here: helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-in…

In June, I started looking into weekly fundraising meetings organised by Simon Ekpa’s IPOB faction (BRGIE), which are live-streamed on multiple social media platforms. In the end, I watched six of those meetings and extracted 20-hours worth of data. /Here’s what I found. 👀🧵

CFA for a 3-year postdoc position in Madrid @UC3M and @IC3JM. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!

Please consider submitting to this initiative. We plan to fund at least a 4-5 students from the Global South to travel to Copenhagen and attend ICWSM If you know anyone who might be interested please forward.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Media outlets, journalists and fact-checkers can submit proposals for the 2025 Global Summit on Disinformation, which seeks to include experiences and insights that help rethink information in complex contexts. 🗓 Apply by 31 July: t.ly/tbq9X