Jian Wu @fanchyna.bsky.social and WSDL @webscidl.bsky.social are on a heater -- we just received official confirmation that our NSF REU site was renewed for a second term. The topic this time is "Human-AI Interaction and Evaluation in Web and Information Systems". ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026...

2026-08-03: REU Renewal Proposal Awarded by NSF

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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AI4SciSci'26 will be co-located with JCDL'26. We are excited to have Dr. Yifan Qian, a research assistant professor at CSSI, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, as our keynote speaker!

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The 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the 2026 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in Dallas, Texas, United States. We welcome new work and published work covering a variety of topics.

I am excited to receive the NSF REU award to support undergraduate students in researching Human-AI Interaction and Evaluation in Web and Information Systems. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026... Thanks, NSF, and all mentors! @webscidl.bsky.social @phonedudemln.bsky.social

2026-08-03: REU Renewal Proposal Awarded by NSF

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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🚨New paper - out today in Vaccine 💉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Our findings illustrate how the engagement architectures of social media platforms shape elite political communication and the informational politics of public-health governance.

Congratulations to Jian Wu and Sampath Jayarathna for securing NSF funding for the JCDL Doctoral Consortium for the next three years. I'm happy that WSDL @webscidl.bsky.social & the NSF are able to continue to support JCDL @jcdlconf.bsky.social. congrats to all! ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026...

2026-08-03: JCDL Receives Sponsorship from the NSF to Support Its Doctoral Consortium Workshop

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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The main conference paper deadline for JCDL 2026 has passed. JCDL 2026 is currently accepting submissions to the following tracks: - Posters and Demos - Panels - Doctoral Consortium Papers - Resource Papers - Undergraduate Research Symposium - Workshop Papers 2026.jcdl.org

The 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the 2026 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in Dallas, Texas, United States. We welcome new work and published work covering a variety of topics.

JCDL 2026 is open for workshop and tutorial proposals. We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics aligned with the conference's main themes. Please view the submission details on the workshop call website (2026.jcdl.org/call-for-wor...)! The submission deadline is May 31, 2026. #jcdl2026

JCDL 2026 is open for workshop and tutorial proposals. We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics aligned with the conference's main themes. Please view the submission details on the workshop call website (2026.jcdl.org/call-for-wor...)! The submission deadline is May 31, 2026.

🚨 #ACL2026 🚨 Our work on privacy-preserving synthetic data generation is accepted to Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Check out the preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.07486 (& come chat with us in San Diego!)

🚨 #CSCW2026 🚨 After many iterations, this beautiful paper is finally out in the world. We foreground a less visible feature of online life: the ways people withhold, soften, or adapt their true opinions online. arxiv.org/pdf/2604.09465 @acm-cscw.bsky.social @brucedesmarais.bsky.social

The #ai4scisci workshop will happen on Monday, December 15, 2025 11 AM Eastern Time (New York Time). We got great presenters ai4scisci.github.io/2025/! Register at JCDL 2025.jcdl.org website! #jcdl2025

The 2nd International Workshop on AI4SciSci will happen on Monday December 15, 2025 at 11 AM (New York Time) on Zoom. The workshop will be colocated with the 2025 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'25) virtually.

"A Tale of Two Identities: An Ethical Audit of Human and AI-Crafted Personas" is accepted to AAAI-26! @aaai.org @shomir.bsky.social We show LLMs demonstrate "algorithmic othering"--e.g., disproportionately foreground racial markers, overproduce culturally coded language. arxiv.org/abs/2505.07850

A Tale of Two Identities: An Ethical Audit of Human and AI-Crafted Personas

As LLMs (large language models) are increasingly used to generate synthetic personas particularly in data-limited domains such as health, privacy, and HCI, it becomes necessary to understand how these...

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📢📢📢 SIGIR is pleased to offer Student Travel Awards for students presenting their accepted contributions at JCDL 2025. The deadline to apply is November 12, 2025 (AoE). To know more check: 2025.jcdl.org/acm-sigir-st... #JCDL2025 #SIGIR #ACM

@fanchyna.bsky.social and I are submitting... see you there? Deadline for the Sci-K extended to July 25th. sci-k.github.io/2025/

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🧩 Call for Dagstuhl-Style Workshops @ ISWC 2025! Want to run an interactive, discussion-driven workshop on #SemanticWeb, #KnowledgeGraphs, or #LinkedData? Submit your proposal now! Deadline: July 1, 2025 iswc2025.semanticweb.org#/calls/dagst... #ISWC2025 #Workshops #DagstuhlStyle #Japan

Yesterday we celebrated the great Lee Giles. Yes, his h-index is 121. He was part of the “lunatic fringe” doing CNNs way back and stood up CiteSeer, the OG Google Scholar. But his legacy is people. 38 PhD students, countless postdocs, etc. and the beautiful, important part he played in their lives.

We welcome submissions on topics about the science of science, scholarly big data, scientometrics, scholarly data mining, and computational social science. We welcome extended abstracts, short, and long papers. The submission deadline is currently set to October 24, 2025.

I am excited to announce that the 2nd International Workshop on AI for the Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the 2025 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), which will be online. The workshop website is at ai4scisci.github.io/2025.

Eligibility: - Graduate level training in psychology, sociology, political science, economics, education, public health, or a closely related social/behavioral science. - Strong grounding in research methodology and statistics. If interested, please reach out directly at shakhlo@cos.io

Commitment: - Each annotation ~1 hour. - Total: 21 papers. Incentive: - Completion of ≥ 2 rounds of annotations for 21 papers = authorship on project publications. - Contributions recognized with the CRediT taxonomy (Data Curation, Validation). - Smaller contributions acknowledged.

@cos.io Call for Annotators Benchmarking LLM Replicator Tasks in the Social Sciences We are seeking two experts in the social and behavioral sciences to help create ground-truth annotations for a project benchmarking large language models (LLMs) on replication workflows. 🧵

🚨New paper!!🚨 I LOVE this little paper and so happy @fanchyna.bsky.social suggest we write it. "What Are Research Hypotheses?"....folks in NLP use the word hypothesis in ways which really depart from its roots arxiv.org/abs/2509.00185 @briannosek.bsky.social... would love your feedback!

What Are Research Hypotheses?

Over the past decades, alongside advancements in natural language processing, significant attention has been paid to training models to automatically extract, understand, test, and generate hypotheses in open and scientific domains. However, interpretations of the term \emph{hypothesis} for various natural language understanding (NLU) tasks have migrated from traditional definitions in the natural, social, and formal sciences. Even within NLU, we observe differences defining hypotheses across literature. In this paper, we overview and delineate various definitions of hypothesis. Especially, we discern the nuances of definitions across recently published NLU tasks. We highlight the importance of well-structured and well-defined hypotheses, particularly as we move toward a machine-interpretable scholarly record.

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I am excited to announce that the 2nd International Workshop on AI for the Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the 2025 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), which will be online. The workshop website is at ai4scisci.github.io/2025.

The Doctoral Consortium is underway at #JCDL2024 in Hong Kong!

If you are joining us for #JCDL2024 in-person or remotely, we have created a WhatsApp group to connect socially. Please join us @ chat.whatsapp.com/EoyHDelSSpl6...

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I am excited to announce that our paper titled "DeepPatent2: A Large-Scale Benchmarking Corpus for Technical Drawing Understanding" has been accepted by Scientific Data, an open-access journal by Nature Research, available at rdcu.be/dquEC.

We are very excited to announce that the 1st International Workshop on AI for Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) on December 4, 2023. Submit by September 15, 2023! Check out our website: ai4scisci.github.io/2023/

We are very excited to announce that the 1st International Workshop on AI for Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) on December 4, 2023. Submit by September 15, 2023! Check out our website: ai4scisci.github.io/2023/