📚 Out now with Edward Elgar: How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, by me, Emily Booth & Jennifer J. Williams. An open-source toolkit for managing complex research data in one shared workspace. #MixedMethods #Wikibase
Francesco Bailo
@francescobailo.bsky.social
I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences at the University of Sydney where I am also deputy director of Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. francescobailo.net
New dataset and companion paper measuring violence perception across Mexico, now published open access in EPJ Data Science. We introduce the Violence Perception Index (VPI) — to measure how people talk about violence, using geolocated YouTube comments.
Just realised that the lost and found service is called “found items” in French and “lost items” in Italian. This tells you everything you need to know about the deep differences in trust towards institutions and social capital across the Alps.
There’s a lot of bad stuff happening in the world today, so anyway I finally did the thing and started developing video games for fun and enjoyment. If that’s your thing at all please check out @timgames.bsky.social. Steam page coming soon for my open world roguelike battling a fascist dictator
Tim Graham Games@timgames.bsky.social · 11mo agoWorking on the world map for Prelude to the Deep. The procgen uses warped simplex noise to create organic continents and coastlines, then simulates a climate by using a Whittaker biome model to realistically place environments from deserts to rainforests and more #proceduralgeneration #roguelike
3-year, full-time post-doc position with my @griffith.edu.au friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1
Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...
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We have a 🚨 new open access paper 🚨 with @polcommjournal.bsky.social We show how platforms can simultaneously concentrate and fragment political power. We analysed Italy's Five Star Movement across 5 platforms to understand multi-platform dynamics in political organisations. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation within the Five Star Movement
We examine how multi-platform digital environments influence intra-party dynamics within political organizations, focusing on the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) as a paradigmatic case of extreme ...
doi.org
Proof day! What a journey this has been... So proud of this work and amazing travel companions.
“The politicization of economic data and potential interference with it by political appointees is something that's typically seen in non-democratic countries like Russia, Venezuela or China.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
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Interesting thing about the Donald vs Elon bar fight is that they are throwing food at each from within the boundaries of their own personal social media platforms while never crossing these boundaries. Elon keeps pinging Trump’s X accounts but has to screenshot his Truth posts to reply to them.
Bukele, with 1% of his population behind bars likely the world most successful mass-incarcerator under 40, now also arresting journalists under charges of fostering “public anxiety” when they report on his political ascension.
🚨 New research! With Milly Stilinovic & @dhutchman.bsky.social, we explore how AI is being creatively misused in experimental online spaces we call Underspheres — and why current regulation can’t keep up. New Media & Society doi.org/10.1177/1461... Conversation theconversation.com/ai-is-moving...
AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check
Existing efforts to regulate AI share a limitation: they’re built around intended use, not the messy, creative and often unintended ways it is actually being used.
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🚨Proud Supervisor Alert🚨 Pleased to share this open source article in New Media & Society, first-authored by Milly Stilinovic. With contributions from @francescobailo.bsky.social Francesco Bailo, we explore the dark sides of #GenAI within the creative worlds: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Creative Underspheres and democratic challenges: Exploring the implications of generative AI misuse - Milica Stilinovic, Francesco Bailo, Jonathon Hutchinson, 2025
This article introduces the concept of the Undersphere – a networked community brought together via creative exchange – to highlight how the increased prolifera...
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🚨Just out in Journal of Info Tech & Politics🚨 How the Internet helped Italy's Five Star Movement break out of legacy networks and activate politically disengaged voters. I introduce Internet capital — digital resources enabling mobilization beyond traditional networks and reshaping geography.
If you consider that Trump policy outbursts always appear first on his privately owned, for-profit social media app everything makes much more sense. Government by click-bait. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point,...
truthsocial.com
The Social Science tribe is organized into two moieties—LaTeX and Word. Intricate rules govern their interactions: who can coauthor with whom, visit which sacred conference, and many others. On weekends, they practice competitive dances in which they enact their struggle, keeping the tribe together.
I am presenting later today at #CS2Italy our project on using YouTube comments to track social perception of violence. Slides here: fraba.github.io/presentation...
@alexvespi.bsky.social at #CS2Italy2025: "CSS should strive to provide **actionable** science and analytics, incorporating realism and complexity; otherwise, it risks becoming disconnected from the public's needs and expectations."
CS2Italy, the first Italian conference on Computational Social Science, is starting in a week in Trento! It will consist of one day of tutorials and two days of exciting contributions, including four stellar invited speakers. Check out the final program at cs2italy.org!
CS2Italy
Join the premier CS2 Italy Conference, a pivotal event for computational social scientists in Italy and internationally. Scheduled for 2025, this conference will feature interdisciplinary collaboratio...
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They have fenced, advertised and shittified the Internet in every possible way (and made billions in the process) but now they claim to fight for a free Internet to uncover the Kennedy assassination conspiracy. A time for truth and reconciliation on.ft.com/407WVSF
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In times of regime change, always remember: first write your constitution, then run your general election. Running the general election before writing the constitution dramatically increases the chances of not having a second election.
Lets tune out the news and see how it’s going over in the “run AI on the desktop” community.
