I'm excited to teach a Cybersafety class this quarter at UCR. In this first iteration, it'll be offered as a seminar class, but we will switch to a regular class next year. Preliminary syllabus: spalab.cs.ucr.edu/teaching/26s... Looking forward to comments and feedback!
CS 260 – Computational Cybersafety
spalab.cs.ucr.edu
In our recent PETS paper, we have been looking at whether Personally Identifiable Information (PII) removal services (e.g., DeleteMe, Optery, Incogni) are effective in protecting user privacy by removing users' private information from the data broker. [1/8] arxiv.org/pdf/2505.06989
I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs. For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky! Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7 Let me know if I missed anyone!
Dear world, I'm heading off to the Web Conference in Sydney this week. If you're around, please do ping me!
That's our paper, nice :) @asonur.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social
Laurens@laurenshof.online · last yr.Bluesky Report - this week's news: - custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD - Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off - a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
Bluesky Report - this week's news: - custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD - Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off - a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
Bluesky Report – #112
Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.
fediversereport.com
Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites. Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly. theblue.report/week/
The Blue Report
The top links on Bluesky, updated hourly
theblue.report
ACM IMC is running another Shadow TPC this year. If you're a student looking to learn about the peer review process, I strongly recommend: conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2025/sha...
ACM IMC 2025 - Shadow TPC
conferences.sigcomm.org
🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon? 👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎 📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! 📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025
“Academics should learn how to incorporate AI into literature reviews.”
Delbert Grady Seasons@delbertgseasons.bsky.social · last yr.I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com
Bluesky Research
bsky.leobalduf.com
University College Dublin is recruiting 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows programme (~ tenure-track Assistant Professorships). – Excellent research support – Salary: €62k–€99k – Application deadline: 21 Feb – All positions: www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin... @ucddublin.bsky.social
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST! More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist... Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis) #LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI
Bluesky has just surpassed 30M users. Starter packs have been a key feature - how have they worked out so far? Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
Come work with us – faculty position in Computer Networking in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Computer Networking
Job Purpose The University of Glasgow, established in 1451, is a member of the UK's Russell Group of leading universities. The University is committed to enhancing its position as one of the world'...
jobs.gla.ac.uk
Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit führender Beteiligung der TU Darmstadt hat nun die erste weitreichende Datenanalyse zu #Bluesky vorgelegt: Offenheit, Transparenz, Partizipation und eine gleichmäßigere Machtverteilung sind die größten Vorteile der dezentralen Plattform, so die Studie.
X-Ersatz mit Benefits
Der boomende Kurznachrichten-Dienst Bluesky stellt nicht nur eine geeignete Alternative zu X dar, sondern bietet Nutzenden echte Vorteile: Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein Forschungsteam mit führender Bet...
tu-darmstadt.de
@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow. 🧵1/11
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449
We’re building the atproto TikTok and IT WORKS!! Spent the last 48 hours coding! 👇🏾check it out Follow along @skylight.social @reedharmeyer.bsky.social #atproto #atprotocol #tiktokban #skylight
In one 24hr period Musk posted 153 times, 48% of posts about the UK, containing a wide range of misleading and falsified information aimed at disrupting public opinion and destabilising government. A must watch analysis by the BBC’s @rosatkins.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
bbc.co.uk
We are excited to bring back ICWSM-Global Initiative also this year, 2 pg. applications due 15/01 for: - Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025 - Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
ICWSM '25
icwsm.org
theconversation.com/how-britain-...
How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet
Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.
theconversation.com
If you're doing Mastodon research, you might wanna check @harisbinzia.bsky.social useful tool for Fediverse data collection: github.com/harisbinzia/...
GitHub - harisbinzia/mastodoner: Mastodoner is a command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network.
Mastodoner is a command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network. - harisbinzia/mastodoner
github.com
Dirk Kutscher has been appointed as the next @irtf.org Chair to begin at #IETF122 in Mar 2025. Thanks to Colin Perkins who has served chair for the past 6 years and to other volunteer candidates. More info on IRTF Research Groups, programs & workshops at: www.irtf.org
It's great to see the massive wave of people coming to 🦋. Here's my first stab at a Computational Social Science starter pack: go.bsky.app/2m6iQ68 Go check out similar lists to bootstrap your network: bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Wonder if these lists could be merged somehow..