Meanwhile, I also have a new chapter in the Handbook of Social and Communication Networks, by @toledobastos.bsky.social and @lrossi.bsky.social. Here I explore the way gatewatching and newssharing practices are affected by platform policies, using the example of the Facebook News Bans in 🇦🇺/🇨🇦.

The problem with #AI for office workers is that it doesn't really work. The morning brief that @microsoft.com Copilot was so eager to offer me: missed a couple of important emails that needed follow-up and, instead, recommended me to "confirm my participation" to a meeting I had yesterday.

I used to think that the view for my coffee break in Urbino (1) was hard to beat, but I must admit that the view from @itu.dk is also something.

PhD position in NLP+linguistics on communicating uncertainty so humans understand, in @nlpnorth.bsky.social at @itu.dk. Still 5 days left to apply. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

PhD Position in Uncertainty Quantification and Communication for Large Language Models at IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a PhD position starting in October 2026 or soon thereafter.  We invite ap

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I'm happy to announce that the Handbook of Social and Communication Networks is finally out: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han... The work, co-edited with @toledobastos.bsky.social , attempts to define what happens when network science meets communication studies. It's a collection of works,

Handbook of Social and Communication Networks

This comprehensive Handbook explores the application of social network analysis and network science in the field of communication studies. Leading experts examine the interactions between social and c...

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🔊 The magnificent @ddc-sdu.bsky.social x TrygFonden Fellowship Program is open, seeking the 2027 cohort 🚀 3 types of fellowships: 1️⃣ academic 2️⃣ journalist 3️⃣ policy fellows 🗓️ deadline September 1 Read the call for details and instructions 🚨🚨Spread the word 🚨🚨 www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

So, is done, and I am happy and exhausted and ready to start planning Playing Futures 2027.

Ok, #aoir26 does anyone know a reasonable solution for child care in Mexico City in October?

Apparently the #AI hype machine needed some more fuel and it was time to feed on this post aleximas.substack.com/p/does-overw... from few months ago. Obviously the media coverage, does nothing to cool down the misleading idea of agents developing political ideology. I do believe that it would be

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

BREAKING: Opposition leader Péter Magyar is on track to topple Hungary’s longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after a bitterly contested election, according to early official results. politi.co/47QL7ZO

The tech bubble largely underestimate public feelings (and the power of public narrative) towards AI. One of the good reasons why is pivoting towards companies and business clients is that the consumer market is not really "receptive". :D www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

OpenAI says CEO Sam Altman's house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail

The company said the suspect also made threats outside its corporate headquarters in San Francisco.

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🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories

Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

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#AI #academia #science The problem is us. There is no way around it. I'm finalising my reviews for a well-known conference and I can see what the other reviewers wrote. One is so clearly AI generated that it hurts reading it. Not "drafted" by AI and revised ... it's a full copy/paste job.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

There has hardly been a moment in history when our reliance on goods that are shipped across the world has been more evident. @itu.dk is bringing research closer to the needs of this key part of our world. itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...

IT-Universitet vil søsætte ti maritime forskningsprojekter

Orient’s Fond og Den Danske Maritime Fond støtter tilsammen ti forskningsprojekter, som skal bidrage til udviklingen af det blå Danmark.

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📣 Some news on upcoming events: I'll be speaking at @gesis.org Cologne on Monday 30 March 14:30 CEST and at ZeMKI Bremen on 7 April 18:30 CEST. Details for both talks are here: snurb.info/node/3558. And the GESIS talk will be livestreamed on Zoom too, so join in if you can... 📺

Upcoming Talks in Cologne and Bremen | Snurblog — Axel Bruns

After the excitement of the

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open.spotify.com/episode/4GoL... Nice discussion on @theverge.com about meta's loss in court. @reckless.bsky.social does a good job at moving the conversation away from "the content" and to focus on the design of the algorithm. Yet, the current US debate always falls short from focusing on what

Meta's court losses could be just the beginning

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@mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy just made a super interesting analysis of how much actual voting behaviour is aligned with the political alignment emerging from the online tests that allow you to "make up your mind". As expected the answer is "not so much" and the question then becomes how is

Studie fra IT-Universitetet viser markant forskel mellem valgflæsk og hverdagskost

Forskere på IT-Universitetet i København har undersøgt, i hvilken grad politikernes afgivne stemmer i Folketinget stemmer overens med deres udsagn i Altingets kandidattest.

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📣 PhD and Postdoc call: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness nerds.itu.dk/2026/03/18/p... with @jonassjuul.bsky.social

On April 16th I'll be in Barcelona speaking at the SE3DS Lab workshop: Bridging Social, Ecological and Digital Systems Science for transformative change. In the afternoon we will discuss how digital platforms reconfigure value creation and nature perception. It will be a great opportunity to

Friends! The ITU is hiring! We're looking for a tech-savvy person who can help us develop the games program and the Center for Digital Play research profile: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Game Technology at IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position starting in Au

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📢📢📢 We are thrilled to announce our 3rd speaker for the next #databeers #copenhagen @ #Absalon event on March 10th! Anastassia Vybornova will explore data ethics through storytelling 📖 We are SOLD OUT❗ Remember to cancel your ticket if you can't attend.

Arianna Pera @ariannapera.bsky.social defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/27/a...

In the whole debate "AI is coming for your job" basic medical profession (like GPs) seem often to be "the next one soon after coders". As often happens, reality is complicated and as humans in societies we operate based on "trust" more than we do on "accuracy". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

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we wrapped up the first of our meetings at @cais-research.bsky.social for our post-polarvis initiative. Despite the rocky start (between people falling sick and delayed trains) it was a very productive 2 days. We managed to make real progress. More to come in the next meeting.

📢Publication alert 📢 LLMs are an awesome technology, but they come with trade-offs! Paul Balluff, @justinho.bsky.social, @seanhp.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @lrossi.bsky.social, Irina Shklovski, Chung-hong Chan and I commented on these trade-offs in #commsky research. Out now and open access!

Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research

The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview ...

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New report out on the Hungarian elections 🇭🇺 🗳️ AI generated videos circulating via Facebook and misleading speeches from both candidates. Important campaign monitoring ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/fearmo...

Fearmongering with AI-generated videos, manipulated speeches and Péter Magyar’s Trump moment

Until the elections in April, Lakmusz will closely monitor social media and traditional media, with a particular focus on disinformation related to the elections and false or misleading content spread...

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🚨📄🚨 LLMs are revolutionizing social and communication science. Tasks that used to require either complex technical skills or abundant resources for crowdsourced solutions, are now easily done with a prompt. While this speeds up research and facilitates www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research

The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview ...

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#PleaseShare PhD position on Human-Computer Interaction, AI, and Disinformation: Develop AI tools for fact-checking & media literacy, tackle disinformation & create open science resources Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026 👉 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246 @hheuer.bsky.social