🎉 Congratulations to our Chair, Dame Wendy Hall, on receiving the Sir Frank Whittle Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering! The award recognizes her extraordinary contributions to computer science and decades of leadership shaping the web and AI. Read more: raeng.org.uk/news/sir-fra...

We would like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanism – 2nd International Interdisciplinary Research Conference 📍 Munich, Germany 📅 March 10–12, 2027 Please find more details about the conference and submission process here: en.bidt.digital/dighum-confe...

Digital Humanism – 2nd Interdisciplinary International Research Conference

The “Digital Humanism – 2nd International Interdisciplinary Research Conference” will take place from March 10 to March 12 2027 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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Last week, the global Web Science community gathered in Braunschweig, Germany, for the 18th ACM Web Science Conference to explore the evolving relationship between the Web and society. Thank you to everyone who made #WebSci26 a success! 📸: Rosanna Harm & Jonas Meissner

James Hendler kicked off the 18th #WebSci26 today with his #keynote, “Web Science at 20, is it still needed?” 👉Answer: YES websci26.org?page_id=643 #WebScience #WebScienceAt20 #JamesHendler #WebSci #SemanticWeb #DigitalSociety #InternetResearch @tu-braunschweig.de

Brave Conversations is coming to WebSci’26 in Braunschweig. As part of the 18th ACM Web Science Conference (May 26–29), this session invites participants to engage with one of the defining questions of our time: 👉 What does it mean to be human in the age of smart machines? websci26.org?page_id=821

We would like to remind you that the 5th ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School will take place from July 6th to 10th, at TU Wien, Austria! Please find details about the program and the application process here: caiml.org/dighum//summ...

Final CfP: WebSci'26 Workshops & Tutorials 🗓 Deadline Jan 9 📍 Workshops Day: May 26 @tu-braunschweig.de 🎉 Theme: 20 Years of Web Science Interdisciplinary proposals on Web, AI, society, methods & ethics welcome. websci26.org?page_id=79 @websciencetrust.bsky.social #WebSci2026 #CFP #WebScience

📣 #CallforParticipation — #WebSci’26 18th ACM #WebScience Conference, May 21–26, 2026 📍TU Braunschweig, Germany. 🌐 Theme: Managing Risks in the Era of Generative AI 📄 Paper submissions due today (Dec 17, AoE) 🛠️ Workshops & Tutorials: Jan 9, 2026 📌 Posters & PhD Symposium: Feb 18, 2026 🔗 websci26.org

Brave Conversations Sri Lanka was a success! Led by Anni Rowland-Campbell, Trustee of the Web Science Trust, with support from Dr. Oshani Seneviratne, Deputy Director of the Web Science Trust Network Labs, and Fernando Spadea, Computer Science PhD student at RPI.

Brave Conversations UCSC Colombo 2025: Helping to Create Smarter Humans Facilitated by WST Trustee Anni Rowland-Campbell, WSTNet Deputy Chair Oshani Seneviratne, and RPI Web Science PhD student Fernando Spadea, they will discuss what it means to be smart in a digital world.

🌐 The Fall 2025 kickoff meeting for the Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories (WSTNet) took place yesterday and outlined plans for community growth.

Announcing the WebSciX 2025 community-building workshop on October 14-15, 2025, in Bengaluru, India, featuring a plenary panel discussion on Preserving Indian Knowledge Systems in the Age of AI! Date: October 14–15, 2025 Venue: J N Tata Auditorium, IISc Bangalore Register: tinyurl.com/yetu4tb4

Register Now – Symposium on Data for Public Good 2025 | IISc Bengaluru

Register for the Symposium on Data for Public Good 2025 today! Avail our early-bird offer. Certificates await all participants.

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📢The Call for Papers is now open! We invite submissions on a wide range of topics relating to #webscience. 👉 Full details: websci26.org?page_id=77 Spread the word and submit your work by Dec. 10! #websci26 @websciencetrust @TheOfficialACM

📢 Save the Date: May 26-29, 2026! 📅 We’re excited to announce the 18th ACM #WebScience #Conference 2026 🎉 📍 TU Braunschweig 🇩🇪 ➡️ websci26.org Mark your calendars — we can’t wait to welcome you! #WebSci26 @websciencetrust @tuBraunschweig @TheOfficialACM

Registration is now open for the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (WebSci’25), which will be held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA from May 20-23, 2025. web.cvent.com/event/2e093a... is open until 21 April. Learn more about WebSci’25 at www.websci25.org.

The Steering Committee of ACM WebSci is seeking statements of interest from organizations or consortia interested in hosting the 19th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2027). Please contact us (info@webscience.org) for more information webscience.org/websci27-sta...

Registration is now open for the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (WebSci’25), which will be held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA from May 20-23, 2025. web.cvent.com/event/2e093a... is open until 21 April. Learn more about WebSci’25 at www.websci25.org.

Friends, the 2025 ACM Web Science conference is coming up at #Rutgers this May. We have fantastic presenters and keynote speakers lined up. The schedule and registration just went live on www.websci25.org. Do come and join us! cc @websciencetrust.bsky.social @shugars.bsky.social

Web Science Institute Director, Dame Wendy Hall, joined the BBC Newsnight panel to share her take on the UK Government's plans to use AI to modernise the Civil Service. Watch the full episode on BBC iPlayer here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

EMPOWER YOUR INNOVATION JOURNEY Open call to #citizenscience projects and #industries: Join our pilots to solve #innovation challenges through citizen science and the co-design of new business models. More info on our eu-citizen.science platform: eu-citizen.science/ecs_project/... When: 1-15 April

Free Webinar: Data-Centric AI #8 – Optimizing AI for Sensitive Industries, Wed 19 March Join Pierre-Carl Langlais (Pleias) & Elena Simperl as they discuss how small, optimized LLMs can be designed for regulated industries. 🔗 Register now! theodi.org/news-and-eve...

🚨 UPCOMING EVENT: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms, April 10-11 at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online. In collaboration with Senior AI Advisor @sethlazar.org & co-sponsored by the Knight Institute and @columbiaseas.bsky.social. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship

When thousands of fake accounts controlled by an unknown actor flood social media with some story, and platform algorithms amplify these messages, real...

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"Bringing Collections to Life" in our libraries the Stichting Internet Archive held a meeting in the beautiful WAAG in Amsterdam to find how to help New foundational LLM model for a small language was demonstrated Look at the fabulous room! @stichtinginternetarchive.nl stichtinginternetarchive.nl

If you missed our webinar on data scraping, catch up now. Watch Lee Tiedrich and @esimperl.bsky.social discuss the current data scraping legal and policy landscape and potential approaches for encouraging responsible and legally compliant behaviours. #AI

Data-centric AI webinar#2

Join us for this free webinar with Lee Tiedrich, a widely recognized leader in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies, in conversation with...

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NEW: Researchers at @oii.ox.ac.uk have found employers in the artificial intelligence sector are increasingly prioritising skills over formal education, with practical expertise commanding higher salaries than university degrees alone. More info ⬇️

Skills-based hiring driving salary premiums in AI sector as employers

Employers in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector are increasingly prioritising skills over formal education, with practical expertise commanding higher salaries than university degrees alone,

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Check out the No Way Out podcast interview with Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It’s a must-listen for anyone eager to understand how web archiving works & why it matters. 🎧 ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/4zP5... #digitalpreservation #archives @mark.bsky.social

The Wayback Mission: Mark Graham on Preserving the Past with the Internet Archive

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From trust in news to disagreement: is misinformation more controversial? arxiv.org/abs/2401.12053

From trust in news to disagreement: is misinformation more controversial?

The growing prevalence of fruitless disagreement threatens social cohesion and constructive public discourse. While polarised discussions often reflect distrust in the news, the link between disagreem...

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Professor James Hendler has been awarded the prestigious 2025 AAAI Feigenbaum Award for his groundbreaking contributions to knowledge representation, planning, and the Semantic Web.   Based at RPI in the US, he is a current trustee and former chairman of the Web Science Trust.

WebSci'25 Call for PhD Symposium ACM WebSci’25 17th ACM Web Science Conference May 20-24, 2025 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA www.websci25.org/call-for-phd...