Here is my #chi2025 paper explorer. Visually explore papers by similarity, search for an specific topic or even find what specific sessions to attend. Please let me know what you think! #dataviz @chi

👉🏼 https://johnguerra.co/viz/chi2025Papers/ 👈🏼

Today my PhD student Dr. @anavybor brilliantly defended her thesis: Urban data science for sustainable mobility 🤩 #proudadvisor
Thesis: https://en.itu.dk/Research/PhD-Programme/PhD-Defences/PhD-Defences-2025/March/Anastassia-Vybornova

The second edition of my Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist is out! You should check it out if you like to learn about network science or graph neural networks. Check out the blog post I wrote to present it: https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=2393

Study Computer Science or Software Engineering in Denmark

Are you taking a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering? And are you interested in taking your master’s degree in another country?

Then come to Denmark!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ulriknyman_studyabroad-highered-denmark-activity-7264005873402830849-PWqi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Student promotions!
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/01/14/student-promotions/

Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko plans to transfer Mastodon's ownership to a new non-profit, saying it "should not be owned or controlled by a single individual" (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko
http://www.techmeme.com/250113/p15#a250113p15

#toread The News Feed is not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/34390/

POSTDOC position: Do you want to work on developing a novel framework for collecting large-scale interview data, based on the application of cutting-edge LLM techniques in the social sciences? Come work with us! https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181760&DepartmentId=3439&MediaId=5
#jobs #NLP #LLMs

I disagree. We on the “broadcast” media often underestimate how many people don’t participate.

I keep stats on the most popular Overcast link-share destination apps. What do you think tops the list?

Not Facebook or X or Instagram or Snapchat.

It’s Messages, by a MILE, then mostly other private-messaging apps! The first public-social-network app is #12 on the list, averaging only 1% as many shares as Messages.

Private messaging is FAR more popular than social media.
https://mastodon.nl/@vmachiel/113674338611670947

BBC's Visual and Data Journalism Cookbook for R Graphics and their {bbplot} #RStats 📦are useful resources for making publication-quality graphics in
#R

https://bbc.github.io/rcookbook/

#ggplot2 #DataViz

I am launching a broad call for finding an ecology and/or evolution society that could take ecoevo.social under its wings.
While I am very happy to continue managing the technical and community aspect of this server, I do not have the bandwidth to start looking into taxes and non-profit creation issues.
1/3
@eseb @officialSMBE @ASNAmNat @sse_evolution @SystBiol @BritishEcolSoc #sfe2

Quick professional update: starting in January I'll be head of the Data Science section at the IT University of Copenhagen. It's part of a larger reorganization of the university that will foster collaboration through smaller more focused units (DS being one of those). It will be fun! and if you have ideas for the future of Data Science both research and education: let's talk!

@ICA_CAT do that!

The #AoIR2025 theme will be RUPTURES - Rupture signifies a break or interruption in continuity, disruption, forms of resistance. #AoIR2024. https://aoir.org/aoir2025/aoir2025cfp/. #cometoBrazil

A qualitative exploration of this dynamic shows that even when confronted with the same picture, opposite audiences frame that from their own pre-existing ideological point of view.
The quantification of this phenomenon contributes to our understanding of online polarization showing that "points of contact" do no necessarily reflect a meaningful engagement between two already polarized sides.

By monitoring all the Facebook content published both by activist-actors and skeptical counter-actors we have observed that only a very small fraction of visual content (3.1%) is shared by both groups, suggesting that the two groups exist in largely independent visual worlds. Yet, when we do observe visual content that is shared by both groups we observe a small but significant change in how the different audiences react from an emotional point of view.

🚨🚨Publication alert🚨🚨 How do we relate with visual content? In the context of the polarvisproject we have been investigating if identical visual content triggers different emotional reactions for groups of climate activists and climate skeptics.
Our insights have just been published on Environmental Communications (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2024.2420787#d1e703).
Here are some results:

A lot of folks at #AoIR2024 are a bit peeved that more AoIR members aren't using Mastodon/the fedi instead of X. "We as a community have produced a great deal of criticism of corporate platforms," they say, "so why aren't more people switching?"

I've been studying alternative social media for a long time now. To cite Stuart Hall, there are no guarantees: you do this sort of work, trying to make something better, but knowing that it's a struggle and it may fail.

Speaking of the #AoIR2024 Eras Tour use of archival AoIR records, documentation, and ephemera, here’s the evolution of AoIR conferences visualized from the amazingly rich source that is Axel’s blog posts (so many words over so many years!): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSescvpAQV3H_fpWrpkzBh5PStC40Y3TaXQhSSD49UckHY_J9Q/viewform (sorry @snurb)