Social Data Science Lab @QMUL

Joined March 2020
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Congrats to our own @Ignactro (best reviewer) and @arkaitz (best senior PC) for awards at ICWSM 2024!
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Replying to @icwsm
#ICWSM24 best reviewers and best senior PCs are: 2/
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🥳 Our new preprint here! We conduct a systematic review of cross-lingual studies on online hate, focusing on multilingual datasets, cross-lingual resources, transfer approaches and challenges. All review resources are also available here: github.com/aggiejiang/crossl…
📢 New preprint! In work led by @AggieJiang, we provide a comprehensive review on methods, datasets and challenges in cross-lingual offensive language detection arxiv.org/abs/2401.09244
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Interested in doing a PhD on automated #factchecking? Together with @arkaitz I am looking for one student through the CSC. Shoot me an email or a DM for more details! Applications through here, deadline January 31st: qmul.ac.uk/scholarships/item…

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On measuring #IPFS, by Yiannis Psaras. Full paper 👉dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3… (with @dtrautwein_eu, @aravindhr_am @Gareth_Tyson @willscott @physikerwelt @BelaGipp & Yiannis)
Learn how researchers who are studying the InterPlanetary File System #IPFS are improving the ways we measure & improve the performace of the #decentralised web pulse.internetsociety.org/bl…
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Happy to announce another round of papers looking at @ietf decision making using public emails 🎉 If you're interested in the data, feel free to fire a DM. #ACL2023NLP
2 papers (main & findings) @ #ACL2023NLP "Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation" led by @prash_khare & "An Email Dataset for Analyzing Large-Group Decision-Making" by Mladen w/@Gareth_Tyson @Ignactro @csperkins @lumisota @Pat_Healey @mpurver
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#FundedPhD positions available on the AI for Drug Discovery Programme hosted by DERI at QMUL. Further details here - Deadlines in April 2023: qmul.ac.uk/deri/ukri-aidd-do… #PhDposition #Funding #Bioinformatics #AI #DataScience

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📢PhD position in my group (for UK domestic students). The topic is open. Deadline: April-30th eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-stud…

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Does money buy happiness? Posts from the richer are strikingly more positive in US and UK
Replying to @Ignactro
Posts from richer neighbourhoods have more positive sentiment 2/n
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Income shows in what you post: 1) the richer have more positive sentiment, 2) discuss crime more, 3) we can infer the income of the poster by just looking at the text. Check our #ICWSM 2023 pre-print analysing a large US & UK Nextdoor dataset arxiv.org/pdf/2304.05232.pdf 1/n
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🚨 We have an opening for a PhD student to work on claim detection for automated fact-checking. ℹ️ Includes a salary and tuition fees covered for a candidate of any nationality qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it…

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🚨 We're recruiting 11 PhD students across 7 European countries as part of the HYBRIDS doctoral network! Including a position based at @QMSDS hybridsproject.eu/jobs/dc11/ Drop me an email for any questions!

📢 Attention PhD candidates! 11 fully-funded positions are now open for the @HYBRIDS_MSCA on Hybrid Intelligence, tackling #disinformation and abusive language in democracies. 🗓️Deadline April 26th 🗃️Check out the specific calls👉hybridsproject.eu/jobs/ @MSCActions
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🗓️ We are looking for submissions to the @TheWebConf workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse -- you can submit by 6th Feb! 👇👇👇 osnehm.iit.cnr.it/
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🥳 Our new @icwsm paper here! @arkaitz and I address online sexism in low-resource languages (e.g. Chinese) by exploring how to make pre-trained embeddings more domain-knowledgeable and reusable. Preprint is available at arxiv.org/abs/2211.08447 #NLProc #HateSpeech #sexism
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Check the analysis on the Twitter-Mastodon migration by @QMULSciEng researchers at @QMEECS 👇
A few new Mastodon observations🧵 Seems Musk’s activities continue to create spikes in #Mastodon discussions on Twitter. We’ve spotted 144k #Mastodon handles announced on Twitter, with 89k people using the exact same username that they used on twitter. [1/4]
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📢We're currently accepting submissions for an OSNEM special issue on decentralized social networks (e.g. #Mastodon, #Pleroma) with Andrea Tagarelli, @luciolcw and @Ignactro. Paper submission deadline is 15th January! sciencedirect.com/journal/on…

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We're looking for a postdoc to join us @QMSDS working on social data science and online harms as part of the @ap4lproject jobs.ac.uk/job/CUU622/resear…

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@narnolddd and @miratepuffin talking about “From papers to product – What to do next with the cool library you have created”. They shared their experience developing @raphtory #CCS2022 youtu.be/1ZxQ4n2hMOY

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📢Here is the last NGN Seminar: "Domain Specific Run Time Optimization for Software Data Planes" by @sebymiano (@QMEECS) youtu.be/36m1L3ld8To
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