I am pleased to announce that our work “A longitudinal analysis of misinformation, polarization, and toxicity on Bluesky after its public launch” has been accepted at #OSNEM. The paper is an extension of our previous work presented at #ASONAM. Here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

0 - Born 3 - Featured in news for speaking 3 languages and reading words/numbers apparently 7 - Parents separated. Started living with maternal grandparents. 12 - Moved in with mother and her boyfriend. Got physically and sexually abused by that man. 17 - Scored AIR 674 at IIT JEE. Got Computer Science at IIT KGP. 19 - Won national hackathons. Internship at Microsoft; scored full time offer. 21 - Published multiple papers in Cryptography and NLP. Best paper award in IEEE ASONAM. 22 - Started doing weed, childhood traumas resurfaced. Had a pyschosis episode. Joined fulltime at Microsoft. 24 - Admitted into a rehab; shared about childhood trauma with parents. They were like “shit happens” and wanted me to STFU about it to avoid being shamed. Started chainsmoking. 25 - Quit Microsoft. Joined IIT KGP for PhD, continued my thesis research. 26 (golden year) - Homeless as family abandoned me due to more depression episodes. Two suicide attempts. “RECEIVED” a cold email to co-found a startup. Joined her, dropped out from PhD, worked on Conversational AI for Indian languages. Fell in love with my co-founder. Quit smoking. Got married. Moved to US. 27 - Re-birth in NYC. Paused startup and enrolled at Columbia. 28 - Graduated from Columbia. Joined SkyLink (YC W22) as Founding ML Engineer. 30 - Quit SkyLink to resume our startup; got O-1A extraordinary visa. My secret: Optimism in darkest moments. Love is all you need!

Paper accepted in @ASONAM 2025 (asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/2025…) Title: Fair2Vec: Learning Fair and Topic-Aware Representations for Influencer Recommendation Authors: Arpan Dam , Sayan Pathak, Bivas Mitra Congrats!🎉

Acte sobre l’Escola Nacional de Formació, un projecte per les dones, amb companyes de l’Associació Nacional de Dones Colombianes (ASONAM-C) amb les que participem en un projecte finançat per la Generalitat Valenciana.

Visita de la exministra del trabajo @GloriaRamirezRi al proceso de Asonam Atlántico.

Beatriu Cardona, portaveu d'Intersindical Valenciana i vicepresidenta d'Intersindical Solidària, amb les dirigents de Fecode, la CUT, ASONAM-C i CORPEIS. @fecode @AsonamC @Corpeis @BeatriuCardona

Avant première de la nouvelle télé réalité #BackToTheSource produite par asonam prod & manosa connect qui sera diffusé sur @BET_FR ce dimanche 12 Janvier 2025 à 20:45 🔥 Rendez-vous à ne pas manquer (ce sera lourd, large & pété) BET : Chaîne gratuite sur toutes les Box (SFR, Bouygues, Free, Orange, Canal ) Veste par Nanou créa 🇨🇮/ Stylisme par Hugo nanga 🇨🇲 #explorepage #explore #instagram #tvshow #bet

🎉✨ ¡Hoy vivimos un encuentro inspirador en Baranoa, Atlántico! Como ASONAM, tuvimos el honor de contar con la feminista mexicana María Guadalupe Ramos. 💜✊ ¡Gracias a todas las participantes por su energía y valentía! 💪

Honored to share that my paper "Which Reveals Ideology Better? Comparing Self-Presentation and Public Rhetoric in the Facebook Climate Debate via Embeddings Analysis" was awarded Best Paper of the PhD Forum track at ASONAM! 🏆 Huge thanks to the organizers and reviewers.#ASONAM24

Had a great time presenting my paper at the  Social Media Sway workshop during #ASONAM in Calabria, Southern Italy. Loved sharing my findings on the sociolinguistic patterns of polarization in the Facebook Climate Debate! 📊🌍 #ASONAM24 #ClimateAction

JFC delegates met human rights orgs @FLazosDignidad, @CPDHColombia ASONAM women’s association in Bogota. They discussed the urgent need to end attacks on social activists, efforts to strengthen equality hopes under the progressive govt. An important informative meeting.

Deadline extension for the Social Media Sway workshop @ ASONAM! Check it out: you've time till July 1st! SMS-workshop.github.io

WHAT: @Hitkul_ 's #PhDThesisDefense "Modeling Online User Interactions and their Offline Effects on Socio-Technical Platform" 1330hrs IST, 18th June. Thesis 📃 : precog.iiit.ac.in/pubs/phd_T… H's papers: ICWSM {2024, 23, 22}, WWW 2023, ASONAM 2023, KDD 2024. #PhDStudent11 #ProfGiri

🚨 ASONAM deadline extended to May 10th due to the many requests 🚨

We are organising a workshop on a really cool (multidisciplinary) topic: join us at ASONAM next September!

Call for contributions for #ASONAM 24, to be held in Rende,Calabria. Paper deadline: April 30th, workshops & tutorials: May 10th. Contributions from Network Science, Data Science, and Machine Learning are welcome! asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/2024… @asonamcon @netscisociety @SocNetAnalysts

We extended the ASONAM deadline by two weeks! 🙌 new deadline April 30. @asonamcon #asonam

✍️Tania León Vargas–Asonam Huila💜 #EdiciónVioleta | La lucha cotidiana de los liderazgos femeninos, históricamente invisibilizada, ha abierto importantes espacios sociales, culturales, políticos y profesionales 🔗Amplia la noticia en el enlace semanariovoz.com/mujer-huile…

We're doing some really exciting work on studying biases in various user interfaced systems like FRSs (ICWSM'22), ASRS (ICWSM'24), e-comm platforms (CHI'22 EA) and NLP tools (ASONAM'23)! DM for further details! #phdchat #iitkgp #aibias

Call for contributions for #ASONAM'24, to be held in Rende, in sunny Calabria ☀️. Paper deadline: April 15th, workshops & tutorials proposals: March 20th. Contributions from Network Science, Data Science, and Machine Learning are welcome! asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/2024… @asonamcon