New @Journal_Of_Comm (special issue!) pub w / @tianyangyt @pengyilang where we ask: do social media metrics influence the provision of news on social media? Paper: academic.oup.com/joc/advance… 🧵

Applications are open for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) – Singapore 2026 🇸🇬 📅 July 13–20, 2026 📌 Application Deadline: April 17, 2026 (AoE) 🔗 sicss.io/2026/singapore/ #SICSS #OpenScience #AcademicTwitter

Finally got one paper with my great advisor @wrahool and Prof. @tianyangyt -- two geniuses. We replicated a Facebook study on Twitter and found that responsiveness to engagement signals is broadly generalizable, though with clear cross-platform nuances. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Exciting news — 𝐃𝐫 𝐊𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐤𝐚 has been promoted to 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐞 at NUS (@nus_singapore)!

Our work for reducing the language barriers in scientific communication has been accepted by #EMNLP #Demo It translates PDFs while preserving the information in figs, tabs, etc. Chang would be presenting at #Suzhou Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.03009 GitHub: github.com/byaidu/pdfmathtra…

New paper in @Journal_Of_Comm with @yangxuzhen27 @pengyilang , and @wrahool ! We explained the differences between the Web and three social media platforms by four factors: legacy, information reliability, ideological differences, and news inequalities. doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf035

Do unreliable news sources do better on platforms than on the web? New work by Yang et al challenges this, at least for most widely used platforms. “Only Twitter showed significantly increased visibilities of unreliable sources”, FB and YouTube did not academic.oup.com/joc/advance… 1/3

Thrilled to announce that I've signed a contract with @HarperCollinsIN for my book "Tapestries in Brick: The Terracotta Architecture of Bengal". The book will delve into the many fascinating aspects of the history, architecture, and sculpture of Bengal's brick architecture.

new decade, same verse

Thanks to @ica_cm for this award and many congratulations to @RongxinOuyang for his first ICA top paper award as well!

Here's a sliver of the cool research we're doing at @CNMnus @nuscticnus at @icahdq #ICA25 :) I talked a little bit about my latest preprint in my virtual prez on Friday! (see pinned tweet) And Yifei presents his Master's thesis research later today!

Thanks! @ica_cm @CNMnus

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We will be presenting our paper about the effects of deplatforming Trump on the news ecosystem on JUNE 15 at #ICA! This work is #causal, longitudinal, cross-platform, comprehensive, technical, and robust. Kudos to my best advisor @wrahool & teachers @tianyangyt @pengyilang.

For @icahdq friends: Join us next Friday (June 13) for our second consecutive panel on “#GenerativeAI for Computational Communication Research”! A fantastic group of scholars will share insights & lessons on bringing LLMs into #CCR research practices. Thanks @ica_cm for hosting!

Thanks to Political Communication at @icahdq for the honour.

Deadline extended by a week: get your applications in for SICSS-Singapore ASAP!

Our work tb presented at #AAAI2025 in both oral & poster (student abstract w/@feedkoko, @wrahool, Guangyu; @CNMnus @nuscticnus). It might be interesting to whom are working with/on LLM, modality, prompting, or fine-tuning. 🕰 Fri, Feb 28, 11:15– 12:30 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2411.10480