🎉 We've hit 100 registrations for #WebSci24 ! 🚀 We're thrilled to welcome so many passionate participants to our community. Thank you all for your enthusiasm and support. Looking forward to an incredible event with each of you! 🌐

Join the excitement: eveeno.com/websci24

Last chance today to send in an expression of interest for our Digital Good Network Fellowships scheme.

See: digitalgood.net/digital-good-f…

#digitalgood #fellowships #research

🎉 Excited to announce my appointment as a Professor of Computational Social Science @Bauhaus_Uni!
🔬 My lab will study the societal impact of digital technologies and AI — using digital tools 🤖
🙌 I'm looking for a PhD student to start alongside me: cosslab.org/#team

🚨An meinem Lehrbereich für Computational Social Science in München habe ich ab 1.10. eine PostDoc Stelle zu besetzen: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/9ff…
Wir bieten umfangreiche Ressourcen, Home Office Möglichkeiten & andere Benefits.
Bitte teilen & eure Fragen gerne direkt an mich.

I am seeking a paid research collaborators for two months to study AI-generated misinformation in India.

If you have worked on creating such misinformation, or have experience studying deepfakes and/or folks who generate such content, please contact me.

The deadline for this topical issue is approaching. Submit by April 30, 2024 to be a part of the timely curation on complex systems for social good!

Learn more at: worldscientific.com/page/acs/callf…

Elisa Omodei Daniela Paolotti vedran sekara Manuel Herranz Marton Karsai

As part of the digital transformation of UN Development , we are building a 'digital-by-default' organization that responds to the needs of people and our partners.

That means #hiring for roles in areas like #AI , #digital , and #data .

Apply to our roster: go.undp.org/roster2024

Presentation Hell

Are you pursuing a PhD in Social Research? Join us in Trento! We have 5 fully funded Ph.D. openings. How to apply: sociologia.unitn.it/en/dottorato/h…

April 8 on Social Media & Society in India University of Michigan

Featuring a poet, a lawyer, a journalist, a tech exec on the contours of Social Media and free speech in India.

Register and watch Hussain Haidry disha wadekar Parth MN Shilpa :
influencers.conference.si.umich.edu

This horrific article about the IDF kill list AI system called 'lavender' is an absolute must read for everyone who says they care about AI harms. Read the whole thing:
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

José Andrés: Let People Eat nytimes.com/2024/04/03/opi…

Also my colleagues at the Computational Social Science Department at GESIS in Köln are looking for a postdoc in social data science. Super cool team and a 4 year position with possible tenure: hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesi…

Weekly reminder of our upcoming workshop deadline! 1st workshop on “Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media” ICWSM #AI #CSS #harmreduction
📅June 3, 2024
ℹ️ Format: Hybrid
Submit: sites.google.com/view/reclaimin…
Shadi Rezapour (@rezapour.bsky.social) Steve Wilson

After years of work, we (w/ @simonchauchard) are releasing our new tool to collect WhatsApp data at scale! Introducing WhatsApp Explorer, a tool to collect data in a privacy preserving, opt-in, legal and practical way

paper: osf.io/k6qv5

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The Social Media & Society in India conference University of Michigan is on Apr 8-9, 2024, the largest conference of its kind featuring talks and workshops on culture, politics, industry, policy, and misinformation.

Register free to attend:

influencers.conference.si.umich.edu

Two exciting opportunities for #postdoctoral #researchers in either the #digitalgood or #publicvoiceswithAI
Deadline: 8 April 2024

digitalgood.net/job-vacancies-…

#AI #vacancies #researchjobs Economic and Social Research Council UK Research and Innovation Prof Helen Kennedy, @[email protected] Prof Gina Neff Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy The University of Sheffield Social Sciences | The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield Jobs

Nvidia is collaborating with Hippocratic AI to offer “empathetic” generative AI nurses that give medical advice over video calls. It's clear that undercutting the living wages of real nurses here is 'a feature, not a bug.' gizmodo.com/nvidia-wants-r…

My work with Ingmar Weber & Emilio Zagheni is out in Demography! Using social media data & causal inference-inspired methods, we find that pandemic-era travel restrictions were likely not effective in achieving their intended outcomes.

5 recordings of recent events that may be of interest to anyone thinking about the #digitalgood ...

The University of Sheffield Economic and Social Research Council Social Sciences | The University of Sheffield Prof Helen Kennedy, @[email protected]
ros williams Jack Qiu Gabriela Ramos Sharon Strover Dan Sutch Łukasz Szulc melissa terras Ingmar Weber #digitalsociety