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#CSS
Have you ever asked yourself: How many active accounts are on Twitter? How many might be bots? What are the global/local topics? Languages? Here are some answers! A complete 24 hours of Twitter data!
#CSS
#Twitter
@TwitterDev
Guten Morgen
@DB_Bahn
aus dem RE 72 in Bayern. Mir ist schon klar, dass es manchmal Problem gibt, aber wenn dann der Zug in eine komplett falsche Richtung abbiegt, wäre es nett, den 200 Mitreisenden kurz eine Durchsage zu schenken, ob wir umgeleitet oder entführt werden.
The TUM
@TU_Muenchen
has an opening for 10 (!) faculty positions at the intersection of Social Sciences and Technology! Please RT and help to spread the word.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
@icwsm
2020 online. One thousand pages of high-end web and social media research! :)
Dear virtual
#Sunbelt2020
and
#icwsm
2020 participants. Dear people who could not afford to participate in these or other online conferences. I think it is important to be transparent at this point about the actual costs of
#online
conferences. 1/6
In a new experimental social media study, we show that little to no reaction (likes) leads to negative emotions, stress, and low levels of self-esteem.
PS: We created a Facebook clone that can be used for experiments.
@angelina_vmo
#offlineSpillover
You are a
#CSS
researcher at risk (e.g. threat of arrest/violence)? Send me an email. Let's try to get you & your family to Germany!
PS: I have been successfully hosting a researcher at risk for 2 years - he'll now move on to a regular job in Germany! :)
Twitter changed 1% Sample data! 1st info: Dramatically less meta-data (NO sender info, just id). Sampling now w/ 1ms window (old: 10ms). Not good for Science!
#CSS
#Twitter
Thanks:
@fredmorstatter
@mehrnoom
Background: Our 2018 paper on Twitter sampling:
ICWSM 2019 Full Paper Deadlines:
Sep 15, 2018: 1st deadline for Revise & Resubmit from ICWSM 2018 as well as for new submissions.
Jan 15, 2019: 2nd (and last) deadline for R&R from 1st deadline and new submissions.
Submission system will be online soon!
#ICWSM
#CSS
Paper alert! We study violent speech in Incel posts and show how GPT can be used for annotating data in complex and time-consuming labeling tasks.
w/
@DanielMatter96
@MiriamSchirmer
@grinbergnir
In the latest version of the paper, you can find the details about how the data was collected! Help to spread the information and let's make the last days of Twitter's APIs worthwhile! :o)
#AcademicAPI
#ICWSM
2019 website with paper submission information is online! Submission is open now! First deadline: September 15, 2018.
@icwsm
#CSS
PS: You still see 2018? Please delete browser cache or click:
Wow!
@fredmorstatter
, I guess we had a good idea. :)
PS: It is worth noting that this paper was rejected from two CS conferences before being accepted
@icwsm
Proud and humbled to present a very special event. Elly Gotz, a survivor of the Ghetto
#Kaunas
and the Concentration Camp
#Kaufering
is visiting from Canada and will present on his Experience in the Holocaust.
@TU_Muenchen
#Zeitzeugen
Event registration:
@seanjtaylor
Haskell. Never again has it felt so satisfying to finish 5 lines of code programs after 10 hours that are completely useless for anything else than calculating Fibonacci numbers.
Congratulations
@norakirkizh
for publishing your last Ph.D. thesis paper! Good luck and lots of energy for the last couple of weeks of your (part time) graduate student life!
w/ Roberto Ulloa and
@SebStier
NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL! :o)
We figured out how to do the extended call to get about the same data as with the old API. Phew, real-time science is nerve-racking.
Again, thanks to
@fredmorstatter
@mehrnoom
More info:
Twitter changed 1% Sample data! 1st info: Dramatically less meta-data (NO sender info, just id). Sampling now w/ 1ms window (old: 10ms). Not good for Science!
#CSS
#Twitter
Thanks:
@fredmorstatter
@mehrnoom
Background: Our 2018 paper on Twitter sampling:
Since impression_count has been added to the
#API
data a week ago, it is time for the first article utilizing this new feature! :o) Looking forward to reading many more!
#CSS
PS: Hurry with re-tweeting, the half-life of a Tweet is only 80 minutes!
Paper:
Based on 10+ years of collaboration with Betina Hollstein, new article in the journal "Network Science": Collecting egocentric network data with visual tools: A comparative study.
@SocNetAnalysts
#SNA
A well connected network: Author x Panel network of the German Political Science Association
@dvpw
/ IR scholar meeting 2020: 140 of 468 authors appear on more than one panel and connect 92 of 94 panels.
@ib_nachwuchs
German academic word of the day: "Zuwendungsbescheid" -The subject line word in the acceptance letter of a funded project! :o)
PS: The project: "Online Firestorms and Resentment Propagation on Social Media: Dynamics, Predictability, and Mitigation"
#CSS
#hatespeech
#firestorms
Congrats to
@jsradford
and
@_kenny_joseph
for having their article "Theory In, Theory Out: The uses of social theory in machine learning for social science" published at
#frontiers
"Critical Data and Algorithm Studies" special issue!
#CSS
"Girls do Science": 12-14-year-old girls watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (IV), coding positive and negative relations, and analyzing the network
@TU_Muenchen
@HfPMuenchen
Thanks to
@cprog7
#M
ädchenMachenTechnik
Congratulations Dr. Cindarella Petz! :o)
@cprog7
“On Combining Network Research and Computational Methods on Historical Research Questions and its Implications for the Digital Humanities”
Thanks to
@true_mxp
and Katrin Paula for serving on the committee.
The
@ICWSM
Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award, named after the two outstanding researchers Lada Adamic (
@ladamic
) & Natalie Glance (
@nglance
) is calling for nominations and self-nominations by May 20. For details:
We understand, these scientific associations need to cover sunken costs in the short term. However, they need to figure things out quickly or we’ll organize future online conferences without them. And these will be free of charge, and I am happy to help to organize them. 6/6
Sept. 15 is over everywhere on the planet - 1st
@icwsm
2019 deadline closed with an impressive 3 digit number of submissions! :) Next, and final deadline = Jan. 15.
#icwsm
#Munich
I hope somebody is collecting these approaches to map constantly changing
#corona
thresholds. My current favorite is this one with the three categories "clearly under 200", "narrowly under 200", "above 200".
#infovis
I am happy to present the Fan Bot
@GOV_TUM
of our new Department of Governance
@TU_Muenchen
- no fancy methods, just re-tweets of faculty, graduate students, and post-docs!
Best Paper Award @ ASONAM 2020: "Scale-free networks need not be fragile" by Rouzbeh Hasheminezhad,
@mosabou
and Ulrik Brandes. CONGRATULATIONS!
#CSS
#networkscience
First article published in Frontiers Special Issue on Critical Data and Algorithm Studies! "Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries" by
@o_saja
@ChaToX
@fernandodia
@diazf_acm
Academic researchers have been set a deadline of the end of the month to delete data they obtained under historic contracts to study Twitter, unless the pay a new $42,000-a-month contract
“The big data equivalent of book burning”, said one academic
🧵
@stokel
reports
Are behavioral patterns observed in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) comparable to those observed in offline work teams? Yes! But it is a little bit more complicated.
If you have a list of Tweet IDs and want to collect the Tweets (hydrate), don't worry about rate limits,
#tweepy
can handle this for you.
#twitterdata
#api
All these
#LLMs
take away my culturally formed personality - I just wrote "not bad" in an email (which is very high praise coming from an Austrian) and Grammarly wants me to write "pretty good" instead! ;)
PS: Yes, yes, we all know that nothing can replace an in-person conversation. But the academic elite does not need to be worried - there will be plenty of in-person events in the future. But these events must turn to hybrid models for inclusion and sustainability reasons. 7/6
Jan 15, 2019 is over Anywhere on Earth (AoE) - Thanks for all the 2019 ICWSM submissions! Now the work is on our great reviewers, PC members, and SPC/Editors
@icwsm
#ICWSM
#CSS
Are we trying to migrate our network to a platform that is a copy of this one? I guess it is time to discuss the regulatory need for separating the network from the platform. I should be the owner of my social network and should be able to migrate it with 1 click.
Need an example for
#bias
in
#AI
? Get yourself some different colored fingers and present them to your video conference tool's background blurring algorithm.