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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

New article out: The seven roles of generative AI: Potential & pitfalls in combatting misinformation. Thomas Nygren, Emily R. Spearing, Nicolas Fay, Davide Vega, Isabella I. Hardwick, Jon Roozenbeek, and Ullrich K. H. Ecker. doi.org/10.1177/2379...

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We welcome @theamoldovan.bsky.social as a new PhD student at the lab! Theodora will work on fairness in social network analysis.

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Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It's time for a few professional updates. Together with the team behind the PolarVis project and with @flxvctr.bsky.social we have been invited by @cais-research.bsky.social to organize three workshops in Bochum. The workshops - between February and May - will expand on our understanding o visual

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

New paper to be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): Gradient-Based Diversity Optimization with Differentiable Top-K Objective, by Tianyi Zhou, Sebastian Dalleiger, @calikus.bsky.social & Aristides Gionis. Available here: openreview.net/pdf?id=cuzWo...

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New article out, led by @lorenzo-mannocci.bsky.social, moving towards the "unflattening" of the study of online coordination: "Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies". Full text here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mUYo4ZQEN...

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Congratulations to @dilettagoglia.bsky.social for successfully presenting her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication"!

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This Friday, Jan. 30 at 10:15 @dilettagoglia.bsky.social is giving her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication". You are welcome to join in person at the Ångström Laboratory (Uppsala), room 101127, or online: uu-se.zoom.us/j/61715956924

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New article: "Climate Clash: A Multimodal Analysis of Movement–Countermovement Interactions in the Digital Sphere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #polarvisproject @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We have an open PhD position on Fair Social Network Analysis (focused on method development but also on integrating social theory and real data analysis). Please consider applying if this is something of your interest or share this to potentially interested candidates. uuinfolab.github.io/joinus/

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We welcome @anmen.bsky.social as a new postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Dept. of Information Technology, and as a new member of the InfoLab.

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Congratulations to our @dvladek.bsky.social for being appointed Docent in Computer Science!

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Last week we have been at the International Tutorial and Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Democracy to present our work on visual political communication. Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! @susanly.bsky.social @lorenzo-mannocci.bsky.social aidem2025.isti.cnr.it

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Article: Anatomy of a Swedish population-scale network, by @giorgospanay.bsky.social , @ingakwoh.bsky.social, Miia Bask, Mikael Bask, Ilkka Mäkinen, and @matmagnani.bsky.social

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

We are happy that the group at @iasliu.bsky.social led by Károly Takács is also working on this type of data in Sweden, creating great conditions for the development of these studies in our country and future collaborations.

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

But this is just a first step towards answering the social scientific questions we are ultimately interested in, e.g. about social segregation in Sweden.

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Our contribution gives some additional evidence that such networks can capture characteristics of the population they represent, while also highlighting assumptions, data quality issues, and the need for advances in multilayer network engineering (appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10....).

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This is an exciting topic, pioneered by the PopNet team (led by @franktakes.bsky.social and Eelke Heemskerk) and Statistics Netherlands (Jan van der Laan and Edwin de Jonge's poster at the #IC2S2 conference in 2019 is where we got the idea).

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Our article on population-scale networks of social opportunities constructed from administrative data is now available online: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This week we are at the Comp. Visual Media Research Symposium in Zurich, with @matiaspiqueras.bsky.social presenting his work on visual structured topic modelling. @lrossi.bsky.social is also presenting recent results based on joint work on LLMs and social image clustering (osf.io/preprints/so...).

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We welcome Dariia Puhach as a new research assistant at the lab. Dariia will work as part of the PolarVis project to develop a method for the computational analysis of visual climate narratives.

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A temporal-network perspective on the analysis of online coordinated behaviour Luca Rossi, Matteo Magnani Session: Social Networks II (Hemeryck) 24 Jul 2025, 14:30 – 16:00

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Identifying linguistic strategies of emotional manipulation in online discussions Diletta Goglia, Davide Vega, Ece Calikus Session: Posters III (Atrium) 24 Jul 2025, 13:30 – 14:30

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Anatomy of a Swedish population-scale network Georgios Panayiotou, Inga K. Wohlert, Miia Bask, Mikael Bask, Matteo Magnani, Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen Session: Social Networks I (Hemeryck) 24 Jul 2025, 11:00 – 12:30

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

From CNNs to VLLMs: Redefining Connotative Image Clustering for Social Science Research Luigi Arminio, Matteo Magnani, Matias Piqueras, Luca Rossi, Alexandra Segerberg Session: Posters II (Atrium) 23 Jul 2025, 13:30 – 14:30

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings Matias Piqueras, Alexandra Segerberg, Matteo Magnani Session: Image as Data (Troselli) 22 Jul 2025, 14:30 – 16:00

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This week many of us are in Norrköping for the International Conference on Computational Social Science. In the thread, a list of our presentations. #ic2s2

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Two PolarVis presentations this week: (1) on the (mis)uses of VLLMs for analysing climate change visuals, today at the CCVision Network Meeting, and (2) on methods for longitudinal coordination detection applied to PolarVis data, tomorrow at SunBelt. @lrossi.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This week we are at #ICWSM, with @giorgospanay.bsky.social talking about representational fairness in graph community detection.

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This week we are at SunBelt, in Paris - starting today with a tutorial on multiplex social network analysis.

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