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Scott A. Hale
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Associate Professor @oiioxford.bsky.social & Director of Research
@meedan.・widening access to quality info・multilingualism・mobilization・NLP・agenda setting

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Adriano Belisario @belisario.website · 14d
Our paper is out! 🎉

As part of my research at @oii.ox.ac.uk under the supervision of @rocher.lc and @computermacgyver.bsky.social, I built a language model to help human rights analysts crowdsource reports of gun violence.

The paper was recently published at ACM CSCW 👇

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Into the Crossfire: Evaluating the Use of a Language Model to Crowdsource Gun Violence Reports | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Gun violence is a pressing human rights issue that affects nearly every dimension of the social fabric, from healthcare and education to psychology and the economy. Reliable data on firearm events is ...
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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · 14d
I'm humbled to have been selected as the next director of @oii.ox.ac.uk . I look forward to working with colleagues and friends to shape the next saga in our department's story

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 15d
Exciting news for the OII! We’re delighted to announce that @computermacgyver.bsky.social will be our new Director and @kathryneccles.bsky.social our Deputy Director from January 2026. bit.ly/3JssF0q 1/3
OII | New leadership at the Oxford Internet Institute
The OII is pleased to announce Dr Scott A. Hale appointed as its next Director, and Dr Kathryn Eccles as Deputy Director.
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Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social · Aug 28
Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages?

Our new WP shows the answer is no:

-Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators
-Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs

osf.io/amfws

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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · Jul 31
Congratulations, @manueltonneau.bsky.social

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Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social · Jul 31
🏆 Thrilled to share that our HateDay paper has received an Outstanding Paper Award at #ACL2025

Big thanks to my wonderful co-authors: @deeliu97.bsky.social, Niyati, @computermacgyver.bsky.social, Sam, Victor, and @paul-rottger.bsky.social!

Thread 👇and data avail at huggingface.co/datasets/man...

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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · Jul 28
Using #LLMs to improve claim matching and #misinformation response. Come see our poster at #ACL2025NLP now (#430) or read the paper.
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · Jul 28
If you missed this presentation, check out the paper here:
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · Jul 28
Overview of OII #ACL2025 presentations at the link below. Please say hi if you're here
www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · Mar 7
📈Out today in @PNASNews!📈

In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of LLMs yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns for static political messages. 

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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · May 13
The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

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Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social · Nov 26
Can we detect #hatespeech at scale on social media?

To answer this, we introduce 🤬HateDay🗓️, a global hate speech dataset representative of a day on Twitter.

The answer: not really! Detection perf is low and overestimated by traditional eval methods

arxiv.org/abs/2411.15462
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