Alisson Soares
@alissonmasoares.bsky.social
Computational social scientist; PhD in Sociology at UFMG, former postdoc researcher in political sciences at UFPE-Brazil
#Disinformation; conspiracy theories; #rstats #python, text mining, #text-as-data
My open projects https://github.com/SoaresAlisson
#Disinformation; conspiracy theories; #rstats #python, text mining, #text-as-data
My open projects https://github.com/SoaresAlisson
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Accessible for all here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Chapter 5: @martinarvidsson.bsky.social, Hedström, Jarvis & @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social on the intersection of Analytical Sociology and Computational Social Science.
Computational tools are most powerful when used to identify and test mechanisms, not just describe or predict aggregate patterns.
Computational tools are most powerful when used to identify and test mechanisms, not just describe or predict aggregate patterns.
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Accessible for all here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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🚀 dashboardr is out!
An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.
Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included).
📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/
Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨
An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.
Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included).
📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/
Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨
February 5, 2026 at 6:18 AM
🚀 dashboardr is out!
An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.
Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included).
📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/
Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨
An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.
Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included).
📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/
Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨
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Together with Lisa Ginsborg we are happy to share that our edited volume on "Disinformation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis" is now published!
A long journey which involved many esteemed authors, with whom it was a great pleasure to work and to which we are grateful
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A long journey which involved many esteemed authors, with whom it was a great pleasure to work and to which we are grateful
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Together with Lisa Ginsborg we are happy to share that our edited volume on "Disinformation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis" is now published!
A long journey which involved many esteemed authors, with whom it was a great pleasure to work and to which we are grateful
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A long journey which involved many esteemed authors, with whom it was a great pleasure to work and to which we are grateful
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky
January 19, 2026 at 10:42 AM
✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky
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Meet Netha, the Wikipedia editor who quietly debunks medical myths for millions #Wikipedia25
January 15, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Meet Netha, the Wikipedia editor who quietly debunks medical myths for millions #Wikipedia25
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🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
I scraped a transcript of Trump, Rubio, etc. speech today about Maduro's arrest. It is freely available at this link. One curiosity: Trump’s speeches about Maduro’s arrest featured oil in 17 phrases and democracy in none.
#rstats
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#rstats
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
January 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
I scraped a transcript of Trump, Rubio, etc. speech today about Maduro's arrest. It is freely available at this link. One curiosity: Trump’s speeches about Maduro’s arrest featured oil in 17 phrases and democracy in none.
#rstats
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#rstats
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Para quem se interessa por #HumanidadesDigitais, está dias 26 e 27, o 3rd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM2025), gratuito para assistir online, presencial em Braga, Portugal. A maioria das falas tem sido em português e algumas em inglês.
ceh.elach.uminho.pt/ddhum
ceh.elach.uminho.pt/ddhum
DDHUM 25
3rd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities
ceh.elach.uminho.pt
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Para quem se interessa por #HumanidadesDigitais, está dias 26 e 27, o 3rd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM2025), gratuito para assistir online, presencial em Braga, Portugal. A maioria das falas tem sido em português e algumas em inglês.
ceh.elach.uminho.pt/ddhum
ceh.elach.uminho.pt/ddhum
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
The merchants of doubt 💰
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between... Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks...
#disinformation
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between... Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks...
#disinformation
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The merchants of doubt 💰
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between... Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks...
#disinformation
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between... Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks...
#disinformation
I was analyzing data from X/Twitter from 2023 concerning #disinformation and #conspiracytheories and discovered
the link to the Gab's AI
"The One AI They Can't Control", "Our exclusive AI model trained to uphold Christian values and traditional principles in every interaction."
the link to the Gab's AI
"The One AI They Can't Control", "Our exclusive AI model trained to uphold Christian values and traditional principles in every interaction."
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I was analyzing data from X/Twitter from 2023 concerning #disinformation and #conspiracytheories and discovered
the link to the Gab's AI
"The One AI They Can't Control", "Our exclusive AI model trained to uphold Christian values and traditional principles in every interaction."
the link to the Gab's AI
"The One AI They Can't Control", "Our exclusive AI model trained to uphold Christian values and traditional principles in every interaction."
If you frequently run #LLM models locally in Linux through the command line using #ollama, your life can be a little bit easier with ollama-run. This simple shellscript frees you from typing the name of the model and the possibility of misspelling it.
github.com/SoaresAlisso...
github.com/SoaresAlisso...
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 AM
If you frequently run #LLM models locally in Linux through the command line using #ollama, your life can be a little bit easier with ollama-run. This simple shellscript frees you from typing the name of the model and the possibility of misspelling it.
github.com/SoaresAlisso...
github.com/SoaresAlisso...
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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
"U.S. President Donald Trump was the dominant source and
spreader of #disinformation in our content analysis.... There is a correlation between the rise of Trumpism on one hand and the loss of trust in journalists as ‘watchdogs’/‘truth seekers’ on the other, "
www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...
spreader of #disinformation in our content analysis.... There is a correlation between the rise of Trumpism on one hand and the loss of trust in journalists as ‘watchdogs’/‘truth seekers’ on the other, "
www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...
October 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"U.S. President Donald Trump was the dominant source and
spreader of #disinformation in our content analysis.... There is a correlation between the rise of Trumpism on one hand and the loss of trust in journalists as ‘watchdogs’/‘truth seekers’ on the other, "
www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...
spreader of #disinformation in our content analysis.... There is a correlation between the rise of Trumpism on one hand and the loss of trust in journalists as ‘watchdogs’/‘truth seekers’ on the other, "
www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...
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If you feel uneasy using LLMs for data annotation, you are right (if not, you should). It offers new chances for research that is difficult with traditional #NLP/#textasdata methods, but the risk of false conclusions is high!
Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇
Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you feel uneasy using LLMs for data annotation, you are right (if not, you should). It offers new chances for research that is difficult with traditional #NLP/#textasdata methods, but the risk of false conclusions is high!
Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇
Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇
Transformers Models Timeline
Interactive timeline to explore models supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library
#transformers #LLM #bert #IA
huggingface.co/spaces/yonig...
Interactive timeline to explore models supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library
#transformers #LLM #bert #IA
huggingface.co/spaces/yonig...
September 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Transformers Models Timeline
Interactive timeline to explore models supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library
#transformers #LLM #bert #IA
huggingface.co/spaces/yonig...
Interactive timeline to explore models supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library
#transformers #LLM #bert #IA
huggingface.co/spaces/yonig...
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
"We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task."
"The insidious effect... is that it shifts the burden of the work, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work."
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
"The insidious effect... is that it shifts the burden of the work, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work."
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
September 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task."
"The insidious effect... is that it shifts the burden of the work, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work."
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
"The insidious effect... is that it shifts the burden of the work, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work."
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
September 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study:
www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...
www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
www.404media.co
August 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study:
www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...
www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...
"AI will steal your job"
Feel the sweet taste of revenge with 700 Indians stealing the job of the AI.
Feel the sweet taste of revenge with 700 Indians stealing the job of the AI.
Builder.ai collapses after revelation that its 'AI' was hundreds of engineers
– The fall of a unicorn built on hype, humans, and fake AI
www.techspot.com/news/108173-...
– The fall of a unicorn built on hype, humans, and fake AI
www.techspot.com/news/108173-...
June 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"AI will steal your job"
Feel the sweet taste of revenge with 700 Indians stealing the job of the AI.
Feel the sweet taste of revenge with 700 Indians stealing the job of the AI.
Overfitting explained
June 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Overfitting explained