Gareth Tyson
@garethtyson.bsky.social
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In our recent PETS paper, we have been looking at whether Personally Identifiable Information (PII) removal services (e.g., DeleteMe, Optery, Incogni) are effective in protecting user privacy by removing users' private information from the data broker. [1/8] arxiv.org/pdf/2505.06989
July 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
In our recent PETS paper, we have been looking at whether Personally Identifiable Information (PII) removal services (e.g., DeleteMe, Optery, Incogni) are effective in protecting user privacy by removing users' private information from the data broker. [1/8] arxiv.org/pdf/2505.06989
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I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
June 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
Dear world, I'm heading off to the Web Conference in Sydney this week. If you're around, please do ping me!
April 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Dear world, I'm heading off to the Web Conference in Sydney this week. If you're around, please do ping me!
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That's our paper, nice :) @asonur.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social
Bluesky Report - this week's news:
- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs
fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs
fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
Bluesky Report – #112
Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.
fediversereport.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
That's our paper, nice :) @asonur.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social
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Bluesky Report - this week's news:
- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs
fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs
fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
Bluesky Report – #112
Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.
fediversereport.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Bluesky Report - this week's news:
- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs
fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs
fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
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Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites.
Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly.
theblue.report/week/
Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly.
theblue.report/week/
The Blue Report
The top links on Bluesky, updated hourly
theblue.report
March 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites.
Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly.
theblue.report/week/
Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly.
theblue.report/week/
ACM IMC is running another Shadow TPC this year. If you're a student looking to learn about the peer review process, I strongly recommend: conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2025/sha...
ACM IMC 2025 - Shadow TPC
conferences.sigcomm.org
March 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
ACM IMC is running another Shadow TPC this year. If you're a student looking to learn about the peer review process, I strongly recommend: conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2025/sha...
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🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon?
👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎
📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io
📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions!
📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025
👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎
📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io
📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions!
📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025
February 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon?
👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎
📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io
📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions!
📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025
👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎
📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io
📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions!
📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025
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“Academics should learn how to incorporate AI into literature reviews.”
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
February 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Academics should learn how to incorporate AI into literature reviews.”
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Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com
Bluesky Research
bsky.leobalduf.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com
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University College Dublin is recruiting 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows programme (~ tenure-track Assistant Professorships).
– Excellent research support
– Salary: €62k–€99k
– Application deadline: 21 Feb
– All positions: www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
– Excellent research support
– Salary: €62k–€99k
– Application deadline: 21 Feb
– All positions: www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
University College Dublin is recruiting 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows programme (~ tenure-track Assistant Professorships).
– Excellent research support
– Salary: €62k–€99k
– Application deadline: 21 Feb
– All positions: www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
– Excellent research support
– Salary: €62k–€99k
– Application deadline: 21 Feb
– All positions: www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST!
More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist...
Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis)
#LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI
We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST!
More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist...
Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis)
#LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI
January 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST!
More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist...
Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis)
#LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI
We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST!
More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist...
Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis)
#LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI
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Bluesky has just surpassed 30M users. Starter packs have been a key feature - how have they worked out so far?
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
January 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Bluesky has just surpassed 30M users. Starter packs have been a key feature - how have they worked out so far?
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
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Come work with us – faculty position in Computer Networking in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Computer Networking
Job Purpose The University of Glasgow, established in 1451, is a member of the UK's Russell Group of leading universities. The University is committed to enhancing its position as one of the world'...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Come work with us – faculty position in Computer Networking in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit führender Beteiligung der TU Darmstadt hat nun die erste weitreichende Datenanalyse zu #Bluesky vorgelegt: Offenheit, Transparenz, Partizipation und eine gleichmäßigere Machtverteilung sind die größten Vorteile der dezentralen Plattform, so die Studie.
X-Ersatz mit Benefits
Der boomende Kurznachrichten-Dienst Bluesky stellt nicht nur eine geeignete Alternative zu X dar, sondern bietet Nutzenden echte Vorteile: Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein Forschungsteam mit führender Bet...
www.tu-darmstadt.de
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit führender Beteiligung der TU Darmstadt hat nun die erste weitreichende Datenanalyse zu #Bluesky vorgelegt: Offenheit, Transparenz, Partizipation und eine gleichmäßigere Machtverteilung sind die größten Vorteile der dezentralen Plattform, so die Studie.
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Oh hey, our most recent work on @bsky.app was cited by Nature! :o
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Oh hey, our most recent work on @bsky.app was cited by Nature! :o
Reposted by Gareth Tyson
@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow.
🧵1/11
🧵1/11
January 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow.
🧵1/11
🧵1/11
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My secret hiding place where nobody can see me.
January 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My secret hiding place where nobody can see me.
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Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449
January 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449
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We’re building the atproto TikTok and IT WORKS!!
Spent the last 48 hours coding!
👇🏾check it out
Follow along
@skylight.social
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social
#atproto #atprotocol #tiktokban #skylight
Spent the last 48 hours coding!
👇🏾check it out
Follow along
@skylight.social
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social
#atproto #atprotocol #tiktokban #skylight
January 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We’re building the atproto TikTok and IT WORKS!!
Spent the last 48 hours coding!
👇🏾check it out
Follow along
@skylight.social
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social
#atproto #atprotocol #tiktokban #skylight
Spent the last 48 hours coding!
👇🏾check it out
Follow along
@skylight.social
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social
#atproto #atprotocol #tiktokban #skylight
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In one 24hr period Musk posted 153 times, 48% of posts about the UK, containing a wide range of misleading and falsified information aimed at disrupting public opinion and destabilising government.
A must watch analysis by the BBC’s @rosatkins.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
A must watch analysis by the BBC’s @rosatkins.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In one 24hr period Musk posted 153 times, 48% of posts about the UK, containing a wide range of misleading and falsified information aimed at disrupting public opinion and destabilising government.
A must watch analysis by the BBC’s @rosatkins.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
A must watch analysis by the BBC’s @rosatkins.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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We are excited to bring back ICWSM-Global Initiative also this year, 2 pg. applications due 15/01 for:
- Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025
- Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field
More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
- Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025
- Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field
More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
ICWSM '25
www.icwsm.org
December 10, 2024 at 6:40 PM
We are excited to bring back ICWSM-Global Initiative also this year, 2 pg. applications due 15/01 for:
- Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025
- Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field
More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
- Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025
- Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field
More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
If you're doing Mastodon research, you might wanna check @harisbinzia.bsky.social useful tool for Fediverse data collection: github.com/harisbinzia/...
GitHub - harisbinzia/mastodoner: Mastodoner is a command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network.
Mastodoner is a command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network. - harisbinzia/mastodoner
github.com
December 30, 2024 at 1:01 PM
If you're doing Mastodon research, you might wanna check @harisbinzia.bsky.social useful tool for Fediverse data collection: github.com/harisbinzia/...