matmagnani.bsky.social
@matmagnani.bsky.social
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Please consider contributing to our special issue on communicating the climate crisis in an age of rising authoritarian populism. We accept short commentaries and full research papers.
I am co-editing a special issue ‘Communicating Climate Change in an Age of Rising Authoritarian Populism’ of the Journal of Environmental Media with @antalwozniak.bsky.social and Sibo Chen. We're accepting pitches for commentaries and abstracts for full papers www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-e...
Journal of Environmental Media
Journal of Environmental Media; The Journal of Environmental Media offers a scholarly platform to bridge work in environmental studies, identity and social justice, and science communication through t...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Latest #PolarVis podcast out - on the evolution of environmental activism from pre-digital grassroots organising to today's AI-saturated social media landscape. Listen to this (or the others in the series) here: open.spotify.com/show/1ZwGesM...
PolarVis Podcast
Podcast · PolarVis Podcast · The PolarVis podcast series considers how various actors use visual narratives to engage citizens with the big issues of our time, and the (de)polarizing societal processe...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Fantastic keynote by @lauraknelson.bsky.social
Day 2 Keynotes kicked off with Laura Nelson's inspiring presentation, “Why Qualitative Research Needs Computational Social Science”. What is the state of this maturing field called qualitative computational methods? What are the ongoing debates and futures? #ic2s2
July 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Looking forward to see many colleagues and friends!
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
July 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Congratulations to @giorgospanay.bsky.social for his half-time PhD seminar: "Fair and Scalable Multilayer Network Community Detection".
June 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Congratulations to @theamoldovan.bsky.social, who defended her Master's thesis: "Exploring Collective Action in Black Lives Matter Podcast Conversations".
June 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Congratulations to Anand, who defended his Master's thesis: "A comparative study of Fairness Metrics for Modularity-based Community Detection".
June 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This week we had the pleasure to host our colleagues and friends from Università della Calabria. @luciolcw.bsky.social delivered a well-attended intensive course on Large Language Models, and Andrea Tagarelli presented the research done by his team. We look forward to new collaborations.
May 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
[edit with right link] New report where we construct and analyse a population-scale (multilayer) social network for Sweden: "Anatomy of a Swedish population-scale network", available here: osf.io/preprints/so... This allows us to relate social network features with other socio-demographic variables.
May 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In this new publication we propose and compare algorithmic approaches to efficiently process networks where edge existence is uncertain, e.g. because of imperfect data collection. "On the accurate computation of expected modularity in probabilistic networks", Sci.Reports arxiv.org/abs/2408.07161
On the accurate computation of expected modularity in probabilistic networks
Modularity is one of the most widely used measures for evaluating communities in networks. In probabilistic networks, where the existence of edges is uncertain and uncertainty is represented by probab...
arxiv.org
April 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
New publication, where we look at climate change communication on YouTube via API research, channel coding, and computational image analysis.

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April 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📃🚨New paper with @matmagnani.bsky.social! First presented at the #ComplexNetworks conference last December. #NetworkScience

We introduce Fair-mod, a community detection method with fairness constraints: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Fair-mod: Fair Modular Community Detection
Despite the recent interest in fairness-aware graph clustering, most existing community detection approaches have not yet been extended to include measures of fairness in the community detection proce...
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with @mansmag.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004
April 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Open PhD positions at Uppsala University on interdisciplinary mathematics projects - including our project on #networkscience & #datauncertainty (project 9) www.uu.se/en/centre/in...
Announced CIM projects 2025 - Uppsala University
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February 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Asking #DeepSeek (neutral?) questions such as "What's the political system in China?", it first writes a long answer explaining it, then the answer disappears from the app and is replaced by: "Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let's talk about something else" 😅
January 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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📣 We are hiring!

CEU Department of Network and Data Science is looking for a new assistant professor. We seek applications from candidates with a background in Computational Social Science.

The review of applications will begin on January 15.

🔗 careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
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January 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM