@lajello.bsky.social is giving his inaugural lecture as full professor at @itu.dk . A story in 3 parts about "how the web failed us". So well deserved.

awareness and why it matters.
Take a look at this picture (that we got from a dataset of climate-related activism). This photo is remarkably complex from a cultural point of view, yet very simple in its message. To understand it you need to know who the BTS are, to get an intuition of k-pop

ICA helped a lot! (we just need to find a dog for when we get home :-))

Easy and spectacular walks just 1hr from Denver. Now my #ICA25 begins :-)

Waiting for the bus in Denver during a superhot day is a great way to fight the jetlag. #ica25

If you want to study with some of the best people in internet studies and live your Italian dream of great food, better wine, soft green hills and picturesque towns... My old department has a bunch of PhD positions (one reserved for foreign candidates!): www.uniurb.it/concorsi/9085

EPIC people kindly invited me to talk about synthetic data during their Learning Week. I'll be talking with Mikkel Krenchel about the promises and perils of AI-generated data. The talk will livestreamed on May 13, 2025 | 7:30 pm –
8:45 pm CEST
www.epicpeople.org/project/synt...

Meg Jing Zeng at our panel "we don't need no LLMs" at #comptext25

This work on Using LLMs to position political meesages was recently published on political analysis: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... It's a nice work that compares different LLMs with alternative methods and show some promising results.
The paper also contains a plot that made me think.

Recently zoom has started using the animated animal avatar by default when I join meetings. I find it really funny...

Today I attended a presentation on the AI generated images in the context of photojournalism. It's interesting 'cause widespread expectation that "visual content" should represent "reality" is a relatively recent development. The only visual representation of WWI was mainly created through

Considering how much time I have to play this will probably take forever... But but it's definitely a big jump from Fate of Atlantis and so far I'm loving the new #indianajones game.

Honest summary of an academic career 😂

Dsa forces platforms to shrea interesting data. amar is a very confusing metric. It measures "all recipients actually engaging with the service at least once in a given period of time, by being exposed to information disseminated on the platform".Anyway amars for Twitter and TikTok as % of pop.

Bremen in late October can be kind of monochromatic :-)