It's not too late to register for #WebSci25!

We've got some great keynote speakers lined up and we hope that you will join at Rutgers May 20-23 for this year's conference!

www.websci25.org/registration

cc: @websciencetrust.bsky.social, @noshir.bsky.social

Loving these updates from #WebSci25. Keep 'em coming - especially any that tell us how to do prosocial design better! @prosocialdesign.bsky.social

#Websci25 is shaping to be an awesome conference.

Pls do share with your networks.

Enjoying a quiet moment before workshop chaos begins.

#Rutgers #WEBSCI25

Nicholas Hemauer (Political Science @ Penn State) shared work comparing the accuracy of generative AI vs. human fact-checkers

Takeaway: We should still have humans in the loop for fact-checking work! #WebSci25

Great work from @ashwin-r.bsky.social looking at how personal narratives empower people to engage in political discourse #WebSci25

ONE WEEK LEFT: Early registration for the 2025 ACM Web Science Conference closes April 21!

#WebSci25 will be held at #Rutgers this May. For more details on our fantastic presenters and to register, visit www.websci25.org

We hope you'll join us!

cc: @websciencetrust.bsky.social

USC ISI student @maxynroselight.bsky.social shared work on the network structure of anti-trans actors on TikTok

This work builds a taxonomy of anti- and pro-trans content and examines user interactions. There are more anti-trans actors and they are often connected to pro-trans users... #WebSci25

Dean of @rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social Danfa Lemish welcoming #WebSci25 participants at our opening reception

Loved this work from @patrickwu.bsky.social using semantically unrelated terms for in-context learning. He asked LLMs to classify texts...but replaced key terms with random text

Some models still performed well, suggesting they were relying on latent priors to assume what the user wanted #WebSci25

Celia Chen & Alex Leitch shared work from the
@hcil-umd.bsky.social lab on cross-platform violence detection

They release a dataset of 30k posts from 3 platforms annotated for _credible threats_ of violence. Their model can identify violent threats on other platforms with 81% accuracy! #WebSci25

LAST CHANCE for early registration to #WebSci25! Early reg closes TODAY, April 21!

We hope you'll join us at #Rutgers this May for this interdisciplinary conference!

Register at: www.websci25.org

cc:
@websciencetrust.bsky.social, @noshir.bsky.social

the #Websci25 program is full of interestingness, wow

www.websci25.org/program/

Lots of great work presented at last night's #WebSci25 poster session! Here are a few highlights: 🧵

Opening keynote of #WebSci25 from the fabulous @informor.bsky.social on “AI Everywhere All at Once: Revisiting AI-Mediated Communication”

Not to sound like an AI-suggested response, but “I think it’s great!”

Kicking off the #WebSci25 Doctoral Consortium!

Thrilled to be welcoming PhD students from around the world for this day of mentoring and engaging with groundbreaking new scholarship