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On the Road: Summer 2025 Conferences

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May 21, 2025
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Conference season is here, and we’re hitting the road! Our team at the Observatory on Social Media will present 19 papers at summer conferences.

International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)

Oral presentations

  • Do Won Kim, Bao Tran Truong, Ozgur Can Seckin, Saumya Bhadani: The Effects of Outgroup Agreement and Ingroup Dissent on Political Polarization
  • Rasika Muralidharan, Bao Tran Truong, YY Ahn: Scaling of Community Rules Across Mastodon Servers
  • Jin Ai, Jacob A. Dalsgaard, Filipi N. Silva: Philanthropic Funding in Scientific Innovation
  • Jacob A. Dalsgaard, Jin Ai, Filipi N. Silva: Linking Funding Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Global Science Funding

Posters

  • Ozgur Can Seckin, Bao Tran Truong, Do Won Kim, Saumya Bhadani: Predicting Constructive Conflict in Social Media Discussions
  • Ozgur Can Seckin, Rachith Aiyappa, Alessandro Flammini, Yong-Yeol Ahn: Spontaneous Emergence of Polarization from Networked Belief Systems
  • Shalmoli Ghosh, Matthew DeVerna, Filippo Menczer: Civitai “Bounties:” A Generative-AI Marketplace for Wholesome Art or Adult Content?

International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

Full papers

  • Kevin Greene, Matthew R. DeVerna, Joshua A. Tucker, Cody Buntain: Hot Tweets and Cold Posts: Variation in US Congresspeople’s Ideological Presentation on Twitter and Facebook Over Time
  • Manita Pote, Tugrulcan Elmas, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer: Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection

Dataset

  • Ozgur Can Seckin, Manita Pote, Alexander C. Nwala, Lake Yin, Luca Luceri, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer: Labeled Datasets for Research on Information Operations

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Paper

  • Rachith Aiyappa, Xin Wang, Munjung Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Jisung Yoon, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sadamori Kojaku: Implicit degree bias in link prediction task

Web Science Conference (WebSci)

Paper

  • Kaicheng Yang, Filippo Menczer: Accuracy and Political Bias of News Source Credibility Ratings by Large Language Models

International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI)

Posters

  • Jin Ai, Jacob A. Dalsgaard, Filipi N. Silva: Philanthropic Funding in Scientific Innovation
  • Jacob A. Dalsgaard, Jin Ai, Filipi N. Silva: Linking Funding Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Global Science Funding

Network Science Conference (NetSci)

Oral presentations

  • Filipi N. Silva: Charting Complexity: Interactive Real-Time Visualizations of Large-Scale Networks and Embeddings with Helios-Web (Software and Data for Supporting Network Science satellite)
  • Filipi N. Silva, Andreas Bueckle, Katy Börner: Human Reference Atlas: Embeddings of Single-Cell Data (NetBioMed satellite)
  • Rachith Aiyappa, Xin Wang, Munjung Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Jisung Yoon, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sadamori Kojaku: Implicit degree bias in link prediction task

Poster

  • Filipi N. Silva, Sadamori Kojaku, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato: Scale-Dependency of Weighted Network Modularity

Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems (NERCCS)

Paper

  • Rachith Aiyappa, Xin Wang, Munjung Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Jisung Yoon, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sadamori Kojaku: Implicit degree bias in link prediction task