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Observatory on Social Media Announces 2022 Knight Fellows
Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media, funded in part with a $3 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has named two new Knight Fellows for 2022. Bao Tran Truong and Jimmy Ochieng will help advance the Observatory’s mission to understand the role of media and t...
Open Developer Positions
The Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI) is building a new tech team! We are hiring three positions: a database manager, a web developer (full stack), and a systems engineer. This team will be based at the Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI), and will work on...
We are moving and hiring!
We have two big announcements! First, OSoMe (along with IUNI and CNetS) is moving to the new Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence. Second, we have a new tenure-track assistant professor position in Artificial Intelligence and Network Science. We welcome any candidates who study AI, complex...
Black and Thriving Project
2023 UPDATE: This project has been completed and archived. This is a new project which aims to foster a social-contagion intervention that puts the power of choice on voluntary African American participants to share reliable information about COVID-19 vaccines. Our focus on this demographic group...
Probing political bias on Twitter with drifter bots
Our latest paper "Neutral bots probe political bias on social media" by Wen Chen, Diogo Pacheco, Kai-Cheng Yang & Fil Menczer just came out in Nature Communications. We find strong evidence of political bias on Twitter, but not as many think: (1) it is conservative rather than liberal bi...
IUNI Backend Developer Opening
The Indiana University Network Science Institute is seeking a backend software/systems engineer. If you join our IT team, you will be working on several projects related to misinformation and big data, in collaboration with our partners at the Observatory on Social Media. We are a small team so...
Introducing the CoVaxxy dashboard
By David Axelrod (first published on Misinfocon.com) The last year has been distinguished by two global challenges: the COVID-19 pandemic has killed millions of people and millions more have been exposed to misinformation and disinformation campaigns around a variety of topics of global impo...
ICWSM Test of Time Award
Our 2011 paper Political Polarization on Twitter was recognized at the 2021 AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) with the Test of Time Award. First author Mike Conover, who was then a PhD student and is now Director of Machine Learning Engineering at Workday, accept...
CoVaxxy dashboard monitors vaccine misinformation and hesitancy
A new project from Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media, or OSoMe, points to misinformation as a factor affecting COVID-19 vaccine adoption. Working with colleagues from the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy, the OSoMe team has created a publicly available dashboard called CoVax...
Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award
CNetS alumnus Mihai Avram is the recipient of the 2020 Indiana University Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award for his work on Hoaxy and Fakey: Tools to Analyze and Mitigate the Spread of Misinformation in Social Media. This award recognizes a “truly outstanding” Master’s thesis based on criteria...
