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The Center for Computational Social Science is part of the Department of Pollitical and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. It is a research and teaching hub for CSS. https://centri.unibo.it/computational-social-science/en
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I am happy to see that this paper written in collaboration with an amazing team of Australian modelers (@praty1931.bsky.social @camzachreson.bsky.social and others) is finally out in Royal Society Open Science! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We’re hiring! One-year position for a full-stack Web developer. Further information here πŸ‘‰ www.isi.it/news/2025_01...

At CSSC, we tested deepseek-r1:7B, locally, on a MacBook Pro with 24G RAM. Replies were "ok", fast (even when "thinking") but not always precise or most efficient. We would judge it on par with similar models, but not superior. Admittedly, it's a far cry from the 670B model used for the API πŸ€”

And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at NetSI London working with me and the @nplab.bsky.social on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems. Application deadline: 16th February 2025. Bring your A game!

I’m looking for a PhD student to work at the intersection of modelling infectious diseases and climate change. Deadline of applications: 31st of May, but applications are evaluated on a rolling basis. Please repost and help me spread the words! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/311728

New tool to estimate the level of participation in collective action expressed in natural language. Applied to social media, it can produce large-scale and granular estimates of behavior change wrt collective action. github.com/ariannap13/e... @nerdsitu.bsky.social @itu.dk @carlsbergfondet.dk

List of countries that will be exempted from limitations in buying US-produced AI chips, outgoing US Dept. of Commerce's last acts: Australia Belgium Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand Norway Republic of Korea Spain Sweden Taiwan United Kingdom

NYU Abu Dhabi Opening: Computer Science Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, T/TT - Open Rank! Deadline Feb 28, 2025! apply.interfolio.com/161449 #AI #ML #MachineLearning #NLP #NLProc #AIjobs #MLjobs #BigData #DataScience #AIcareers #DataJobs #JobSearch

🚨 Assistant Professorship in Computational Social Science 🚨 Konstanz has a call for a 6-year junior professorship. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... This is an amazing department & a strong community. Happy to share more about my own (great) experience there! Deadline SOON: 2 DAYS left ‼️

πŸ“£ 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. πŸ”— careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

I'm hiring! Fully funded, full-time PhD position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Marburg. It's an open topic position, so you will have the chance to shape your own topic within the research areas of the group. If you have any questions or doubts please get in touch. #NLP #NLProc

Only one week left to submit your abstract: "Living Among Intelligent Machines: Psychological and Social Consequences of AI Dev." #HCI #AI #AffectSci #CogSci #CogPsyc #cssky #LLM #medsky #mentalhealth #MLSky #PhDSky #PhilTech #psychotherapy czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pp...

The Center for Computational Social Science, hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Univesity of Bologna, Italy has now joined Bluesky. Happy to be here!