@emmaspiro

Associate Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-Founder @uwcip | PhD in Sociology from @UCIrvine | social networks, sociology, misinformation & computational social science

 Seattle, WA
faculty.washington.edu/espiro/
Joined April 2013
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The @UW_iSchool is hiring this year! Tenure track open area, tenure track LIS, teaching track data science, teaching track LIS. Come join us in the bustling, drizzly, booming Pacific Northwest! ischool.uw.edu/about/jobs/fa…

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Information is central to knowledge, to understanding, to impact. Amid the AI transformation, climate change and ongoing threats to public and civic health...

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Congratulations @YiweiXuPhD!
Yiwei Xu@YiweiXuPhD30 May 2024
Thrilled to share I’ll be joining UMD iSchool @INFOCollegeUMD @UofMaryland as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2025 #GoTerps🐢. I'm grateful I get to spend one more year as a postdoc @UW_iSchool @UWCIP till next summer 🫶. More on my research: yiweixu.net
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UC Berkeley is recruiting an assistant professor in Technology Policy, Governance, and Society. Joint search betw/ the School of Info and the Goldman School of Public Policy. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04… Deadline is 9/25. Please help spread the word! (Reply below w/ questions)
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Northwestern @NU_SoC is looking to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in computational social science and adjacent fields and topics such as human-computer interaction (HCI) @nu_hci, (mis)information, data visualization... App deadline: Dec 1 media.soc.northwestern.edu/s…
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We are recruiting! Looking for a number of postdoctoral fellows. Come work with me and my fantastic colleagues @uwcip! #postdocjobs
Center for an Informed Public@uwcip2 Nov 2022
Attention prospective postdocs: We're looking to hire a handful of new postdoctoral scholars here at the @uwcip in #Seattle. Details in this 🧵 ...
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I'm recruiting Ph.D. students interested in "Implicit Machine Cognition" to study AI Ethics and Bias & Human-AI interaction in ML, NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech. Apply to @UW_iSchool & @uwcse and join our @uwnlp & @uwdub communities. Please share!
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The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (@UWCSSS) is hiring a TT Assistant Professor and @UWComm is a potential home departments for the hire! I'd love to see folks doing strong quant/stats communication work apply and join me in @UWComm! The deadline is Oct 19!
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I am very proud of nearly a decade of collaborative work with Kate. Please read. 👇
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Big news: we are recruiting for an open-rank tenure-track position in Boston beginning in the academic year 2023-2024 in the field of Network Science, broadly defined. Find out more and apply here 👇 northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjo…
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Come work with us! The Data Justice Lab at Texas A&M University is hiring a 2 year post-doc in computational social science. If you have experiences in human-centered work, social media analytics, or social-oriented applications of data analysis, please consider applying.
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👋🔊Are you an information scientist, sociologist, political scientist, communication scholar, anthropologist, or librarian focusing on "Healthier Information Ecosystems?" #heathyinfoeco Do you study #misinfo, #informationecosystems, #searchengines, #educationalinterventions?🧵/
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After 2.5 beautiful years @MSFTResearch India, I am so excited to announce that I will be joining @UW as a PhD student this Fall! I am really looking forward to working in the disinformation and algorithmic fairness space with Prof. @tanmit at @UW_iSchool!
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Excited to share this Q&A about a project @MorganWack (the true brains) and I are working on about misinformation and perceptions of election integrity surrounding the Kenya 2022 Election through a @GWIDDP fellowship. This has been an important and timely research opportunity.
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🚨🚨We’re excited to announce the program for the first Women in Network Science (@WiNS_Society) & Diversify NetSci joint satellite @netsci2022! Date & Time: July 13–15th, 8am–12pm EDT Location: Zoom (registration info: forms.gle/8dNX6bq17T73SmnU7) Website: sites.google.com/view/winsne…
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Love seeing a friend while scrolling. Congrats @olsonista!
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Young children who transition to a new gender with social changes — taking on new names, pronouns and clothing — are likely to continue identifying as that gender five years later, according to a report. Participants transitioned, on average, at age 6.5. nyti.ms/3w4bU0P

Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds (Published 2022)

But the study, which began in 2013, may not fully reflect what’s happening today, when many more children are identifying as trans.

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I'm also looking for a postdoc interested in research on diversity in networks and network science, with an eye to creating tools and resources to broaden participation in network science at all levels. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjo…
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We're currently seeking nominations for the @uwcip Award for Impact & Excellence. cip.uw.edu/2022/03/24/2022-c…
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Proud to call these folks colleagues! Amazing work @WeAreAllWell @annaeveryday @marika_louise
UW iSchool@uw_ischool4 Mar 2022
AfterLab, a new research group at the iSchool is dedicated to thinking about what happens to digital information and personal data in the aftermath of a disaster. ischool.uw.edu/news/2021/11/…

New iSchool lab focuses on the aftermath of crises

As people scramble to respond to an unfolding disaster, public-health emergency or other crisis, there tends to be a lot of confusion and seemingly little ...

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Joey Schafer’s trajectory in research began as a first-year student watching Kate Starbird, professor of @hcdeUW and co-founder of the @uwcip, give a lecture on her research. 1/2 #UWdiscovers
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