Social Media Analysis & Support for Humanity (SMASH) group @InfAtEd
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2019
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SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
New EMNLP26 main track paper - 1st from my lab 🎉
We systematically analyze how models manage epistemic authority & user disagreement
They mostly apologize then proceed to repeat the same answer LoL. They also often transfer authority “talk to a doctor”
our dataset is public
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
Thrilled to share our new paper: “Beyond the Game: Comparing Political News Coverage and Twitter Discussions during the 2022 FIFA World Cup”, now published in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media!
With the 2026 Men’s World Cup just weeks away, it’s the perfect time to revisit the highly politicised Qatar 2022 tournament.
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SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
🎤 Introducing the chairs of #ICWSM2027!
We're thrilled to welcome @bjoernross, @Walid_Magdy, and @clarellewellyn in the organization of next year's conference.
Stay tuned for updates 🚀
We are thrilled to see @icwsm coming to Edinburgh 😍
Our directors @Walid_Magdy and @bjoernross will act as the general chairs.
Please spread the word.
We look forward to meeting you in Edinburgh 🏴
#ICWSM2027
🚨 Big news! #ICWSM '27 is heading to Edinburgh, Scotland 🏰
❗How submissions work:
• May 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Sept '26
• Sept 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Jan '27
• Jan 15, 2027: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → May '27 (→ ICWSM '28)
Congratulations to two of our PhD graduates, Dr. Eddie and Dr. Mohamed, for their graduation ceremony.
Also congrats to the supervisors, @bjoernross & @Walid_Magdy!
Great to see more SMASH PhD graduates 😊
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
X now shows the number of username changes
Accounts change names identity/purpose overnight for malicious goals. We studied misleading repurposing before, found 100k repurposed accs
Interestingly X only now account for this vulnerability yet it still doesn't show the old names
One of the many problems of Twitter is scientifically documented🙃Our paper "Misleading Repurposing on Twitter" was accepted to @ICWSM
We uncover, analyze and provide a detection method for the repurposing of accounts, some later became trolls. We detected 106k of such accounts!
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
At #EMNLP2025 to present the last chapter of my PhD 🐼
Let's talk #HateSpeech detection, generalisation and NLP safety at my poster:
📆tomorrow
🕟4.30pm
Look for the circus-themed poster 🎪🤸🏻♀️
Work with @tomsherborne @bjoernross and @mlapata at @EdinburghNLP + @cohere
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
Hello from Norway! 👋🐋
Looking forward to seeing friends at #CSCW
My paper presentation: "The prophet said!" (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37110…) will be on Tuesday at 16:30 in Peer Gynt-salen. See you there!
Congratulations to Dr. @Amrkeleg for successfully passing his PhD defence (Viva).
Congrats to the supervisors @Walid_Magdy & Sharon Goldwater.
Special thanks to @PontiEdoardo & @MonaDiab77 for acting as the examiners.
Another SMASH graduate 😊
@Edin_CDT_NLP
@EdinburghNLP
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
If it happens and you are interested in dialects or Arabic NLP (@_ArabicNLP), please visit our poster @aclmeeting presented by @Amrkeleg
Happening now!
#ACL2025
#ACL2025NLP
#ArabicNLP
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
End of the year at the University of Edinburgh #InformaticsSpelfie2025
We had our photo taken from an airbus.. but the clouds had other plans 😂
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
How to tell if a trending slogan is a coordinated campaign?
We present a new campaign dataset & detection method in Large Engagement Networks for Classifying Coordinated Campaigns and Organic Twitter Trends @ICWSM & Density-aware Walks for Coordinated Campaign Detection @ECMLPKDD
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
Is social media still a political echo chamber?
In our new ICWSM25 paper "Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter" we analyzed 3M replies from 2020 and find that 34% were directed to users from opposite political alignment. However these interactions are more likely to be toxic🧵
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
Two papers accepted to @aclmeeting about underserved languages by my PhD students @Amrkeleg (on Arabic dialects in NLP) and Zahra Bokaei (on Hate-speech detection in Persian).
I hope they'd obtain their visas on time to present their diverse work in Vienna
#ACL2025
#ACL2025NLP
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
Nice to see our study @acm_chi on Facebook censorship to Arabic posts on the Palestine/Israel conflict featured in several news articles:
@YahooNews:
uk.news.yahoo.com/study-clai…
@heraldscotland:
heraldscotland.com/news/2511…
@digitfyi:
digit.fyi/edinburgh-uni-stud…
It is great to see our @Walid_Magdy and Eddie Ungless present their work at @acm_chi #CHI2025!
Read more about their work:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37065…
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3…
SMASH Edinburgh retweeted
If you are in @acm_chi and interested to see a study on a sensitive topic, such as the Palestine/Israel conflict, please join my presentation this afternoon on our paper with @jonintweet & @Hamdy_Mubarak.
Details: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025…
#CHI2025
In 2021, @facebook deleted my post about Palestine
In 2025, I'll present our paper:
"Who Should Set the Standards? Analysing Censored Arabic Content on Facebook during the Palestine-Israel Conflict" at @acm_chi
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.02175
#CHI2025
#Censorship
#FreeSpeech
We've 4 papers @icwsm
- Experiences of Censorship on TikTok Across Marginalised Identities
- Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter
- Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations
- Large Engagement Networks for Classifying Coordinated Campaigns
@bjoernross @tugrulcanelmas
🔥 The list of accepted papers (full, poster, and dataset) for #ICWSM25 is now live! Check it out: icwsm.org/2025/schedule/inde…
🎟️ Want to attend the talks and connect with the authors? Registration is now open! Don’t miss the early bird rate — deadline is May 9th!