Publications (12)
SDSS-IV MaNGA: The kinematic-morphology of galaxies on the mass vs star-formation relation in different environments
Bitao Wang, Michele Cappellari, Yingjie Peng +1
We study the link between the kinematic-morphology of galaxies, as inferred from integral-field stellar kinematics, and their relation between mass and star formation rate (SFR). O…
AI and the Future of Work in Africa White Paper
Jacki O'Neill, Vukosi Marivate, Barbara Glover +71
This white paper is the output of a multidisciplinary workshop in Nairobi (Nov 2023). Led by a cross-organisational team including Microsoft Research, NEPAD, Lelapa AI, and Univers…
Longitudinal Sampling of URLs From the Wayback Machine
Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala +3
We document strategies and lessons learned from sampling the web by collecting 27.3 million URLs with 3.8 billion archived pages spanning 26 years (1996-2021) from the Internet Arc…
The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis
Taha Yasseri, Anselm Spoerri, Mark Graham +1
We present, visualize and analyse the similarities and differences between the controversial topics related to "edit wars" identified in 10 different language versions of Wikipedia…
The global polarisation of remote work
Fabian Braesemann, Fabian Stephany, Ole Teutloff +3
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of remote work with consequences for the global division of work. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it could also increase spa…
Platform Criminalism: The 'Last-Mile' Geography of the Darknet Market Supply Chain
Martin Dittus, Joss Wright, Mark Graham
Does recent growth of darknet markets signify a slow reorganisation of the illicit drug trade? Where are darknet markets situated in the global drug supply chain? In principle, the…
Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431
In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…
Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media: A case study of the 2016 U.S. presidential election
Zhaoya Gong, Tengteng Cai, Jean-Claude Thill +2
Social media has become an emerging alternative to opinion polls for public opinion collection, while it is still posing many challenges as a passive data source, such as structure…
Neuromorphologicaly-preserving Volumetric data encoding using VQ-VAE
Petru-Daniel Tudosiu, Thomas Varsavsky, Richard Shaw +5
The increasing efficiency and compactness of deep learning architectures, together with hardware improvements, have enabled the complex and high-dimensional modelling of medical vo…
Where in the World are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter
Mark Graham, Scott A. Hale, Devin Gaffney
The movements of ideas and content between locations and languages are unquestionably crucial concerns to researchers of the information age, and Twitter has emerged as a central,…
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
Jonas Dolezal, Sawood Alam, Mark Graham +1
The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other neg…
Right HTML, Wrong JSON: Challenges in Replaying Archived Webpages Built with Client-Side Rendering
Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Sawood Alam +1
Many web sites are transitioning how they construct their pages. The conventional model is where the content is embedded server-side in the HTML and returned to the client in an HT…