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Obituary for professor emeritus Neil Jones

Neil Deaton Jones, professor emeritus at DIKU, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, passed away Monday, 27 March 2023, shortly after his 82nd birthday. He will be remembered for his semina…

New publication: How app companies use GitHub

DISTRACT researchers, Associate professor Anders Blok, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto, and student assistant Jonathan Salka have published a new article in the Journal of Cultural Economy. The article is based on their…

New research center fills major gap in international mobility research

A new Danish Center of Excellence will fill knowledge gaps and blind spots in mobility research - for example, by investigating new migration patterns created by current and future crises.

Machine Anthropology: editorial introduction to special issue in Big Data & Society

Prof. Morten Axel Pedersen, director of SODAS, has just published a paper in the journal Big Data and Society. As the editorial introduction in a special theme issue on Machine Anthropology, the paper explores the…

Nordic data can explain why countries have different asylum practices

Is it a lottery when the Nordic countries grant asylum, or why are the differences so great between the countries? A new Nordic research project is investigating this question.

How asylum seeker credibility is assessed by authorities

Credibility is a crucial factor when immigration authorities determine whether an asylum seeker is eligible to reside in Denmark or not. However, the assessment of an asylum applicant’s credibility takes place in such a…

SODAS professor discusses AI on the danish radio program Kulturen

SODAS professor Morten Axel Pedersen discusses generative AI systems in the danish radio program Kulturen

Bachelor Project at BARC wins Computational Geometry Challenge

Last month, a team consisting of BA student William Bille Meyling, and BARC researchers Mikkel Abrahamsen and André Nusser were announced winners of the CG:Shop 2023 challenge

New publication: Digital Dependence

Five DISTRACT researchers have recently published an article in the journal Media, Culture & Society entitled Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown. The article is based o…

DISTRACT team presents at Danish Parliament

On the 26th of January, DISTRACT team members Morten Axel Pedersen (PI), August Lohse, Emilie Munch Gregersen and Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard were invited to the Danish Parliament to present findings from their research at…

Building a Danish reference genome sequencing infrastructure

Centre Director Tom Gilbert is thrilled with a new opportunity to build a local reference genome sequencing infrastructure to produce high quality genomes here in Denmark from animals, plants, fungi, and other complex…

Building a Danish reference genome sequencing infrastructure

Centre Director Tom Gilbert is thrilled with a new opportunity to build a local reference genome sequencing infrastructure to produce high quality genomes here in Denmark from animals, plants, fungi, and other complex…

Presentation of Ethnoplatform at Als Research consultancy

On Wednesday January 18th, PhD student Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Assistant Professor Kristoffer Albris gave an invited guest talk at the consultancy company Als Research, based in central Copenhagen. While Als Research…

BARC Retreat in Romania

The retreat served as a great opportunity to explore new collaborations between members of the group, and was pivotal in giving our researchers time to work on topics for the next FOCS deadline in April 2023. …

DISTRACT researchers receive Carlsberg grant to develop the Ethnoplatform

DISTRACT PhD August Lohse and professor Morten Axel Pedersen have been awarded a Research Infrastructure Grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to develop the Ethnoplatform - an open-source and easy-to-use digital tool fo…

How do Danish app-companies gather user-data?

PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto presented at the event "DataBeers" on the 30th of November. The title for the talk was “How do Danish app-companies gather user-data?”. Read more about the DataBeers events on their twitter…

New position(s) as data manager in the Data Lab

Data lab looking for 1-2 advisers to work with the complexity of information security and risk assessment

SODAS researchers receive Carlsberg grant to develop the Ethnoplatform

SODAS PhD August Lohse and professor Morten Axel Pedersen have received a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to develop the Ethnoplatform

Presentation: "Personalisation – building ‘good’ apps within the attention economy"

Phd-fellow Eva Otto presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) on the 9th of November. Her presentation “Personalisation – building ‘good’ apps within the attention economy”…

Roberta Sinatra in Northwestern University Panel on “Inequalities in Scientific Production”

SODAS professor Roberta Sinatra will discuss “Inequalities in Scientific Production” in conversation with Jevin West, Cassidy Sugimoto, and Fariba Karimi in panel hosted by Northwestern University

The Meaning in the Machine - August Lohse presents at DDAS

On November 7th, DISTRACT PhD student August Lohse presented a project at the Danish Data Science 2022 conference. The project is concerned with quantifying and understanding the cause of polarization using NLP…

How Robust is Open Source? Peter Mehler gives Data Discussion presentation

On the 11th of November, DISTRACT student assistant Peter Mehler gave a presentation at a SODAS Data Discussion event entitled How Robust is Open Source? An Analysis of the Global Github Dependency Network. The…

Joseph Burgess on radio show "Connections with Evan Dawson"

Data steward Joseph Burgess discusses early voting turnout in the American midterm elections on radio show "Connections with Evan Dawson"

New Grant: Preventing local conflicts over storm surge protection

Assistant professor at SODAS and Department of Anthropology Kristoffer Albris has received a 2.9 million grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s (DFF) pool for green research