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Prof. Research Lab Director. Writer. Speaker.
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April Fool’s Poster Session: What are you willing to believe?

Rubin, Victoria March 18, 2025 No Comments

On 1 April 2025, FIMS graduate students enrolled in the Winter 2025 “Misinformation and Viral Deception” course presented their term-long projects with their evidence-based findingsView More

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Dominique Kelly Presents on Privacy-Invasive Design in Dr. Rubin’s Misinformation Course

Rubin, Victoria May 27, 2024 No Comments

On 5 March 2024, Dominique Kelly (PhD Candidate at FIMS, Western) talked about her ongoing thesis work in a guest presentation, entitled “Privacy-Invasive by Design:View More

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Dr. Stark Talks about “Emotion AI” in Dr. Rubin’s Misinformation Class

Rubin, Victoria May 27, 2024

On 14 March 2024, Dr. Luke Stark (FIMS, Western) gave a guest talked to an audience of graduate students in Dr. Rubin’s Winter 2024 courseView More

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Rubin to Present A Seminar at Her Home Unit: FIMS | Western University

Rubin, Victoria September 14, 2023 No Comments

Deception Detection Research for News Verification: Automation and the Human Mind September 20, 2023; 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. See FIMS Events Calendar Abstract: Artificial intelligenceView More

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LiT.RL Team’s Work Profiled in Western News

Rubin, Victoria April 12, 2023 No Comments

On 23 March 2023, Western News, our University’s central publication for communications, published a long-form article explaining our current research plans and some past accomplishments byView More

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Dr. Cherry to give a UWORCS2023 Keynote on *Large* Language Models

Rubin, Victoria April 10, 2023 No Comments

On April 11 at 12:15 p.m. Dr. Collin Cherry will give a keynote talk entitled “Making sense of Language Models and Large Language Models”, partView More

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“A Trained Librarian is a Powerful Search Engine with a Heart” Quote

Rubin, Victoria March 7, 2023 No Comments

A lovely example of Authority Work to disambiguate authors with the same name: Sarah McIntyre. One of them is wearing a funky hat and glasses.View More

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Dr. Menczer Presents at FIMS, Western “Hacking Online Virality”

Rubin, Victoria February 28, 2023 No Comments

Rogers Chair in Studies in Journalism and New Information Technology (at FIMS, Western) presents “Hacking Online Virality” by Dr. Filippo Menczer, Luddy Distinguished Professor at IndianaView More

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WISSLR2023: Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research

Rubin, Victoria February 28, 2023 No Comments

If you are interested in Linguistics and other types of language-related research, you may enjoy our annual Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research (WISSLR)View More

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