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Ryan J. Gallagher
@ryanjgallag.com

With more people migrating to Bluesky (and my general quietness since Twitter fell apart), I want to reintroduce myself! I'm an applied scientist in online trust & safety. I specialize in detecting coordinated/harmful/deceptive networks, and bridging domain expertise with machine learning systems

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Ryan J. Gallagher
@ryanjgallag.com

For the past two years, I worked at a startup creating models to detect online coordination, inauthenticity, and extremism & conspiracy I like building systems that make it easier for domain experts to study/investigate online harms. Sometimes those systems should use ML, but not always

Ryan J. Gallagher
@ryanjgallag.com

Previously I worked at Twitter (pre-Elon) on Community Notes, and at Facebook on "coordinated inauthentic behavior" (I avoid that term for my own work now) I have a PhD in network science. I studied how people amplify their voices online, particularly in hashtag activism and polarized settings

Ryan J. Gallagher
@ryanjgallag.com

I'm starting a new position at the beginning of December! More details soon Otherwise, lately I've been moving into a new apartment with my partner, working on writing more music for fingerstyle guitar, and playing a lot of Divinity Original Sin 2 (after BG3) and Darkest Dungeon 2