🎉 Accepted NeurIPS! @neuripsconf.bsky.social I’d been intrigued by the idea of using generative models to simulate ecosystems & other decentralized collectives 👾 An amazing team brought it to life — special thanks to Francesco Cozzi, who made it his Master’s thesis 🙏 arxiv.org/abs/2505.21426

@c0rrad0.bsky.social presenting our work on the Russia-Ukraine war on social media #ic2s2

If you Google Francesca Albanese, the first result shown is this piece of terrifying manipulation by the Israelian government attacking her persona. If any non-western government was waging this kind of infowar, we would have already tons of computational social science about it.

Presented our work with @c0rrad0.bsky.social, @bolozna.bsky.social, and Barbara Keller on user behavior change after cross-party interactions at #ICWSM today! Was a great experience and got a lot of interesting questions 🙌 Also: currently looking for postdoc opportunities - happy to chat!

Climate movements gain participants from online discussions. And among people talking about climate change, low-income ones are more likely to join climate action groups. This and more in our model of climate activism on Reddit ✨just accepted✨ at #WWW2025 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.10562