c, et al.: Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21740 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21740 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.21740

Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21740

Can LLM agents reproduce online community dynamics? We simulated Voat's v/technology community with YSocial and uncensored LLM. Simulation reproduces: activity patterns, network topology, toxicity distributions + decent topic coverage ✅

MADOC paper accepted at #ICWSM 25! Looking forward to share more insights from the dataset in Copenhagen. The dataset will be updated soon: bug fixes and additional sentiment scores.

🚨New method in studying old relations! 🚨 Are Dark Triad traits differently related to self-reported and task-performance domains of emotional functioning? 👇 t.co/Wxi9MdrMWW Thanks to Beata Grabovac and @atomashevic.bsky.social for the fruitful collaboration

Apply to the "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science" satellite workshop at @netsciconf.bsky.social before Feb. 7th! Got some cool network data or software to share? This is the satellite for you! Submission form at netsci.nascol.net/cfa

PostDoc at Central European University in #datasci #netsci #compsocsci #inclusive 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @weareceu.bsky.social

We have released the first version of MADOC! Huuge dataset with ~9M posts, 236M comments, and 23M users from Reddit, Voat, Bluesky, and Koo. MADOC mixes benign and controversial/banned communities, ideal for the study of hate speech, user migrations, and community moderation.

We have released the first version of MADOC! Huuge dataset with ~9M posts, 236M comments, and 23M users from Reddit, Voat, Bluesky, and Koo. MADOC mixes benign and controversial/banned communities, ideal for the study of hate speech, user migrations, and community moderation.

🎉Thrilled to share our new paper! We tested cross-national validity of the Machiavellian Approach and Avoidance Questionnaire (MAAQ) across Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, and Serbia 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

this looks perfect 😍 ssh into server and you can do meaningful work + have strong, strong retro vibes!

So many new people on here! Who should I follow? I tried to narrow it down at least a little with #rstats johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-11...

The success of every online social platform depends on the quality of cat content. Zlatko says hello to Bluesky 🐈

transforEmotion 0.1.5 in live on Github and CRAN. github.com/atomashevic/... - Resolved Youtube download issues by switching to pytubefix library - Added rag function for retrieval-augmented generation using various transformer models.

transforEmotion 0.1.5 in live on Github and CRAN. github.com/atomashevic/... - Resolved Youtube download issues by switching to pytubefix library - Added rag function for retrieval-augmented generation using various transformer models.

New version of "Dynamic Exploratory Graph Analysis of Emotions in Politics" is up on PsyArXiv! We switch from CNN to CLIP with transforEmotion and now we have a clear two-dimensional network of emotion co-occurence. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Github: github.com/atomashevic/...

📢New preprint📢 As researchers embrace the next revolution in computational social science, the arrival of GLLMs (generative AI), there is a critical need for open-source alternatives. We introduce one with (r)Ollama and explain why it is important! arxiv.org/abs/2404.07654

🚨 Blog post: Lost in Transformation: The Horror and Wonder of Logit I use the analogy of 🗺️↔️🌏 to clarify why logit is such a good model for binary outcomes. tl; dr: OLS works on flat maps; logit works on globes. statsky polisky econsky academicsky www.robertkubinec.com/post/flat_ea...

Haven't posted here in a while, so here's a small update. I've spent last few months developing and mantaining transforEmotion #Rstats package github.com/atomashevic/... It's a package for sentiment analysis for text, image and video in R using HuggingFace #transformers API

My body is not a temple its a deep space station occupying both a strategically pivotal location and also near an actual (celestial) temple.

Systematic replications across multiple social sciences www.nature.com/articles/d41... #openscience

☀️ It was really sunny in Novi Sad yesterday. We enjoyed a photoshoot for the IDIOMATIC project and had our last get-together before I depart for the US.

Our article Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers is finally out! Please share with your students, and consider add this on your graduate scope and methods class. Also, we appreciate feedback and talk with students about our ideas!

"Past, Present, and Future of Software for Bayesian Inference" - An interesting overview of what, exactly, building software to do Bayesian inference means If you use Stan, JAGS, PyMC, NumPyro, etc, you might be interested. www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/rese...

Amazing resource, check it out! I had no idea that you can use your website' domain as your handle. It took me a few minutes to change it to @atomasevic.com Great method for optional verification.

I've been using Code Copilot for text editing. Select pagraph (latex, markdown, Quarto), hit a shorcut and ask for grammar eddits. No new panels or windows, minimalistic. Up until recently, it suggested edits in a similar way it shows git changes in code (side by side or top-down like the picture).

I'm not sure how Feeds work, but until I get it my strategy is to randomly follow people who follow @rmcelreath.bsky.social and hope for optimal mix of cats and stats