The one-plot summary of what Elon Musk did to Twitter.

Check out the full program: 👉 www.code-project.it/besafe/ See you there! @akacaycepollard.bsky.social @smelons.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social @cref-enrico-fermi.bsky.social 2/2 🧵

Our Summer school "Narratives of Disruption and Continuity in Science, Technology and Society" begins at the @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social 🎉 First keynote speaker is @frapierri.bsky.social from Milan, about the regulation of online platforms in the age of misinformation!

Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages? Our new WP shows the answer is no: -Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators -Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs osf.io/amfws

🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨 Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics. We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

FOMO for #ic2s2 is hitting hard---especially for Francesco, who is bravely pretending he’s totally fine without me. Go check out our poster on early linguistic fingerprints of conspiracy theorists on Reddit (w. @gdfm.bsky.social )! Full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05086

🚨Job Alert W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society" @saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

🧵1/ 🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇 🔗 politicsexperiment.com

PhD position out at University of Amsterdam We’re looking for a computer scientist interested in LLMs, social media, and politics Offer a lot of freedom and an exciting environment! Please share! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Submission application deadline next week!

FINALLY 😌 The Delegated Act is here. The Act clarifies rules for data access under the Digital Services Act #DSA #dataaccess #research #eusky #commsky #polisky #csssky digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

Just a quick update: 🚀 we’re pleased to announce that @chpoletto.bsky.social has joined as our final invited speaker! @css-conference.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social @akacaycepollard.bsky.social @fabmazza.bsky.social

LLMs might be nicer than humans but not nicer than my co-authors for sure <3

The countdown to #ICWSM 2025 is on! 🎉 🌞 Expect warm summer days in Copenhagen! Tap water in Denmark is safe and delicious. Just bring a refillable bottle to stay hydrated! 💧 Don’t forget to check out the “Know Before You Go” guide for essential info: 📄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

AI-assisted social media posting increases the volume of content people produce. However, that content is perceived as lower quality than purely human-generated posts. A dangerous spiral that may flood social media with low-quality content. Results from a controlled study: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14295

📢 Meet the keynote speakers at #ICWSM 2025: Silvia Merisio, Policy officer in the DSA team of the European Commission “From Regulation to Research: The DSA’s Impact on Social Data Science” + Panel Discussion 📅 June 24 🕑 9 AM 📍CSS 35.01.05

Only a few days left to submit your abstract to the BeSafe Satellite Workshop @ccs2005.bsky.social. Details & submission: www.code-project.it/besafe/ Participate and feel free to spread the word. For any questions email: [email protected]. @sarawalk.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social

📢 Only a few days left! The deadline to submit your abstract to the BeSafe Satellite Workshop @css-conference.bsky.social is Sunday, June 15. Don’t miss the chance to be part of our workshop! 👉 Details & submission: www.code-project.it/besafe/

🚨 We're thrilled to announce the first invited speaker of the satellite workshop BeSAFE: Eugenio Valdano! Don't miss the chance to join us – abstract submissions close this Friday, May 30! Visit: www.code-project.it/besafe/ ‪@cref-enrico-fermi.bsky.social‬ @css-conference.bsky.social

This is a poor argument against LLM simulations. It suggests that LLM-based behavioral models should capture nuances that no model ever has (do agent-based models go to the toilet?). Ofc, ABM is meant to be interpretable, but social science also needs predictive power (where LLM simulations excel)

Our paper "Conspiracy theories and where to find them on TikTok" has been accepted at the Main conference of @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025! Great work led by @fracorso.bsky.social supervised by @gdfm.bsky.social and yours truly. For more details check the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.12545

Call for bstracts to the #BeSAFE satellite workshop of #CCS 2025 on the interplay between human behavior, social structures, and the spread of infectious diseases. Siena (Italy) Sept 4, 2025 Deadline: 30/05/2025 www.code-project.it/besafe/ [email protected] #CODEproject www.code-project.it

Deadline extended to August 31st! (feel free to reach out for pre-submission inquiries)

Call for Abstracts – BeSAFE Satellite Workshop @ CCS 2025, Siena We are pleased to invite submissions of original abstracts to the BeSAFE satellite workshop of CCS2025 @css-conference.bsky.social, taking place in Siena (code-project.it/besafe/). 🧵 1/4

Large Language Model-based social simulation has emerged as an exciting new research method. But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring? We review the literature to find out! with Maik Laaroij arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274

New paper out in npj Complexity today. We construct large data-informed US-based contact networks (~20M nodes) and explore how misinformed populations can affect the spread of disease.

New paper: Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media 🧪 Simulations informed by social media data yield a worst-case bound on additional infections due to exposure to online vaccine misinfo. It's not good. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🔗 Details: cy-soc.github.io/2025/ Join us at the 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats at #ICWSM. #CallForPapers #GenAI #OnlineSafety #CyberSocialThreats #OnlineToxicity #Cyberbullying #OnlineExtremism #AIandSociety

📢 Deadline Extended for submissions to #CySoc2025 to ensure broader participation. 💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions. 📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE

🚨🚨Due to multiple requests, the deadline for the #CySoc workshop has been extended until April 10!🚨🚨 Make sure to get your submissions in!

#CySoc2025 #ICWSM #CallForPapers #GenAI #OnlineThreats #PoliticalConflict #AIandSociety With: Kaicheng Yang Francesco Pierri Matthew DeVerna Yelena Mejova Jeremy Blackburn @yang3kc.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social @matthewdeverna.com @yelenamejova.bsky.social @mrjimmyblack.com 🧵 6/6

We are looking forward to your submissions! Accepted papers will be published in the ICWSM Companion Proceedings. 📆 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025 🔗 More info: cy-soc.github.io/2025/ Let us know if you have questions and/or are interested in serving as a PC member. 🧵 5/6

🛠️ Demo Presentation: Filipi Nascimento Silva – "Mapping Social Media Networks and their Narratives with OSoMe Tools" @filipinascimento.bsky.social 🧵 4/6

💬 Panel Discussion: Theme: "Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI" Panelists: Luca Maria Aiello (ITU Copenhagen) @lajello.bsky.social Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon University) Adriana Iamnitchi (Maastricht University) 🧵 3/6

🎙️ Keynotes: Preslav Nakov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI) @preslavnakov.bsky.social Debora Nozza (Bocconi University) @deboranozza.bsky.social 🧵 2/6

🚨 #CySoc2025 Program Shaping Up Nicely! We’re excited to announce key highlights from the International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats at #ICWSM2025 @icwsm.bsky.social 📢 and Call for Papers is still open! 📆 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025 🔗 More: cy-soc.github.io/2025/ For more: 🧵 1/6 👇

Thrilled to share that I'll be moving to California over the summer to join the Stanford Social Media Lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS! The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Wastewater from airplane toilets? We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread Short 🧵

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 We’re excited to announce the 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats hashtag#CySoc2025 that will be held at hashtag#ICWSM2025 in Denmark! 🎉 🌍 Spotlight Topic: "Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI." 📅 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

Most tests for LLM biases use questionnaires, asking the model to generate a stance towards a given topic. Sadly, biases can re-emerge when the model is used in the application context. We show that apparently unbiased LLMs exhibit strong biases in conversations. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.14844

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST! More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist... Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis) #LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI

Had a fantastic time last week at CS2Italy—the 1st Italian Conference on Computational Social Science—in Trento! It was great to reconnect with old friends, meet new ones, taste local grappa and engage in insightful discussions. Huge kudos to the organizers for putting it together! #cs2italy #css

It's time to establish an Italian Society of Computational Social Sciences. Ivano Bison illustrates why we need it and the next steps to create it #CS2Italy

CS2Italy in Trento is off to a great start with @mtizzoni.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social and a a packed room of computational social scientists! cs2italy.org Università di Trento, @isi.it , CNR ISIC, FBK

PhD Summer internships🌟 Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) is hunting for top PhD students to tackle cutting-edge AI ethics #ResponsibleAI projects. Competitive pay, iconic legacy, and big ideas. Apply by Jan 6, 2025! Details: social-dynamics.net/docs/interns... Team social-dynamics.net/newsletter/2...

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media 🗓️ submit by 31st March 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...