New pre-print! #SpreadPy, a Python implementation of spreading activation for both single-layer and multiplex networks. arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09628 GitHub: github.com/dsalvaz/Spre... @massimost.bsky.social @giuliorossetti.bsky.social @et al. #kddlab #sobigdata #isticnr #dipsco

We are excited our paper on cognitive networks and LLM biases won the Best Paper award in Big Data and Cognitive Science! Read our paper here: Abramski, K., Citraro, S., Lombardi, L., Rossetti, G., & Stella, M. (2023) doi.org/10.3390/bdcc...

The last 2 weeks have seen our CogNosco Lab publish 3 papers on the topic of #AI and #mental #health, check them out 😉 Predictors of loneliness at school: An explainable artificial intelligence approach on a large-scale cross-cultural assessment, Personality and Ind. Diff., doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

This is a busy week for CogNosco Lab! My PhD students Edith Haim and Edoardo De Duro coordinated a great workshop on #LLMs and #text #analysis at @hhaiconference.bsky.social. Meanwhile, I am travelling for a keynote on #NLP and #cognitive #networks at @tabudag.bsky.social, which stasera tomorrow!

Hear hear! 👇 @ghentccn.bsky.social @frosas.bsky.social @massimost.bsky.social

"The meta-analysis results of this study confirm the positive impacts of ChatGPT on learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking," Some caveats in the paper & with early meta-analysis, but a examination of all 51 experimental studies suggests ChatGPT helps learning.

One more week to apply!

We still have 2 slots available for contributed talks at our CounseLLMe workshop for @hhaiconference.bsky.social : sites.google.com/unitn.it/cou... Join us in Pisa, deadline May 6!

How to improve conceptual clarity in psychology? Excited to share a new preprint with @ruimata.bsky.social, discussing approaches based on large language models as possible solutions. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣The Department of Sociology and Social Research seeks a post-doctoral candidate for a 2-year appointment. The successful candidate will analyze a large-scale dataset of online job posts to investigate skill demand dynamics and shortage dynamics over 5 years in 29 countries.

🌐 Excited to welcome Prof. Dani S. Bassett as a CCS25 keynote speaker! 🔗A leader in network neuroscience, Bassett explores how brain networks shape cognition and mental health. #CCS25 #Keynote

Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025 We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/ho2025e... Wait no further and join!

Serene, Uri and I had a nice conversation here guided by Joanne. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOH...

Wow there is an impressive selection of satellites at @css-conference.bsky.social this year! ccs25.cssociety.org/satellites-l... We will attend the conference as a Lab and the choice is amazing! #ccs #siena

If you are going to HHAI25 in Pisa, check out out satellite workshop on #LLM and #human conversations! Submit here: sites.google.com/unitn.it/cou...

This is grim because there's nowhere to go. The US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and we have more PI-level positions than anywhere else (by far).

Large Language Models are great at mimicking human conversation, but do we trust them? Until now, research on trust in LLMs has been scarce. Introducing the Trust-In-LLMs Index (TILLMI), a new framework extending McAllister’s cognitive and affective trust dimensions to human–LLM interactions 1/n

New preprint from the Lab! We introduce the Trust-in-LLMs Index (TILLMI) and see it partitions in cognitive and affective dimensions. Great collab by De Duro @gaveltri.bsky.social @hudsongolino.bsky.social and myself on #LLMs. Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.21028

Glad to announce CounseLLMe as a satellite workshop of HHAI25 in beautiful Pisa: sites.google.com/unitn.it/cou... We will host a half-day workshop of presentations about #LLMs and human #conversations. Join us by submitting an abstract before March 31! #research #satellite

Proud of the Complex Systems Society's stand about supporting initiatives for open science and reducing the impact of "impact factor" metrics. We started this conversation when I was in the Executive Committee and I am only glad to see this black on white.

✨ Keynote Speaker Reveal! ✨ We are excited to announce that Dr. Massimo Stella will be a keynote speaker at the 45th edition of Tabu Dag!

NetSciEd 2025 in Maastricht Teaching network science or studying education systems as networks? Submit your abstract (due tomorrow!) sites.google.com/view/netscie...

And we are rolling! Submissions are open and will be accepted on a rolling basis! Invited speakers include @tiago.skewed.de and Renaud Lambiotte! All info on our website! 💪🏼 Spread the word 😁 The satellite will be a half day satellite on Tuesday afternoon! signet-friends.github.io

If you're into network science and have done work on criminal networks/activity, consider sending your work to criminalcomplexity.weebly.com. Organising with Toby Davies, Cecilia Meneghini, Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Rick Quax, Huijuan Wang, Wang Ngai Yeung.

If true, this is unbelievable. Ruling out the investigation of biases means destroying a wide variety of computational social science-, anthropological and psychological research science but also key research on AI and safety. This is highly dangerous for science.

🏅Ready to coach their #Complexity72h team, meet Javier M. Buldú from Rey Juan Carlos University, Brennan Klein (@jkbren.bsky.social) and Maddalena Torricelli from @nunetsi.bsky.social. ⚽️Their project: "Leveraging Complexity Sciences to Analyze Soccer Performance Evolution Over the Last Decade"

Excited to share our new article published in npj Complexity with @lajello.bsky.social , @giuliocimini.bsky.social, and Laura Alessandretti, where we shed light on the dynamics behind the #GameStop short squeeze. rdcu.be/d8pvI

New paper in Behavior Research Methods! 😍 link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758... EmoAtlas is a Python package that implements textual forma mentis networks for the psychological analysis of texts. 👇 GitHub here: github.com/RiccardoImpr...

And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at NetSI London working with me and the @nplab.bsky.social on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems. Application deadline: 16th February 2025. Bring your A game!

2 new episodes of our CogNosco & Ascolto Podcast just dropped on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNC9... This one is relative to multiplex lexical networks, multilayer models of knowledge where nodes are concepts, linked according to multiple types of conceptual associations... Enjoy the podcast!

Our "CogNosco & Ascolto" podcast is a nice opportunity for hearing about the research we publish in our lab, dealing with cognitive science and artificial intelligence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GKT...

The new website for our CogNosco Lab is ready! We work on cognitive data science and AI psychometrics, using complex networks to investigate knowledge in the minds of humans and large language models. cognosco.dipsco.unitn.it

What happens when forma mentis networks meet Large Language Models? In our recent paper we find even ChatGPT's LLMs replicate negative attitudes to maths and STEM found in high-schoolers: doi.org/10.3390/bdcc... LLMs can reflect human affective biases and we need tools to investigate this further!

Nature Italy covers our paper (with @jstubbersfield.bsky.social) on content biases in Large Language Models www.nature.com/articles/d43...

A quick selection of interesting papers from this year: 1) A level-headed intro to neural manifolds and how they tie into our current scientific project. www.nature.com/articles/s41... by Langdon et al.

#Grant secured! 🎉 As PI (myself) and co-PI (Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri), our COGNOSCO project #won 100.000 EUR from the Call for Research at UniTN (success rate:5%). COGNOSCO will investigate associative knowledge in Large Language Models (e.g. #ChatGPT's) and their influence over humans.

In a recent paper from our lab (doi.org/10.3390/bdcc...) we show that Large Language Models like GPT 3, 3.5 and even 4 possess stereotypical associations similar to those found in high school students. It's not a surprise: these models are trained on human (biased) data! But the consequences...

Last year, the Cognitive Science journal welcomed submissions for its special initiative, “Progress and Puzzles of Cognitive Science” 🧠🧩 Check out some of the thought-provoking proposals that set the stage for the next phase of our dynamic discipline👇 co-mind.org/progress-puz...

Hello world! Time to start this new profile with something new, our letter on machine psychology co-authored with Thomas T. Hills and Yoed N. Kenett: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...