Back from a great week in Turin at @cs2italy.bsky.social! I presented my work in collaboration with @lrossi.bsky.social on VLM-based visual discourse on Climate Change. I received insightful feedback, and was impressed by many other presentations. The event's level was remarkably high!

Arianna Pera @ariannapera.bsky.social defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/27/a...

Happy to share that last week I successfully defended my PhD! 🧑‍🎓 The defense was an enjoyable moment and a great way to close this chapter. Many thanks to my supervisor for the guidance and trust, to collaborators and colleagues for the discussions, and to family and friends for their support!

Big congrats to @luigiarminio.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD at @itu.dk during the last three years he has done some amazing work to understand online polarization and I'm sure he'll keep doing high quality research.

NERDS at #ic2s2 😍

The work “Extracting Participation in Collective Action from Social Media”, in collaboration with @lajello.bsky.social, at @ic2s2.bsky.social today! Check out the paper ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... and models huggingface.co/ariannap22 Feat. poster and research buddy @alessianetwork.bsky.social ♥️

Just back from #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping! I presented a poster + talk on VLLM-based clustering of social media images around climate change polarization. Huge thanks to the organizers and the whole community for the great discussions and inspiration! #Polarvis #NERDS #ITU

🎙️Busy morning today at @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social for CHuB talking about mis/disinformation on Twitter and Mastodon @ricgallotti.bsky.social @kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social @annabertani.bsky.social

Thx to our @mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy for making freely available this massive tome of knowledge!