Thrilled to be visiting the NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (@nerdsitu.bsky.social) group at @itu.dk! After a wonderful experience here during my PhD, it’s a pleasure to continue collaborating with @lajello.bsky.social 👨🏻‍💻 Excited for another inspiring chapter in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰

🤖 Do LLMs reflect our moral expressions—or alter them? In our #ACL2025 paper, we study 12 widely used LLMs and found that moral expressions are altered to varying degrees depending on the editing task and moral conditioning prompt. 📍 ACL2025 — Hall X5 (28) 🕚 Today, 11:00–12:30

This week we had the pleasure to host our colleagues and friends from Università della Calabria. @luciolcw.bsky.social delivered a well-attended intensive course on Large Language Models, and Andrea Tagarelli presented the research done by his team. We look forward to new collaborations.

🎉 Excited to share that our paper "Exploring LLMs' Ability to Spontaneously and Conditionally Modify Moral Expressions through Text Manipulation" has been accepted to #ACL2025 (Main)!

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of e-meeting the OpenAI team for an insightful discussion about Open LLMs. While I can’t share details just yet, there’s a lot to be excited about! 🚀 It was particularly inspiring to see Sam Altman join the session and share OpenAI’s vision for open models 🤯

🚨 Just 1 week to go! ⏳ Don't miss your chance to submit short papers and 2-page abstracts to the Next-Gen and Alternative Social Media Workshop at @icwsm.bsky.social — deadline is April 14 (AoE)! ⏰ 👉🏼 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io

🚨 Deadline extended to April 14 📅 📚 Extra time to submit your abstracts and short papers to the Next-Gen and Alternative Social Media Workshop at @icwsm.bsky.social! 👉🏼 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io

🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon? 👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎 📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! 📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025

Wrapping up an amazing #AAAI2025 in Philadelphia 🇺🇸 We presented our work "Open Models, Closed Minds? On Agents Capabilities in Mimicking Human Personalities through Open Large Language Models" 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2401.07115 Grateful to everyone who engaged with our work for the valuable feedback!

🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon? 👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎 📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! 📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025

🔥 Hey NetPals! This week, we welcome Lucio La Cava @luciolcw.bsky.social from University of Calabria, who will discuss the rise of decentralized social media and challenges for early-career researchers in the age of big tech. 📅 Mark your calendars: 6th Feb, 4pm UK time Zoom: netplace.site

Had an amazing time last week in Trento for #CS2Italy! 🇮🇹 I presented our work on automating content compliance checking in social media using LLM agents (arxiv.org/abs/2409.08963) 🤖📝 It was great to catch up with old friends and meet new ones! So grateful for the inspiring conversations 🙌

Huge turnout of NERDS (+alumni) at #cs2italy ! It is so great to get together + meet up with former visitors/group members.

🎉 Exciting news! Our paper "Open Models, Closed Minds? On Agents Capabilities in Mimicking Human Personalities through Open Large Language Models" has been accepted at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence #AAAI2025! 🥳 📝 Check it out here: arxiv.org/abs/2401.07115 #NLP

Wrapping up an amazing #EMNLP2024 in Miami! 🌴☀️ Grateful to everyone who visited our poster for their valuable feedback and stimulating discussions! 🤗

🌴 Excited to head to #EMNLP2024 next week! I'll be presenting our work "Talking the Talk Does Not Entail Walking the Walk: On the Limits of Large Language Models in Lexical Entailment Recognition" 📝 📄 Check out the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.14894

👨🏻‍💻 Glad to have presented our work "Is Contrasting All You Need? Contrastive Learning for the Detection and Attribution of AI-generated Text" 🤖 at ECAI 2024 in Santiago de Compostela 🇪🇸 📚 doi.org/10.3233/FAIA... We also walked the final section of the Santiago’s French Way! ✨

📢 Happy to share that our paper "Talking the Talk Does Not Entail Walking the Walk: On the Limits of Large Language Models in Lexical Entailment Recognition" has been accepted at EMNLP'24 Findings #EMNLP2024 🥳☀️🌴 📝 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.14894

Really enjoyed presenting our tutorial on “Mining, Modeling and Analysing Decentralised Social Media” w/ Alessia Galdeman during the #ASONAM24 Conference 🥳 My focus was on working with free and open APIs from Decentralised Social Platforms in an API-scarcity era 👨🏻‍💻 #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky

🚨 Can you really spot if a text is AI-generated, and pinpoint which LLM created it? 📝🤖 📢 Check out our new work "Is Contrasting All You Need? Contrastive Learning for the Detection and Attribution of AI-generated Text" — just accepted at ECAI2024 🥳 👉🏼 arxiv.org/abs/2407.09364

🚀 The DeWeb Workshop @ ICWSM'24 is just around the corner! ✨ 🗓️ Save the date for our keynote by Andy Piper (Developer Relations @ Mastodon 🐘) ⏰ June 3 at 9:00AM EDT (15:00 CEST) 💻 Join us on Zoom: zoom.us/j/8188253222... 📚 Check our amazing program: deweb-workshop.github.io

I am so excited to share that my journey with the University of Calabria continues as an Assistant Professor starting today! 👨🏻‍💻 Looking forward to the adventures ahead! ✨

🚨 One day left!!! ⏰

🚨 The deadline is fast approaching! ⏰ 🗓️ 3 days left to send your extended abstracts and short papers to DeWeb'24 at ICWSM 👉🏼 deweb-workshop.github.io

⏰ One week left to send your abstracts and short papers to DeWeb'24! 📝 Join our ICWSM 2024 workshop and collaborate to draft a white paper on the opportunities and challenges within the DeWeb 👉🏼 deweb-workshop.github.io

📢 Exciting news for DeWeb 2024! 🚀 We're glad to announce that Andy Piper (Developer Relations @ Mastodon 🐘) will be the keynote speaker at the 1st Workshop on Decentralizing the Web at ICWSM'24 🚀 🗓️ Abstracts and short papers are due by April 5! 👉🏼 deweb-workshop.github.io

🚨 Deadline extended to April 5 🚨 📚 Extra time to submit your abstracts and short papers to the 1st Workshop on Decentralizing the Web at ICWSM'24 📝 Join us and collaborate to draft a white paper on the opportunities and challenges within the DeWeb! 👉🏼 deweb-workshop.github.io

📢 The deadline for submissions to the 1st Workshop on Decentralizing the Web at ICWSM 2024 is approaching! 🚨 🗓️ Submissions due: March 24th 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! More info here 👉🏼 deweb-workshop.github.io

🚨 Excited to announce the 1st Int. Workshop on Decentralizing the Web (DeWeb 2024) at ICWSM ✨ 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! 🗓️Deadline: March 24th 📢 More info: deweb-workshop.github.io w/ Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Baronchelli & Andrea Tagarelli

👨🏻‍💻🎓 Delighted to announce that I have successfully defended (cum laude ✨) my Ph.D. dissertation "Graph Mining and Multimodal Representation Learning for Emerging Decentralized Socio-Economic Domains" 🥳 What an amazing journey! 🚀

🚨 Excited to announce the 1st Int. Workshop on Decentralizing the Web (DeWeb 2024) at ICWSM ✨ 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! 🗓️Deadline: March 24th 📢 More info: deweb-workshop.github.io w/ Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Baronchelli & Andrea Tagarelli

🧠 Can Open LLMs Mimic Human Personalities? 🤖 Exploring the intersection of NLP and human psychology via artificial agents, we reveal distinct personalities, diverse effects in prompts, and improved mimicking through role and personality conditioning 📚 arxiv.org/abs/2401.07115

📢🚨 Our study on the Twitter migration to Mastodon is out now on ScientificReports! ✍🏼 Blogpost: communities.springernature.com/posts/get-ou... 📚 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔬 The migration is a unique example of collective behavioral change documented through large-scale digital traces.

👨🏻‍💻 Thrilled to have presented my tutorial “The Rise of the Fediverse: Shaping the Future of Social Media Research through Mastodon” 🐘🔬📚 at the 2023 ASONAM Conference in Kusadasi, Turkey 🌍 🏆 I’m also pleased to share that the tutorial has been awarded for being inspiring!

Hi there! 👋🏻 🙋🏻‍♂️ Introducing myself! 👨🏻‍💻 I'm Lucio, Ph.D. Student in Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Calabria, Italy 🇮🇹 📚 My research interests involve multimodal deep learning (Graph Representation Learning, NLP, Computer Vision) and network science 🚀 Here we go!