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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · 25d

We must come to terms with the fact that it was a huge mistake to leave the online world largely unchecked, and that we urgently need to deal with a fragmented, radicalized and instrumentalized reality in many countries simultaneously and take action instead of remaining in shock or relativization.

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Riccardo Di Clemente @riccardodiclemente.com · Jun 27

We discover how production networks dynamically rewired during COVID-19, with firms that enabled economic exchanges emerging as key players and creating a more resilient economy overall. Check our paper doi.org/10.48550/arX... @giuliocimini.bsky.social @blengyel.bsky.social Anna Mancini

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martikagv.bsky.social @martikagv.bsky.social · May 30

🚗 💥 Excited to share that our latest article is now published in Sustainable Cities and Society!

🔗 lnkd.in/gE8QyWAH
💫 First study to use mobile phone activity data to estimate CO2 emissions validated with emissions sensor measurements

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Rafael Prieto-Curiel @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social · May 22

Accepted to #CCS2025 but need help covering costs? The #OpenArmsGrant supports attendees from low- and middle-income countries with travel, fees, and more.

Budget should never be a barrier to participating in science!

Apply by June 15.
ccs25.cssociety.org/open-arms-gr...
#ComplexSystems

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · May 1

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · May 1

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)

Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · Apr 1

Extremely excited about this *new preprint*, where we use a collective field experiment with our own subreddits, which allowed us to uncover diverging factors for online participation between the very active and the passive. More details by the (as usual) *amazing* lead @lfoswaldo.bsky.social below👇

Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · Apr 1

1/ Excited to share our new preprint “A Collective Field Experiment Disentangling Participation in Online Political Discussions” – osf.io/preprints/so...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Mar 21

This is insane

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Mar 12

For a summary of our research, check riccardodiclemente.com/projects/sem...

@nunetsi.bsky.social
@northeasternu.bsky.social
@isi.it
@connectionslab.bsky.social

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Mar 12

How do major real-world events shape online conversations?
With Anna Mancini, @giuliocimini.bsky.social @ric-dicle.bsky.social we found that while activity surges, users repeat the same ideas at an accelerating pace, limiting meaningful discussions.
On @pnasnexus.org academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Mar 11

oh wow…this is a whole new level…conspiracy level intesifies 😅

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 10

Musk: "The waste and fraud in entitlement spending -- that's the big one to eliminate. That's the half trillion, maybe 600 or 700 billion a year. That's also the mechanism by which Democrats attract & retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here & then turning them into voters."

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · Feb 7

Two new NERDS papers published: GameStop, Copenhagen bike lanes
nerds.itu.dk/2025/02/07/t...

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Dani Gambit @danigambit.bsky.social · Feb 4

Preprint v2 is out! On @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social our update on #ModelCollapse of #AI #LLMs with new characterizations based on #Semantic #Networks and #NextToken predictions, new insights about the collapse effect and possible mitigation methods. @lucapappalardo.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2410.12341

Characterizing Model Collapse in Large Language Models Using Semantic Networks and Next-Token Probability

As synthetic content increasingly infiltrates the web, generative AI models may experience an autophagy process, where they are fine-tuned using their own outputs. This autophagy could lead to a pheno...

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Giulio Cimini @giuliocimini.bsky.social · Feb 3

New paper on npj Complexity:
The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Great work by @adtony.bsky.social with @lajello.bsky.social and L.Alessandretti
Phys.org blog post phys.org/news/2024-02...

The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze - npj Complexity

npj Complexity - The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze

www.nature.com

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Feb 3

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.
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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Feb 3

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

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Abbas K. Rizi @abbasrizi.bsky.social · Jan 21

End your January on a high note! Join us at the Pioneer Centre for AI for two thought-provoking talks and insightful discussions.

1) Large-Scale Network Embeddings by Christian Djurhuus
2) Measuring polarization by Mikko Kivelä

31 Jan 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
www.aicentre.dk/events/last-...

On the last Friday of each month, we host the Last Fridays Talks, where one of our seven Collaboratories shares insights from their current work. Join us for a discussion on results and recent papers, followed by socializing afterward for anyone who wishes to attend.

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Jan 19

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Jan 15

Doom can now be played in a pdf. Crazy.

doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf

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Ronaldo Menezes 🦋 @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social · Nov 21

go.bsky.app/PPpuajB

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Ronaldo Menezes 🦋 @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social · Nov 21

Amazing first day here at the European Mobility Symposium. Really happy that the format designed encouraged engagement and discussions. Thanks to @lucapappalardo.bsky.social @gmauro10.bsky.social @ric-dicle.bsky.social @adtony.bsky.social

ems2024pisa.github.io/europeanmobi...

European Mobility Symposium

ems2024pisa.github.io

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Antonio Desiderio @adtony.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi, can I be added? :D

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Jennifer Hu @ COLM (recruiting PhDs and postdocs!) @jennhu.bsky.social · Oct 24

To researchers doing LLM evaluation: prompting is *not a substitute* for direct probability measurements. Check out the camera-ready version of our work, to appear at EMNLP 2023! (w/ @rplevy.bsky.social)

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2305.13264

Original thread: twitter.com/_jennhu/stat...

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · Nov 15

The vibes here are so much nicer than on Twitter. And it feels less secluded than mastodon. I'm hyping bsky

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