Gianmarco De Francisci Morales @gdfm.bsky.social

Great work! What we can learn from TikTok through its Research API arxiv.org/pdf/2402.13855… by @gdfm7 @Corso_Fra_ @frapi9 This graph has very interesting implications for studying the Global South

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at @UW! I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/ @UW / @UW_iSchool

🎓 We are looking for a PhD candidate! 🎓 Are you passionate about AI and fascinated by cybersecurity & cybersafety? Ready to explore how AI is reshaping the digital world—while having fun along the way? Apply here by Dec. 15: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-…

Tinfoil hat Russia 🇷🇺: Belarusian actionist artist Uladzik Bokhan emailed fake instructions from Russia’s ruling party to Voronezh school teachers, with a demand to make tinfoil hats to protect their minds from NATO influence, and to report back. Compliance was more than enthusiastic! Full video of the social experiment here: youtu.be/KGtoBFeZzkg?fe…

I am recruiting a PhD student to being in September 2025, through the ELLIS call for PhD students: ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd… (deadline Nov 15th)

🚨 Happy to share our latest work on arXiv about exposing cross-platform coordinated campaigns during the 2024 US election! #CSS #2024Election @FractalZucky @LucaLuceri @emilio__ferrara arxiv.org/abs/2410.22716

Happy to announce our paper 🐻‍❄️"Polaris: Sampling from the Multigraph Configuration Model with Prescribed Color Assortativity" has been accepted for #WSDM2025 in Hannover 🇩🇪! Huge thanks to co-authors @gdfm7, @teorionda, and @gionis Preliminary version: arxiv.org/abs/2409.01363

$12k to publish in @nature but yeah the problem is northern hemisphere seasons.

✨I’m on the academic job market!✨ I'm a CS Postdoc at Stanford in the @stanfordnlp. I develop AI and causal inference to tackle societal issues like online civility, racial justice, sustainability, and more. Check out the thread for details! Website: kristinagligoric.com

New preprint: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.08948… 1/N

OK, now they have REALLY gone too far.

sorry i had to do this

Dear managers: Raising productivity is not about monitoring people. It's about motivating them. 94 studies: Surveillance fails to improve performance—and increases stress, distrust, and dissatisfaction. Tracking people is not a substitute for respecting and valuing them.

Presenting "Variational Inference of Parameters in Opinion Dynamics Models" at Social Simulation Conference, with many nice people behind me! #ssc24 #abms #socialsimulation #krakow arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05358

New preprint out! 🎉 We measured how gender affects moral judgments using data from r/AITA on Reddit. We did this by identifying and comparing judgments on stories describing similar situations authored by users of different genders. arxiv.org/abs/2408.12872…

New models of social systems as directed hypergraphs reveal how group dynamics play a crucial role in shaping social systems across various domains Read go.aps.org/4fLvm8N @ail_eni @AdrianoFazzone @lordgrilo @gdfm7 @CentaiInstitute @NUnetsi #PRXComplexSystems

Selectively breeding the most *individually* productive hens leads to lower overall egg production, so chicken farmers have cleverly learned to shift selection to the level of the *group*. Economists, on the other hand >

This sounds like a trivial observation and it isn’t: No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.

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