A new computational social science study, led by Anna Bertani w/ Riccardo Gallotti PierLuigiSacco🇺🇦 @fediscience.org & Spoutible

We show that verified/unverified humans/bots w/ different political leaning used significantly distinct emotional language to discuss about COVID-19 vaccines.

epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

📢🚨Excited to share our new pre-print: “On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial”, with Manoel, Riccardo Gallotti, and Bob West.

arxiv.org/abs/2403.14380

A thread 🧵:

🚨LLMs outdebate humans when given access to opponents' personal Information!🚨

In a pre-reg study (N=820), participants who debated ChatGPT had 81.7% (p<0.01) higher odds of agreeing with their opponents after the debate (compared to a human baseline)

📜arxiv.org/abs/2403.14380

We combined all forms of Active mobility (walking and cycling) into A, moving by Public Transport (Bus or Metro) into B, and moving by Car (including motorbikes and taxis) into C.

The result: the ABC of mobility 🚶🚌🚗

Check out our new paper 👇🧵
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

💡 #AI4TRUST and three other EU projects have collaborated to publish a White Paper, which details threats, opportunities, and next steps in the world of AI and disinformation.
Check it out here: eurac.tv/9WS7
#AI4TRUST

vera.ai AI4Media TITAN - AI Coaching to Fight Disinformation

Il White paper di Vera.ai, #AI4trust , AI4media e TITAN. Riccardo Gallotti Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK #misinformation

Check out our latest preprint arxiv.org/abs/2402.02173 🔊🔊
about “news media diet of disinformation spreaders” done by Anna Bertani Valeria Mazzeo and Riccardo Gallotti 💥

We're happy to welcome our new postdoc Anees 🎉

📌 He will work on online social dynamics using data-driven approaches and AI-based tools for the #AICODE project euractiv.com/ai-code/

To celebrate: delicious Pandoro 💥 (leftover from Christmas)

New preprint out 🔊🔊
arxiv.org/abs/2401.17846
Check out our latest work with Riccardo Gallotti and Jelena Grujic about (mis)information sharing online and the cognitive mechanisms behind the dynamic 🙂

Memories from our talks at NetSci-X 2024 given by @LucilaZuzek Andrea Guizzo @umarquis16646 about misinformation and human mobility 💥

Memories from yesterday's NetSci-X 2024: our former student Luigi Arminio, now PhD student at IT-Universitetet, presenting his master's thesis work - and paper in progress in collaboration with Elena Pavan - on the evolution of (dis)informative topics on Twitter

Join us in Exeter and London --calls are now open!

Do you want to present or organise a satellite session at #CCS2024 ?
Deadlines:
👉 Abstracts: 1 April 2024
👉 Satellites: 15 March 2024

Exciting moments yesterday at NetSci-X 2024! Insightful poster presentations by our PhD students Veronica Orsanigo and Anna Bertani, both showcasing studies on the communication patterns across the 'social network formerly known as Twitter'.

We are on!

New year, new page to our website, and a special one because YOU can write it!

Introducing our Resources page, where anyone from the complex systems community can find and share content they wish they'd known about before 👀

yrcss.cssociety.org/resources

Proud to announce that the 2024 edition of CCS will be in Exeter (Main Conference; 1-6 September) and London (Warmup, 30-31 August).
Hope to see you there.

In today's nature, a study shows that remote teams produce fewer breakthroughs! Disruptive science is more likely to come from groups working in close collaboration. 'Night science' discussions may require the kind of energy that's communicated in person.
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very proud of our new study in PNAS Nexus, led by
Anna & Marita Lítlá 🌟 Your environment affects how much & what you do on your smartphone. Want to cut down on social media and gaming? Stay away from the countryside!

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

New preprint out! Happy to be part of this great work lead by Giulia Pullano 👏🏼

Yesterday I defended my Ph.D. at Engineering unibz / Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK I want to thank my advisor Bruno Lepri , colleagues, friends and family for their support. A huge thanks goes to the committee members and reviewers Oswald Lanz Riccardo Di Clemente Esteban Moro Federico Botta and JJ Ramasco