Our opinion article about "Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EUโs Digital Services Act" is out in CACM! cacm.acm.org/opinion/rese...
Francesco Pierri
@frapierri.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano. Capoeira at Sul Da Bahia Milano.
We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act. They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations. #DSA
โ ๏ธโ ๏ธโ ๏ธ Attention #NLProc researchers, the #EACL2027 deadline is only a week away! Submit your best work by August 3d AoE, best of luck! ๐ช ๐CfP: 2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/ ๐ฌ submit here: openreview.net/group?id=acl...
Call for Papers
Official website for the 2027 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2027.eacl.org
Super excited to present our work at #ACL2026 โจ ๐ LLM-based social simulations have lots of analytic flexibilityโresponse generation methods are often overlooked ๐Tue July 7, 9am, Poster Session F
Thrilled to share that our paper with @carohaensch.bsky.social, @barbaraplank.bsky.social & @mstrohm.bsky.social has been accepted to #ACL2026 Main! How to generate closed-ended survey responses ๐ with LLMs trained to produce open-ended text? ๐ We show results from 32 mio. simulated responsesโฆ ๐งต
Very pleased to have been on the leadership team for this paper! LLMs are already being used all over behavioural science. But it is often pretty hard to work out exactly what has been done, and therefore how much confidence to place in the results. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour
Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...
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AI agents like @openclaw ๐ฆ are everywhere, answering emails, managing calendars, doing our chores for us. ๐ฃ REALM is back for year 2! Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models at #EMNLP2026, Budapest ๐ญ๐บ ๐ Stellar lineup โฌ๏ธ ๐ Submit by July 17, 23:59 AoE #AgenticAI #AIagents #LLMAgents #NLProc
Last week at #CySoc2026 at #ICWSM2026, Los Angeles, we brought together researchers studying #onlinetoxicity, #onlineharassment, platform dynamics, #onlineinfluence, cross-lingual threats, and the growing role of AI in online platforms. 1/3
๐จ I'm recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social, to be based at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). These are both full-time positions for 2 years. Deadline for applications: June 23. Expected start date: September 2026. ๐ Please share and help me spread the word! ๐
Excited to share this year's program for #CySoc2026 @icwsm.bsky.social in Los Angeles. This yearโs workshop focuses on humanโAI relationships, online toxicity, platform dynamics, and broader societal risks emerging around generative and agentic AI. ๐งต1/2
๐ CS2Italy has been officially opened by @ccattuto.bsky.social at OGR Torino ๐น AI and human behavior ๐น Social and information networks ๐น Urban science and mobility ๐น Misinformation and digital platforms ๐น Inequality, cooperation, and collective behavior ๐น Science and society in the age of AI
ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you donโt have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)
Looking for PhD or postdoc opportunites in #NLProc #XAI? We @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk @apepa.bsky.social are hiring for a start in Autumn 2026. ๐ Application deadline: 31 May 2026 โน๏ธ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-... ๐ Reasons to apply: copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/
๐ขโ ๏ธ IMPORTANT DATE CORRECTION: the ARR deadline for EACL 2027 is Aug 3, 2026 (not Aug 6 as previously announced). EACL is earlier than usual in '27, so this is the only viable ARR cycle! ๐ All areas of CL/NLP + related fields welcome. Full CfP coming soon. #NLProc #EACL2027
Attention #NLProc researchers, the EACL 2027 website is officially LIVE: 2027.eacl.org! ๐ ๐ฌ๐ท Join us in Athens, Greece (Mar 9-13, 2027) at #EACL2027 ๐ ARR submission deadline: Aug 6, 2026. Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Stay tuned for the detailed CfP soon!
Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!
2026 ACM Collective Intelligence Conference
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I am looking for highly motivated candidates for ๐ญ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น๐-๐ณ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ต๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ถ ๐ ๐ถ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ, focusing on ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ. Please share with potentially interested candidates.
๐น Job alert: PhD position in Responsible AI/Computational Social Science at Politecnico di Milano ๐ Milan ๐ฎ๐น ๐ bit.ly/4dUbC4i
LLMs will transform e-commerce in ways that consumer protection is unprepared for! Our new preprint finds that conversational AI can strongly steer consumer choices: sponsored product selection nearly tripled relative to traditional placement (N=2012). Link: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04263
LLMs are reshaping how we process information, now even processing videos for us. In a study with 900+ participants, we found AI boosts efficiency and accuracy, but also drives overreliance. So the real question: how much of our access to information are we willing to outsource to LLMs?
AI can now answer questions about video content, transforming how people consume information on the Web. An experiment with 900+ participants found that AI improves speed and accuracy of retrieval BUT, users become overreliant on AI answers, accepting wrong answers without any loss of confidence.
AI can now answer questions about video content, transforming how people consume information on the Web. An experiment with 900+ participants found that AI improves speed and accuracy of retrieval BUT, users become overreliant on AI answers, accepting wrong answers without any loss of confidence.
๐Introducing ๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐: A reporting checklist for using LLMs in behavioral & social science โ GUIDE-LLM is a reporting checklist designed by 80+ experts to improve transparency, reproducibility & ethical accountability of LLM-based research ๐ llm-checklist.com
GUIDE-LLM
Reporting Checklist for Studies with Large Language Models in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
llm-checklist.com
We've extended the #CySoc2026 deadline to March 25 to give authors a few additional days to prepare their submissions! Please consider submitting your work and sharing this information! More information: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Submission portal: easychair.org/conferences?...
A few extra days for CySoc submissions!
We've extended the #CySoc2026 deadline to March 25 to give authors a few additional days to prepare their submissions! Please consider submitting your work and sharing this information! More information: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Submission portal: easychair.org/conferences?...
I'm organizing a Research with AI Agents Workshop Series, inviting colleagues and friends who have been actively exploring the application of AI agents to share how they're using them in their work and research. The first talk will feature Dr. Yanbo Zhang. See abstract and bio below. 1/2
Only two days left to apply!
The #ICWSM 2026 Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award is now accepting nominations and self-nominations! ๐ Deadline for this year's award: March 15th, 2026. Don't miss out on this great opportunity! More info: icwsm.org/2026/submit....
๐ฃCFP: 7th edition International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc) We welcome papers that examine a diverse range of issues related to online harmful communications. ๐ Submission: March 22nd, 2026 ๐ Notification: April 8th, 2026 ๐ Details: cy-soc.github.io/2026/
CySoc 2026 - International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats
cy-soc.github.io
Due to the high number of applicants we extended the deadline by one week to **March 8th**. css2.lakecomoschool.org
Homepage - Computational Social Science
Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities 2nd Edition June 22-26, 2026 Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy Over the past decade, computational social science (CSS) has risen as ...
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Final call for applications - deadline on February 28th!
We are looking forward to your amazing submissions to the CySoc workshop at ICWSM 2026! Learn more here: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Note: the previously circulated submission deadline has been shifted.
โJust a bit less than 4 weeks left for the Adamic-Glance Award's nominations! If you are or you know an early-career researcher who has made innovative and impactful contributions to social computing and computational social science, please consider this great opportunity โญ๏ธ
The #ICWSM 2026 Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award is now accepting nominations and self-nominations! ๐ Deadline for this year's award: March 15th, 2026. Don't miss out on this great opportunity! More info: icwsm.org/2026/submit....