🚨 New preprint Do LLMs have stable dispositions measurable using instruments designed for humans? Led by @jelenameyer.bsky.social, our new preprint shows that LLM responses are driven by response bias, rendering their psychological profiles method artifacts. @dgarcia.eu @arc-mpib.bsky.social

This is a good way to think about AI’s shortfall. It’s the journey that brings satisfaction more than the destination. The AI shortcut omits the struggle/friction/elation that makes the outcome worthwhile. Weirdly, it’s also why billionaires become assholes—no friction, no joy.

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

📣 New paper @nathumbehav.nature.com: A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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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Humans invented arithmetic circa 3000 BC. And yet here we are.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

🚀Introducing 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐋𝐋𝐌: A reporting checklist for using LLMs in behavioral & social science ✅GUIDE-LLM is a reporting checklist designed by 80+ experts to improve transparency, reproducibility & ethical accountability of LLM-based research 📄 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?...

📣 Manuscript out! 📣 Do you struggle in navigating the maze of ABM methods? 🧭 This works unifies the literature on ABM calibration/estimation within a single comprehensive taxonomy: 🎲 sampling-based methods 🤖 meta-models 📖 open-box methods with @gdfm.bsky.social 💡 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New work by my former PhD student, Boyang Li His team produced 500 stories of less than 100 words. LLMs were basically chance-level at answering binary questions about the stories arxiv.org/abs/2601.12410

Are LLMs Smarter Than Chimpanzees? An Evaluation on Perspective Taking and Knowledge State Estimation

Cognitive anthropology suggests that the distinction of human intelligence lies in the ability to infer other individuals' knowledge states and understand their intentions. In comparison, our closest ...

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📣 CS2Italy 2026 the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science ⏰ Today is the last day to submit your abstract 📍 Turin, May 19–21 We welcome abstract submissions in: #ComputerScience #NetSci #ComplexSystems #Sociology #Economics #Politics #CognitiveScience #Psychology 👉 cs2italy.org

Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science to join us in Turin on May 19-21 We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more For more: cs2italy.org

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare

🏆 We have won a Methods Recognition award at #CSCW2025 for our paper about Narratives of War in the Ukrainian memetic warfare! Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2309.08363 With @yelenamejova.bsky.social , Arthur Capozzi, @gdfm.bsky.social and myself. Huge thanks to @acm-cscw.bsky.social !

While limited to one ABM, this work fills a critical gap in the ABM calibration literature, providing the first structured comparison of DA and LBI for latent state inference. Kudos to Marco, Corrado, and Gianmarco for such a wonderful collaboration! Hope you enjoy it 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.17625

Comparing Data Assimilation and Likelihood-Based Inference on Latent State Estimation in Agent-Based Models

In this paper, we present the first systematic comparison of Data Assimilation (DA) and Likelihood-Based Inference (LBI) in the context of Agent-Based Models (ABMs). These models generate observable t...

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🚨 Fresh from ArXiv: “Comparing Data Assimilation and Likelihood-Based Inference on Latent State Estimation in Agent-Based Models” with @marcopangallo.bsky.social, @c0rrad0.bsky.social, & @gdfm.bsky.social 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.17625

Mango Mussolini is the new expression that I didn’t know I needed until now!

Almost back from #ic2s2 (thanks Lufthansa). The most positively-surprising impression from the conference, almost a decade after the first edition, is how much the discipline has coalesced. In 2016, it was easy to distinguish a paper authored by computer scientists vs sociologists. Not so easy now!

🚨 Study alert! We've developed a prototype that enables you to create personalized social media feeds using natural language rules and import them into Bluesky. Join our study to try out the tool, give us your feedback, and earn a $50 gift card! Sign up: forms.gle/MkSGKzxDfBEc... Please share :)

FOMO for #ic2s2 is hitting hard---especially for Francesco, who is bravely pretending he’s totally fine without me. Go check out our poster on early linguistic fingerprints of conspiracy theorists on Reddit (w. @gdfm.bsky.social )! Full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05086

@c0rrad0.bsky.social presenting our work on the Russia-Ukraine war on social media #ic2s2

If you're @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and are looking for a faculty position, get in touch. @uni-saarland.de is hiring. Right now, there's an open call in Computer Science @saarland-informatics-campus.de: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... Soon, there'll be open calls in the Social Sciences.

Causality center stage at #ic2s2 with opening keynote by @eckles.bsky.social

🚨Are moral judgements biased by the gender of the subject? We find *no* direct effect when looking at Reddit! Our causal study design is based on carefully matching similar situations that people with different genders experience (and share). Study led by @loreb92.bsky.social rdcu.be/eumlQ

Moral judgments in online discourse are not biased by gender

Scientific Reports - Moral judgments in online discourse are not biased by gender

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Hugging my poster at @icwsm.bsky.social! 🥰 Back in Copenhagen to present "Variational Inference of Parameters in Opinion Dynamics Models"! Great time here, meeting all my @nerdsitu.bsky.social friends and creating new connections in the community! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Our paper "Conspiracy theories and where to find them on TikTok" has been accepted at the Main conference of @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025! Great work led by @fracorso.bsky.social supervised by @gdfm.bsky.social and yours truly. For more details check the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.12545

Great experience in Sydney at #WWW2025! Today I presented the paper "Causal modeling of climate activism on Reddit", the work done during my visiting period in Copenhagen with the amazing team @c0rrad0.bsky.social, @lajello.bsky.social, @gdfm.bsky.social! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

📢 Deadline Extended! 🚨 6th Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable at #ICWSM2025! 🗓️ New Deadline: April 7th, 2025 Submit your abstract or paper 🔗 tinyurl.com/DWMV25 #DataForSocialGood @yelenamejova.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @isi.it @icwsm.bsky.social

One day remaining to submit to our #ICWSM Workshop on #Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable -- submit your short and long papers by March 31! sites.google.com/view/datafor...