New paper @ EPJ Data Science 🔎 Together with @vpansanella.bsky.social and @giuliorossetti.bsky.social we discovered that #LLM agents converge toward agreement not through sycophancy or blind conformity, but via a structured and asymmetric persuasion process. Read more👇 shorturl.at/SRUmT

Selective agreement, not sycophancy: investigating opinion dynamics in LLM interactions - EPJ Data Science

Understanding how opinions evolve is essential for addressing phenomena such as polarization, radicalization, and consensus formation. In this work, we investigate how language shapes opinion dynamics...

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New pre-print! #SpreadPy, a Python implementation of spreading activation for both single-layer and multiplex networks. arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09628 GitHub: github.com/dsalvaz/Spre... @massimost.bsky.social @giuliorossetti.bsky.social @et al. #kddlab #sobigdata #isticnr #dipsco

SpreadPy: A Python tool for modelling spreading activation and superdiffusion in cognitive multiplex networks

We introduce SpreadPy as a Python library for simulating spreading activation in cognitive single-layer and multiplex networks. Our tool is designed to perform numerical simulations testing structure-...

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Call for Papers! 📣 📜 Join us in unraveling the impact of social media on human behavior 💻🙋🤳 for the 2nd edition of The Social Media Sway Workshop! 📅 Submit your papers by July 1st, 2025 (AoE). #SocialMedia #SMS25 #ASONAM25 #CFP sms-workshop.github.io.

Information Diffusion and Opinion Dynamics on Node-Attributed Graphs: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... With @vpansanella.bsky.social and @giuliorossetti.bsky.social

Structure-Attribute Similarity Interplay in Diffusion Dynamics on Social Networks

Social interactions are shaped by homophily, the tendency for individuals to connect with others who share similar attributes. Exploring this phenomenon is crucial for understanding a wide spectr...

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🚨#callforpapers🚨 Last day to submit your work for the Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence Conference. 👉 Abstract: today 👉 Full paper: January 31, 2025 Join us at #HHAI2025 in Pisa, June 9-13! 🌐 hhai-conference.org/2025/cfp/ #AI #conference #ML #AIEthics

Announcing the "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science" satellite workshop at NetSci 2025!! Apply at netsci.nascol.net/cfa before Feb. 7th! Organized with @zpneal.bsky.social, @vtraag.bsky.social, @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, and @illegaldaydream.bsky.social!

Merry YMas everybody! ysocialtwin.github.io #YSocial #YMas

Today at #ComplexNetworks2024 i presented #YSocial , an LLM-powered #DigitalTwin of a #SocialMedia ecosystem. Find out more at ysocialtwin.github.io #NetworkScience #AI #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience (w/ @giuliorossetti.bsky.social & several other cool researxhers)

First day of #complexnetworks2024 🔍 Today, I presented our work (@andreajpg.bsky.social @giuliorossetti.bsky.social) Bots of a Feather: Mixing Biases in LLMs' Opinion Dynamics✨ #cna2024 #cna #networks

A mass scam of hard-earned taxpayer money, hidden under national budgets for "science". - The salary of how many scientist could have been paid? - How many experiments could have been done? - How many support staff and technicians? - How much could be paid to reviewers and academic editors?

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🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network around you. The microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social . 1/

#YSocial v1.0.0 (Hoid) is out! This version integrates: - News Pages - Agents' dynamic interests - Multimodal (Text & Image) content sharing - Agents' churn Try it out and let us know! #SocialDigitalTwin ysocialtwin.github.io/blog/

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News from the agents -

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"Bluesky’s 20 full-time employees have been working around the clock to deal with the issues," etc www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...

Bluesky Is Growing Up. Maybe Too Fast.

The fledgling social media site has been flooded by people seeking alternatives to Facebook, X and Threads. It hasn’t all been easy.

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The call for Workshop and Tutorial for HHAI2025 is out 📆 Proposal submission deadline: January 31st, 2025! We welcome original ideas on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence: we'll discuss them together in Pisa, Italy, in June 2025! #AI #conference #HHAI25 hhai-conference.org/2025/worksho...

Our long didactic paper on #network analysis, written with many of the amazing scientists that work in the field is finally out in IJMPR and open access ! It was a long and collaborative effort two years in the making, but, it was worth it! Please repost onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Network analysis: An overview for mental health research

Network approaches to psychopathology have become increasingly common in mental health research, with many theoretical and methodological developments quickly gaining traction. This article illustrat...

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A few months back we released #YSocial, a next-generation platform harnessing the power of LLM to create digital twins for social simulations. ysocialtwin.github.io 1/n

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Where the Digital World Comes to Life - What is Y Social? Y Social is a cutting-edge Digital Twin of...

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The BlueSky team created a great tool to help newcomers: starter packs. Here a quick starter pack for #complexity and network scientists + feeds to quickly join the community! #NetSky Please, help to share (and if you are not in the list, get in touch and I will add you) go.bsky.app/KMfiTU2

🚨 ALERT 🚨 Are you looking for (recent) longitudinal social media data? We recently released a huge #bluesky anonymized #dataset of social interactions and contents covering 80% of the service users for 13 months. Available on Zenodo! Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2404.18984 #academicsky #NetSci

"I'm in the Bluesky Tonight": Insights from a Year...

Pollution of online social spaces caused by rampaging d/misinformation is a growing societal concern. However, recent decisions to reduce access to social media APIs are causing a shortage of...

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