Massimo Stella
@massimost.bsky.social
Associate Professor in AI and CogSci, Uni of Trento, Italy. PI of CogNosco Lab. Working on cognitive networks and NLP for understanding AI and the human mind.
New package and paper published ;) www.linkedin.com/pulse/spread...
SpreadPy - A new Python package by CogNosco Lab
When ideas spread in the mind, they behave a bit like ripples in water. Understanding how those ripples move—how one concept activates another, how thoughts accelerate or stall—has long been a central...
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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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We are excited our paper on cognitive networks and LLM biases won the Best Paper award in Big Data and Cognitive Science! Read our paper here: Abramski, K., Citraro, S., Lombardi, L., Rossetti, G., & Stella, M. (2023) doi.org/10.3390/bdcc...
The last 2 weeks have seen our CogNosco Lab publish 3 papers on the topic of #AI and #mental #health, check them out 😉 Predictors of loneliness at school: An explainable artificial intelligence approach on a large-scale cross-cultural assessment, Personality and Ind. Diff., doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
This is a busy week for CogNosco Lab! My PhD students Edith Haim and Edoardo De Duro coordinated a great workshop on #LLMs and #text #analysis at @hhaiconference.bsky.social. Meanwhile, I am travelling for a keynote on #NLP and #cognitive #networks at @tabudag.bsky.social, which stasera tomorrow!
Hear hear! 👇 @ghentccn.bsky.social @frosas.bsky.social @massimost.bsky.social
Psychonomic Society@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · last yr.The more the merrier! Traditional psychometric networks focus on pairs of variables, but what happens when we look at three or more at once? #psynomBRM paper on #hypergraphs by Marinazzo and colleagues; post by Alyssa Asmar buff.ly/tS2PrhL
One more week to apply!
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 2y agoHigher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025 We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/ho2025e... Wait no further and join!
We still have 2 slots available for contributed talks at our CounseLLMe workshop for @hhaiconference.bsky.social : sites.google.com/unitn.it/cou... Join us in Pisa, deadline May 6!
CounseLLMe
CounseLLMe: Investigating Human-Large Language Model conversations under the lens of cognitive science and complex systems SATELLITE WORKSHOP FOR HHAI2025 Submit Abstracts -> HERE
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How to improve conceptual clarity in psychology? Excited to share a new preprint with @ruimata.bsky.social, discussing approaches based on large language models as possible solutions. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
📣The Department of Sociology and Social Research seeks a post-doctoral candidate for a 2-year appointment. The successful candidate will analyze a large-scale dataset of online job posts to investigate skill demand dynamics and shortage dynamics over 5 years in 29 countries.
Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025 We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/ho2025e... Wait no further and join!
Higher-order interactions
Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks
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Serene, Uri and I had a nice conversation here guided by Joanne. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOH...
Challenges in Behavioural Health Interventions | BISI
YouTube video by NUS Medicine
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Wow there is an impressive selection of satellites at @css-conference.bsky.social this year! ccs25.cssociety.org/satellites-l... We will attend the conference as a Lab and the choice is amazing! #ccs #siena
Satellites List – Conference on Complex Systems 2025
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If you are going to HHAI25 in Pisa, check out out satellite workshop on #LLM and #human conversations! Submit here: sites.google.com/unitn.it/cou...
CounseLLMe
CounseLLMe: Investigating Human-Large Language Model conversations under the lens of cognitive science and complex systems SATELLITE WORKSHOP FOR HHAI2025 Submit Abstracts -> HERE
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This is grim because there's nowhere to go. The US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and we have more PI-level positions than anywhere else (by far).
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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Large Language Models are great at mimicking human conversation, but do we trust them? Until now, research on trust in LLMs has been scarce. Introducing the Trust-In-LLMs Index (TILLMI), a new framework extending McAllister’s cognitive and affective trust dimensions to human–LLM interactions 1/n
Massimo Stella@massimost.bsky.social · last yr.New preprint from the Lab! We introduce the Trust-in-LLMs Index (TILLMI) and see it partitions in cognitive and affective dimensions. Great collab by De Duro @gaveltri.bsky.social @hudsongolino.bsky.social and myself on #LLMs. Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.21028
New preprint from the Lab! We introduce the Trust-in-LLMs Index (TILLMI) and see it partitions in cognitive and affective dimensions. Great collab by De Duro @gaveltri.bsky.social @hudsongolino.bsky.social and myself on #LLMs. Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.21028
Measuring and identifying factors of individuals' trust in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) can engage in human-looking conversational exchanges. Although conversations can elicit trust between users and LLMs, scarce empirical research has examined trust formatio...
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Glad to announce CounseLLMe as a satellite workshop of HHAI25 in beautiful Pisa: sites.google.com/unitn.it/cou... We will host a half-day workshop of presentations about #LLMs and human #conversations. Join us by submitting an abstract before March 31! #research #satellite
CounseLLMe
CounseLLMe: Investigating Human-Large Language Model conversations under the lens of cognitive science and complex systems SATELLITE WORKSHOP FOR HHAI2025 Submit Abstracts -> HERE
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Proud of the Complex Systems Society's stand about supporting initiatives for open science and reducing the impact of "impact factor" metrics. We started this conversation when I was in the Executive Committee and I am only glad to see this black on white.
✨ Keynote Speaker Reveal! ✨ We are excited to announce that Dr. Massimo Stella will be a keynote speaker at the 45th edition of Tabu Dag!
NetSciEd 2025 in Maastricht Teaching network science or studying education systems as networks? Submit your abstract (due tomorrow!) sites.google.com/view/netscie...
NetSciEd 2025
NetSciEd 2025: The Symposium on Network Science and Education will be held in June 2025 as a satellite of the NetSci 2025 Conference at Maastricht, the Netherlands, following a series of successful pr...
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And we are rolling! Submissions are open and will be accepted on a rolling basis! Invited speakers include @tiago.skewed.de and Renaud Lambiotte! All info on our website! 💪🏼 Spread the word 😁 The satellite will be a half day satellite on Tuesday afternoon! signet-friends.github.io
FRIENDS
Frameworks, Research and applIcations in complEx Networks with signeD edgeS
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Andreia Sofia Teixeira@asteixeira.bsky.social · 2y agoVery happy to share that we will have another edition of the FRIENDS satellite, this time at @netsciconf.bsky.social 🔥 Thanks to @elenacandellone.bsky.social , @fernandodiazdiaz.bsky.social and @miguelagoncas.bsky.social for co-organizing and being crucial for this to happen! :)
If you're into network science and have done work on criminal networks/activity, consider sending your work to criminalcomplexity.weebly.com. Organising with Toby Davies, Cecilia Meneghini, Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Rick Quax, Huijuan Wang, Wang Ngai Yeung.
If true, this is unbelievable. Ruling out the investigation of biases means destroying a wide variety of computational social science-, anthropological and psychological research science but also key research on AI and safety. This is highly dangerous for science.
Andrew Perfors@perfors.net · 2y agoRIP any human subjects methods section: women, gender, female, excluded RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB
🏅Ready to coach their #Complexity72h team, meet Javier M. Buldú from Rey Juan Carlos University, Brennan Klein (@jkbren.bsky.social) and Maddalena Torricelli from @nunetsi.bsky.social. ⚽️Their project: "Leveraging Complexity Sciences to Analyze Soccer Performance Evolution Over the Last Decade"
Excited to share our new article published in npj Complexity with @lajello.bsky.social , @giuliocimini.bsky.social, and Laura Alessandretti, where we shed light on the dynamics behind the #GameStop short squeeze. rdcu.be/d8pvI
New paper in Behavior Research Methods! 😍 link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758... EmoAtlas is a Python package that implements textual forma mentis networks for the psychological analysis of texts. 👇 GitHub here: github.com/RiccardoImpr...
EmoAtlas: An emotional network analyzer of texts that merges psychological lexicons, artificial intelligence, and network science
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And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at NetSI London working with me and the @nplab.bsky.social on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems. Application deadline: 16th February 2025. Bring your A game!
PhD Studentship (Fully Funded) in Network Science - Reconstruction and Modeling of Higher-Order Interactions in Complex Systems at Northeastern University London
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Network Science Institute@nunetsi.bsky.social · 2y agoCongratulations to Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social on being awarded the prestigious #ERCCoG for the project "Reconstruction and Unification of Neural and Ecological Systems" #RUNES! This nearly €2M grant will support in the next 5 yrs. his groundbreaking research on higher-order interactions.
