New post in The Alan Turing Institute's blog about about our research on the collective dynamics of dark markets, emerging user-to-user networks, and the behaviour of their actors. Tears of work with great colleagues, in collaboration with Chainalysis and PayPal. turing.ac.uk/blog/how-data-…

It was great to witness how much the group has grown in the last 3 years. Happy Birthday NERDS @[email protected]! 🎂

We extended the ASONAM deadline by two weeks! 🙌 new deadline April 30.
ASONAM Conference #asonam

I’m thrilled to announce that our paper “Narratives of Collective Action in YouTube's Discourse on Veganism” (w. Luca Maria Aiello - @[email protected]) has been accepted to ICWSM 2024 🎉

Check out the preprint arxiv.org/abs/2401.09210 and see you in Buffalo 🇺🇸

#icwsm NERDS @[email protected] cocoons_dk IT-Universitetet

Very excited to have Andy at the DeWeb workshop to recount his experience as a key contributor to the Mastodon project! #ICWSM ICWSM

🚨 Deadline extended to April 5 🚨

📚 Extra time to submit your abstracts and short papers to the 1st Workshop on Decentralizing the Web at ICWSM

📝 Join us and collaborate to draft a white paper on the opportunities and challenges within the DeWeb

👉🏼 deweb-workshop.github.io

🚨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

Finally out our paper in Nature 'Persistent Interaction Patterns across Social Media and Over Time'
nature.com/articles/s4158…
#Toxicity #OnlineSocialDynamics Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli Ricerca Sapienza Sapienza Università di Roma

On the use of LLMs to augment data for Computational Social Science tasks. In about 1 hour, our Anders Giovanni Møller will present 'The Parrot Dilemma' at #EACL2024 (Room Marie Louise 2, Level 5).
Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-shor…
NERDS @[email protected] IT-Universitetet Arianna Pera Jacob Aarup Dalsgaard pic.twitter.com/0QW7v7O2IV

New preprint: 'How Language, Culture, and Geography Shape Online Dialogue: Insights from Koo'

Continuing our effort to broaden up US/West centric lit and analyse the thriving social media that are shaping global discussion

w Amin Mekacher Max Falkenberg

arxiv.org/abs/2403.07531

📢 Looking for a PhD student to start in Sep 2024! Applications due April 15

This project is about LLM competence in interpreting prompts and responding to them:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…
If you're at eaclmeeting, you can catch Rob van der Goot who will co-supervise this project!

📢 The deadline for submissions to the 1st Workshop on Decentralizing the Web at ICWSM is approaching!

🗓️ Submissions due: March 24th

📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions!

More info here 👉🏼deweb-workshop.github.io

If you're researching #Fediverse or #DWeb topics, check out this cool ICWSM workshop - paper submission deadline is 25th March deweb-workshop.github.io Chaired by Lucio La Cava - @[email protected] Luca Maria Aiello - @[email protected] Andrea Baronchelli and Andrea Tagareli