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Antonio Desiderio

@adtony

Random dude understanding random things with random tools. You can find more here https://antonioddesiderio.github.io/

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The notifications are OUT!

Super excited to hear our 16 highlighted talks and a whopping 116 parallel talks, and to see all the posters --

Register by April 15 to be our Early Bird!
cs2italy.org

09.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Check out our new paper in
@natureportfolio.nature.com
nature.com/articles/s41...
Near-expiry discounts from πŸ‡©πŸ‡° top retailer show big regional gaps: rural stores discount meat-dairy up to 2.2Γ— more than cities
Street networks reveal spatial clusters β†’ food waste policies need to be place-specific

23.02.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ Keynotes++:
Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University
πŸ‘‰ information propagation
πŸ‘‰ online misinformation
πŸ‘‰ social influence

πŸ“· Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!)
cs2italy.org

28.01.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lagrange Fellowship Call The Lagrange Project started in 2003 and it is regarded as one of the pioneering and most innovative European projects on complex systems science and data science. It is promoted and funded by Fondazi...

⏳ Final days to apply!

@isi.it in collaboration with Fondazione CRT, offers 10 one-year applied research scholarships in data science & AI, focused on public health, humanitarian response, urban development, and sustainability.

πŸ“… Deadline: February 2nd, 2026

26.01.2026 11:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“’ Keynotes++:
Milena Tsvetkova - @mtsvetkova.bsky.social
London School of Economics and Political Science

on how social networks, algorithms, and HCI shape collective behavior, inequality, cooperation, and social influence

πŸ‘‰ Submit your abstract by Jan 30!
cs2italy.org

21.01.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by πŸ‘‰ Jan 15 πŸ‘ˆ
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

07.01.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Submission link for the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is LIVE!

We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more

Deadline: Jan 15
cs2italy.org

28.11.2025 10:05 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ”ˆ *Call for Participation* πŸ”ˆ

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

18.11.2025 09:30 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This is your Tony, signing off from Okinawa β€” with love!

03.11.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Daniele Cirulli, Antonio Desiderio, Giulio Cimini, Fabio Saracco: Polarization and echo chambers in Reddit's political discourse https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27467 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.27467 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.27467

03.11.2025 06:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Antonio Desiderio, Alessia Galdeman, Franziska Bauerlein, Sune Lehmann: Mapping Regional Disparities in Discounted Grocery Products https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.27493 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.27493

03.11.2025 06:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Trump is a vehicle of divine Providence", said Bannon, as a cloud of flies buzzed around him, feeding upon his rotting, reanimated flesh

24.10.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ† Excited to share that our team received the Best Data Challenge Award at #NetMob2025 in Paris! πŸ†
"On the Relationship between Space-Time Accessibility and Leisure Activity Participation"
Stay tuned for our preprint.
#urban #mobility #accessibility #transport

13.10.2025 05:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

We must come to terms with the fact that it was a huge mistake to leave the online world largely unchecked, and that we urgently need to deal with a fragmented, radicalized and instrumentalized reality in many countries simultaneously and take action instead of remaining in shock or relativization.

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27.04.2025 10:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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27.06.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš— πŸ’₯ Excited to share that our latest article is now published in Sustainable Cities and Society!

πŸ”— lnkd.in/gE8QyWAH
πŸ’« First study to use mobile phone activity data to estimate CO2 emissions validated with emissions sensor measurements

30.05.2025 11:23 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Accepted to #CCS2025 but need help covering costs? The #OpenArmsGrant supports attendees from low- and middle-income countries with travel, fees, and more.

Budget should never be a barrier to participating in science!

Apply by June 15.
ccs25.cssociety.org/open-arms-gr...
#ComplexSystems

22.05.2025 19:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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27.04.2025 10:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Extremely excited about this *new preprint*, where we use a collective field experiment with our own subreddits, which allowed us to uncover diverging factors for online participation between the very active and the passive. More details by the (as usual) *amazing* lead @lfoswaldo.bsky.social belowπŸ‘‡

01.04.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is insane

21.03.2025 01:18 πŸ‘ 31088 πŸ” 8972 πŸ’¬ 3771 πŸ“Œ 1250
LinkedIn This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

For a summary of our research, check riccardodiclemente.com/projects/sem...

@nunetsi.bsky.social
@northeasternu.bsky.social
@isi.it
@connectionslab.bsky.social

12.03.2025 09:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How do major real-world events shape online conversations?
With Anna Mancini, @giuliocimini.bsky.social @ric-dicle.bsky.social we found that while activity surges, users repeat the same ideas at an accelerating pace, limiting meaningful discussions.
On @pnasnexus.org academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

12.03.2025 08:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

oh wow…this is a whole new level…conspiracy level intesifies πŸ˜…

11.03.2025 06:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Two new NERDS papers published: GameStop, Copenhagen bike lanes
nerds.itu.dk/2025/02/07/t...

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

07.02.2025 08:37 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Characterizing Model Collapse in Large Language Models Using Semantic Networks and Next-Token Probability As synthetic content increasingly infiltrates the web, generative AI models may experience an autophagy process, where they are fine-tuned using their own outputs. This autophagy could lead to a pheno...

Preprint v2 is out! On @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social our update on #ModelCollapse of #AI #LLMs with new characterizations based on #Semantic #Networks and #NextToken predictions, new insights about the collapse effect and possible mitigation methods. @lucapappalardo.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2410.12341

04.02.2025 03:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze - npj Complexity npj Complexity - The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze

New paper on npj Complexity:
The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Great work by @adtony.bsky.social with @lajello.bsky.social and L.Alessandretti
Phys.org blog post phys.org/news/2024-02...

03.02.2025 09:51 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

03.02.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

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