Principal Researcher & Team Lead @CENTAI. Formerly @ISI_Foundation, @QCRI, @Aalto, @YahooResearch. Scalable data mining & computational social science.
https://gdfm.me/research
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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 !
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Kudos to Marco, Corrado, and Gianmarco for such a wonderful collaboration!
Hope you enjoy it
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.17625
Reposted by J. Doyne Farmer, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
“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
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Stefan Neumann
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 :)
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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
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Damian Trilling, Katrin Weller
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.
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
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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...
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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
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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/...
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova
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
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Kyriaki Kalimeri
sites.google.com/view/datafor...
Reposted by Luca Rossi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Meri Koivusalo
Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community.
Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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THANK YOU to @clabat9.bsky.social for working side by side with me on this exciting project and making this article possible. Big thanks also to @hansmriess.bsky.social and Fabio Massimo Zennaro for their valuable feedback on an earlier version of the paper.
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Extended abstract of "Variational Inference on Parameters of Opinion Dynamics Models" accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social !
Big thanks to @gdfm.bsky.social and Fabrizio Silvestri!
Check the arXiv
arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05358
(TL;DR: Model + Data = ❤️)
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Kyriaki Kalimeri
👉 Paddy Brock at World Bank & UNHCR Joint Data Center
👉 @robysinatra.bsky.social at University of Copenhagen
Join us! Submission deadline: March 31 sites.google.com/view/datafor...
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Zoltán Elekes
The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Stefan Neumann
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Katrin Weller, Kyriaki Kalimeri
#Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable
👉 #AI #NLP #epidemiology #demography #sociology #humanitarian #datascience
submit your abstract, or short or long paper by
⏰ March 31
sites.google.com/view/datafor...
w/ @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social + Daniela Paolotti
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The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit
how was science cited in the past 14 years? preprints or journals?
find answers are here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05026
w/ Paolo Cornale @mictiz.bsky.social @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social @elisaomodei.bsky.social Daniela Paolotti
Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
nerds.itu.dk/2025/01/31/p...
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