Aleksandar Tomašević
atomashevic.bsky.social
Aleksandar Tomašević
@atomashevic.bsky.social
Computational Social Science.

Assistant professor at University of Novi Sad.

🕸🐍🐧👨🏻‍💻 #RStats (random ordering).

www.atomasevic.com
Fails: Identity persistence, long-term coherence, true preferential attachment. ❌

Memoryless setup prevents identity formation; network core is more difuse, no agent differentiation in stylistic alignment.
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Can LLM agents reproduce online community dynamics?

We simulated Voat's v/technology community with YSocial and uncensored LLM.

Simulation reproduces: activity patterns, network topology, toxicity distributions + decent topic coverage ✅
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We have released the first version of MADOC!

Huuge dataset with ~9M posts, 236M comments, and 23M users from Reddit, Voat, Bluesky, and Koo.

MADOC mixes benign and controversial/banned communities, ideal for the study of hate speech, user migrations, and community moderation.
January 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The success of every online social platform depends on the quality of cat content.

Zlatko says hello to Bluesky 🐈
November 17, 2024 at 3:51 PM
New version of "Dynamic Exploratory Graph Analysis of Emotions in Politics" is up on PsyArXiv!

We switch from CNN to CLIP with transforEmotion and now we have a clear two-dimensional network of emotion co-occurence.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Github: github.com/atomashevic/...
August 7, 2024 at 12:55 PM
☀️ It was really sunny in Novi Sad yesterday. We enjoyed a photoshoot for the IDIOMATIC project and had our last get-together before I depart for the US.
September 27, 2023 at 1:13 PM
I've been using Code Copilot for text editing. Select pagraph (latex, markdown, Quarto), hit a shorcut and ask for grammar eddits. No new panels or windows, minimalistic.

Up until recently, it suggested edits in a similar way it shows git changes in code (side by side or top-down like the picture).
September 24, 2023 at 9:26 AM