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Aleksandar Tomašević

@atomashevic.bsky.social
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Computational Social Science. Assistant professor at University of Novi Sad. 🕸🐍🐧👨🏻‍💻 #RStats (random ordering). www.atomasevic.com

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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society @cscy-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
c, et al.: Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology arxiv.org/abs/2508.21740 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21740 arxiv.org/html/2508.21740
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arxiv cs.SI @arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology arxiv.org/abs/2508.21740
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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 ✅
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
MADOC paper accepted at #ICWSM 25! Looking forward to share more insights from the dataset in Copenhagen. The dataset will be updated soon: bug fixes and additional sentiment scores.
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Bojana Dinić @bdinic.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚨New method in studying old relations! 🚨 Are Dark Triad traits differently related to self-reported and task-performance domains of emotional functioning? 👇 t.co/Wxi9MdrMWW Thanks to Beata Grabovac and @atomashevic.bsky.social for the fruitful collaboration
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Apply to the "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science" satellite workshop at @netsciconf.bsky.social before Feb. 7th! Got some cool network data or software to share? This is the satellite for you! Submission form at netsci.nascol.net/cfa
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Call for Abstracts
A NetSci 2025 Satellite Workshop June 2 or 3, 2025, Maastricht, Netherlands
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
PostDoc at Central European University in #datasci #netsci #compsocsci #inclusive 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @weareceu.bsky.social
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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.
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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.
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Bojana Dinić @bdinic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🎉Thrilled to share our new paper! We tested cross-national validity of the Machiavellian Approach and Avoidance Questionnaire (MAAQ) across Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, and Serbia 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Machiavellian Approach and Avoidance Questionnaire: Further Validation and Evidence of Cross-National Validity
Researchers on antagonistic personality traits debate about an appropriate measurement approach to Machiavellianism. One measure intended to resolve this discourse, the Machiavellian Approach and A...
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
this looks perfect 😍 ssh into server and you can do meaningful work + have strong, strong retro vibes!
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Coming soon: Pilet: Opensource, Modular, Portable Mini Computer
Where retro meets modern, powered by Raspberry Pi 5 with 7-hour battery life
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So many new people on here! Who should I follow? I tried to narrow it down at least a little with #rstats johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-11...
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So many new people on Bluesky! Who should I follow? | Johannes B. Gruber
If there is one development at the moment which I full heartedly enjoy reading about it’s that the remains of what was once called Twitter is seeing a large E𝕏odus. Since a certain billionaire has tak...
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The success of every online social platform depends on the quality of cat content. Zlatko says hello to Bluesky 🐈
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
go.bsky.app/MMeFFH6
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
transforEmotion 0.1.5 in live on Github and CRAN. github.com/atomashevic/... - Resolved Youtube download issues by switching to pytubefix library - Added rag function for retrieval-augmented generation using various transformer models.
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GitHub - atomashevic/transforEmotion: Sentiment Analysis for Text, Image and Video Using Transformer Models
Sentiment Analysis for Text, Image and Video Using Transformer Models - atomashevic/transforEmotion
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
transforEmotion 0.1.5 in live on Github and CRAN. github.com/atomashevic/... - Resolved Youtube download issues by switching to pytubefix library - Added rag function for retrieval-augmented generation using various transformer models.
github.com
GitHub - atomashevic/transforEmotion: Sentiment Analysis for Text, Image and Video Using Transformer Models
Sentiment Analysis for Text, Image and Video Using Transformer Models - atomashevic/transforEmotion
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
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/...
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
📢New preprint📢 As researchers embrace the next revolution in computational social science, the arrival of GLLMs (generative AI), there is a critical need for open-source alternatives. We introduce one with (r)Ollama and explain why it is important! arxiv.org/abs/2404.07654
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rollama: An R package for using generative large language models...
rollama is an R package that wraps the Ollama API, which allows you to run different Generative Large Language Models (GLLM) locally. The package and learning material focus on making it easy to...
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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
🚨 Blog post: Lost in Transformation: The Horror and Wonder of Logit I use the analogy of 🗺️↔️🌏 to clarify why logit is such a good model for binary outcomes. tl; dr: OLS works on flat maps; logit works on globes. statsky polisky econsky academicsky www.robertkubinec.com/post/flat_ea...
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Lost in Transformation: The Horror and Wonder of Logit | Robert Kubinec
Perhaps no other subject in applied statistics and machine learning has caused people as much trouble as the humble logit model. Most people who learn either subject start off with some form of linear...
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Haven't posted here in a while, so here's a small update. I've spent last few months developing and mantaining transforEmotion #Rstats package github.com/atomashevic/... It's a package for sentiment analysis for text, image and video in R using HuggingFace #transformers API
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GitHub - atomashevic/transforEmotion: Sentiment Analysis for Text, Image and Video Using Transformer Models
Sentiment Analysis for Text, Image and Video Using Transformer Models - atomashevic/transforEmotion
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
My body is not a temple its a deep space station occupying both a strategically pivotal location and also near an actual (celestial) temple.
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Systematic replications across multiple social sciences www.nature.com/articles/d41... #openscience
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Replication games: how to make reproducibility research more systematic
In some areas of social science, around half of studies can’t be replicated. A new test-fast, fail-fast initiative aims to show what research is hot — and what’s not. In some areas of social sci...
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
☀️ 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.
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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Our article Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers is finally out! Please share with your students, and consider add this on your graduate scope and methods class. Also, we appreciate feedback and talk with students about our ideas!
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Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers | PS: Polit...
Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers
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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
"Past, Present, and Future of Software for Bayesian Inference" - An interesting overview of what, exactly, building software to do Bayesian inference means If you use Stan, JAGS, PyMC, NumPyro, etc, you might be interested. www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/rese...
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Amazing resource, check it out! I had no idea that you can use your website' domain as your handle. It took me a few minutes to change it to @atomasevic.com Great method for optional verification.
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
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).
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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
I'm not sure how Feeds work, but until I get it my strategy is to randomly follow people who follow @rmcelreath.bsky.social and hope for optimal mix of cats and stats
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