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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

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.

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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

If you want to take a quick look at (subset) of MADOC, Python and R packages are available: pypi.org/project/pyma... github.com/atomashevic/...

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pymadoc

Python package to download and combine parts of MADOC dataset

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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 · 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

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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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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

But package is primarily built for #Rstats users with limited or zero knowledge of #Python. The package mimics and simplifies the usage of transformers library in Python, so you can perform inference, run small tasks in a few lines of R code without worrying what is happening in the background.

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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

I'm mostly working on emotion detection in videos, so I'm looking to enhance the package with more transformer-based model: speech to text, emotional recognition in speech... The idea is to have a complete pipeline to process video and extract multiple time series of emotion scores.

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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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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

Excellent! Don't mind expanding the repertoire of pets, as long I don't fall into any rabbit holes (pun intended) :)

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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Sounds great! I would definitely give it a shot next year, thank you :)

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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

It stopped doing that few weeks ago, not it shows edited text instead the original, I can't follow and check the edits so easily. I wannt to write a ticket and suggest them to revert this feature. Not sure how to call this feature, perhaps diff viewer? cssky #coding #code

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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 · 24/09/2023

I've just started writing a manuscript in Overleaf with 1-year PhD student with no experience in LaTeX. I populated the doc with examples of citations, figures, tables and they join in by using visual editor. Next step is to change something directly using code editor and we move forward slowly.

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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Wow! That looks really tasty :) Can a newbie start with a small quantity (in a limited space)? Would you recommend any blogs, videos for absolute begginers?

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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

As sociologist intruding on polisky, I look at these binary categories with slight disdain. Argument about Quatro/RevealJS vs Quatro/Beamer vs pure Latex Beamer vs Powerpoint vs Google Slides seems more appropriate.

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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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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I'm skipping Starfield but 💙 for tweaking Quarto themes 😆

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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Savor the moment! :) It really is a privilege.

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Aleksandar Tomašević @atomashevic.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I started seeing requests for invite codes much more often on the old site, so I asked for one myself. I guess a lot of other people are doing the same.

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