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Francesco Bailo

@francescobailo.bsky.social
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I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences at the University of Sydney where I am also deputy director of Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. francescobailo.net

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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📚 Out now with Edward Elgar: How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, by me, Emily Booth & Jennifer J. Williams. An open-source toolkit for managing complex research data in one shared workspace. #MixedMethods #Wikibase
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New dataset and companion paper measuring violence perception across Mexico, now published open access in EPJ Data Science. We introduce the Violence Perception Index (VPI) — to measure how people talk about violence, using geolocated YouTube comments.
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just realised that the lost and found service is called “found items” in French and “lost items” in Italian. This tells you everything you need to know about the deep differences in trust towards institutions and social capital across the Alps.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
There’s a lot of bad stuff happening in the world today, so anyway I finally did the thing and started developing video games for fun and enjoyment. If that’s your thing at all please check out @timgames.bsky.social. Steam page coming soon for my open world roguelike battling a fascist dictator
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 01/09/2025
3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1
Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We have a 🚨 new open access paper 🚨 with @polcommjournal.bsky.social We show how platforms can simultaneously concentrate and fragment political power. We analysed Italy's Five Star Movement across 5 platforms to understand multi-platform dynamics in political organisations. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation within the Five Star Movement
We examine how multi-platform digital environments influence intra-party dynamics within political organizations, focusing on the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) as a paradigmatic case of extreme ...
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Proof day! What a journey this has been... So proud of this work and amazing travel companions.
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“The politicization of economic data and potential interference with it by political appointees is something that's typically seen in non-democratic countries like Russia, Venezuela or China.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Interesting thing about the Donald vs Elon bar fight is that they are throwing food at each from within the boundaries of their own personal social media platforms while never crossing these boundaries. Elon keeps pinging Trump’s X accounts but has to screenshot his Truth posts to reply to them.
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Bukele, with 1% of his population behind bars likely the world most successful mass-incarcerator under 40, now also arresting journalists under charges of fostering “public anxiety” when they report on his political ascension.
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
🚨 New research! With Milly Stilinovic & @dhutchman.bsky.social, we explore how AI is being creatively misused in experimental online spaces we call Underspheres — and why current regulation can’t keep up. New Media & Society doi.org/10.1177/1461... Conversation theconversation.com/ai-is-moving...
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AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check
Existing efforts to regulate AI share a limitation: they’re built around intended use, not the messy, creative and often unintended ways it is actually being used.
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Jonathon Hutchinson @dhutchman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨Proud Supervisor Alert🚨 Pleased to share this open source article in New Media & Society, first-authored by Milly Stilinovic. With contributions from @francescobailo.bsky.social Francesco Bailo, we explore the dark sides of #GenAI within the creative worlds: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Creative Underspheres and democratic challenges: Exploring the implications of generative AI misuse - Milica Stilinovic, Francesco Bailo, Jonathon Hutchinson, 2025
This article introduces the concept of the Undersphere – a networked community brought together via creative exchange – to highlight how the increased prolifera...
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
@lukemansillo.com how does it look like?
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🚨Just out in Journal of Info Tech & Politics🚨 How the Internet helped Italy's Five Star Movement break out of legacy networks and activate politically disengaged voters. I introduce Internet capital — digital resources enabling mobilization beyond traditional networks and reshaping geography.
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If you consider that Trump policy outbursts always appear first on his privately owned, for-profit social media app everything makes much more sense. Government by click-bait. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point,...
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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The Social Science tribe is organized into two moieties—LaTeX and Word. Intricate rules govern their interactions: who can coauthor with whom, visit which sacred conference, and many others. On weekends, they practice competitive dances in which they enact their struggle, keeping the tribe together.
Figure 29 from Tristes Tropiques by Levi-Strauss, showing a plan of a Bororo village, with the MS Word and LaTeX logos overlayed on the territory of each of the two moieties.
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Francesco Marolla presenting our paper on cross platform affordances in the #M5S at #cs2italy
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I am presenting later today at #CS2Italy our project on using YouTube comments to track social perception of violence. Slides here: fraba.github.io/presentation...
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@alexvespi.bsky.social at #CS2Italy2025: "CSS should strive to provide **actionable** science and analytics, incorporating realism and complexity; otherwise, it risks becoming disconnected from the public's needs and expectations."
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@alexvespi.bsky.social keynote opening #CS2Italy2025 cs2italy.org
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
CS2Italy, the first Italian conference on Computational Social Science, is starting in a week in Trento! It will consist of one day of tutorials and two days of exciting contributions, including four stellar invited speakers. Check out the final program at cs2italy.org!
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CS2Italy
Join the premier CS2 Italy Conference, a pivotal event for computational social scientists in Italy and internationally. Scheduled for 2025, this conference will feature interdisciplinary collaboratio...
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
They have fenced, advertised and shittified the Internet in every possible way (and made billions in the process) but now they claim to fight for a free Internet to uncover the Kennedy assassination conspiracy. A time for truth and reconciliation on.ft.com/407WVSF
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This is passion mixed with a bit of insanity
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Who wants to see the worst pie chart of the year #dataviz
Mushroom is the UK's most liked pizza topping

Generally speaking, which of the following toppings do you like on a pizza? Select as many as you like

42% Sweetcorn

60% Peppers

49% Bacon

56% Pepperoni

26% Spinach

33% Olives

42% Pineapple

51% Tomato (as a topping)

61% Ham

65% Mushrooms

Other items not depicted include; onions (62%), chicken (56%), beef (36%), chillies (31%), jalapeños (30%), pork (25%), tuna (22%), anchovies (18%), 2% of people say they only like Margherita pizzas
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In times of regime change, always remember: first write your constitution, then run your general election. Running the general election before writing the constitution dramatically increases the chances of not having a second election.
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Democracy is fragile
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 19/11/2024
Lets tune out the news and see how it’s going over in the “run AI on the desktop” community.
A Reddit post entitled “What’s the best Local LLM in case of a nuclear event?”
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