Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 05/02/2026LECTURERS - Theo Araujo, University of Amsterdam (theoaraujo.eu) - Jeff Hancock, Stanford University (lnkd.in/d692ZC7U) - Debora Nozza, Bocconi University (lnkd.in/dnGJH-Pd) - Luca Pappalardo National Research Council of Italy (lnkd.in/dBdeXcD2) - Claudia Wagner, RWTH Achen (claudiawagner.info) 000
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Happy to announce that our Opinion article about the hotly debated EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been accepted for publication in Communications of the ACM! Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.14223 155
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Happy to announce the 2nd edition of our Summer School in Computational Social Science that will take place in the beautiful Villa del Grumello on Lake Como between June 22-26, 2026! *** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: February 15, 2026 (firm deadline) *** More details here: css2.lakecomoschool.org 22517
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 22/07/2025FOMO for #ic2s2 is hitting hard---especially for Francesco, who is bravely pretending he’s totally fine without me. 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 091
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Our paper "Conspiracy theories and where to find them on TikTok" has been accepted at the Main conference of @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025! 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 141
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 30/01/2025🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST! More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist... Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis) #LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI 035
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Had a fantastic time last week at CS2Italy—the 1st Italian Conference on Computational Social Science—in Trento! It was great to reconnect with old friends, meet new ones, taste local grappa and engage in insightful discussions. Huge kudos to the organizers for putting it together! #cs2italy #css 080
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 19/02/2024**Last week to apply** to the 1st edition of our School "Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities" (13-17 May 2024 in the beautiful Villa del Grumello, Lake Como) Check the full program and apply here by February 25th: css.lakecomoschool.org 001
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 11/12/2023Excited to present the 1st edition of our School "Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities"! 13-17 May 2024 in the beautiful Villa del Grumello, Lake Como (see pic!) With a stellar team of organizers and lecturers! More info: css.lakecomoschool.org 172
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 25/10/2023Honored that my Ph.D. thesis has been selected as Runner Up for @informatics_europe Best Dissertation Award! www.informatics-europe.org/news/849-uni... p.s. I wore long pants this time ;-) 000
Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 02/10/2023📢 Hiring 1-2 grad/postdoc researchers📢 to join our project DEMON (Detect and Evaluate Manipulation of ONline information)! - CS or other quant. field - 1 year w. renewal, hybrid working - reqs: ML, NLP, SNA, LLMs Get in touch! More: www.linkedin.com/hiring/jobs/... 032
