Francesco Pierri

📣 CS2Italy 2026 the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
⏰ Today is the last day to submit your abstract

📍 Turin, May 19–21

We welcome abstract submissions in:
#ComputerScience #NetSci #ComplexSystems #Sociology #Economics #Politics #CognitiveScience #Psychology

👉 cs2italy.org

Doctoral Position in Social Data Science Deadline: 15.02.2026

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to work with us on a supercool project in collaboration with linguists. The deadline is Feb 15th, contact me if you have any questions!

stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...

Please consider submitting. ICWSM workshops have a dedicated day and are usually well attended and are a great opportunity to gather a small set of focused audience.

Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
to join us in Turin on May 19-21

We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more

For more: cs2italy.org

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
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The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.

Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

📣 Postdoc opportunity at Johns Hopkins

The DSAI Institute at Johns Hopkins is hiring postdocs through its fellowship program (2+ years).

If you're interested in human-AI interaction, social computing, and the design of online platforms, I'd love to work with you.

🗓 Deadline: January 23, 2026

@theoaraujo.bsky.social @skruikemeier.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @mariekvandenabeele @lauravanderbosch @joanagsa.bsky.social @przemyslslaw.bsky.social

Huge thanks to my co-authors and to all who have engaged with related debates over the past years. We’re looking forward to continuing the conversation and contributing to an implementation of the hashtag#DSA that’s beneficial to the citizens of the hashtag#EU and all involved stakeholders.

Our paper offers evidence-informed insights into how regulators, platforms, and researchers can collaborate more effectively to realise the DSA’s potential — from streamlined and efficient data-sharing mechanisms to clearer operational standards simplifying compliance.

- TikTok and Meta have been preliminarily found to violate transparency and data access obligations and face potential sanctions under the same rules.
These developments show that the DSA is no longer just a framework on paper, it’s actively shaping platform behaviour and regulatory practice in EU.

- It issued the first major fine under the DSA — €120 million against X for breaches of transparency, deceptive design, and barriers to research access.

What makes this publication particularly timely?
Over the past few months, the European Commission has started enforcing the DSA in a visible way:

In this article, we outline practical recommendations for DSA implementation — especially around conflicts of interest, power and resource asymmetries, and implementation bottlenecks — drawing on our collective experiences and reflection on ongoing policy debates.

Our piece discusses opportunities and challenges for the online platform transparency and accountability regulation introduced recently in the European Union.

Happy 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

Come work with @deboranozza.bsky.social, me, and the lab in Milan!

🚀 We’re opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP!

Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.

🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...

⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why.

Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And more below 👇

If you're interested in pursuing a PhD in #AI and/or #DataScience with me and/or my colleagues as your supervisors, apply for this fully-funded PhD scholarship at UCD School of Computer Science!

Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.

What censorship of science looks like
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Happy to share our most recent paper, led by @allisonwan.bsky.social, auditing what domains Google shows when you search for a Member of Congress.

journalqd.org/article/view...

@journalqd.bsky.social

PhD call alert!
Interested in #Complexity #Cognition #AlgorithmicBias or #PublicHealth?
Want to join our ERC-funded @erc.europa.eu, SPAC Lisbon team @spac.bsky.social?
We only need:
CV + short motivation letter + contact of 2 refs
EOE
Apply by Dec 20, more info: lip.pt/files/rhuman...

Please Share!

A longitudinal analysis of misinformation, polarization and toxicity on Bluesky after its public launch Bluesky is a decentralized, Twitter-like social media platform that has rapidly gained popularity. Following an invite-only phase, it officially opene…

I am pleased to announce that our work “A longitudinal analysis of misinformation, polarization, and toxicity on Bluesky after its public launch” has been accepted at #OSNEM.
The paper is an extension of our previous work presented at #ASONAM.
Don't miss it: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Submission link for the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is LIVE!

We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more

Deadline: Jan 15
cs2italy.org

@fil.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social @aolteanu.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @yelenamejova.bsky.social

LECTURERS
- @theoaraujo.bsky.social , University of Amsterdam (theoaraujo.eu)
- Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (chato.cl)
- @deboranozza.bsky.social , Bocconi University (lnkd.in/dnGJH-Pd)
- More to be announced...

Happy 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

Unprecedented opportunities for researchers to access data from very large online platforms and search engines!

⏰ Join us this afternoon to learn about the potential generated by Digital Services Act #DSA Article 40 on data access.

📅 22 October 2025
⏰ 13.30 – 15.30 CEST
💻 link.europa.eu/pjRBFK

One postdoctoral Research Position Deadline: November 15th, 2025

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.