Computational Social Science @ ITU Copenhagen

Email contact: lajello🐌gmail.com

News highlights

Press releases, invited talks, event organization, and more

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[Mar 2025] Highways Block Social Connections. NextCity
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[Mar 2025] How Highways Rend Our Social Fabric. Streetblog USA
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[Mar 2024] Mastodon Migration paper in Scientific Reports top 50 in 2023
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[Feb 2024] Researchers show Reddit users caused the famous GameStop short squeeze. Phys.org
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[Dec 2023] Get Out of the Nest! Nature Blog
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[Oct 2022] In Knowledge we Trust. The Language of Persuasion in Social Media. Nature Blog
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[Mar 2022] NFTs Don’t Work the Way You Might Think They Do. Wired
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[Sep 2021] A chat with the great William Shatner

Latest Publications

Fresh science brought to you by folks from all around the world

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Urban highways are barriers to social ties

LM Aiello, A Vybornova, S JuhĂĄsz, M Szell, E BokĂĄnyi
PNAS, 2025
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The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze

A Desiderio, LM Aiello, G Cimini, L Alessandretti
npj Complexity, 2025
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The Persuasive Power of Large Language Models

S.M. Breum, D.V. Egdal, V.G. Mortensen, A.G. Møller, L.M. Aiello
ICWSM, Buffalo, 2024
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Narratives of Collective Action in YouTube’s Discourse on Veganism

A. Pera, L.M.Aiello
ICWSM, Buffalo, 2024
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The Parrot Dilemma: Human-Labeled vs. LLM-augmented Data in Classification Tasks

A.G. Møller, A. Pera, J.A. Dalsgaard, L.M.Aiello
EACL, Malta, 2024
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Projects

Research endeavours I contributed to

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Likir
[2008-2010]
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OSoMe
[2010]
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Social Sensor
[2012-2014]
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Flickr recommenders
[2013-2015]
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Tumblr recommenders
[2015-2016]
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Yahoo Gemini
[2015-2016]
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GoodCityLife
[2015-2020]
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Tinghy
[2018-2020]
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COCOONS
[2023-2025]