- date: 2026-05-01
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23982) accepted to [IJCAI 2026](https://2026.ijcai.org/)!"

- date: 2026-04-07
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.01656) accepted to [ACL 2026](https://2026.aclweb.org/) Main Conference!"

- date: 2026-03-24
  category: Travel
  content: "✈️ Flying to Morocco 🇲🇦 for presenting our [EACL 2026 Findings paper](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.272/)!"

- date: 2026-03-06
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104291) accepted with [Information Fusion](https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-fusion)!"

- date: 2026-01-29
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22396) out on Culturally Grounded Personas in Large Language Models"

- date: 2026-03-03
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02858) out on LLM-based Argument Mining and its integration with Argumentation and Description Logics"

- date: 2026-01-20
  category: Travel
  content: "✈️ Flying to Singapore 🇸🇬 for presenting our [AAAI 2026 Demo paper](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/42335)!"

- date: 2026-01-09
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.123106) accepted with [Information Sciences](https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-sciences)!"

- date: 2025-11-03
  category: Travel
  content: "✈️ Flying to Suzhou 🇨🇳 for presenting our [EMNLP 2025 paper](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1354/), and then to Seul 🇰🇷 for presenting our [CIKM 2025 paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3746252.3761611)!"

- date: 2025-10-08
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226) out on the footprint of machine-generated text on Reddit 🔎 🤖"

- date: 2025-09-28
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23982) out with on Preference alignment of Large Language Models via Residual Steering ⚙️ 🧠 🤖"

- date: 2025-08-21
  content: "🇩🇰 Flying to Copenhagen for visiting the [NERDS](https://nerds.itu.dk/) team at [ITU](https://itu.dk/), working on the [COCOONS](https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/da/Forskningsaktiviteter/Bevillingsstatistik/Bevillingsoversigt/CF21_0432_Luca-Maria-Aiello) project with [Luca Maria Aiello](http://www.lajello.com/)!"

- date: 2025-08-20
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11369) accepted to [EMNLP 2025](https://2025.emnlp.org/) Main Conference!"

- date: 2025-08-04
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 Resource paper accepted with [CIKM 2025](https://cikm2025.org/)!"

- date: 2025-08-03
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.01656) out on Authorship Attribution in Multilingual Machine-Generated Texts 🤖 🔍"

- date: 2025-07-27
  category: Travel
  content: "🇦🇹 Flying to Vienna for presenting our [paper](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.883/) on the LLMs' ability to spontaneously and conditionally modify moral expressions through text manipulation!"

- date: 2025-06-23
  category: Travel
  content: "🇩🇰 Flying to Copenaghen for chairing our Workshop on [Next Generation and Alternative Social Media](https://nextgensocial-workshop.github.io/) @ [ICWSM 2025](https://www.icwsm.org/2025/index.html)!"

- date: 2025-06-16
  category: Travel
  content: "🇮🇹 Traveling to Ischia for the Italian Symposium On Advanced Database Systems!"

- date: 2025-05-31
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osnem.2025.100319) accepted with [Online Social Networks and Media](https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/online-social-networks-and-media)!"

- date: 2025-05-20
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 Paper accepted with [Pervasive and Mobile Computing](https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/pervasive-and-mobile-computing)!"

- date: 2025-05-20
  category: Travel
  content: "🇸🇪 Flying to Uppsala for visiting at the [UU-Infolab](https://uuinfolab.github.io/), where I'll give a PhD-level [course on Large Language Models](https://uuinfolab.github.io/courses/llm2025)!"

- date: 2025-05-15
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 Paper accepted to [ACL 2025](https://2025.aclweb.org/) Main Conference!"

- date: 2025-04-15
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11369) out with a novel benchmark for machine-generated text detection and attribution 🤖 🔍"

- date: 2025-03-15
  category: Publication
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01279) accepted with [Social Network Analysis and Mining](https://link.springer.com/journal/13278)!"

- date: 2025-02-24
  category: Travel
  content: "🇺🇸 Flying to Philadelphia for presenting our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07115) on mimicking human personalities via LLMs!"

- date: 2025-02-06
  category: Talk
  content: "🎙️ Gave a [talk](https://youtu.be/62MJji7W024?si=--vj4bMRt3Ermkky) for the [NetPLACE](https://netplace.site/) seminar series! 🔥"

- date: 2025-01-29
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17557) out on Mixture of Experts for Link Prediction in Multilayer Networks!"

- date: 2024-12-10
  category: Publication
  content: "🎉 [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07115) accepted to [AAAI 2025](https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/) (acceptance rate 23.4%)"

- date: 2024-11-11
  category: Travel
  content: "🇺🇸 Flying to Miami for presenting our [paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.881/) on the limits of LLMs in lexical entailment recognition!"

- date: 2024-10-18
  content: "🇪🇸 Flying to Santiago de Compostela for presenting our [paper](https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/FAIA240862) on the detection and attribution of AI-generated text!"

- date: 2024-09-20
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14894) accepted to [EMNLP 2024](https://2024.emnlp.org/) Findings!"

- date: 2024-09-16
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08963) out on safeguarding (decentralized) social media through LLM agents for automatic rule compliance checking 🤖 🔍"

- date: 2024-07-04
  content: "🥳 [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09364) accepted to [ECAI 2024](https://www.ecai2024.eu/) (acceptance rate 23%)"

- date: 2024-07-03
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01279) out on hidden swing voters' vulnerability to propaganda techniques during the 2022 Italian general elections 🗳️ 🇮🇹"

- date: 2024-06-21
  content: "📝 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14894) out on the limits of LLMs in lexical entailment recognition 🔬"

- date: 2024-06-03
  content: "🇺🇸 Flying to Buffalo for chairing our 1st International Workshop on Decentralizing the Web ([DeWeb'24](https://deweb-workshop.github.io/)) @ ICWSM!"

- date: 2024-05-21
  content: "🇩🇪 Off to Stuttgart for presenting a tutorial and two papers on Decentralized Online Social Networks at WebSci'24! \n(Update: 🏆 Our paper \"[Polarization in Decentralized Online Social Networks](https://doi.org/10.1145/3614419.3644013)\" got the [best short-paper award](https://websci24.org/program/awards/)!)"

- date: 2024-05-02
  content: "I am so excited to share that my journey with the University of Calabria continues as an Assistant Professor starting today! 👨🏻‍💻\nLooking forward to the adventures ahead! ✨"

- date: 2024-02-27
  content: "🎓👨🏻‍💻 Successfully defended (cum laude ✨) my Ph.D. dissertation \"Graph Mining and Multimodal Representation Learning for Emerging Decentralized Socio-Economic Domains\" 🥳"

- date: 2024-01-15
  content: "🧠 New [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07115) out on Artificial Agents mirroring human personalities through Open Large Language Models (LLMs)"

- date: 2023-12-07
  content: "🥳 Our paper on the Twitter migration to Mastodon is out now on [ScientificReports](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48200-7)!"

- date: 2023-11-06
  content: "🔬 Presenting my tutorial on Mastodon at ASONAM 2023 in Kusadasi, Turkey 🇹🇷 \n(Update: 🏆 the tutorial has been awarded for being inspiring!)"

- date: 2023-10-03
  content: "🔥 The [NFT-70M dataset](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923008181) is here!"

- date: 2023-08-28
  content: "📚 Flying to Greece for the Google DeepMind [Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School](https://www.m2lschool.org/home) (M2L) in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 \n(Update: 🏆 I won the AEGEAN Scholarship as one of the top students!)"

- date: 2023-07-24
  content: "💻 (Virtually) Presenting our new [tool](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3539618.3591821) at the ACM SIGIR 2023"

- date: 2023-07-19
  content: "🇩🇰 Flying to Copenhagen for presenting our work on the #TwitterMigration to Mastodon 🐘 at IC2S2 2023"

- date: 2023-05-02
  content: "🇺🇸 Off to Austin for presenting our work at TheWebConf2023 \n(Update: 🏆 I won a Student Travel Award sponsored by Zhipu AI!)"

- date: 2023-04-01
  content: "🥳 Paper accepted to [ACM SIGIR 2023](https://sigir.org/sigir2023/)!"

- date: 2023-01-25
  content: "🥳 Paper accepted with [The ACM Web Conference 2023](https://archives.iw3c2.org/www2023/)! (acceptance rate 19.2%)"

- date: 2023-01-07
  content: "🚀🇩🇰 I have joined the [NERDS](https://nerds.itu.dk/) team at ITU as a visiting PhD Student, working on the [COCOONS](https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/da/Forskningsaktiviteter/Bevillingsstatistik/Bevillingsoversigt/CF21_0432_Luca-Maria-Aiello) project under the supervision of [Luca Maria Aiello](http://www.lajello.com/). It is going to be a fascinating experience! 👨🏻‍💻"