Panayiotis Smeros
@psmeros
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Computer Science Researcher (He/Him)
Lausanne, Switzerland
Joined January 2013
Crash course on academic/scientific/journalistic writing: "avoid passive voice". Meanwhile, in New York Times (@nytimes): source: https://t.co/kNqEPX0fs6
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π @epflalumni Spotlight #7: @tizianopiccardi π» Assistant Professor at @JohnsHopkins University, exploring HCI, AI & Social Computing. PhD in Computer Science at EPFL (Data Science Lab, Robert West). Former Postdoc at Stanford and co-founder of Widerun, a VR + fitness startup.
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I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @JHUCompSci π Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about! Learn more https://t.co/KbTJevMb8J & help spread the word!
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The algorithm will be purely AI by November, with significant progress along the way. We will open source the algorithm every two weeks or so. By November or certainly December, you will be able to adjust your feed dynamically just by asking Grok.
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In 2024 3.6% of people aged 16+ in the EU who needed a medical examination or treatment reported that they were unable to receive it due to financial reasons, long waiting lists or distance. Highest shares in: π¬π·Greece (21.9%) Lowest: π¨πΎCyprus (0.1%) π https://t.co/smzmy8vhE3
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Dear ChatGPT, Am I the Asshole? While Reddit users might say yes, your favorite LLM probably wonβt. We present Social Sycophancy: a new way to understand and measure sycophancy as how LLMs overly preserve users' self-image.
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π’π Excited to share that our paper "On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4" has been published in Nature Human Behaviour! π€ Key takeaway: LLMs can already reach superhuman persuasiveness, especially when given access to personalized information https://t.co/GPLyxuWN1L
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Nature Human Behaviour - Salvi et al. find that GPT-4 outperforms humans in debates when given basic sociodemographic data. With personalization, GPT-4 had 81.2% higher odds of post-debate...
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Iβm excited to announce that 5 of my papers and 2 grant proposals have been rejected this month. Looking forward to throwing them in the garbage and crying and then getting them back from the garbage and cleaning them and resubmitting them. Exciting times ahead!! ππππ€£π€£π€£
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Two PhD positions to begin in September 2025 are available in my group in Barcelona, please help me by sharing with candidates wanting to do a PhD in algorithmic fairness:
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Academic job market post! π Iβm a CS Postdoc at Stanford in the @StanfordHCI group. I develop ways to improve the online information ecosystem, by designing better social media feeds & improving Wikipedia. I work on AI, Social Computing, and HCI. https://t.co/703Fxe3MdC π§΅
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β¨Iβm on the academic job market!β¨ I'm a CS Postdoc at Stanford in the @stanfordnlp. I develop AI and causal inference to tackle societal issues like online civility, racial justice, sustainability, and more. Check out the thread for details! Website:
kristinagligoric.com
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We are looking for a research assistant to help in the development of test datasets to detect discrimination in algorithmic hiring. Funded by @HorizonFINDHR
https://t.co/jWSapi1gm7
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Social media algorithms shape our reality by deciding what's relevant. Independent studies are crucial, but hard without platform cooperation. We've put together practical recommendations for reranking feeds using web extensions. Source code coming soon! https://t.co/LM0rNMK1Ieπ
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π We just hit 40 rejections (as a lab) which means time for our second #Rejection party! Scaling it up to a meal out this time π. Kudos for all the hard work submitting papers, applying to grants, and failing all the way! Only by trying can you success β¨οΈβ¨οΈ #AcademicChatter
π Just had our first #Rejection Party! We collectively keep track of all our work that gets rejected (papers, grant applications...) and when we reach 20 we party to celebrate all our hard work! Featuring signature cocktails thanks to @ChrBuettner π
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π Fully funded PhD position in Grenoble @CNRS starting this Fall! We will work together on interpretability and new types of evaluations of LLMs and agents. Apply now: https://t.co/XCEhBG4H4k The picture is the view you'll have from the office in Fall π
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dating app for academics showing hot singles in your area of expertise
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Check out our new work, now out in Frontiers in Nutrition: "Measuring and Shaping the Nutritional Environment via Food Sales Logs: Case Studies of Campus-Wide Food Choice and a Call to Action"! https://t.co/T6WNFLgckS
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"Every @Wikipedia page has a unique attention pattern" @tizianopiccardi #ICWSM24 π https://t.co/swipyf9rsB
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Just 2 days ago, we posted the preprint on arXiv. What better way to share the news than getting @_akhaliq to tweet about it?ππ Check it out!
Spotify presents Personalized Audiobook Recommendations at Spotify Through Graph Neural Networks In the ever-evolving digital audio landscape, Spotify, well-known for its music and talk content, has recently introduced audiobooks to its vast user base. While promising, this
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