Giovanni Palermo

Last week in Venice, I presented our work on Social Circle polls at the hashtag#StatPhys29 satellite event on Complex Networks.

Come near, pollsters of the world! We have a recipe for guessing the next election result.

What if GPT-powered bots sneaked into our online conversations?
Could we spot them, or would we need more powerful tools?

Check out our new preprint to find out how social networks may change with LLMs!

@Gius_C @Daniebile

arxiv.org/abs/2506.21620

Just presented our work on food pairing & recommender systems at Sapienza's Physics Dept! 🍽️👨‍🔬

Blind taste tests showed: fewer shared flavor compounds = worse combos 😬

Flavor chemistry isn't in recipes yet—but it should be.

Preprint 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2406.15533

What if, instead of asking "Who will you vote for?", we asked "What % of your social circle will vote for ...?"

This question can improve the predictions—but polarization can distort results.

🚀 The good news? We found a fix! Check out our preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2503.23879

Last week at @CSHVienna presenting opinion swings and social circle polls. So many questions, that I couldn't even finish my presentation! Great day!