Stat&Prob&Fishing&Japan. Geek, R Core Team (1999-2014), Prof @LaStatale Unimi, @IQSS & @KempnerInst affiliate, back to @EU_Commission. Father of 3.
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An intellectually deep and beautifully written essay on consciousness and AI, by neuroscientist Anil Seth | Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea | @anilkseth in @NoemaMag noemamag.com/the-mythology-o… noemamag.com/the-mythology-o…
New paper: the rural-urban gap in job satisfaction is procyclical, widest when labor markets are tight. Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s11205-026-0…
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Today we proposed the EU KIDS Act.
No social media under the age of 13. No personal accounts under the age of 15. That’s our recommendation.
As European Commission President, @vonderleyen said: “The question is not whether kids should have access to social media. The question is whether social media platforms should have access to our children.”
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of former Commissioner, Emma Bonino.
Her legacy is marked by her dedication to making the world a more just and compassionate place.
Our condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues.
ALT A photo in black and white of Emma Bonino
Are there two Americas of well-being?
The conversation about the US has centered on a rural-urban divide: in voting patterns, in values, in opportunity. But what happens when we look at subjective well-being, that is, how good people say their life is? siacus.substack.com/p/are-th… – at Sant Adrià de Besòs, España
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We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act.
They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations.
More: link.europa.eu/8bmk3M
#DSA
ALT “Graphic with a purple background and yellow EU stars. Text reads: ‘ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox designated under the Digital Services Act.’ The European Commission logo appears in the bottom right.”
What can 2.6B tweets tell us about human flourishing in the US?
Our new paper, just published in Nature’s Scientific Data, uses geolocated tweets and fine-tuned language models to build 48 indicators of flourishing across US counties and states.
doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-0… – at San Felice Circeo, Lazio
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Multilingual research: Affiliates Andrea Nasuto, Stefano @Iacus, and Devika Jain with @Fcorowe present an open-source #LLM framework classifying tweets across languages for real-time large-scale analysis, in @Nature.
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
#SocialScienceResearch #DataScience
This year Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Core Team, for its contribution to R, its community and statistical computing more broadly. I am so happy for this, and humbly proud of having been part of this amazing success story 👇👇👇
rousseeuwprize.org/2026
Best daddy-daugther afternoon ever building 🤖#ReacyMini together (actually she did it all!) Thx @pollenrobotics & @huggingface
This is the day!
On May 5, 1976, fifty years ago, John Chambers sketched a simple idea on paper, a new paradigm for designing computer languages. That idea became the S language, which transformed statistical computing forever. S later evolved into its open-source successor, R.
The history of #R. Listen to John, he mentions a few important dates. Stay tuned!
youtu.be/jk9S3RTAl38?si=G49w…
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✨We have a new blog out on Beyond Income, Toward Flourishing by Stefano Iacus, Harvard University; Giuseppe Porro, University of Insubria; Devika Jain, Harvard University
Read full on Just Rural Futures:
justruralfutures.substack.co…
Our contribution to the Regional Studies Association @rsa_blog on 48 human #flourishing dimensions extracted from 2.6B social media posts via fine-tuned LLMs. Thanks for hosting us.
🌟 New RSA blog introduces the Human Flourishing Geographic Index (HFGI)—county-level, monthly data on happiness, belonging, purpose & more, built from 2.6B tweets.
Read the blog by: Stefano Iacus & Devika Jain
🔗 regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog…
Super excited! Thx @pollenrobotics @huggingface to make robotics so fun and now so affordable 😁🤖
Finally out: regularized estimation for SDEs. Paving the way to robust prediction in the case of high dimensional systems modeled by SDEs. Comes with fast&efficient python code. Thanks to A. De Gregorio, D. Frisardi, & F. Iafrate for bringing me on board. link.springer.com/10.1007/s1…
