Patrick Gerard

December 2025: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory Talk 🎤

Invited talk at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory; discussed grappling with the evolving landscape of social media research and generalizing user representation across social media platforms.

November 2025: Oxford Internet Institute Talk 🎤

Invited talk at the University of Oxford's OII's Future of Social Media Research Workshop; discussed information and user modeling in fragmented digital ecosystems and how to generalize our understanding of the overarching information ecosystem.

November 2025: ICWSM Paper Accepted 🎉

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems

November 2025: (N)Eurips (Workshop) Paper Accepted 🎉

Community-Aligned Behavior Under Uncertainty: Evidence of Epistemic Stance Transfer in LLMs

October 2025: Interactive Dashboard! 🌐

Watch narratives flow across X, TikTok, Telegram, and Truth Social in real-time during the 2024 US election

October 2025: New Paper! 📝

Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks

July 2025: Meta CSS Talk 🎤

Discussed the challenges of modeling information diffusion in fragmented digital ecosystems and introduced a novel methodology that outperforms traditional approaches while requiring substantially less data.

June 2025: DETOX @ ICWSM 2025 🎉

Invited talk at the DETOX workshop on countering social media degradation. Introduced a new modeling framework for identifying narrative enclaves and predicting cross-platform narrative spread, aimed at proactively detecting and disrupting harmful content flows across digital ecosystems.

June 2025: Stanford Security Group Talk 🎤

Discussed the challenges of modeling information diffusion in fragmented digital ecosystems and introduced a novel methodology that outperforms traditional approaches while requiring substantially less data.