Social media sites can bring people together or push them further apart. A modeling study shows how small changes in posting or recommendation rules can flip a system from consensus to polarization. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/hLrY50Y3KPk

Para quienes habláis español: si queréis saber más sobre la polarización y la difusión de información en redes sociales, aquí tenéis una nota de prensa sobre nuestro estudio reciente. www.unizar.es/actualidad/v... @ymoreno.bsky.social and @kleber-ao.com www.unizar.es/actualidad/v...

We link virality and polarization. An ABM calibrated on Brexit and Vaccine debates shows the same parameters that generate cascades also generate polarized opinions. Thanks to @ymoreno.bsky.social and @kleber-ao.com academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

New comment out! With Sandro Reia & Dieter Pfoser, we explore how LLMs + GABMs can transform urban science - from modeling mobility to simulating digital twins. 📄 Free access until June 19, 2025: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l0Wc5bD-s... #AI #LLMs #UrbanScience #GABM #ComplexSystems #DigitalTwins

📢 I'm happy to share our editorial for the "Science of Science: A Complex Network Perspective" research topic! 🚀 Grateful to my co-editors Sandro Reia & @filipisilva.bsky.social 🙌 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/res... #SciSci #NetworkScience #Bibliometrics #ScienceOfScience

Our paper DOCES (Dynamical Opinion Clusters Exploration Suite) is now published in SoftwareX! 📄 DOCES helps model opinion dynamics in social networks, exploring polarization, algorithmic influence, and user behavior. 🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.so... 📌 Library on PyPI: pypi.org/project/doces/

📢 New publication in the Journal of Theoretical Biology!📢 Our study introduces a similarity index to map neural datasets into similarity networks, which is tested on neurons but can be applied to any multivariate comparison. Read more in our paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It is great to see our paper, "Echo Chamber Formation Sharpened by Priority Users," getting media coverage in Ireland. Nice interview and podcast, @kleber-ao.com . If you want to see the full podcast, it's on Spotify👇 open.spotify.com/episode/5Ujo...

Happy to share our latest publication on the function and form of US cities!🚦Using NHTS travel and road networks, we identify city clusters based on travel behavior and infrastructure. This project was led by my co-author Sandro M. Reia. Open access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kAV1jFQh0...

🚨New paper in Scientific Data!🚨 We've classified 67M+ US buildings (residential/non-residential) using OpenStreetMap data. This dataset could help with urban planning, traffic management, and more. Check it out here👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #UrbanPlanning #DataScience #OSM

New paper out on recommendations of network data sharing with an amazing cohort of co-authors. Huge thanks to Zachary Neal for the initiative and putting this all together! doi.org/10.1017/nws....

🎉Nice to see our work mentioned again, this time in an article in @theindependent.bsky.social on the impact of Twitter changes on the academic community! Thanks to @ymoreno.bsky.social and @kleber-ao.bsky.social. Check out the full story: www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter...

It is so nice to see our work featured in the media! Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors @kleber-ao.bsky.social and @ymoreno.bsky.social , and especially to @ymoreno.bsky.social for having the idea to kick off this project. Check it out here: phys.org/news/2024-10... 🙌

Our work is now published in @iScience: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Very nice project with @hfarruda.bsky.social and @ymoreno.bsky.social. Have a look here (bsky.app/profile/kleb...) for a summary. Also, stay tuned for more publications from this same project coming out soon!

🌱We've just released the Spanish edition of our Vegetable Oils Report "Explorando el futuro de los aceites vegetales", which was launched at #COP16Cali! 🌍 Learn how sustainable practices can change the future of oils: portals.iucn.org/library/node... #SustainableFuture #VegetableOils #AgriInnovation

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #773,774!

🚨 New preprint! We’ve classified 67M+ US buildings (residential/non-residential) using OpenStreetMap data. This dataset could help with urban planning, traffic management, and more. Check it out and share your thoughts! #UrbanPlanning #DataScience #ML #OSM arxiv.org/abs/2409.05692

Today, the IUCN published our report on the future of vegetable oils. This IUCN report delves into the complex world of vegetable oil production, trade, and consumption. www.iucn.org/resources/is... 🧵1/3 #sustainablefuture #vegetableoil

What happens when a policy changes but the data is no longer available? We need to look at the mechanisms instead. In our newest pre-print (arxiv.org/abs/2312.09358), we study the effects of inadvertent social media content promotion on polarization & formation of echo chambers 1/4