Mathematical modeling of urban sprawl arxiv.org/abs/2603.08338

Characterization and forecast of global influenza subtype dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The notifications are OUT! Super excited to hear our 16 highlighted talks and a whopping 116 parallel talks, and to see all the posters -- Register by April 15 to be our Early Bird! cs2italy.org

Fantastic opportunities for anyone looking a world-class research lab in disease modeling.

Join us in Torino, next May, for a great conference of computational social science!

Modeling roles and trade-offs in multiplex networks idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Theory-Informed Generative Agents for Human Mobility Modeling www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.

Urban mobility network centrality predicts social resilience https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18546 Cities thrive on social interactions that foster well-being, innovation, and prosperity; yet, exogenous shocks such as pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires can severely disrupt them. Different urban ...📈🤖

Happy to share the latest. My views on the current battlefield dynamics and where the war stands in 2026. Happy to share the latest. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai...

Mobility-driven synthetic contact matrices as a scalable solution for real-time pandemic response modeling www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Step 1: Insert bacteria ("Wolbachia") into mosquitoes. Step 2: Release mosquitoes. Step 3: Watch Dengue rates plummet. Phenomenal results from Singapore. Link: tinyurl.com/59c9t67u, by Lim et al.

Another new preprint on group adaptation! 📣 Great joint work w/ @martonkarsai.bsky.social and @alainbarrat.bsky.social! Can adaptive behaviors driven by group interactions be more effective and less costly than pairwise ones? How do their adaptive mechanisms differ? arxiv.org/abs/2602.05915 🧵 1/7

Impact of behavioral heterogeneity on epidemic outcome and its mapping into effective network topologies arxiv.org/abs/2601.21743

📣 CS2Italy 2026 the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science ⏰ Today is the last day to submit your abstract 📍 Turin, May 19–21 We welcome abstract submissions in: #ComputerScience #NetSci #ComplexSystems #Sociology #Economics #Politics #CognitiveScience #Psychology 👉 cs2italy.org

📢 Keynotes++: Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University 👉 information propagation 👉 online misinformation 👉 social influence 📷 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!) cs2italy.org

Socioeconomic Determinants of the COVID-19 Infodemic arxiv.org/abs/2601.18377

Indonesia’s shift to cleaner cooking fuels has greatly improved air quality and health— In 2000, less than 10% of the population in Indonesia had access to clean cooking fuels. This is now over 90%, as the chart shows.

Our new collective effort highlights what happens when AI acts in populations rather than as isolated tool. TL;DR: a lot.

I'm exhausted and the week hasn't even started.

*New paper in Nature Health* Why did the 2022 mpox outbreak in Paris decline so abruptly? rdcu.be/eZ24H

Block-Fitness Modeling of the Global Air Mobility Network arxiv.org/abs/2601.13867

📢 Keynotes++: Milena Tsvetkova - @mtsvetkova.bsky.social London School of Economics and Political Science on how social networks, algorithms, and HCI shape collective behavior, inequality, cooperation, and social influence 👉 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! cs2italy.org

⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply! @isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability 📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026 🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...

Our work about extending contact matrices beyond age, accounting for socio-economic dimensions, is finally published! Here, we analyse social contact data in Switzerland. Happy to see this output from my research period at @ispm.unibe.ch w/ @calthaus.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin ▶️ cs2italy.org

Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it

ICE is no longer an immigration agency. It is a paramilitary force, backed by a parallel prison system, answerable to the president alone. What’s happening in the U.S. isn’t a deviation—it’s an infrastructure. And it won’t end with Trump. civiceconomist.substack.com/p/ice-trumps...

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science to join us in Turin on May 19-21 We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more For more: cs2italy.org

Last week to submit to CS2Italy, the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science. See you in Torino 19-21 May 2026! cs2italy.org

Reconstructing the early spatial spread of pandemic respiratory viruses in the United States www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to share a new study published in PNAS! @pnas.org We reconstructed the early, cryptic spatial spread of 2009 H1N1 influenza and SARS-CoV-2 across US metropolitan areas. Link👉https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518051123 #PandemicPreparedness #InfectiousDisease #HumanMobility

If accurate, this raises the question "who is governing Venezuela right now, and tomorrow?" (The answer isn't "Delta Force" or "SEAL Team 6," that's not what they do.) While nearly every state has a presidential line of succession, that may not indicate where power actually lies in coming days.

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

ICYMI -- Delighted that the Handbook of Computational Social Science is finally out. Amazing cast of coauthors, with special thanks to @tahayasseri.bsky.social for leading the effort. Happy Holidays! www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

PNAS: Perception of own centrality in social networks https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420334122?af=R

After a multiyear, international collaboration that began in July 2022, delighted to share a new paper in Epidemics' December issue addressing how pandemic response policies can balance economic and public health goals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Come join @ceu-dnds.bsky.social as an 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿! 🚨 We are looking for a young and coming researcher in 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 and 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. If that sounds like you (or someone you know), check out the call & apply (or share the link): careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

Global stability of epidemic models with uniform susceptibility www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

This may keep me out of the US for a while... I was already reluctant about traveling to the US. This only confirms all my concerns www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

Urban contact patterns shape respiratory syncytial virus epidemics with implications for vaccination | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is accepting submissions! Join us in Torino with your best work!

A super-important work done by the Epistorm consortium is out: Epistorm-Mix: Mapping Social Contact Patterns for Respiratory Pathogen Spread in the Post-Pandemic United States www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science? The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details. 🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026

The Effects of Remote Working on Scientific Collaboration and Impact arxiv.org/abs/2511.18481

Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.

Latest out in Plos Comp Bio: "Epydemix: An open-source Python package for epidemic modeling with integrated approximate Bayesian calibration". A new package in Python for epidemic modeling. Paper: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol.... Website with lots of tutorials: www.epydemix.org