Informal connections outweigh coauthorship ties in academic impact www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Since there's taboo around this, suggesting that cases of Andes virus may be caused by human-to-human transmission on a cruise ship is entirely uncontroversial: 1️⃣ We already know it's able to. 2️⃣ Conditions are "optimal". 3️⃣ This doesn't change the fact that a larger outbreak is extremely unlikely.

Urban Science Beyond Samples: Up-to-Date Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World arxiv.org/abs/2605.00108

Ethnic inequalities in respiratory virus epidemics in England: a mathematical modelling study www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

It takes a village to produce research with impact. This is the idea that motivated us to write this paper, published today.  Kudos to the team: @lluisdanus.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social @carotorreblanca.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Polarization and Integration in Global AI Research arxiv.org/abs/2604.17602

Correcting socioeconomic bias in mobile phone mobility estimates using multilevel regression and poststratification arxiv.org/abs/2604.16193

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

I’m #hiring a PhD Student in Computational Social Science / Agentic Large Language Models. Know anyone who might be interested? www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

📣 New pre-print out! ➡️ Dengue risk perception and public preferences for vector control in Italy and France: utility and regret-based choice experiments: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... A great collaboration with @gaveltri.bsky.social and @filippoandrei.bsky.social

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Still few days to apply!

Toward AI foundation models for epidemics: Promise, challenges, and paths forward www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel. Great work by Silvia de Sojo, @sunelehmann.com and Laura Alessandretti. arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943

PhD opportunity at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab. 🦠 Project: SPILL-AI (mobility data, AI, epidemic modeling) ⚠️ Selected candidate will be submitted to competitive funding (SCAI) Apply by April 12, 2026 www.epicx-lab.com/open-positio...

Democracy is on the brink of a worldwide depression — with the US leading the decline. Civil rights and equality in the land of the free have fallen to the levels of the mid-1960s and freedom of expression is at its lowest since the 1950s. Read Martin Wolf on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/ylR5qXv

📢 Keynotes++: Roberta Sinatra (University of Copenhagen) She combines network science, data science, and the science of science to uncover how careers, collaboration, and discovery evolve—along with the impact of generative AI on scientific writing. 🖋️ Register by April 15 for Early bird rates!

A disease-agnostic approach to ensemble learning for infectious disease forecasting idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

🚀🚀 WE ARE HIRING!!! - Postdoc Position on Inequalities in Epidemic Processes 🚀🚀 Join as a postdoc the Network Epidemics Group at the HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (Budapest) to work on behavior driven epidemics. www.renyi.hu/node/4925

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser econ.st/4bAtZby

Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join ESPIDAM 2026 — the European Summer Program in Infectious Disease Analysis & Modelling! A unique training opportunity for early-career researchers in epidemic modelling 🦠📊 ⏳ Early bird deadline: March 31 www.su.se/english/divi...

Toward AI foundation models for epidemics: Promise, challenges, and paths forward www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Integrating behavioural experimental findings into dynamical models to inform social change interventions idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Dont miss the ESPIDAM summer program in June 2026 in Stockholm, covering many key concepts for ID modelling: stochastic models, AI for ID control, nowcasting and forecasting, phylodynamics, data analysis, network models, within-host models, health economics www.statistics.su.se/english/divi...

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