AI Persuasive Framing in Collective Dilemmas arxiv.org/abs/2606.27951

So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋 Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...

The first Ebola case has been reported today in France. Our rapid risk assessment last month showed that France consistently ranked among the European countries at highest risk of importation if an Ebola case were to arrive in Europe from the ongoing Bundibugyo outbreak.

Latest out: A systematic review of COVID-19 epidemic models with endogenous human behaviour. What's next? Great collaboration with Elena D'Agnese, @alemelegaro.bsky.social , Vittoria Offeddu, Alberto d'Onofrio, Chris T. Bauch, and Piero Manfredi. arxiv.org/abs/2606.12465

📣 New paper @nathumbehav.nature.com: A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Post-doc position available! We are recruiting a post-doc to join NEXT-UP, a project investigating the long-term effects of the COVID-19 crisis on young people’s transition from education to employment. For more info and to apply, see here: lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/en/research-...

The Economic Impact of the USAID Shutdown by @fabiosabatini.bsky.social and M. Nicolini papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📄 New paper: people choose AI models partly on political grounds This is joint work with @pettertornberg.com @chrisbail.bsky.social @michelleschimmel.bsky.social and led by @michaelheseltine.bsky.social

Thanks to funding from the Gates Foundation - and all the great work led by Josh and Karthik in the lab - we have an opening for a postdoc position in AI and Data Science. Come join us here in San Diego and do some great science! ☀️🏄‍♂️🧗‍♂️🏜️🌵⛰️🌊. Learn more: andersen-lab.com/about/

The Effect of Mobility Trajectory Sparsity on Epidemic Modeling Outcomes https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31282 GPS mobility data are increasingly used in epidemic modeling, allowing the construction of co-location networks or population flows. These trajectories typically exhibit high temporal spa...📈🤖

The healing power of nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

IDOBE: Infectious Disease Outbreak forecasting Benchmark Ecosystem arxiv.org/abs/2604.18521

Today is Technopanic publication day! I have many things to say about it (and I will in the next weeks) but for now: the Kindle edition costs as much as a coffee (or two espresso in Italy…), so no excuse not to grab a copy and judge for yourself. -->

Our recent analyses on the international dissemination risk associated with the current Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC are discussed in @lemonde.fr today: www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti... #SUMOC @inserm.fr @fac-sante-sorbonne.bsky.social

Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits arxiv.org/abs/2605.18890

Global approaches to infectious disease surveillance and modeling idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

🔈 CS2Italy has been officially opened by @ccattuto.bsky.social at OGR Torino 🔹 AI and human behavior 🔹 Social and information networks 🔹 Urban science and mobility 🔹 Misinformation and digital platforms 🔹 Inequality, cooperation, and collective behavior 🔹 Science and society in the age of AI

A method for including socio-demographic factors in social contact matrices for compartment-based epidemic models arxiv.org/abs/2605.13870

Climate change and social health idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

How have UK social contact patterns changed post-pandemic? How assortative are they by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status? Pleased to share our new @plosmedicine.org paper, jointly led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and myself, with @kevinvzandvoort.bsky.social and John Edmunds. #IDSky

1/ Yesterday I was more worried about #hantavirus than I am today. Why? Flight attendant who was exposed - Tested negative Viral genome - No concerning mutations Two Singaporean's exposed - Tested negative Data situation - We're tracking at Global.health (h/t @mugkraemer.bsky.social)

So that's the science before all this. Does the outbreak change any of that? Has the virus learnt to spread better? No reason to think so. 1. Still not clear how much it actually spread on the ship. 2. A cruise ship is exactly where you'd expect a virus to spread that is not great at spreading.

My update on the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak The news has developed at pace, with significant case and genomic updates in the past few days What we know for sure: - This is not the next pandemic - Hantavirus is under researched - We need investment in public health agencies to keep us safe

After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky

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....