📢 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!

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

Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📣 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

And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization. Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard. www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...

⏰ 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...

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

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

Senza interventi strutturali per arginare la fuga dal SSN e rendere attrattive le specialità disertate, il rischio della riforma #Bernini è evidente Utilizzare risorse pubbliche per formare #medici destinati al libero mercato, in una #sanità dove il pubblico arretra e il privato avanza #SalviamoSSN

Ho partecipato al crowdfunding di @valigiablu.it Insieme per resistere crowdfunding.valigiablu.it

AI companies should protect your conversations from bulk surveillance by requiring search warrants and pushing back against overbroad requests. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This is something I struggle with as a journalist who writes a lot about AI. I have written whole articles about how AI is a misnomer! But I feel powerless in the tides of linguistic drift. Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?

Networks are #complex and their dynamics often look chaotic. But we can reconstruct latent spaces where their behavior becomes strikingly regular, revealing functional organization across biology, society and technology. How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐 Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!

I wrote this piece at the start of the year, so it's nice to see it finally out before the year's end! It looks at the notion of "hard steps" in evolution that allegedly make intelligent life rare in the universe, and why that might not be correct after all. nautil.us/we-might-not...

Submission link for the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is LIVE! We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more Deadline: Jan 15 cs2italy.org

We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines. But this work is now endangered. www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare

We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be

Meet Prof. Iyad Rahawan, winner of the Lagrange Prize 2025 🏆 Exploring how AI reshapes our society. @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social #lagrangeprize #fondazionecrt #ogr

I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems. I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years. Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor

Join us later today in Torino at OGR 👉 bit.ly/47hxXDN

I’m proud to support the Python Software Foundation and their commitment to building an inclusive community. Please consider donating if you can!

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!

@alexvespi.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social @maxplanck.de

The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.

Vietare l’educazione alla sessualità nelle scuole medie compromette salute e sicurezza per: 👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali 👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili 👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale #Valditara #Lega

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

I've defended my PhD 🎓🙂 Huge thanks to @nuriaoliver.com for her guidance over these years and to the committee @ccattuto.bsky.social , Isabel Valera, and G. González Serrano for their time, insights, and an inspiring discussion 🙏 Excited for what's coming next!

PubMed is in trouble This is beyond bad for medical research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

“If the social platforms and language models that increasingly shape our understanding of the world are inscrutable black boxes, Wikipedia is the opposite, maybe the most legible, endlessly explainable information management system ever made." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

📢 Keynotes unlocked: 4/12. Thrilled to have Anna Levina as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about #networks, #neurons and #criticality! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!

Based on the body of evidence, what happens if pregnant women do not receive Covid booster vaccination? Thousands of hospitalizations of infants and expectant mothers @nathanlo.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Read more ↘️ NASA scientists have spoken out about how cuts to NASA funding and staff costs irreplaceable personnel, and dismantles their vital research. Read their Voyager Declaration here: www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...

Sino a quando i cittadini (incazzati) non scenderanno in piazza, la politica non rimetterà mai la #sanità pubblica tra le priorità del Paese #SalviamoSSN

WHAT IS MIGRATION? Joining a migrant family through the deadly Darién jungle connecting South and North America vimeo.com/943626138

Join us in Zaragoza!

“Vaccines represent one of humanity’s greatest achievements” @adamratnermd.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Some findings of note: ChatGPT has a global and diverse user base, with usage growing faster in poorer countries than in wealthy ones. And people are increasingly using it in their personal lives rather than for help at work. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Delighted to have contributed to this effort led by @gfalbery.bsky.social with our SocioPatterns data on animal social networks.

This was a great collaboration, combining high-resolution data from wearable proximity sensors, virological data, air quality data and more. Delighted to see it out there.

New Preprint! Co-led with Nicolas Banholzer *The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools* on MedRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025... (YET TO BE PEER REVIEWED)

The mechanisms by which ultra-processed foods (UPF) drive obesity, an outstanding review article "the evidence is sufficiently strong to justify immediate public health efforts to reduce UPF consumption." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Capturing the complexity of human strategic decision-making with machine learning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Optimal sampling frequency and site selection for wastewater and environmental surveillance of infectious pathogens: A value of information assessment journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

RFK Jr. essentially wants to force every person to enroll in the kind of programs run by insurers that tie your moral worth and market value to behavioral data from wearable trackers. They don’t work. I wrote about that corporate infrastructure and ideology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

People not only form social networks, they construct mental maps of them. People think about the ties between other people, including ties among individuals to whom they are not themselves directly connected. These “cognitive social networks” have rarely been studied. 1/

Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights. So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️: www.wired.com/story/editor...