Physical devices operating out of equilibrium are affected by thermal fluctuations, limiting their operational precision Coherent quantum dynamics can surpass the traditional thermodynamic precision limits, guiding development of future high-precision quantum devices www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 A new work from an international collaboration with the great @yuetinghan.bsky.social, Paolo Turrini, Marya Bazzi, @giuliandr.bsky.social & Eugenia Polizzi Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with (mis)information and its visibility at scale 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.06106 Short 🧵 1/

🚨 New paper from @comunelab.bsky.social ! We review the latent geometry emerging from network-driven processes, with an eye to network functionality and applications from biological systems to infrastructures. 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.09616 #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience 🧪🌐 Short 🧵 1/

It was a pleasure to lecture at the @netsciconf.bsky.social for an interested & interactive audience. What's a model? Why do we model? Is our network a network? Can we restore broken and forgotten links? I will post on #ComplexityThoughts about this lecture, which I have enjoyed to prepare. 🧵 1/

I own a math proof for a slides to a young network scientist attending my lecture this morning. I promised the proof at the end of the talk, but it was lunchtime and we missed the chance to discuss. Can you help me to find/reach him? 🙏 Tomorrow, 10:35, FSE C1.005 at PHS1 @netsciconf.bsky.social

The joint prob that you are in Maastricht and you still don't which satellite to attend is nearly zero. But still, you can show up to our MIX-NEXT if you are curious about where the field is going and what we can do to make it happen. Scales, structure, dynamics, information #NetSci20025

"the concept of the formose reaction as a prebiotic source of ribose on early Earth needs serious reconsideration, and other models/options should be explored" #OoL #OriginOfLife 🧪🧬 www.cell.com/chem/abstrac...

“The view from my window” – Cassini-Huygens spacecraft It's so reassuring that that little, pale, blue dot it's us, about 1 billion km away.

From ecology to epi, from resilience to climate change, the members of our lab will present several results at the next @netsciconf.bsky.social, while @manlius.bsky.social will give a lecture about the broken, lost and future links in #NetworkScience Let's meet in Maastricht & let's get in touch!

The internet is one of the greatest achievements of humankind. Yet, we didn't learn how to use it, especially since we give for granted that it has almost zero cost, like natural resources. Well, indeed it does cost, a lot. And we should learn how to get the most at minimum collateral effects.

Do you know what's inside an ant nest? It is possible to unravel its hidden organization into an intricate web of tunnels: a complex "city" emerges. #ComplexSystems 🧪🐜🐜🐜🐜 youtu.be/dECE7285GxU?...

Glad to see that our recent paper on digital twins for biomedical systems aligns with this view: simple correlational data cannot be used for digital twins and, accordingly, for building decisions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice write up on the consciousness IIT gwt debate. And huge fan of adversial collaboration. Although the problem here is that it was a collaboration between two overambitious theories. The right adversarial would have been convinced that such theories can not currently exist.

This highlights how a strong mutualistic interaction can promote the diversification of entire clades by influencing their phenotypes, defining their geographic distribution, and ultimately contributing to their evolutionary and ecological success 🧪🧬🐠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

(Trying to) Measuring consciousness in the lab? The latest essay from #ComplexityThoughts feat. @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & @kordinglab.bsky.social to discuss about consciousness and how to define/measure it: 👉 open.substack.com/pub/manlius/... 🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... 1/

"we emphasize how a characterization of the unpredictability of a system gives a measure of its complexity. Adopting this point of view, we review some developments in the characterization of the predictability of systems showing different kinds of complexity"🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"It is shown that a dynamical system subject to both periodic forcing and random perturbation may show a resonance (peak in the power spectrum) which is absent when either the forcing or the perturbation is absent" The stochastic resonance! #ComplexSystems 🧪 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Preparing my next @netsciconf.bsky.social School lecture. There are several #ComplexityThoughts I'll unpack across 2.5 hours (and many liquids). 💡 One spoiler: all unreliable networks are alike; each reliable network is reliable in its own way. See you in Maastricht. #NetSky

Thrilled for the latest work from @comunelab.bsky.social ! We introduce a multilayer + multiscale model in two distinct frameworks (particle- & force-based), identifying how to balance contact and mobility cuts to mitigate epidemics. #ComplexSystems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦠

Latest #ComplexityThoughts just out: Issue #57 Network reconstruction (well done), a special about #fungi, #evolution and #Neuroscience this week 🍄🧠🧬🦠🧫🧪🌐 Podcast available on Spotify and Apple as usual. Enjoy and have a nice weekend with #ComplexSystems! open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

New #ComplexityThoughts out there, about the resurgence of measles in the U.S. Post: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/... 👉 With links to interactive experiments to better understand the complexity behind this process. 🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... (also available via Apple) #EpiSky

Using 🐁watching "The Matrix", scientists have reconstructed the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a cubic millimetre of a mouse’s brain tissue. 82k neurons, 500 million synapses #Neuroscience 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As we enter an era marked by multipolar power dynamics, shifting alliances and institutional stress, the possibility of sudden breakdowns in global governance becomes real. New #ComplexityThoughts: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/... 🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com...

Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that w/o such structuring of #ComplexSystems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability-except the order of a dead universe filled with [..] gas. #booksky

Functional organization derived from network-driven processes offers clear advantages wrt traditional methods when studying human brain networks, outperforming SoTA communication models in explaining functional communities from structural data. #Neuroscience 🧪🧠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How did life emerge in our biosphere? An important part of our understanding of this might be grounded in the physics of phase transitions and the maths of bifurcation theory. Here's our review paper with @manlius.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2504.08492

🚨 A new #ComplexityThought essay is out! I report the recent studies about convergent evolution observed in brain systems, and include a broader vision thanks to a discussion with @ricardsole.bsky.social Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

"The approach developed here provides a framework for linking microbial traits to Earth’s geochemical history, offering a pathway for exploring the evolution of other phenotypes in the context of Earth’s history" #ComplexSystems #evolution 🧪🦠🌎🌐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How dangerous can be for medicine in general to have people pushing for non-ethic, non-open, non-transparent AI systems? Selling good image classifiers or text summarizers as "AI that will end diseases within the next decade or so" is just one thing: fraud. 1/

The scientific community must take a strong and active stand against vaccine revisionism — the false narrative that there is insufficient evidence to support the safety and efficacy of vaccines. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well, what to say? Just… thank you 🙏

I don't know how I could have misses the launch of this initiative by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social but it's absolutely a must for anyone confused about what LLMs are and can do, as well as for anyone not skeptical enough about this technology: thebullshitmachines.com

"Emissions linked to Chevron, the highest-emitting investor-owned company in our data, for example, very likely caused between US $791 billion and $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over the period 1991–2020" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Every network scientist today, talking about the Spanish blackout (yesterday) during their network science lecture. #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience

The true strength of (our) scientific community lies not (only) in the prestige of its elders, but (overall) in the care and opportunities it affords its young researchers: especially during the hardest times, when that support is needed most.

This insight comes from a young researcher, and she is absolutely right. We should strive to be in universities where we feel safe to express our ideas, engage in genuine debate and even take action without fear of retaliation. It took me 9 years to find such a place.

📢 The PhD call for "Mind, Brain, and Human Thought" (track: "Experimental Psychology and Psychophysiology") at the IMT School, Lucca is now open! Join us in the Sleep, Plasticity, and Conscious Experience (SPACE) Lab to explore the science of sleep and dreaming. 🧠💤 Apply here 👉 mbht.imtlucca.it

For IIT, a lack of sustained synch within the posterior cortex contradicts the claim that connectivity specifies consciousness. GNWT is challenged by lack of ignition at stimulus offset & limited repr. of conscious dimensions in the prefrontal cortex #NeuroSky 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So, your favorite/fancy/rich AI provider most likely cheats most of the time to score high in LLMs leaderboards. Shocking, but totally expected, isn't it? arxiv.org/abs/2504.20879 #AI #LLM

Endorsing Fil 💯 My lab @comunelab.bsky.social didn't work on vaccination directly, but we have demonstrated how misinformation can have a huge impact on public health, especially during an outbreak journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

🚨 Excited for the latest paper from the lab, led by Zhang & Arsham. Can we coarse-grain a #ComplexNetwork while preserving macroscopic network flows? Surprisingly, the answer is positive, and we have shown it by means of StatPhys + Machine Learning. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great talk about what complexity science is and can be, by @thilogross.bsky.social in a packed room @comunelab.bsky.social in Padua. A week full of #ComplexNetworks #ComplexSystems #ComplexityThoughts

🚨 In the AI era, we think that precision medicine must balance data-driven insights with model-informed strategies. #ComplexSystems science bridges this gap, offering explainable, dynamic models for personalized care. #PrecisionMedicine #DigitalTwins 🧪 #MedSky #NetSky 👉 rdcu.be/d6CJJ 🧵 1/

"[My adviser] told me that instead of focusing on finding a dream job, I should think about what I am good at and what makes me happy at least 80% of the time. This advice surprised me at first, but it ended up being exactly what I needed to hear." scim.ag/3DHtLCc

The analysis of BlueSky during the #Xodus by our very own @manlius.bsky.social has been featured by Science. @bsky.app is structurally different from the other place, to date. Will we benefit from this difference?

This 2024 I’ve been humbled by conversations on #ComplexityThoughts and its (unexpected) growth. From the risks of new pandemics to the promises of AI, from climate change to evolution, I explored many systems through the lens of #complexity science balancing the technical w/ the accessible. 🧵1/

It's the last day of 2024, you are curious & want to know more about our interconnected 🌍 from tiny cells 🦠 to entire ecosystems & societies 🌃? Your 2025 gift: the starter pack on #ComplexSystems & #NetworkScience, feeds included: go.bsky.app/KMfiTU2 And the free #ComplexityThoughts newsletter 👇!

A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Misinformation #Disinformation

If you would like to stay updated about papers like this one, why don't you subscribe (100% free) to #ComplexityThoughts? 👉 manlius.substack.com 👀 RSS: manlius.substack.com/feed 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... 🎧 Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com...

According to the Oxfam report, it seems that one of the largest threats to humankind is.. the billionaires. They spend in 90' the same #CO2 you spend in a lifetime. Low/Middle-income countries paying the most in terms of human lives 🌍🌐🧪 #Climate oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/ha...