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We're thrilled to share that last Friday, Anna Bertani ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ successfully defended her PhD thesis "Quantifying and modeling the risks and dynamics of information disorders in digital ecosystems" with cum laude ๐๐ผ๐ Congratulations, Anna!! And best wishes for what's next โจ
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Ulysse Marquis
19 days ago
Thrilled to share my latest paper
arxiv.org/abs/2512.046...
, accepted at PRE! It challenges a critical assumption from network science : that networks are built bottom-up from nodes. In many spatially embedded networks, this is simply not true : networks are built upon lines and nodes only happen...
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Diffusive geodesics wandering in networks of rigid chains
We introduce an ensemble of spatial networks built from the junctions of hindered-rotation chains, incorporating directional correlations between bonds, an aspect ignored in the standard network model...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04682v1
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25 days ago
We are hiring! The Department of Network and Data Science of Central European University (Vienna) has an open position for an Assistant Professor in network science and computational social science.
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Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
https://careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-Assistant-Professor-%28fmd%29-1100/1332241655/
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CS2Italy
about 1 month ago
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
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Lucila Alvarez Zuzek
about 2 months ago
Our study of 400 million tweets shows that the โwar on scienceโ is far more complex than a simple clash between truth and falsehood. ๐ read more in our latest article
magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/what...
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@vtraag.bsky.social
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What a 400-Million-Tweet study revealed about the โWar on Scienceโ
The European project โUnderstanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debatesโ (UnMiSSeD) aims at understanding the overlap between science and misinformation with a particular focus on the COVID...
https://magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/what-a-400-million-tweet-study-revealed-about-the-war-on-science/
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Ulysse Marquis
about 2 months ago
Our work on the dynamics of urban expansion just got published in the Physical Review Letters !
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Universal Roughness and the Dynamics of Urban Expansion
Urban sprawl reshapes cities, yet its quantitative laws remain elusive. Analyzing built-up expansion in 19 cities (1985--2015) with tools from surface growth physics in radial geometry, we reveal anis...
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/rlkq-t36n
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Artime
about 2 months ago
๐ฃ New paper out ๐ฃ Interested in the growth of cities? We use tools from statistical physics and surface growth theories to characterize urban sprawl from satellite data. Check out all the details:
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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Universal Roughness and the Dynamics of Urban Expansion
Urban sprawl reshapes cities, yet its quantitative laws remain elusive. Analyzing built-up expansion in 19 cities (1985--2015) with tools from surface growth physics in radial geometry, we reveal anis...
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/rlkq-t36n
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Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society
2 months ago
๐ก SECS Grant: Support for conferences, schools, or workshops ๐ค BRIDGE Grant: Support for short research visits and collaborations. ๐ Special funding for researchers from low-income countries. ๐๏ธ Deadline: 15 November 2025 ๐ Learn more and apply here:
yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/
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Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society
https://yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/
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Lucila Alvarez Zuzek
3 months ago
๐จ Finally our paper "Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli" is out ๐คฉ
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri and
@ricgallotti.bsky.social
@mobs-fbk.bsky.social
@chub-fbk.bsky.social
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Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Human cooperation arises naturally and is essential for the development of successful societies. This study aims to identify which aspects of the interaction influence societal cooperation and defection. Specifically, we investigate human cooperation ...
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2025.0168
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4 months ago
๐ข Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference! ๐๏ธ 4โ8 May 2026 | ๐ Zaragoza, Spain ๐ช๐ธ ๐จ Call for contributions open โ submit by Nov 15, 2025! ๐ Info & registration:
complenet.weeblysite.com
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(Last week highlights) Huge congrats to our
@elisamurators.bsky.social
for winning the best poster award at
@css-conference.bsky.social
โ๏ธ๐ Bravissima, Elisa ๐๐
4 months ago
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Thomas Louf
4 months ago
Super happy to share that, after two great years
@chub-fbk.bsky.social
, I've just joined
@uc3m.es
and the GISC as an assistant prof in applied maths :)))
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Kaveh
4 months ago
Siena, science, and so much inspiration. Delighted to present my research on news media analysis at
#CCS2025
Computational Social Science satellite. Viva Italia! ๐ฎ๐น
@css-conference.bsky.social
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Also seen yesterday at
@css-conference.bsky.social
a work on reinforcement learning applied to ants behaviour by Alessio Pitteri, our study of the historical evolution of EU projects by
@verorsanigo.bsky.social
and the study on Coordinated Behavior by
@elisamurators.bsky.social
#CCS2025
4 months ago
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Wide coverage of social media and disinformation analysis yesterday from our lab at the
@css-conference.bsky.social
, with four talks presenting our works associate to the European projects
#AI4TRUST
#AICODE_EU
#HATEDEMICS
4 months ago
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Ulysse Marquis
4 months ago
New pre-print out ! Work led by
@eleandre.bsky.social
, in collaboration with M. Napolitano and
@ricgallotti.bsky.social
. Using Foursquare data from Bologna, we find that the distribution of POIs follows a clear power-law pattern at the city scale. To explain this, we introduce a framework where ...
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Complexity Cat ๐ฑ
4 months ago
Finishing the social media session,
@tlouf.bsky.social
explores Telegram as a weighted, directed temporal network. His methodology reveals clustering, burstiness, and assortativity, all of them phenomena that are relevant when building reliable agent-based models.
#CCS2025
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Matteo Scianna
4 months ago
Just me pointing at prioritized communities at
@css-conference.bsky.social
. Great journey, so far. ๐ โPresentation: Multilevel pipeline for tackling potential disinformative content in YouTube. ๐ฅ
@jordicondomtibau.bsky.social
@ricgallotti.bsky.social
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Elisa Muratore
4 months ago
Thrilled to share that I just gave my first-ever scientific conference talk at
@css-conference.bsky.social
! I presented our work "MarkedTemporalPointProcesses for simulating and capturing coordinated behaviour" on enhancing disinformation detection. Huge thanks to my supervisors and the audiance!โ๏ธ
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Mattia Mazzoli
4 months ago
If you're at
#CCS25
and are interested in human mobility and inequalities, at 11:30 in Room 149 I will talk of experienced segregation. This is a work we started at the
@complexity72h.bsky.social
workshop last year. Take a look at the preprint and see you there ๐ ๐
arxiv.org/abs/2407.01799
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Hiroki Sayama
4 months ago
2nd keynote Manlio De Domenico discusses approaches to figure out functionalities of complex systems
#CCS2025
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Elisa Muratore
4 months ago
Great energy at the poster session today! It was a pleasure to be part of it presenting our work "How to design a collection strategy for monitoring disinformation and hate speech in Telegram". Excited for round two tomorrow โ see you all there! โ๏ธ
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Yesterday was our first day at
@css-conference.bsky.social
in Siena ๐ฎ๐น. We presented on Telegram data collection
@elisamurators.bsky.social
, city growth
@ulyssemarquis.bsky.social
and urban traffic (Alberto Amaduzzi). Excited for 5 more talks today!
#CCS2025
4 months ago
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Conference on Complex Systems
4 months ago
Hereโs the final program for CCS2025โcheck it out! ๐
ccs25.cssociety.org/programme-at...
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Programme at A Glance โ Conference on Complex Systems 2025
https://ccs25.cssociety.org/programme-at-a-glance/
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Matteo Scianna
4 months ago
๐ฃ๐จ New work out on
@plos.org
Computational Biology! Excited and proud to have provided the world with more maps of Puglia๐ท๏ธ Thank you all
@luzuzek.bsky.social
Oriol Artime
@ricgallotti.bsky.social
@mtizzoni.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Comparing the effectiveness of ring and block-vaccination strategies on networks
Author summary Infectious diseases such as measles and Ebola have shown how quickly outbreaks can spread and how essential vaccination is to protect individuals. In our work, we investigate a spectrum...
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013274
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5 months ago
๐ข Do you want to join our group? We opened **two** calls for a fully funded PhD. Details are in the image and at the following links. Calls:
iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
PhD Details:
iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
Deadline: August 22nd, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST)
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Kaveh
5 months ago
New Preprint: A Data-Driven Approach to Supporting Fact-Checking and Mitigating Mis/Disinformation Through Domain Quality Evaluation ๐
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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#AI4Trust
#WebCredibility
#Misinformation
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https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/eqf26_v1
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Mattia Mazzoli
5 months ago
๐ข Happy to announce the next keynote speaker for UrbanSys at CCS2025 ๐๏ธ Lin Chen Researcher at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ๐
linchen-65.github.io/linchen/
Check our final line-up! ๐
urban-sys-net.weebly.com/keynote-spea...
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Thomas Louf
6 months ago
Our latest work with
@martonkarsai.bsky.social
, David Sรกnchez and Josรฉ Ramasco just got published! (and open access) Here's a short thread to give you our main results โฌ
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Lucila Alvarez Zuzek
6 months ago
So excited to see this come together! ๐ Our latest study explores the interplay between science and misinformation in public debates during COVID-19 ๐
arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481
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Vincent Traag
6 months ago
New preprint! ๐จ We study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter during COVID-19 based on ~407M tweets. Both science and misinformation featured prominently during the pandemic, but the interaction between the two has not been studied on this scale before. ๐งต (1/10)
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Riccardo Gallotti
6 months ago
The Grand Amphithรฉรขtre of
@sorbonne-universite.fr
is definitively not a bad venue for a the keynote session of
@sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social
#Sunbelt2025
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Cocktails in Paris ๐ฅ Thanks
@sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social
for this amazing view โจ๐ซ๐ท
@ricgallotti.bsky.social
@tlouf.bsky.social
@luzuzek.bsky.social
@annabertani.bsky.social
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Riccardo Gallotti
6 months ago
I finally have the pleasure of attending Sunbelt in person for the first time, together with four members of my unit
@chub-fbk.bsky.social
This year among the organisers we also have many familiar faces such as
@camcom.bsky.social
,
@chavalarias.org
, Floriana Gargiulo and Emmanuel Lazega.
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๐จIf you're around Paris come to see
@tlouf.bsky.social
talking today about the structure and dynamics of information flow on Telegram at
@sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social
and
@css-fr.bsky.social
6 months ago
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๐๏ธBusy morning today at
@sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social
for CHuB talking about mis/disinformation on Twitter and Mastodon
@ricgallotti.bsky.social
@kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social
@annabertani.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Kaveh
6 months ago
Paris, croissants, and network science! ๐โจ Presenting at
#Sunbelt2025
on how domain-level signals help fact-checkers outsmart misinformation. Vive la vรฉritรฉ!
@sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social
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๐จ check out our latest work ๐๐ผ
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7 months ago
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Thomas Louf
7 months ago
๐จ Deadline is this Friday (23:59 CET), remember to submit your works to join us in Siena!
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Nature Human Behaviour
7 months ago
This new paper finds that GPT-4 outperforms humans in debates when prompted with basic sociodemographic data.
@frasalvi.bsky.social
@manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social
@ricgallotti.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4 - Nature Human Behaviour
Salvi et al. find that GPT-4 outperforms humans in debates when given basic sociodemographic data. With personalization, GPT-4 had 81.2% higher odds of post-debate agreement than humans.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02194-6
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Summer vibes in Trento โ๏ธ perfect for a CHuB-day at the Caldonazzo lake โฐ๏ธ๐๏ธ
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@luzuzek.bsky.social
@tlouf.bsky.social
@andreaguizzo.bsky.social
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