Our study of 400 million tweets shows that the “war on science” is far more complex than a simple clash between truth and falsehood. 🔍 read more in our latest article magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/what... @ricgallotti.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social @vtraag.bsky.social

Our work on the dynamics of urban expansion just got published in the Physical Review Letters ! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

📣 New paper out 📣 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...

💡 SECS Grant: Support for conferences, schools, or workshops 🤝 BRIDGE Grant: Support for short research visits and collaborations. 🌍 Special funding for researchers from low-income countries. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 November 2025 👉 Learn more and apply here: yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/

🚨 Finally our paper "Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli" is out 🤩 doi.org/10.1098/rsif... Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri and @ricgallotti.bsky.social @mobs-fbk.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social

📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference! 🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com

(Last week highlights) Huge congrats to our @elisamurators.bsky.social for winning the best poster award at @css-conference.bsky.social ☄️🎉 Bravissima, Elisa 👏👏

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 :)))

Siena, science, and so much inspiration. Delighted to present my research on news media analysis at #CCS2025 Computational Social Science satellite. Viva Italia! 🇮🇹 @css-conference.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social

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

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

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 ...

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

Just me pointing at prioritized communities at @css-conference.bsky.social. Great journey, so far. 🍉 ❓Presentation: Multilevel pipeline for tackling potential disinformative content in YouTube. 👥 @jordicondomtibau.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social

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!☀️

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 🙂 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2407.01799

2nd keynote Manlio De Domenico discusses approaches to figure out functionalities of complex systems #CCS2025

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 – see you all there! ☀️

Yesterday was our first day at @css-conference.bsky.social in Siena 🇮🇹. 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

Here’s the final program for CCS2025—check it out! 🔗 ccs25.cssociety.org/programme-at...

📣🚨 New work out on @plos.org Computational Biology! Excited and proud to have provided the world with more maps of Puglia🕷️ Thank you all @luzuzek.bsky.social Oriol Artime @ricgallotti.bsky.social @mtizzoni.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 💊main results below👇

📢 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)

New Preprint: A Data-Driven Approach to Supporting Fact-Checking and Mitigating Mis/Disinformation Through Domain Quality Evaluation 🔗 doi.org/10.31219/osf... @chub-fbk.bsky.social #AI4Trust #WebCredibility #Misinformation

📢 Happy to announce the next keynote speaker for UrbanSys at CCS2025 🏙️ Lin Chen Researcher at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 🔗 linchen-65.github.io/linchen/ Check our final line-up! 🔗 urban-sys-net.weebly.com/keynote-spea...

Our latest work with @martonkarsai.bsky.social, David Sánchez and José Ramasco just got published! (and open access) Here's a short thread to give you our main results ⏬

So excited to see this come together! 🎉 Our latest study explores the interplay between science and misinformation in public debates during COVID-19 🔍 arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481 👇Take a look

New preprint! 🚨 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. 🧵 (1/10)

The Grand Amphithéâtre of @sorbonne-universite.fr is definitively not a bad venue for a the keynote session of @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social #Sunbelt2025

Cocktails in Paris 🥂 Thanks @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social for this amazing view ✨🇫🇷 @ricgallotti.bsky.social @tlouf.bsky.social @luzuzek.bsky.social @annabertani.bsky.social

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.

🚨If 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

🎙️Busy 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

Paris, croissants, and network science! 🌐✨ Presenting at #Sunbelt2025 on how domain-level signals help fact-checkers outsmart misinformation. Vive la vérité! @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social @insna.bsky.social

🚨 check out our latest work 👇🏼

🚨 Deadline is this Friday (23:59 CET), remember to submit your works to join us in Siena!

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...

Summer vibes in Trento ☀️ perfect for a CHuB-day at the Caldonazzo lake ⛰️🏖️ @ricgallotti.bsky.social @luzuzek.bsky.social @tlouf.bsky.social @andreaguizzo.bsky.social @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social