Join us this Thursday, Dec 4, for our final seminar of the fall semester! We’re thrilled to host Haily Merritt (@h-merritt.bsky.social), who will share her research on how social connections shape the brain through a complex-systems lens, as well as insights into multidisciplinary scholarship.

Hey NetPals 🔥 see you this afternoon for the first seminar of the season!

NetPlace@netplace.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our fall seminar series begins this Thursday, Oct. 2 (4pm UTC+1/11am EDT) with a talk by Elena Candellone. She’ll be speaking about “Mapping extreme users through negative ties in online social interactions”, followed by a discussion on “the joy of planning scientific events”.

Finally out 🇮🇹 Ever wondered about the stability of Italian political discourse on Twitter? Check out our work, where we uncover hidden swing voters' vulnerability to propaganda techniques during the 2022 elections 🗳️ ✨ @ariannapera.bsky.social and @luciolcw.bsky.social 🔗 shorturl.at/FztcO

📢 Deadline Extension! 📢 Are you working with higher-order networks (e.g., #hypergraphs)? This one's for you! 🚀 Join us at HyperSCI in Niagara Falls, Canada 🇨🇦 🌊, as part of #ASONAM2025 🔗 📅 Submit by June 15, 2025 (AoE) 🕐 🔗 hypersci2025.github.io #networkscience

Let's say hello to Bluesky with this👇 📌 New preprint: Modeling the Impact of Group Interactions on Climate-related Opinion Change in Reddit arxiv.org/abs/2505.02989 🔎 High-order interactions from conversational data help predict the microscopic dynamics of opinion formation w/ @lajello.bsky.social

Modeling the Impact of Group Interactions on Climate-related Opinion Change in Reddit

Opinion dynamics models describe the evolution of behavioral changes within social networks and are essential for informing strategies aimed at fostering positive collective changes, such as climate a...

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