Mikko Kivelä
@bolozna.bsky.social
Network scientist Associate professor @ Aalto University http://www.mkivela.com/ My reposts are endorsements and opinions are not my own but copied from uniformly random neighbours in my network.
New paper by Ali Salloum, @tedhchen.com and @bolozna.bsky.social in Network Science on elite and mass polarization in social networks. @universitypress.cambridge.org @networkspapers.bsky.social
Anatomy of elite and mass polarization in social networks | Network Science | Cambridge Core
Anatomy of elite and mass polarization in social networks - Volume 13
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Reminder: Last chance to apply for our postdoc positions in polarisation + mental well-being: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
Open postdoctoral and doctoral positions to work on polarization and mental health | Aalto University
You will be working in the research group of one of the PIs of the projects, but in collaboration with the others. The PIs are Talayeh Aledavood, Juhi Kulshrestha, and Mikko Kivelä.
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Our paper about discounting the influence of node attributes from detected communities in networks is out in Physical Review E! journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
Block-corrected modularity for community detection
Unknown node attributes in complex networks may introduce community structures that are important to distinguish from those driven by known attributes. We propose a block-corrected modularity that dis...
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New paper in PNAS!🎉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Is herd immunity to infectious diseases effective when induced by natural infection? Earlier studies have suggested that population heterogeneity makes disease-induced herd immunity more effective than previously thought. Our work challenges this notion.
Strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity in networks | PNAS
When a fraction of a population becomes immune to an infectious disease, the population-wide infection risk decreases nonlinearly due to collective...
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Is Bluesky a bubble? We collected all 1B+ posts since Dec'24. 13% of content is political. We found high polarization, but also strong imbalance: on most topics, the opposing stance made up just 1–2% of users. Strongest split: Gaza, Ukraine, Musk & Trump Link: arxiv.org/abs/2506.03443 🔽
Hurray! 🎉 @arash.network (left) is the 24th recipient of the Zachary's Karate Club CLUB prize. For his talk @netsciconf.bsky.social NetSci 2025, he was entrusted with the illustrious trophy 🏆 from @nwlandry.bsky.social #networkscience networkkarate.tumblr.com
We're organizing a NetSci'25 satellite workshop on Directed Acyclic Graphs — if you're working on, e.g., citation graphs, pedigrees, causality, temporal-network event graphs, network representations of spacetime, or any other areas where DAGs play a role, please contribute! www.dagshop.xyz
DAGSHOP’25 — A WORKSHOP ON DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS - Dagshop — a NetSci'25 satellite
DAGSHOP — A Workshop on directed acyclic graphs Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) appear in many contexts in network science, from citation networks and pedigrees to temporal-network event graphs and rep...
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In our new preprint, we study the herd immunity effect against infectious diseases induced by natural infection (i.e. immunity is gained after exposure to the disease). arxiv.org/abs/2307.04700
At Tampere Uni we have an open Prof position (all levels) in Applied Statistics, including Complex Systems ! Join us in the cold yet beautiful North! ❄️ For questions DM me or read details here: tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... Deadline Jan 8th ! ⏰
Tenure track position in Applied Statistics (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor) / T...
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Yes! With lead author Yan Xia et al. 'I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript "The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter" has been accepted for publication in EPJ Data Science.'