🚀 EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS have released Apertus 1.5, one of the world's largest fully open LLMs. Now multimodal, Apertus offers improved reasoning, instruction following and tool use for more capable and transparent AI. Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus... #EPFL #AI #OpenSource

Last week our @cberaproject.bsky.social forum was an amazing mix fest of high quality science and art, but most of all, friendship, family, collegiality and respect! @ccattuto.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @amarallab.bsky.social @clbockting.bsky.social @joanagsa.bsky.social

Save the Date | CBeRa Forum 2026 Join us in Lisbon from June 19–24! More information and registration details coming soon on the CBeRa website: www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-forum/ #CBeRa #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments: A study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/ovg650Z9lBP For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/wzIV50Z9lBO.

Thank you for having me!

The InterPlex@theinterplex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ "We try to embrace the full spectrum,” says Italian physicist and complexity scientist @ccattuto.bsky.social. In this new InterDialogue, Cattuto reflects on the evolution of computational social science and the interdisciplinary vision guiding his work as Scientific Director of @isi.it.

Excited about our new paper: Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments: A study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @andrea cantisani @jan schmutz team performance drops while loneliness or paranoia increase over time

New #SocioPatterns study in PNAS: we studied how social behavior and psychological well-being evolve at Concordia Station in Antarctica during the extreme isolation and confinement of a 10-month overwinter mission. Lessons for deep-space crews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #NetSci #NetworkScience

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators

NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication

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Kicking off the @cs2italy.bsky.social Italian Conference on Computational Social Science at with a stellar keynote by @robysinatra.bsky.social ! @isi.it @nerdsitu.bsky.social

🔈 CS2Italy has been officially opened by @ccattuto.bsky.social at OGR Torino 🔹 AI and human behavior 🔹 Social and information networks 🔹 Urban science and mobility 🔹 Misinformation and digital platforms 🔹 Inequality, cooperation, and collective behavior 🔹 Science and society in the age of AI

Hold dates for our ERA Chair Forum. It will include Reka Albert, @amarallab.bsky.social, @anaisabelbento.bsky.social, @clbockting.bsky.social, Luis Bettencourt, @ccattuto.bsky.social, Marta Gonzalez, Jörg Menche, Daniela Paolotti, @joanagsa.bsky.social, Marta Sales-Pardo, etc.Register below and pass

CBeRa - Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems fo@cberaproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Save the Date | CBeRa Forum 2026 Join us in Lisbon from June 19–24! More information and registration details coming soon on the CBeRa website: www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-forum/ #CBeRa #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony

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Interdisciplinary PhD offer in Marseille, starting Oct. 2026, on "Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics" Project description and application website: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... DM for more info on the position

Keynotes++ 👉 Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com University of Southern California His research uncovers the spatial logic of urban planning, from street network structures to their effects on public health and policy 🏙️ Register by April 15 for a lower Early Bird rate! cs2italy.org

📢 Keynotes++: Roberta Sinatra (University of Copenhagen) She combines network science, data science, and the science of science to uncover how careers, collaboration, and discovery evolve—along with the impact of generative AI on scientific writing. 🖋️ Register by April 15 for Early bird rates!

The notifications are OUT! Super excited to hear our 16 highlighted talks and a whopping 116 parallel talks, and to see all the posters -- Register by April 15 to be our Early Bird! cs2italy.org

Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📣 CS2Italy 2026 the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science ⏰ Today is the last day to submit your abstract 📍 Turin, May 19–21 We welcome abstract submissions in: #ComputerScience #NetSci #ComplexSystems #Sociology #Economics #Politics #CognitiveScience #Psychology 👉 cs2italy.org

📢 Keynotes++: Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University 👉 information propagation 👉 online misinformation 👉 social influence 📷 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!) cs2italy.org

And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization. Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard. www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...

⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply! @isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability 📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026 🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...

Lagrange Fellowship Call

The Lagrange Project started in 2003 and it is regarded as one of the pioneering and most innovative European projects on complex systems science and data science. It is promoted and funded by Fondazi...

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1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin ▶️ cs2italy.org

Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it

Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science to join us in Turin on May 19-21 We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more For more: cs2italy.org

Senza interventi strutturali per arginare la fuga dal SSN e rendere attrattive le specialità disertate, il rischio della riforma #Bernini è evidente Utilizzare risorse pubbliche per formare #medici destinati al libero mercato, in una #sanità dove il pubblico arretra e il privato avanza #SalviamoSSN

Ho partecipato al crowdfunding di @valigiablu.it Insieme per resistere crowdfunding.valigiablu.it

Il crowdfunding per sostenere l'edizione 2026 di Valigia Blu

In cammino per capire il mondo. Valigia Blu: basata sui fatti, aperta a tutti, sostenuta dai lettori.

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AI companies should protect your conversations from bulk surveillance by requiring search warrants and pushing back against overbroad requests. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

AI Chatbot Companies Should Protect Your Conversations From Bulk

AI companies have a responsibility to their users to make sure the warrant requirement is strictly followed, to resist unlawful bulk surveillance requests, and to be transparent with their users

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This is something I struggle with as a journalist who writes a lot about AI. I have written whole articles about how AI is a misnomer! But I feel powerless in the tides of linguistic drift. Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?

Raven Onthill@ravenonthill.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I wish, as an editorial practice, journalists would distinguish between scientific machine learning models and chatbots. Fk you Sam Altman.

Networks are #complex and their dynamics often look chaotic. But we can reconstruct latent spaces where their behavior becomes strikingly regular, revealing functional organization across biology, society and technology. How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐 Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!

I wrote this piece at the start of the year, so it's nice to see it finally out before the year's end! It looks at the notion of "hard steps" in evolution that allegedly make intelligent life rare in the universe, and why that might not be correct after all. nautil.us/we-might-not...

We Might Not Be So Strange

We Might Not Be So Strange: Perhaps intelligent life wasn’t so unlikely after all.

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