Many thanks to my co-authors @andreaguizzo.bsky.social and @lferrarotti.bsky.social and to @ricgallotti.bsky.social and Bruno Lepri for leading the project. Read the preprint: lnkd.in/eWJKugS4

Excited to share our new preprint (and my first research contribution!) now available on arXiv: “Ant Swarm Functional Control via Stigmergic Reinforcement Learning Agents”

(As tradition demands) Another CHuB day at the lake 🏖☀️ with great company and a well-deserved break at Lago di Caldonazzo

Congratulazioni, Elisa 👏🏼👏🏼 un riconoscimento davvero meritato 🎓

Elisa Muratore@elisamurators.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Honored to receive the "Una tesi per la sicurezza nazionale" Award at Palazzo Dante (Rome, IT)! 🎓 Huge thanks to the Committee & my supervisors for their incredible guidance. 🌸 Congrats to all winners! 🤝 #NationalSecurity #DIS #Research #YoungResearchers

@verorsanigo.bsky.social finishing her talk here as part of the 4th day of the conference!

Great talk and subject by @elisamurators.bsky.social here at #CompleNet26

Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab. 🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE) 🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX) 2-y positions | Start June 2026 #epidemiology #networks #matrices

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We're thrilled to share that last Friday, Anna Bertani 👩🏻‍🎓 successfully defended her PhD thesis "Quantifying and modeling the risks and dynamics of information disorders in digital ecosystems" with cum laude 👏🏼🎉 Congratulations, Anna!! And best wishes for what's next ✨ @annabertani.bsky.social

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...

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...

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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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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

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

What a 400-Million-Tweet study revealed about the “War on Science”

The European project “Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates” (UnMiSSeD) aims at understanding the overlap between science and misinformation with a particular focus on the COVID...

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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/

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🚨 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

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 ...

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📢 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 ...

physics.soc-ph@arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Scale-free Points-of-Interest Distribution in a City Emerging from Homogeneous Poissonian-point Processes https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01699

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