Elena, Aris, Marcus: AI-generated ‘ghosts’ are polluting the scientific literature idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Elena, Aris, Marcus: AI-generated ‘ghosts’ are polluting the scientific literature

The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers.

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New paper out! We combine anonymized mobility data from 11 US metropolitan areas with precinct-level electoral results to study what political environments people encounter in their daily routines. In collaboration with @marcotonin.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social and Bruno Lepri

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Experienced partisan segregation across patterns of mobility behavior in US cities arxiv.org/abs/2609.19285

The hierarchical organization of urban social overlap: How shared social spaces diverge from physical mobility arxiv.org/abs/2609.12888

The hierarchical organization of urban social overlap: How shared social spaces diverge from physical mobility

Cities are commonly characterized through population density, infrastructure, and mobility flows. These quantities describe where people are and how they move, but movement does not uniquely determine...

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Is the world getting more polarized? The polarization of the U.S. is worrying. But is polarization similarly bad elsewhere? What drives polarization globally, what role does social media play, and will AI make things worse? New review in @nature.com communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Behavioral calibration of mobile-phone GPS data for population-representative analyses arxiv.org/abs/2609.01042

Behavioral calibration of mobile-phone GPS data for population-representative analyses

Mobile phone mobility data have transformed the study of human behavior, but demographic and behavioral biases can compromise their representativeness and distort population-level inference. Existing ...

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The scales of urban mobility shape socioeconomic mixing https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28734 Urban daily mobility determines how far we travel and whom we encounter through the city. As local-living and polycentric planning gain popularity, a key question is whether more localised mobility can pr...📈🤖

Integrating adaptive human behavior into epidemic models with large language models arxiv.org/abs/2608.29535

Integrating adaptive human behavior into epidemic models with large language models

Infectious disease transmission is shaped by patterns of human interaction, which adapt as epidemic conditions change. Capturing these context-dependent behaviors remains a fundamental challenge for e...

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Quantifying the prevalence and impact of overreaching causal claims in social science idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Quantifying the prevalence and impact of overreaching causal claims in social science - Nature Human Behaviour

An analysis of 194,631 social science articles found causal overclaiming in 46% of cases, increasing over time. This language shaped reader interpretations; AI-generated summaries often amplified over...

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Quantifying the rate and amplitude of cultural change in populations of AI agents osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very excited that @bocconi.bsky.social will host IC2S2 next year in Milan. Stay tuned!!! Thanks to the organizing committee already very active @mtizzoni.bsky.social @duiliobalsamo.bsky.social @lorenzolucchini.bsky.social @deboranozza.bsky.social @Raya Muttarak @BrunoLepri

International Conference on Computational Social Science@ic2s2.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That's a wrap on IC2S2 2026... we'll see you next year in Milan! 😍

Attending #IC2S2!! Will be co-organizing a tutorial on Simulating Human Survey Responses with Large Language Models, today at 1.15PM, and presenting on Friday in the Understanding Large Language Models session, 10.45AM. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new ones!!

We have done many field experiments documenting the policy relevance of social contagion and I wholly agree that “diffusion should be part of behavioural policy making.” This paper is a valuable exploration of mechanisms involved.

koenfucius@koenfucius.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Behavioural policy relies on social transmission—but how do different social learning mechanisms perform? Paper by @gaveltri.bsky.social & @acerbialberto.com examines four canonical social learning rules, and argues diffusion should be part of behavioural policy making: buff.ly/cbyAnuD

you didn't need AI to predict this..... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has sent mixed messages on vaccinations against measles as cases have continued to climb.

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Another massive jump in Ebola cases in DRC (reflecting new cases as well as "data harmonization"). Now 2,905 cases including 1,269 deaths. I find it harder every day to square the size and speed of spread of this outbreak with the lack of attention it is getting. insp.cd/sitrep-n069-...

📣 There's an open PhD position in Trento/Florence under my supervision. Contact me if you want to know more!

IDDjobs@iddjobs.org · 3mo ago

PhD position (Trento, Italy) Socioeconomic inequalities and the spread of infectious diseases with @mtizzoni.bsky.social at University of Trento More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2564

Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure - Nature Human Behaviour

Nitschke and colleagues use historical data and epidemiological modelling to examine evidence for the 1789 smallpox epidemic in Australia. Their results indicate a likely southeastern origin, high mor...

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Quantifying institutional gender inequality in contemporary visual art www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quantifying institutional gender inequality in contemporary visual art - Nature Communications

Here, by analyzing the exhibition history and auction sales of over 65,000 contemporary artists across numerous institutions, the authors show gender disparities in visual artist exhibition opportunit...

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An important and insightful perspective led by @gcampedelli.bsky.social on computational approaches to crime research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Computational approaches and the future of urban crime research - Nature

This Review examines the opportunities and challenges introduced by new datasets and computational techniques in urban crime research, and outlines future directions for leveraging these advances effe...

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This is really starting to pick up steam and that is not a good thing. Devastating that the US is so absent in all of this - we have a duty to help, firstly because we care to help others, secondly to help limit more widespread dissemination, including, but not limited to, the U.S.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Ebola update: DRC reported 84 new cases (59 already dead) on 7/6. That brings their confirmed totals to 1708 cases, 580 of whom have died. On 7/6, 12,190 contacts of cases were on the monitoring list; 75% of them were reached that day. insp.cd/sitrep-n053-...

The limits of visitation entropy as a summary of mobility patterns arxiv.org/abs/2607.03443

The limits of visitation entropy as a summary of mobility patterns

Visitation entropy, the Shannon entropy of an individual's distribution of visits across locations, is a widely used metric in the human mobility literature. Yet, its widespread use rests on assumptio...

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My first PhD project is finally a paper! 🎉🥹 In 2020, we paused this work to respond to COVID-19. But as mobile phone data became largely available and key to disease modeling, that detour provided the perfect context for this paper. @bansallab.bsky.social @stefania Rubrichi @vcolizza.bsky.social

Mobility data resolution needed to inform predictive models of spatial epidemic spread from mobile phone data

Author summary Human mobility patterns play a crucial role in the spatial spread of infectious diseases, as pathogens move between communities through the movements of infected individuals. During the...

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Redefining and estimating the early-phase reproduction ratio for epidemic outbreaks in spatially structured populations journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Redefining and estimating the early-phase reproduction ratio for epidemic outbreaks in spatially structured populations

Author summary Early risk assessment for infectious disease epidemics requires estimating what happens when a pathogen emerges, or is introduced, in a population. The most common risk indicator is the...

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Ricercatori italiani in US/CA: applicate per ISSNAF Young Investigator Awards - in particolare MARIO GERLA AWARD FOR COMP SCI RESEARCH These prestigious awards recognize outstanding early-career Italian researchers (within 8 years of PhD completion) in USA/Canada 🧪 www.issnaf.org/2026-young-i...

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR 2026 | ISSNAF

Discover the extraordinary talents of young investigators recognized through the ISSNAF Young Investigator Awards 2026. Explore their groundbreaking research and innovative contributions across diverse scientific disciplines.

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AI Persuasive Framing in Collective Dilemmas arxiv.org/abs/2606.27951

AI Persuasive Framing in Collective Dilemmas

AI agents are promising tools that can act as flexible behavioral nudges to enhance human cooperation in addressing large-scale societal problems. However, evidence on whether AI agents can effectivel...

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So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋 Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...

The first Ebola case has been reported today in France. Our rapid risk assessment last month showed that France consistently ranked among the European countries at highest risk of importation if an Ebola case were to arrive in Europe from the ongoing Bundibugyo outbreak.

Vittoria Colizza@vcolizza.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our recent analyses on the international dissemination risk associated with the current Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC are discussed in @lemonde.fr today: www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti... #SUMOC @inserm.fr @fac-sante-sorbonne.bsky.social

Latest out: A systematic review of COVID-19 epidemic models with endogenous human behaviour. What's next? Great collaboration with Elena D'Agnese, @alemelegaro.bsky.social , Vittoria Offeddu, Alberto d'Onofrio, Chris T. Bauch, and Piero Manfredi. arxiv.org/abs/2606.12465

📣 New paper @nathumbehav.nature.com: A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Post-doc position available! We are recruiting a post-doc to join NEXT-UP, a project investigating the long-term effects of the COVID-19 crisis on young people’s transition from education to employment. For more info and to apply, see here: lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/en/research-...

The Economic Impact of the USAID Shutdown by @fabiosabatini.bsky.social and M. Nicolini papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....