Very happy to see this out 🤩 The interplay between epidemic and evolutionary timescales should not be neglected, as it has a profound impact on both epidemic dynamics and the effectiveness of control policies.

GOTHAM lab@gotham-lab.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎉 New article in @physrevlett.aps.org When viral evolution unfolds on the same timescale as epidemic spreading, lifting control policies too early may be worse than doing nothing. By @santiagolaot.bsky.social y.social, Alex Arenas, @gomezgardenes.bsky.social y.social & @sorianopanos.bsky.social

🎉 New article in @physrevlett.aps.org When viral evolution unfolds on the same timescale as epidemic spreading, lifting control policies too early may be worse than doing nothing. By @santiagolaot.bsky.social y.social, Alex Arenas, @gomezgardenes.bsky.social y.social & @sorianopanos.bsky.social

Really happy to see this out! Vermont brought Pablo and me together, and the pyrenees witnessed the culmination of the draft. What a journey.

GOTHAM lab@gotham-lab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨New preprint: How do the powerful choose their names? 👑 Across popes, pharaohs, and monarchs, rare but highly prestigious reigns drive changes in name hierarchies across generations! arxiv.org/abs/2607.08689

🚨New preprint: How do the powerful choose their names? 👑 Across popes, pharaohs, and monarchs, rare but highly prestigious reigns drive changes in name hierarchies across generations! arxiv.org/abs/2607.08689

Dynastic dynamics: Modelling powerful naming choices with stochastic prestige

The naming choices of powerful rulers encode millennia of cultural, political, and institutional influences. Consequently, the long-term onomastic dynamics within some of the most powerful dynasties c...

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Higher-order interactions in ecology can be hidden in plain sight arxiv.org/abs/2605.06301

Higher-order interactions in ecology can be hidden in plain sight

Higher-order interactions are increasingly recognized as a key component of ecological dynamics. However, we show that higher-order Lotka-Volterra dynamics can, in some scenarios, be accurately reprod...

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@smelons.bsky.social gave a constructive keynote at #CompleNet26 on higher-order vs classical networks. The big question: are new results related to classical theory? Are they equivalent? @complenet.bsky.social 🧵👇

Really happy to see this out, done during my wonderful visit to @lhd.bsky.social in Vermont🍃🍁❄️ Including temporal group dynamics in higher-order contagion reshapes the phase portrait, and when using features from real-world data, multistable active phases emerge naturally 🤩🤩

GOTHAM lab@gotham-lab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 🚨 How do group dynamics shape contagion onsets and multistable active phases under collective reinforcement? 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2603.28566 @santiagolaot.bsky.social @federicomalizia.bsky.social @leahkeating.bsky.social @gstonge.bsky.social V. Latora @gomezgardenes.bsky.social & @lhd.bsky.social

🚨 🚨 How do group dynamics shape contagion onsets and multistable active phases under collective reinforcement? 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2603.28566 @santiagolaot.bsky.social @federicomalizia.bsky.social @leahkeating.bsky.social @gstonge.bsky.social V. Latora @gomezgardenes.bsky.social & @lhd.bsky.social

Group dynamics shape contagion onsets and multistable active phases under collective reinforcement arxiv.org/abs/2603.28566

Group dynamics shape contagion onsets and multistable active phases under collective reinforcement

Group-based reinforcement can induce discontinuous transitions from inactive to active phases in higher-order contagion models. However, these results are typically obtained on static interaction stru...

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🚨 New preprint showing that viral evolution 🦠 leads to superexponential growth 📈 and, as a consequence, challenges control policies, potentially worsening outcomes vs no action 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2603.18801 @santiagolaot.bsky.social A. Arenas @gomezgardenes.bsky.social & @sorianopanos.bsky.social

We are excited to see our work featured on the cover of @commsphys.nature.com! “Genotype networks drive oscillating endemicity and epidemic trajectories in viral evolution” by @gotham-lab.bsky.social. What a cool thumbnail 😁

🚨🚨 ¡Atención! 🚨🚨 La IV edición del congreso FisEs Joven, un congreso online dedicado a jóvenes investigadores e investigadoras en física estadística, comienza hoy! Programa: fisesjoven26.gefenol.es

Here's another new article in @commsphys.nature.com, this time about higher-order interactions! We demonstrate that sparse group-based interactions, which are commonplace in today's digital societies, promote social polarisation. This is especially relevant given the current tense situation.

GOTHAM lab@gotham-lab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1/6 And another article out in @commsphys.nature.com Sparse group interactions polarize…but dense group interactions moderate!! Polarization emerges as a structural effect of how groups are organized: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

No os perdáis el FisEs Joven! El mejor congreso para conocer la investigación de los jóvenes investigadores 🏆

FisEs Joven '26@fisesjoven.bsky.social · 9mo ago

DEADLINE FISES JOVEN!!! Ampliamos el plazo para el envío de contribuciones hasta este viernes, 16 de enero. Toda la información disponible en: fisesjoven26.gefenol.es Si tienes cualquier duda, no dudes en escribirnos a fisesjoven@ifisc.uib-csic.es

DEADLINE FISES JOVEN!!! Ampliamos el plazo para el envío de contribuciones hasta este viernes, 16 de enero. Toda la información disponible en: fisesjoven26.gefenol.es Si tienes cualquier duda, no dudes en escribirnos a fisesjoven@ifisc.uib-csic.es

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1/6 And another article out in @commsphys.nature.com Sparse group interactions polarize…but dense group interactions moderate!! Polarization emerges as a structural effect of how groups are organized: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I'm really happy to see this article being published! I find it very intriguing that the topology of genotype networks, which reflects the exploration of the antigenic space, can alone be enough to explain seasonality in epidemic trajectories.

GOTHAM lab@gotham-lab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1/7 🚨 New article out in @commsphys.nature.com We show that viral 🦠 evolution is best captured through complex genotype networks, whose topology alone can drive oscillatory endemic dynamics and epidemic variability: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

1/7 🚨 New article out in @commsphys.nature.com We show that viral 🦠 evolution is best captured through complex genotype networks, whose topology alone can drive oscillatory endemic dynamics and epidemic variability: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🚨🚨 ¡Atención! 🚨🚨 La IV edición del congreso FisEs Joven, un congreso online dedicado a jóvenes investigadores e investigadoras en física estadística, se celebrará los días 10, 11 y 12 de marzo. (1/2)

Really happy to see this out in PRX Life! There you can find an eco-evolutionary framework integrating the evolution of viral infectiousness and antigenic features. While the former determines contagion events among hosts, the latter tells us how quickly viruses can escape population immunity 1/4👇

¡Comienza la cuenta atrás para la IV edición de FisEs Joven! Este encuentro reúne a jóvenes investigadores en física estadística y áreas afines, fomentando el intercambio y la colaboración desde las primeras etapas de la carrera científica. (1/2)

🚨 New article about corruption, HOs interactions & explosive transitions pubs.aip.org/aip/cha/arti... 1/4 Great work done by Elisa, Clara, Verónica, Gabriela together w. @santiagolaot.bsky.social Hugo Perez-Martínez & @gomezgardenes.bsky.social MS also available here arxiv.org/abs/2509.04764

Explosive adoption of corrupt behaviors in social systems with higher-order interactions

Human behaviors in social systems are often shaped by group pressure and collective norms, especially since the rise of social media platforms. However, in the

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Social polarization promoted by sparse higher-order interactions arxiv.org/abs/2507.12325

Social polarization promoted by sparse higher-order interactions

Many social interactions are group-based, yet their role in social polarization remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap here we introduce a higher-order framework that takes into account both g...

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Asado grupal para cerrar el curso académico. A pesar del calor a la brasa sabe mejor!!!

We continue the Friday morning at #Fises2025 with five contributed talks by Philipp Strasberg, Álvaro Rodríguez, Santiago Lamata‑Otín, Alfredo Crespo, and Martín Saavedra, covering a variety of topics from higher‑order networks to climate modelling. #StatisticalPhysics #ComplexSystems #Biophysics

🚨 New preprint out! Our latest work explores the interface between complex networks, epidemic spreading, and eco-evolutionary dynamics arxiv.org/abs/2506.03279 By a great team: @santiagolaot.bsky.social + Octavio Rotita + Alex Arenas + @sorianopanos.bsky.social + @gomezgardenes.bsky.social

Genotype networks drive oscillating endemicity and epidemic trajectories in viral evolution

Rapidly evolving viruses use antigenic drift as a key mechanism to evade host immunity and persist in real populations. While traditional models of antigenic drift and epidemic spread rely on low-dime...

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🚨New paper out: 1/6 We are happy to share our work "In itinere infections covertly undermine localized epidemic control in metapopulations" published in CHAOS by @frandilisante.bsky.social @pvalganon.bsky.social @sorianopanos.bsky.social & @gomezgardenes.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

In itinere infections covertly undermine localized epidemic control in metapopulations

Metapopulation models have traditionally assessed epidemic dynamics by emphasizing local (in situ) interactions within defined subpopulations, often neglecting

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📰New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com! We have developed a probabilistic approach that allows for the accurate alignment of multiple networks www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great work by Teresa Lázaro on her first article (of many to come)! Some highlights 👇🏽🧵

Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks - Nature Communications

Network alignment is a fundamental problem in several domains that aims at mapping nodes across networks. Here, the authors develop a probabilistic approach that assumes that observed networks are err...

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Happy to have shared our work on the role of group overlap in emergent phenomena in @complenet.bsky.social More info in the articles below 👇🏻 go.aps.org/3FfNGJ6 rdcu.be/d5P92 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

GOTHAM lab@gotham-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

@santiagolaot.bsky.social now at @complenet.bsky.social in Fortaleza talking about higher-order interactions and the emergence of collective states #complenet2025

@santiagolaot.bsky.social now at @complenet.bsky.social in Fortaleza talking about higher-order interactions and the emergence of collective states #complenet2025