Our project on comparing rule-based, classical machine learning, transformers and #LLM to measure debate quality on social media is finally out at Communication Methods and Measures! ✨✨✨ @ascor.bsky.social @nunetsi.bsky.social Link here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can we use automated approaches to measure the quality of online political discussion? How to (not) measure interactivity, diversity, rationality, and incivility in online comments to the news

This article explores the (in)ability of automated tools to measure the deliberative quality of online user comments along the standards set out by Habermas: interactivity, diversity, rationality, ...

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Thanks my good friend for attending CCS in person on my behalf ;) Hope this quick overview of data quality problem is helpful for the audience

Complexity Cat 🐱@amahury.bsky.social · last yr.

Finishing the complexity satellite at #CCS2025, @justinyinnl.bsky.social proposes a data-based approach to approximate the amount of information we need in order to tackle criminal problems from a network science perspective. Some of his insights are that ABM and agentic systems may help.

Hate to miss #CCS2025 :( But I’m in the background working on bringing complex system to social sciences and humanities in the study of platforms with a new working group Critical Platform Studies at @uwmadison.bsky.social Sign up to our mailing list (see comment) to join the community!

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

Happy to share this long-overdue project! We found that many real-world event sequences follow a surprisingly similar hierarchically structured pattern, and that multi-timescale memory mechanisms can explain this pattern. Feedback welcome! arxiv.org/abs/2508.18281

Hierarchical organization of bursty trains in event sequences

Temporal sequences of discrete events that describe natural and social processes are often driven by non-Poisson dynamics. In addition to a heavy-tailed interevent time distribution, which primarily c...

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A cool project just ended - very relieved and excited to see it out✨ Stay tuned!

New profile pic on NETSI website taken at the Royal Institution in London. www.networkscienceinstitute.org/people/justi...

Slides from my keynote lecture "What drives the productivity of scientific labor?" at the 2025 Oxford Summer School on Economic #Networks. Part 1 of 2: why and how do elite scientists dominate scientific discourse? aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

@alexvespi.bsky.social on the simplicity of complexity - mentality (and approach) much needed in all disciplines.

Latest out in PNAS!! Comparative evaluation of behavioral epidemic models using COVID-19 data. Amazing collaboration with @ngozzi.bsky.social and @alexvespi.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Two posters and a bunch of amazing people at @netsciconf.bsky.social with @nunetsi.bsky.social ✨✨

#NetSci2025 is a wrap—huge thanks to the organizers for a fantastic edition! So much energy around Network Science and its many applications. Great to reconnect with colleagues and make new (and hiMgher-order!) connections. See you all next year in Boston!

Thanks for sharing our work on the phenomenon of GIGO in the criminal network domain! @nunetsi.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk @riccardodiclemente.com @lambiotte.bsky.social

NetScience@netscience.bsky.social · last yr.

Garbage in garbage out? Impacts of data quality on criminal network intervention epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

Excited to kick off my fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (University of Amsterdam) with my talk: "Knowledge Silos as a Barrier to Responsible AI Practices in Journalism." 📅 Join me on 25/02 at 12:30 in Amsterdam! More info and registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Knowledge Silos as a Barrier to Responsible AI Practices in Journalism - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

Tomás Dodds, Assistant Professor in Journalism and New Media, Leiden University, is a new fellow at IAS. During his kick-off event, he will explore the concept of 'knowledge silos' in news organizatio...

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🚨 New paper out! We examine how knowledge silos in newsrooms create barriers to responsible AI adoption. When teams operate in isolation, AI tools can be introduced without proper ethical and editorial oversight, weakening accountability. Read OA 🔓: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Knowledge Silos as a Barrier to Responsible AI Practices in Journalism? Exploratory Evidence from Four Dutch News Organisations

The effective adoption of responsible AI practices in journalism requires a concerted effort to bridge different perspectives, including technological, editorial, and managerial. Among the many cha...

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If you're into network science and have done work on criminal networks/activity, consider sending your work to criminalcomplexity.weebly.com. Organising with Toby Davies, Cecilia Meneghini, Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Rick Quax, Huijuan Wang, Wang Ngai Yeung.

How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇

💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich 🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee) 👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc. 🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de

#OSSEN2025 registration now open until 3 March. With @doynefarmer.bsky.social and Christian Diem from @inetoxford.bsky.social confirmed as speakers.

Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks@oxfordeconnet.bsky.social · 2y ago

Without further ado, here’s the amazing speaker lineup for OSSEN 2025! Experts from across network science and economics will cover topics ranging from financial networks to urban mobility and more! Don’t forget to apply by 3 March: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summe...

Without further ado, here’s the amazing speaker lineup for OSSEN 2025! Experts from across network science and economics will cover topics ranging from financial networks to urban mobility and more! Don’t forget to apply by 3 March: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summe...

We’re thrilled to announce that this year’s keynote speaker is Prof. Aaron Clauset, from CU Boulder. He is one of the world's foremost experts in Network Science and Complex Systems Apply by 3 March www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summe... @aaronclauset.bsky.social @colorado.edu

Garbage in Garbage out: Impacts of data quality on criminal network intervention arxiv.org/abs/2501.01508

Garbage in Garbage out: Impacts of data quality on criminal network intervention

Criminal networks such as human trafficking rings are threats to the rule of law, democracy and public safety in our global society. Network science provides invaluable tools to identify key players a...

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New year, new paper!🚨 Our paper on data quality and its impacts on criminal network intervention is out on Arxiv! 💻 It is a part of my MSc thesis at @oiioxford.bsky.social, co-authored with @ric-dicle.bsky.social and Renaud Lambiotte! arxiv.org/abs/2501.01508 #complex #ComplexityScience 🦋🐿️

Garbage in Garbage out: Impacts of data quality on criminal network intervention

Criminal networks such as human trafficking rings are threats to the rule of law, democracy and public safety in our global society. Network science provides invaluable tools to identify key players a...

arxiv.org

Last year, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, @eirliani.bsky.social, Marloes Geboers, @markboukes.bsky.social and I had the honour to present at the #UNESCO Press Freedom day academic conference on digital violence, social media and press freedom. 1/n youtu.be/x6ZWyVZFqyQ?...

PANEL: How Digital Violence in Social Media Platforms Impact Press Freedom

YouTube video by Facultad de Comunicaciones UC

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Extremely important work, particularly for those who work closely with misinformation and disinformation. Defining the problem is more important than finding the panacea for the problem per se.

@rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recommend two good pieces of reporting on misinformation, research on it, and debates around it that came out around the turn of the year Laurie Clarke dismantles lazy "bad actors" framing www.politico.eu/article/nobo... & @claradoodle.bsky.social AI deepfake panic www.ft.com/content/62d8... 1/3

Human-AI Coevolution is in the news! 🚨 🤖 Human-AI interactions are feedback loops that ripple through society, influencing both human behavior and AI evolution. 🌐 📰 Read more: news.northeastern.edu/2024/12/16/h... 📄 Full paper: barabasi.com/science/publ... #AI #HumanAI #Networks

The interaction between humans and artificial intelligence demands a new field of study, Northeastern researchers say

“Human AI Coevolution” investigates how humans and AI algorithms continuously influence each other,” Alessandro Vespignani says.

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A small gift for Christmas - my 10th citation!

beijing's reality distortion field: where hong kong protesters are rioters and the taliban is a legitimate government. 🤡 www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-recog...

China’s recognition of the Taliban sets a dangerous precedent | The Strategist

On 30 January, 2024, President Xi Jinping provided further evidence that China formally recognises the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. This sets a dangerous international preceden...

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