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 · 4d 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 · 2w 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 · 4w 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 · 4w 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 · 3mo 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....

📄 New paper: people choose AI models partly on political grounds This is joint work with @pettertornberg.com @chrisbail.bsky.social @michelleschimmel.bsky.social and led by @michaelheseltine.bsky.social

Thanks to funding from the Gates Foundation - and all the great work led by Josh and Karthik in the lab - we have an opening for a postdoc position in AI and Data Science. Come join us here in San Diego and do some great science! ☀️🏄‍♂️🧗‍♂️🏜️🌵⛰️🌊. Learn more: andersen-lab.com/about/

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The Effect of Mobility Trajectory Sparsity on Epidemic Modeling Outcomes https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31282 GPS mobility data are increasingly used in epidemic modeling, allowing the construction of co-location networks or population flows. These trajectories typically exhibit high temporal spa...📈🤖

The healing power of nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

The healing power of nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression - Nature Human Behaviour

A global analysis of more than 3,800 studies that involved over 10 million people shows that contact with nature reduces symptoms of anxiety and depression while promoting relaxation. The findings str...

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IDOBE: Infectious Disease Outbreak forecasting Benchmark Ecosystem arxiv.org/abs/2604.18521

IDOBE: Infectious Disease Outbreak forecasting Benchmark Ecosystem

Epidemic forecasting has become an integral part of real-time infectious disease outbreak response. While collaborative ensembles composed of statistical and machine learning models have become the no...

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Today is Technopanic publication day! I have many things to say about it (and I will in the next weeks) but for now: the Kindle edition costs as much as a coffee (or two espresso in Italy…), so no excuse not to grab a copy and judge for yourself. -->

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

Ebola : quel est le risque de propagation du virus au-delà de la RDC ?

L’estimation de la taille réelle de l’étendue de l’épidémie, tout comme le risque de dispersion dans la région et au-delà, met les chercheurs au défi d’une flambée épidémique aux multiples inconnues.

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Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits arxiv.org/abs/2605.18890

Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits

The scientific claims drawn from LLM social simulations should be no stronger than the robustness audits that support them. Generative agents bring new expressive power to agent-based modeling, enabli...

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Global approaches to infectious disease surveillance and modeling idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Global approaches to infectious disease surveillance and modeling - Nature Medicine

This Review discusses global approaches to infectious disease analysis and modeling, focusing on federated methods and addressing long-standing challenges in data interoperability, equity and trust.

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