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Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who Connects Global Aid? The Hidden Geometry of 10 Million Transactions The global aid system functions as a complex and evolving ecosystem; yet widespread understanding of its structure remains largely limited to aggregate volume flows. Here we map the network topology o...

Who Connects Global Aid? The Hidden Geometry of 10 Million Transactions arxiv.org/abs/2512.17243

Culturally Grounded Personas in Large Language Models: Characterization and Alignment with Socio-Psychological Value Frameworks Despite the growing utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) for simulating human behavior, the extent to which these synthetic personas accurately reflect world and moral value systems across differen...

Culturally Grounded Personas in Large Language Models: Characterization and Alignment with Socio-Psychological Value Frameworks arxiv.org/abs/2601.22396

Correlation-Based Diagnostics of Social Contagion Dynamics in Multiplex Networks Multiplex contagion dynamics display localization phenomena in which spreading activity concentrates on a subset of layers, as well as delocalized regimes where layers behave collectively. We investig...

Correlation-Based Diagnostics of Social Contagion Dynamics in Multiplex Networks arxiv.org/abs/2601.22459

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variations in the quality ...

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330

When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings As large language models (LLMs) start interacting with each other and generating an increasing amount of text online, it becomes crucial to better understand how information is transformed as it passe...

When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings arxiv.org/abs/2407.04503

Towards Universal Urban Patterns-of-Life Simulation Understanding urban mobility requires models that capture how people interact with and navigate the built environment. We present a scalable, generalizable agent-based framework in which daily schedul...

Towards Universal Urban Patterns-of-Life Simulation arxiv.org/abs/2601.22099

Impact of behavioral heterogeneity on epidemic outcome and its mapping into effective network topologies Human behavior plays a critical role in shaping epidemic trajectories. During health crises, people respond in diverse ways in terms of self-protection and adherence to recommended measures, largely r...

Impact of behavioral heterogeneity on epidemic outcome and its mapping into effective network topologies arxiv.org/abs/2601.21743

Shaping the learning signal in a combined Q-learning rule to improve structured cooperation Q-learning provides a standard reinforcement learning framework for studying cooperation by specifying how agents update action values from repeated local interactions outcomes. Although previous work...

Shaping the learning signal in a combined Q-learning rule to improve structured cooperation arxiv.org/abs/2601.21392

Detectability threshold in weighted modular networks Community detection is one of the most debated issues in network theory. Here, the authors study the detectability limits in the case of undirected weighted networks. The results indicate that large v...

Detectability threshold in weighted modular networks link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Social connections are differentially related to subjective age and physiological age acceleration amongst older adults www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spatial variation in socio-economic vulnerability to Influenza-like Infection for the US population Author summary Socio-economic conditions significantly influence a location’s susceptibility to influenza-like illness (ILI). Identifying infection hotspots based on these factors and quantifying rela...

Spatial variation in socio-economic vulnerability to Influenza-like Infection for the US population journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa - Nature Projected impacts of climate change on malaria burden in Africa by 2050 highlight the urgent need for climate-resilient malaria control strategies and robust emergency response systems to safeguard pr...

Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Directionality and node heterogeneity reshape criticality in hypergraph percolation Directed and heterogeneous hypergraphs capture directional higher-order interactions with intrinsically asymmetric functional dependencies among nodes. As a result, damage to certain nodes can suppres...

Directionality and node heterogeneity reshape criticality in hypergraph percolation arxiv.org/abs/2601.20726

Socioeconomic Determinants of the COVID-19 Infodemic The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by an infodemic of misinformation that impedes effective public health responses. This study examines relationships between socioeconomic factors and infodem...

Socioeconomic Determinants of the COVID-19 Infodemic arxiv.org/abs/2601.18377

The network architecture of general intelligence in the human connectome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Software Complexity of Nations Despite the growing importance of the digital sector, research on economic complexity and its implications continues to rely mostly on administrative records, e.g. data on exports, patents, and employ...

The Software Complexity of Nations arxiv.org/abs/2407.13880

Community-Size Biases in Statistical Inference of Communities in Temporal Networks In the study of time-dependent (i.e., temporal) networks, researchers often examine the evolution of communities, which are sets of densely connected sets of nodes that are connected sparsely to other...

Community-Size Biases in Statistical Inference of Communities in Temporal Networks arxiv.org/abs/2601.15635

The Rise of Large Language Models and the Direction and Impact of US Federal Research Funding Federal research funding shapes the direction, diversity, and impact of the US scientific enterprise. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly diffusing into scientific practice, holding substantial p...

The Rise of Large Language Models and the Direction and Impact of US Federal Research Funding arxiv.org/abs/2601.15485

Replicating hypergraph disease dynamics with lower-order interactions link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Individual and neighborhood based socioeconomic factors relevant for contact behaviour and epidemic control - Communications Medicine Di Domenico et al. develop a method to reconstruct contact matrices fully stratified by age, education level and socioeconomic position. Results show that accounting for contact assortativity with soc...

Individual and neighborhood based socioeconomic factors relevant for contact behaviour and epidemic control www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Unveiling the impact of cross-order hyperdegree correlations in contagion processes on hypergraphs Contagion processes in social systems often involve interactions that go beyond pairwise contacts. Higher-order networks, represented as hypergraphs, have been widely used to model multi-body interact...

Unveiling the impact of cross-order hyperdegree correlations in contagion processes on hypergraphs arxiv.org/abs/2601.15199

Modeling Accessibility-Constrained Networks with Time-Weighted Graphs Accessibility for the physically disabled is a prevalent issue on university campuses, where stairs and steep slopes make navigating campus arduous. Our work proposes a pipeline to model a college cam...

Modeling Accessibility-Constrained Networks with Time-Weighted Graphs arxiv.org/abs/2601.14278

Measuring real-time disease transmissibility with temperature-dependent generation intervals Author summary Many public health decisions rely on the effective reproduction number (Rt), the average number of new infections arising from a typical case at a given time. Standard estimators of Rt ...

Measuring real-time disease transmissibility with temperature-dependent generation intervals journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Shortest-path percolation on scale-free networks link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Triadic percolation on multilayer networks Triadic interactions between network nodes take place when interactions between two or more nodes are controlled by regulator nodes. Triadic regulators turn network percolation into a dynamical proces...

Triadic percolation on multilayer networks link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Machine-Learned Renormalization-Group-Improved Gauge Actions and Classically Perfect Gradient Flows link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Beyond MMD: Evaluating Graph Generative Models with Geometric Deep Learning Graph generation is a crucial task in many fields, including network science and bioinformatics, as it enables the creation of synthetic graphs that mimic the properties of real-world networks for var...

Beyond MMD: Evaluating Graph Generative Models with Geometric Deep Learning arxiv.org/abs/2512.14241

Block-Fitness Modeling of the Global Air Mobility Network Accurate representations of the World Air Transportation Network (WAN) are fundamental inputs to models of global mobility, epidemic risk, and infrastructure planning. However, high-resolution, real-t...

Block-Fitness Modeling of the Global Air Mobility Network arxiv.org/abs/2601.13867

Emergence of Structural Disparities in theWeb of Scientific Citations Scientific attention is unevenly distributed, creating inequities in recognition and distorting access to opportunities. Using citations as a proxy, we quantify disparities in attention by gender and ...

Emergence of Structural Disparities in theWeb of Scientific Citations arxiv.org/abs/2601.12665