Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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📣 CS2Italy 2026 the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
⏰ Today is the last day to submit your abstract
📍 Turin, May 19–21
We welcome abstract submissions in:
#ComputerScience #NetSci #ComplexSystems #Sociology #Economics #Politics #CognitiveScience #Psychology
👉 cs2italy.org
📢 Keynotes++:
Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University
👉 information propagation
👉 online misinformation
👉 social influence
📷 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!)
cs2italy.org
United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON — January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.President Trump on January 20, 2025, announced the U.S. plan to leave the WHO. During the yearlong process, the U.S. stopped funding WHO, withdrew all personnel from WHO, and began pivoting activities previously conducted with WHO to direct bilateral engagements with other countries and organizations. With the exit from WHO, the U.S. will be coordinating with WHO solely in a limited fashion to effectuate withdrawal. The WHO delayed declaring a global public health emergency and a pandemic during the early stages of COVID-19, costing the world critical weeks as the virus spread. During that period, WHO leadership echoed and praised China's response despite evidence of early underreporting, suppression of information and delays in confirming human-to-human transmission. The organization also downplayed asymptomatic transmission risks and failed to promptly acknowledge airborne spread.After the pandemic, the WHO did not adopt meaningful reforms to address political influence, governance weaknesses or poor coordination, reinforcing concerns that politics took priority over rapid, independent public health action and eroding global trust. Its report evaluating the possible origins of COVID-19 rejected the possibility that scientists cre…
And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply!
@isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability
📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...
1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share!
2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker --
Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social
Chair of Technology and Society
@ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin
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14.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A grid of images showing SocioPatterns wearable devices, collaborators of the project, proximity graphs, and deployments in museums, hospitals, villages.
Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it
14.01.2026 13:37 — 👍 22 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
to join us in Turin on May 19-21
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
For more: cs2italy.org
Senza interventi strutturali per arginare la fuga dal SSN e rendere attrattive le specialità disertate, il rischio della riforma #Bernini è evidente
Utilizzare risorse pubbliche per formare #medici destinati al libero mercato, in una #sanità dove il pubblico arretra e il privato avanza
#SalviamoSSN
Ho partecipato al crowdfunding di @valigiablu.it Insieme per resistere crowdfunding.valigiablu.it
03.12.2025 14:25 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
AI companies should protect your conversations from bulk surveillance by requiring search warrants and pushing back against overbroad requests. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
02.12.2025 23:04 — 👍 65 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 1
This is something I struggle with as a journalist who writes a lot about AI. I have written whole articles about how AI is a misnomer! But I feel powerless in the tides of linguistic drift.
Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?
Networks are #complex and their dynamics often look chaotic. But we can reconstruct latent spaces where their behavior becomes strikingly regular, revealing functional organization across biology, society and technology.
How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐
Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!
I wrote this piece at the start of the year, so it's nice to see it finally out before the year's end! It looks at the notion of "hard steps" in evolution that allegedly make intelligent life rare in the universe, and why that might not be correct after all.
nautil.us/we-might-not...
Submission link for the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is LIVE!
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
Deadline: Jan 15
cs2italy.org
We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
13.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 33 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1
Meet Prof. Iyad Rahawan, winner of the Lagrange Prize 2025 🏆
Exploring how AI reshapes our society.
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social
#lagrangeprize #fondazionecrt #ogr
I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems.
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
Join us later today in Torino at OGR 👉 bit.ly/47hxXDN
28.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m proud to support the Python Software Foundation and their commitment to building an inclusive community. Please consider donating if you can!
28.10.2025 07:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!
27.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 20 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2
@alexvespi.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
27.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.
20.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 164 🔁 38 💬 6 📌 5
Vietare l’educazione alla sessualità nelle scuole medie compromette salute e sicurezza per:
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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I've defended my PhD 🎓🙂
Huge thanks to @nuriaoliver.com for her guidance over these years and to the committee @ccattuto.bsky.social , Isabel Valera, and G. González Serrano for their time, insights, and an inspiring discussion 🙏
Excited for what's coming next!
