Ciro Cattuto

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

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!

Congratulations and best wishes for your future work!

PubMed is in trouble

This is beyond bad for medical research

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

“If the social platforms and language models that increasingly shape our understanding of the world are inscrutable black boxes, Wikipedia is the opposite, maybe the most legible, endlessly explainable information management system ever made." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

📢 Keynotes unlocked: 4/12. Thrilled to have Anna Levina as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about #networks, #neurons and #criticality!

🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!

Based on the body of evidence, what happens if pregnant women do not receive Covid booster vaccination?
Thousands of hospitalizations of infants and expectant mothers
@nathanlo.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
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NASA scientists have spoken out about how cuts to NASA funding and staff costs irreplaceable personnel, and dismantles their vital research.

Read their Voyager Declaration here: www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...

Sino a quando i cittadini (incazzati) non scenderanno in piazza, la politica non rimetterà mai la #sanità pubblica tra le priorità del Paese
#SalviamoSSN

PROMO: WHAT IS MIGRATION? Joining a migrant family through the deadly Darién jungle connecting South and North America Copyright©: Rasmus Krath Cameras & sound: Rasmus Krath Shot in 4K D-Log on Sony A7IV, DJI Pocket 3, DJI Mini Pro 4 and GoPro 10 The material in this promo…

WHAT IS MIGRATION? Joining a migrant family through the deadly Darién jungle connecting South and North America

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Join us in Zaragoza!

Public Health Success Is Fragile - The Return Of Measles Is Proof Measles is surging and vaccine hesitancy is up. In his book "Booster Shots," Dr Adam Ratner explains why measles is back and how we can control this deadly infectious killer.

“Vaccines represent one of humanity’s greatest achievements”

@adamratnermd.bsky.social

www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Here’s what the data says people ask ChatGPT OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.

Some findings of note: ChatGPT has a global and diverse user base, with usage growing faster in poorer countries than in wealthy ones. And people are increasingly using it in their personal lives rather than for help at work. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Delighted to have contributed to this effort led by @gfalbery.bsky.social with our SocioPatterns data on animal social networks.

This was a great collaboration, combining high-resolution data from wearable proximity sensors, virological data, air quality data and more. Delighted to see it out there.

The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools. Close-proximity interactions are considered a key risk factor for respiratory virus transmission, but their importance relative to shared space and air quality remains unclear. We conducted a six-week...

New Preprint! Co-led with Nicolas Banholzer *The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools* on MedRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025... (YET TO BE PEER REVIEWED)

The mechanisms by which ultra-processed foods (UPF) drive obesity, an outstanding review article
"the evidence is sufficiently strong to justify immediate public health efforts to reduce UPF consumption."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Capturing the complexity of human strategic decision-making with machine learning - Nature Human Behaviour Zhu et al. use machine learning to reveal complex insights into human strategic decision-making.

Capturing the complexity of human strategic decision-making with machine learning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Optimal sampling frequency and site selection for wastewater and environmental surveillance of infectious pathogens: A value of information assessment Author summary For decades, wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) has helped public health officials track and eradicate poliovirus and recently, WES has shown promise for other diseases. Im...

Optimal sampling frequency and site selection for wastewater and environmental surveillance of infectious pathogens: A value of information assessment journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

RFK Jr. essentially wants to force every person to enroll in the kind of programs run by insurers that tie your moral worth and market value to behavioral data from wearable trackers. They don’t work. I wrote about that corporate infrastructure and ideology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

People not only form social networks, they construct mental maps of them. People think about the ties between other people, including ties among individuals to whom they are not themselves directly connected. These “cognitive social networks” have rarely been studied. 1/

Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights.

So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️:
www.wired.com/story/editor...

Aborto e diritti riproduttivi: la radicalizzazione dei movimenti anti-scelta - Valigia Blu Dagli Stati Uniti all'Europa, i movimenti che si battono per limitare il diritto all'aborto e i diritti riproduttivi stanno adottando strategie sempre più repressive.

🧵 Aborto e diritti riproduttivi: la radicalizzazione dei movimenti anti-scelta | @alevescio.bsky.social
www.valigiablu.it/aborto-movim...

Thanks! Re 1), as long as you install the elftools module you’re fine, venv or not - I’ll update the documentation: re 2) well spotted, will fix 🙏

I referendum su cittadinanza e lavoro, il "decreto sicurezza" che avvicina l'Italia all'Ungheria di Orban, i palestinesi in coda per il cibo uccisi a Gaza, gli attacchi ucraini con i droni in Russia, il voto in Polonia e tanto altro nella newsletter di Valigia Blu di questa settimana 👇

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

Science in the US is on a damaging trajectory that could take decades to recover from, and it doesn't seem like the nation's leading scientific organization is rising to meet that challenge.

The gutting of US biomedical research with loss of ~2,500 grants affecting research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, infectious disease, global health and much more
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New publication!

I am happy to announce that the paper "Learning distributed representations with efficient SoftMax normalization" I authored with Enrico Maria Belliardo has been published in Transactions of Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social.