Complex Human Behaviour Lab

Elections Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society

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@ricgallotti.bsky.social

We're thrilled to share that last Friday, Anna Bertani 👩🏻‍🎓 successfully defended her PhD thesis "Quantifying and modeling the risks and dynamics of information disorders in digital ecosystems" with cum laude 👏🏼🎉

Congratulations, Anna!! And best wishes for what's next ✨

@annabertani.bsky.social

Diffusive geodesics wandering in networks of rigid chains We introduce an ensemble of spatial networks built from the junctions of hindered-rotation chains, incorporating directional correlations between bonds, an aspect ignored in the standard network model...

Thrilled to share my latest paper arxiv.org/abs/2512.046..., accepted at PRE! It challenges a critical assumption from network science : that networks are built bottom-up from nodes. In many spatially embedded networks, this is simply not true : networks are built upon lines and nodes only happen...

Assistant Professor (f/m/d) Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

We are hiring!
The Department of Network and Data Science of Central European University (Vienna) has an open position for an Assistant Professor in network science and computational social science.

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

What a 400-Million-Tweet study revealed about the “War on Science” The European project “Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates” (UnMiSSeD) aims at understanding the overlap between science and misinformation with a particular focus on the COVID...

Our study of 400 million tweets shows that the “war on science” is far more complex than a simple clash between truth and falsehood.

🔍 read more in our latest article

magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/what...

@ricgallotti.bsky.social
@chub-fbk.bsky.social
@vtraag.bsky.social

Our work on the dynamics of urban expansion just got published in the Physical Review Letters ! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

📣 New paper out 📣
Interested in the growth of cities? We use tools from statistical physics and surface growth theories to characterize urban sprawl from satellite data.
Check out all the details:
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Grants Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society

💡 SECS Grant: Support for conferences, schools, or workshops
🤝 BRIDGE Grant: Support for short research visits and collaborations.
🌍 Special funding for researchers from low-income countries.

🗓️ Deadline: 15 November 2025

👉 Learn more and apply here: yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/

Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli | Journal of The Royal Society Interface Human cooperation arises naturally and is essential for the development of successful societies. This study aims to identify which aspects of the interaction influence societal cooperation and defection. Specifically, we investigate human cooperation ...

🚨 Finally our paper

"Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli"

is out 🤩 doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri and @ricgallotti.bsky.social

@mobs-fbk.bsky.social
@chub-fbk.bsky.social

📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference!

🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com

(Last week highlights) Huge congrats to our @elisamurators.bsky.social for winning the best poster award at @css-conference.bsky.social ☄️🎉

Bravissima, Elisa 👏👏

The UC3M campus

Super happy to share that, after two great years @chub-fbk.bsky.social, I've just joined @uc3m.es and the GISC as an assistant prof in applied maths :)))

Siena, science, and so much inspiration.
Delighted to present my research on news media analysis at #CCS2025 Computational Social Science satellite.

Viva Italia! 🇮🇹

@css-conference.bsky.social
@chub-fbk.bsky.social

Also seen yesterday at @css-conference.bsky.social a work on reinforcement learning applied to ants behaviour by Alessio Pitteri, our study of the historical evolution of EU projects by @verorsanigo.bsky.social and the study on Coordinated Behavior by @elisamurators.bsky.social #CCS2025

The studies presented analyse respectively:
Twitter by @annabertani.bsky.social
Telegram by @tlouf.bsky.social
Mastodon by @arregui.bsky.social
Youtube by @matteoscianna.bsky.social
#CCS2025

Wide coverage of social media and disinformation analysis yesterday from our lab at the @css-conference.bsky.social, with four talks presenting our works associate to the European projects #AI4TRUST #AICODE_EU #HATEDEMICS

New pre-print out ! Work led by @eleandre.bsky.social, in collaboration with M. Napolitano and @ricgallotti.bsky.social. Using Foursquare data from Bologna, we find that the distribution of POIs follows a clear power-law pattern at the city scale. To explain this, we introduce a framework where ...

Finishing the social media session, @tlouf.bsky.social explores Telegram as a weighted, directed temporal network. His methodology reveals clustering, burstiness, and assortativity, all of them phenomena that are relevant when building reliable agent-based models.

#CCS2025

Just me pointing at prioritized communities at @css-conference.bsky.social.
Great journey, so far. 🍉

❓Presentation: Multilevel pipeline for tackling potential disinformative content in YouTube.
👥 @jordicondomtibau.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social

@chub-fbk.bsky.social @csaalto.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that I just gave my first-ever scientific conference talk at @css-conference.bsky.social!

I presented our work "MarkedTemporalPointProcesses for simulating and capturing coordinated behaviour" on enhancing disinformation detection.

Huge thanks to my supervisors and the audiance!☀️

If you're at #CCS25 and are interested in human mobility and inequalities, at 11:30 in Room 149 I will talk of experienced segregation. This is a work we started at the @complexity72h.bsky.social workshop last year.
Take a look at the preprint and see you there 🙂
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2407.01799

2nd keynote Manlio De Domenico discusses approaches to figure out functionalities of complex systems
#CCS2025

Great energy at the poster session today! It was a pleasure to be part of it presenting our work "How to design a collection strategy for monitoring disinformation and hate speech in Telegram".

Excited for round two tomorrow – see you all there! ☀️

Yesterday was our first day at @css-conference.bsky.social
in Siena 🇮🇹. We presented on Telegram data collection @elisamurators.bsky.social , city growth @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social and urban traffic (Alberto Amaduzzi). Excited for 5 more talks today! #CCS2025

Here’s the final program for CCS2025—check it out!
🔗 ccs25.cssociety.org/programme-at...

Comparing the effectiveness of ring and block-vaccination strategies on networks Author summary Infectious diseases such as measles and Ebola have shown how quickly outbreaks can spread and how essential vaccination is to protect individuals. In our work, we investigate a spectrum...

📣🚨 New work out on @plos.org Computational Biology!

Excited and proud to have provided the world with more maps of Puglia🕷️

Thank you all @luzuzek.bsky.social Oriol Artime @ricgallotti.bsky.social @mtizzoni.bsky.social

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
💊main results below👇

📢 Do you want to join our group? We opened **two** calls for a fully funded PhD. Details are in the image and at the following links.

Calls: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
PhD Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

Deadline: August 22nd, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST)