Max Falkenberg

This is of course absolutely true

General reminder:
Good internet regulation is not easy if you're a small island with little real influence.

Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides Migration is central in various societal problems related to socioeconomic development. While much of the existing research has focused on international migration, migration patterns within a single c...

New preprint: “Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides”, with @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, Martina Contisciani, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503

🧵 New preprint!

Do online mental health communities form patterns of association that mirror diagnostic systems or challenge them?

“Network Analysis of Reddit Mental Health Communities: Mapping the Interconnectedness of Psychopathology”

👉 osf.io/7dfcw_v1

@ceu-dnds.bsky.social

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25 new scholarships for US researchers Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: “The right signal in these turbulent times”

Are you from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...

If you are interested; get in touch!

Testing LLMs in the Prisoner’s Dilemma to reveal their moral biases. LLMs can defect often but become more forgiving and less retaliatory than humans when opponents are mostly cooperative. Nicolò Fontana at #ICWSM. w @frapierri.bsky.social
Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Looking forward to chatting soon!

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

A similar talk was recorded here:
youtu.be/k5IA96g0U5s?...

Papers:
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

osf.io/preprints/os...

Kicking off #ICWSM with the DETOX workshop and @maxfalken.bsky.social’s keynote on why the Web is not a set of siloed platforms and why we should not study it as such. Shows why deplatforming doesn’t work exactly as we expect and why large online platforms are plagued by affective polarization

Here's another paper by Shalizi showing how inferring *latent* homophily allows for disentangling from contagion. Bizarre how this gets overlooked, since it's obvious that homophily leaves huge traces in the network structure, while contagion changes nothing.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media, featuring @maxfalken.bsky.social.

From the Cambridge Disinformation Summit

youtu.be/k5IA96g0U5s

No surprise that bank lending to the fossil fuel sector keeps rising 👇

Nadia Ameli and I recently wrote about why current banking regulations are insufficient and ineffective at limiting continued funding to the FF sector - call ordinated action is needed: www.thebanker.com/content/e812...

Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate Predicts In audio obtained by DeSmog, Bjorn Lomborg told a Fraser Institute event in Vancouver that the technology is way too expensive to be viable.

Extremely fun little secret recording in @desmog.com by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social here - Lomborg just openly saying to the Fraser Institute that CCS wont' work but that it can be used to soak up subsidies

www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/c...

@maxfalken.bsky.social on the importance of nuence when studying polarization at the social network session at #netsci2025

Celebrating my first post on Bluesky with a picture of @abovet.bsky.social giving his invited talk at UNCSS today. The Satellite in running now at NetSci 2025. Feel free to join even for the last round of talks.
Together with: @maxfalken.bsky.social & Alessandro Galeazzi

Looking forward to hosting this tomorrow! Lots of great talks!
👇

I can officially confirm my presence to the satellite! If I made it, you cannot miss.

🎉 Very happy to announce Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social as our next panelist! Maxime is an FNRS Postdoc at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems & UCLouvain in Belgium. He is interested in dynamical systems, complex systems, networks, and their applications to life sciences.

With great speakers!

@abovet.bsky.social
@ecozzo.bsky.social
@alessianetwork.bsky.social
@miroslavmirchev.bsky.social
@andreajpg.bsky.social
@fernandodiazdiaz.bsky.social
And others!

Organized with
@galessandro.bsky.social and Matteo Cinelli

Looking forward to our satellite on "Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science" next Tuesday (June 3) from 9am at @netsciconf.bsky.social

Join us for 10 great talks discussing (Meta)Decidem, Tiktok, Bluesky, Wikidata, Painters, and more!

galeale.github.io/UNCSS/?trk=f...

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

Dr @maxfalken.bsky.social on the impact of social media deplatforming.

From the Cambridge Disinformation Summit meetings.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=k5IA...

Google scholar results for query "misinformation"

The rise (and fall?) of misinformation research.

Data Stories (11th Edition)

🎙️Meet the chair of Data Stories: @maxfalken.bsky.social

We're excited to welcome Max Falkenberg as chair of this year's Data Stories!

📅 Join Max and our speakers *TOMORROW*, Tuesday, May 20

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For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read the #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important […]

Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Actions announce €1.25 billion to support cutting‑edge research and new pilot initiative ‘Choose Europe for Science’ In 2025, the MSCA will fund doctoral and postdoctoral programmes and collaborative research and innovation projects through various calls supporting around 10,000 researchers. ‘Choose Europe for Scien...

New Marie Curie initiative with €1.25bn of funding
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/marie-s...

Scheme aims to address the "precarity of research careers"...

Which is ironic, because the same programme required me to move country for a two year contract (albeit a very nice one)

Yeah. As a lapsed manufacturing engineer with some other surprisingly relevant hobbies, I always get a chuckle seeing the argument that a superintelligent brain in a vat could easily wipe out humanity.

Possible, perhaps. Trivial? Nah. Smarts only gets you so far.

An excellent illustration below.

Data Stories is next week! Join us to hear the invited talks and visit the poster exhibition 🎨 RSVP below 👇

The role of science in the climate change discussions on Reddit Well-informed collective and individual action necessary to address climate change hinges on the public’s understanding of the relevant scientific findings. Social media has been a popular platform fo...

New study by Elisa Omodei @elisaomodei.bsky.social & @isifoundation.bsky.social co-authors finds that only 4–6.5% of links in Reddit climate discussions cite scientific sources, raising questions about the role of science in online climate discourse.

🔎 Read more: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

New paper alert. "More is different" & the LLMs.
LLMs are usually studied in isolation. But what happens when they start interacting? We explored this by looking at their collective behaviour.
Work with @ariel-flint.bsky.social and @lajello.bsky.social
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Very happy to be chairing this event next week 🎉

Come join us if you are in Vienna 🙏