Rodrigo Dorantes Gilardi

I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026!

We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation?

Want to answer these questions? details below!

*Last two information sessions of the season* for our MS in Complex Network Analysis! Sign up: www.networkscienceinstitute.org/academics/ms...

Join us to hear about @nunetsi.bsky.social's new MS degree program:
- today (Tuesday, May 27) at 3:00pm ET, and
- tomorrow (Wednesday, May 28) at 9:00am ET

Explore the data yourself! Our interactive dashboard lets you see the interconnected network of biobanks:

biobanks.pythonanywhere.com

Traditional metrics fail to capture biobanks' true impact. We created a comprehensive Biobank Impact Factor (bIF) to measure influence across research, funding, patents, clinical trials, and public policy.

What makes biobanks successful? Our data shows it's not just size. The most impactful biobanks are:

1) More open to external researchers
2) Offer quality linked medical records
3) Provide advanced genetic data
4) Led by highly cited researchers

🔍 Key finding: 41.1% of papers using biobank data don't properly cite them! Yet 59.6% include a biobank member as coauthor. This suggests collaboration, not citation, drives biobank recognition - creating a "hidden citation" problem that undervalues their true impact.

We identified 2,663 biobanks worldwide and analyzed their footprint across 228,761 scientific articles, 16,210 grants, 15,469 patents, and more. Surprisingly, we found biobank research concentrates heavily on just a few diseases: obesity, Alzheimer's, breast cancer, and diabetes.

Big Data Analysis Reveals How Biobanks Drive Medical Research and Disease Understanding Biobanks are collections of human biological samples (like blood, tissue, or DNA) paired with health, lifestyle, and demographic information. They serve as vital resources for medical research, helpin...

Our new paper with @barabasi.bsky.social on biobanks: the unsung heroes of biomedical research and their multifaceted impact on science.

www.growkudos.com/publications...

www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

But the uptake of American-style quotations after 2022 is not equal across fields, with huge jumps in social sciences and law studies and more moderate increases in life sciences and mathematics.

After 2022, British-style quotations seem to have lost the battle. They are in decline: from being the preferred style in 16.4% of quotations in 2021, they are used in only 10.1% in 2025.

Have you noticed ChatGPT prefers to include periods inside quotation marks ("Like this.")?

Analysis of quotation styles on 5M paper abstracts before and after ChatGPT (2022) shows a steady increase in American-style quotations ("word.") while British style ("word".) stays flat.

Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks - Nature Medicine By simulating the implementation of airport-based wastewater surveillance sites at the global level, a modeling study shows how this early warning system would perform in identifying sources of pandem...

Wastewater from airplane toilets?
We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread
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We are hiring a postdoc/researcher at my group (SUNLab) @nunetsi.bsky.social. Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? Contact me if you are interested. Please share it!

Join Us for Upcoming Talks at the Network Science Institute!

We’re excited to host several prominent speakers in the upcoming week. For detailed information, including abstracts, speaker biographies, and Zoom links to access the talks, visit our website: www.networkscienceinstitute.org/events

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de

graph-tool.skewed.de

Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

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We are thrilled to announce the merger of two key organizations supporting early-career researchers in network science: SYNS (Society of Young Network Scientists) and NetPLACE (Networks, PhD Life, and Complexity). Together, we are now NetPlace!