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Latest out: Controlling the spread of deception-based cyber-threats on time-varying networks. Great collaboration with @ngozzi.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2510.00731

fantastic resource, Manlio!

𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University!
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.

@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

Social networking agency and prosociality are inextricably linked in economic games - Nature Human Behaviour Jia et al. experimentally show that when individuals can tailor their actions to each neighbour—a freedom termed social networking agency—they display higher levels of cooperation, trust and fairness in economic games.

New paper in NHB 📄🚨
We ran extensive experiments to show that making the rules of some canonical economic games looser, makes people more cooperative
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 New paper out! ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m deeply grateful to @ariadnaalbors.bsky.social and @gcampedelli.bsky.social for this project, which has taken me into the realm of crime forecasting for the first time.

Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Epidemic amplification by correlated superspreading Infectious pathogens often propagate by superspreading, which focusses onward transmission on disproportionately few infected individuals. At the same time, infector-infectee pairs tend to have more s...

Epidemic amplification by correlated superspreading
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15338

congrats! 👏

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

THREAD 🧵

Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by ...

Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The @nytimes.com has rarely felt as hopelessly out of its depth as in the past two days or so. There is still much I admire, many journalists I respect and trust, but on the Charlie Kirk assassination it simply hasn’t been very informative - not to mention some atrocious opinion “journalism”.

The Computational Foundations of Collective Intelligence Why do collectives outperform individuals when solving some problems? Fundamentally, collectives have greater computational resources with more sensory information, more memory, more processing capaci...

The Computational Foundations of Collective Intelligence
arxiv.org/abs/2509.07999

3-year Responsible AI PhD studentships @ Politecnico di Torino (Turin)

Focus: Responsible AI, computational social science, urban AI, climate, future of work.

Start Mar 2026 (or earlier).

Apply by 20 Sept 2025 → responsibleai.lab@polito.it (subject: “PhD studentships”).
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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👇

Socioeconomic determinants of protective behaviors and contact patterns in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: A cross-sectional study in Italy Author summary COVID-19 outcomes have been shown to vary across different socioeconomic groups, but the mechanisms by which socioeconomic conditions influence transmission are not yet fully understood...

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Human Mobility in Epidemic Modeling Human mobility forms the backbone of contact patterns through which infectious diseases propagate, fundamentally shaping the spatio-temporal dynamics of epidemics and pandemics. While traditional mode...

Human Mobility in Epidemic Modeling
www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.22799 great work by @pholme.bsky.social and collaborators

Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world Human activities increase zoonotic disease risk.

Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tenure and research trajectories | PNAS Tenure is a cornerstone of the US academic system, yet its relationship to faculty research trajectories remains poorly understood. Conceptually, t...

Faculty publication rates peak before tenure. Post-tenure, output stays high in lab-based fields but drops in others (i.e. sociology) and faculty produce more novel work but fewer highly cited papers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc

Day 2 Keynotes kicked off with Laura Nelson's inspiring presentation, “Why Qualitative Research Needs Computational Social Science”. What is the state of this maturing field called qualitative computational methods? What are the ongoing debates and futures? #ic2s2

Parallel sessions are underway, with multiple tracks covering network dynamics, LLMs, mobility and urban science, political narratives, and more. Scan the program, join the talks that excite you, and share your insights with the community #ic2s2.

Causality center stage at #ic2s2 with opening keynote by @eckles.bsky.social

Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond Opinion dynamics, the study of how individual beliefs and collective public opinion evolve, is a fertile domain for applying statistical physics to complex social phenomena. Like physical systems, soc...

Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond

arxiv.org/abs/2507.11521

Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce The rapid rise of compound AI systems (a.k.a., AI agents) is reshaping the labor market, raising concerns about job displacement, diminished human agency, and overreliance on automation. Yet, we lack ...

arxiv.org/abs/2506.06576

From the OpenAI community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout Author summary The COVID-19 vaccines rollout initially faced significant challenges. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) complemented vaccinations in addressing these issues. However, the interpla...

Great work by Yuhan Li, @ngozzi.bsky.social and @netscience.bsky.social just published in PLOS Comp Bio: Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The scale of US cancelled research grants versus the additional money being made available to allow US researchers to move to Europe.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚀Job loss disrupts individuals’ mobility and their exploratory patterns🚀
Thanks to a great collaboration with @marcodena.bsky.social, @marcotonin.bsky.social, Bruno Lepri and @lorenzolucchini.bsky.social our latest study is finally out in iScience!