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🚨 Excited for the latest paper from the lab, led by Zhang & Arsham. Can we coarse-grain a #ComplexNetwork while preserving macroscopic network flows? Surprisingly, the answer is positive, and we have shown it by means of StatPhys + Machine Learning. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Great talk about what complexity science is and can be, by @thilogross.bsky.social in a packed room @comunelab.bsky.social in Padua. A week full of #ComplexNetworks #ComplexSystems #ComplexityThoughts

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 In the AI era, we think that precision medicine must balance data-driven insights with model-informed strategies. #ComplexSystems science bridges this gap, offering explainable, dynamic models for personalized care. #PrecisionMedicine #DigitalTwins 🧪 #MedSky #NetSky 👉 rdcu.be/d6CJJ 🧵 1/

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

"[My adviser] told me that instead of focusing on finding a dream job, I should think about what I am good at and what makes me happy at least 80% of the time. This advice surprised me at first, but it ended up being exactly what I needed to hear." scim.ag/3DHtLCc

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The analysis of BlueSky during the #Xodus by our very own @manlius.bsky.social has been featured by Science. @bsky.app is structurally different from the other place, to date. Will we benefit from this difference?

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This 2024 I’ve been humbled by conversations on #ComplexityThoughts and its (unexpected) growth. From the risks of new pandemics to the promises of AI, from climate change to evolution, I explored many systems through the lens of #complexity science balancing the technical w/ the accessible. 🧵1/

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

It's the last day of 2024, you are curious & want to know more about our interconnected 🌍 from tiny cells 🦠 to entire ecosystems & societies 🌃? Your 2025 gift: the starter pack on #ComplexSystems & #NetworkScience, feeds included: go.bsky.app/KMfiTU2 And the free #ComplexityThoughts newsletter 👇!

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Misinformation #Disinformation

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

According to the Oxfam report, it seems that one of the largest threats to humankind is.. the billionaires. They spend in 90' the same #CO2 you spend in a lifetime. Low/Middle-income countries paying the most in terms of human lives 🌍🌐🧪 #Climate oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/ha...

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Simulation and assimilation of the digital human brain An architecture w/ 86B neurons and 1k GPUs—including a two-level routing scheme between GPUs to accelerate spike transmission in up to 47.8 trillion neuronal synapses—was implemented as part of the simulations 🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Complexity Science enthusiast? A Christmas 🎄 🎁 for your holiday readings: a curated list of 2024's short #ComplexityThoughts essays, including posts and podcast episodes. 28 more Issues covering almost 200+ papers also available.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Just in time, 🎅! #NetSky #Complexity🧪 We compare human mobility datasets from 7 data-sources, tracing 500M+ ppl in 145 countries, to test that if statistical properties observed are robust regardless of data gathering & processing techniques. Guess what? 👇👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42... 1/

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

It is almost absurd, surreal, that we have to stress this point at the edge of 2025... The starting step of any scientific endeavor should be to operationalize the subject of the investigation. Critical for reproducibility and any theoretical advancement.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Xmas is close, holidays are going to start. Let's take some time for an experiment of high societal interest 🧪. 👉 Repost if you have no idea what the Mandalorian is talking about. 👉 Like if you know it.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 Job alert 🚨 IT:U is hiring 5 professors (open rank) in Data Science, very broadly defined! Focuses include (among others): 1. Theoretical Foundations of Data Science 2. Data Science in Biological Systems 3. Data Science in Human Mobility it-u.at/en/careers/p... 1/2

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social

submitted 111 days ago • 8 comments

TL; DR? Not even close. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 New #ComplexityThoughts is out, Issue #48 🧪 As usual, here the links: 📝 Post: manlius.substack.com/p/complexity... 🎧 Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... 👀 RSS: manlius.substack.com/feed 👉 Like it? Join us! It's free.

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you all 🙏 for enthusiastically replying to this provoking post. I tend to align with Jacob's tinkerer and I think that a good summary is that evolution: - is in the eyes of the observer - is an erratic explorer in the space of possible beings, moving along pathways constrained by its past

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Global temperatures 🌡️in 2023 were record-breaking, but the reasons were not fully understood. There was a remaining gap of 0.2°C waiting for an explanation... ☁️☁️ Coverage: phys.org/news/2024-12... Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

"we reveal a trend of accelerating brain size growth in more recent lineages. This nuanced understanding deepens our insight into the evolutionary trajectory of human cognition and behavior, crucial for unraveling the complexities of our species’ unique traits" 🧠 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

It has been hilarious, and sometimes frustrating, to read the AI/LLM enthusiasts claiming AGI was behind the corner. New evidence that when facing new math problems (ie, not used for training) the state of the art methods solve under 2% of them. #AGISaga #AI arxiv.org/abs/2411.04872

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

When the Chicxulub asteroid hit our planet, erasing 75% of life on 🌎,our ancestors (Eutheria) looked more or less like this. To get an idea of the time since then, imagine counting every second no-stop for nearly 2 years: every second is worth an year and that's 66M yr. Evolution takes its time.

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

If platforms like Bluesky rely on people, not algorithms, to amplify content, does it bring us closer to true democracy 2.0 (ie,online)? Or does human bias just replace algorithmic bias, mirroring the physical 🌎? There are pro & cons in both cases, and honestly I don't know yet which one is worst

submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments

About the mysterious disease in #DRC: “Amid speculation that the outbreak could represent "Disease X" [a terms used to describe a previously unknown pathogen w/ the potential to cause a pandemic] the @who.int emphasized it was "an undiagnosed disease rather than an unknown" one.”

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Ed in effetti, con le nuove previsioni rilasciate oggi, mercoledì 11 dicembre 2024, il consensus dei modelli non evidenzia ancora scenari nettamente definiti sulla marcata presenza del temuto picco di ILI (l'insieme di tutte le malattie influenzali e simil-influenzali)

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Analyzing follower distribution of ~5M users (~20% of BlueSky) Expected: older accounts have ++followers. Surprising finding? Even after just 3-4 months, some users surpass 100k followers (1000x less likely than oldest accounts, but it happens!) Explosive growth... 💥 #scaling #ComplexSystems 🧵

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 Thrilled for this new paper @comunelab.bsky.social! Led by @tomscag w/ @oriartime.bsky.social TL;DR: a framework to estimate systemic risk for human-made #ComplexNetworks due to extreme events & natural catastrophes #ComplexSystems #Climate #Resilience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵1/

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 New paper from the lab: Assessing the vulnerability of empirical infrastructure networks to natural catastrophes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Resilience #ClimateChange #ComplexSystems #ComplexNetworks

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Practical example: the source paper is interesting, but the result is not “hypo-connected brains”. They use fMRI, therefore the result is ”less statistically correlated brains“, which is valuable. 👉 No “functional” w/o a model for dynamics 👉 No “connectivity” w/o a model for structure That's it.

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“Mendes et al. synthesized data on plant-animal seed dispersal interactions for the whole of Europe and characterized each species interaction as being of low, high, or very high concern based on the species’ conservation statuses and population trajectories“ 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Iza Romanowska, Postcapitalist Economic Systems Architect & Senior Researcher, Aarhus University "Can the past save our future?" #NetSci2025

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📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Sonia Kéfi, CNRS research director & Chair of the department CHANGE at ISEM & External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute "How ecological systems respond to stress" #NetSci2025

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The second part of the #ComplexityThoughts on “model-free” analysis of #ComplexSystems. As usual you have the: Post: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/... Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... RSS: manlius.substack.com/feed Enjoy! 🙏

submitted 123 days ago • 5 comments

📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Manlio de Domenico, Associate Professor at UniPD & Head of CoMuNe Lab & President of CSS Italy & Co-founder and Co-director of MSCX "Network science in a complex world: broken, lost and future links" #NetSci2025 @manlius.bsky.social

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

One of the advantages of working in Padova with us!

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🇮🇹 Da oggi comincia l'avventura di @comunelab.bsky.social e il nostro modello predittivo per #influenza A/B/ILI 🦠🧪 su dati ISS, come parte dell'hub nazionale #influcast🇮🇹: influcast.org Congratulazioni a @tommasobertola.bsky.social per questo 1° significativo traguardo del suo progetto. 1/

submitted 131 days ago • 2 comments

Why #ComplexitySci is fascinating? #ComplexSystems are ubiquitous!🧬🦠🧫🔬🐠🦜🧠🌪️🧪 And provide an analytical framework to study the behavior of phys, bio, eco, human & artificial systems #AcademicSky Curious? I write about them 👉 #ComplexityThoughts: manlius.substack.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Sv...

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

🚨Opening at the Padua Neuroscience Center, and possibility to work with our lab for exciting projects related to 🧠 #connectomics and network neuroscience. Check the link below for further details 👇 #ComplexSystems #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #NetworkScience

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

This week's NOVA is Decoding the Universe: Quantum. I am one of the talking heads! I think physicists are going to struggle talking about quantum mechanics as long as we think of the quantum state - not our observational outcomes - as representing what is real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t06a...

submitted 137 days ago • 139 comments

It's great to see the massive wave of people coming to 🦋. Here's my first stab at a Computational Social Science starter pack: go.bsky.app/2m6iQ68 Go check out similar lists to bootstrap your network: bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Wonder if these lists could be merged somehow..

submitted 139 days ago • 23 comments

Can brain wiring be optimized using artificial/engineering means? That would require intervening in highly complex developmental/neurogenetic processes. Could this be done, perhaps guided by AI (my drawing below)? Or are there fundamental constraints in physics?

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

A starter pack for researchers using #scaling #allometry methods in ecology, economics, computer science, physical sciences, etc. Scaling offers insights into complex systems, linking dynamics from cells to individuals to societies & ecosystems - please add your name! go.bsky.app/EuNK9Na 🧪🦋🦫

submitted 140 days ago • 12 comments

As a computational social scientist I could not miss to follow this beautiful creature: the BlueSky social network during its growth in the last hours! In this video I show just a snapshot for about 210k users and their 500k-ish connections #academicsky Zoom in the next post youtu.be/JcmYZtWGnjQ

submitted 137 days ago • 6 comments

Sharing my first Computational Social Science starter pack! Will grow with time, feel free to nominate and self nominate! go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK

submitted 139 days ago • 62 comments

The BlueSky team created a great tool to help newcomers: starter packs. Here a quick starter pack for #complexity and network scientists + feeds to quickly join the community! #NetSky Please, help to share (and if you are not in the list, get in touch and I will add you) go.bsky.app/KMfiTU2

submitted 139 days ago • 74 comments