Ciro Cattuto
@ccattuto.bsky.social
Data Science · Digital Epidemiology · Computational Social Science · Tech for good, but not a technosolutionist · Scientific Director at @isi.it · Happier outdoors. 🇪🇺🇮🇹🏔️
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Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it
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📢 Keynotes++:
Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University
👉 information propagation
👉 online misinformation
👉 social influence
📷 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!)
cs2italy.org
Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University
👉 information propagation
👉 online misinformation
👉 social influence
📷 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!)
cs2italy.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:11 AM
📢 Keynotes++:
Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University
👉 information propagation
👉 online misinformation
👉 social influence
📷 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!)
cs2italy.org
Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University
👉 information propagation
👉 online misinformation
👉 social influence
📷 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!)
cs2italy.org
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And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
January 23, 2026 at 3:05 AM
And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
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⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply!
@isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability
📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...
@isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability
📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...
Lagrange Fellowship Call
The Lagrange Project started in 2003 and it is regarded as one of the pioneering and most innovative European projects on complex systems science and data science.
It is promoted and funded by Fondazi...
sites.google.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:23 PM
⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply!
@isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability
📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...
@isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability
📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...
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1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share!
2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker --
Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social
Chair of Technology and Society
@ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin
▶️ cs2italy.org
2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker --
Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social
Chair of Technology and Society
@ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin
▶️ cs2italy.org
January 15, 2026 at 11:06 AM
1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share!
2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker --
Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social
Chair of Technology and Society
@ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin
▶️ cs2italy.org
2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker --
Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social
Chair of Technology and Society
@ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin
▶️ cs2italy.org
Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it
January 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it
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Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
to join us in Turin on May 19-21
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
For more: cs2italy.org
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
to join us in Turin on May 19-21
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
For more: cs2italy.org
January 7, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
to join us in Turin on May 19-21
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
For more: cs2italy.org
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
to join us in Turin on May 19-21
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
For more: cs2italy.org
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Senza interventi strutturali per arginare la fuga dal SSN e rendere attrattive le specialità disertate, il rischio della riforma #Bernini è evidente
Utilizzare risorse pubbliche per formare #medici destinati al libero mercato, in una #sanità dove il pubblico arretra e il privato avanza
#SalviamoSSN
Utilizzare risorse pubbliche per formare #medici destinati al libero mercato, in una #sanità dove il pubblico arretra e il privato avanza
#SalviamoSSN
December 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Senza interventi strutturali per arginare la fuga dal SSN e rendere attrattive le specialità disertate, il rischio della riforma #Bernini è evidente
Utilizzare risorse pubbliche per formare #medici destinati al libero mercato, in una #sanità dove il pubblico arretra e il privato avanza
#SalviamoSSN
Utilizzare risorse pubbliche per formare #medici destinati al libero mercato, in una #sanità dove il pubblico arretra e il privato avanza
#SalviamoSSN
Ho partecipato al crowdfunding di @valigiablu.it Insieme per resistere crowdfunding.valigiablu.it
Il crowdfunding per sostenere l'edizione 2026 di Valigia Blu
In cammino per capire il mondo. Valigia Blu: basata sui fatti, aperta a tutti, sostenuta dai lettori.
crowdfunding.valigiablu.it
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ho partecipato al crowdfunding di @valigiablu.it Insieme per resistere crowdfunding.valigiablu.it
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AI companies should protect your conversations from bulk surveillance by requiring search warrants and pushing back against overbroad requests. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
AI Chatbot Companies Should Protect Your Conversations From Bulk
AI companies have a responsibility to their users to make sure the warrant requirement is strictly followed, to resist unlawful bulk surveillance requests, and to be transparent with their users
www.eff.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
AI companies should protect your conversations from bulk surveillance by requiring search warrants and pushing back against overbroad requests. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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This is something I struggle with as a journalist who writes a lot about AI. I have written whole articles about how AI is a misnomer! But I feel powerless in the tides of linguistic drift.
Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?
Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?
I wish, as an editorial practice, journalists would distinguish between scientific machine learning models and chatbots. Fk you Sam Altman.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is something I struggle with as a journalist who writes a lot about AI. I have written whole articles about how AI is a misnomer! But I feel powerless in the tides of linguistic drift.
Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?
Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?
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Networks are #complex and their dynamics often look chaotic. But we can reconstruct latent spaces where their behavior becomes strikingly regular, revealing functional organization across biology, society and technology.
How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐
Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!
How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐
Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Networks are #complex and their dynamics often look chaotic. But we can reconstruct latent spaces where their behavior becomes strikingly regular, revealing functional organization across biology, society and technology.
How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐
Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!
How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐
Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!
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I wrote this piece at the start of the year, so it's nice to see it finally out before the year's end! It looks at the notion of "hard steps" in evolution that allegedly make intelligent life rare in the universe, and why that might not be correct after all.
nautil.us/we-might-not...
nautil.us/we-might-not...
We Might Not Be So Strange
We Might Not Be So Strange: Perhaps intelligent life wasn’t so unlikely after all.
nautil.us
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I wrote this piece at the start of the year, so it's nice to see it finally out before the year's end! It looks at the notion of "hard steps" in evolution that allegedly make intelligent life rare in the universe, and why that might not be correct after all.
nautil.us/we-might-not...
nautil.us/we-might-not...
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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
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
Deadline: Jan 15
cs2italy.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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
We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more
Deadline: Jan 15
cs2italy.org
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We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
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🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
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We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
IC2S2 2026 | Burlington, Vermont
YouTube video by UVM Office of Research
youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
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Meet Prof. Iyad Rahawan, winner of the Lagrange Prize 2025 🏆
Exploring how AI reshapes our society.
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social
#lagrangeprize #fondazionecrt #ogr
Exploring how AI reshapes our society.
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social
#lagrangeprize #fondazionecrt #ogr
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Meet Prof. Iyad Rahawan, winner of the Lagrange Prize 2025 🏆
Exploring how AI reshapes our society.
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social
#lagrangeprize #fondazionecrt #ogr
Exploring how AI reshapes our society.
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social
#lagrangeprize #fondazionecrt #ogr
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I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems.
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems.
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
Join us later today in Torino at OGR 👉 bit.ly/47hxXDN
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Join us later today in Torino at OGR 👉 bit.ly/47hxXDN
I’m proud to support the Python Software Foundation and their commitment to building an inclusive community. Please consider donating if you can!
Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I’m proud to support the Python Software Foundation and their commitment to building an inclusive community. Please consider donating if you can!
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!
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The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.
go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum
The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.
www.ndsmcobserver.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.
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Vietare l’educazione alla sessualità nelle scuole medie compromette salute e sicurezza per:
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Vietare l’educazione alla sessualità nelle scuole medie compromette salute e sicurezza per:
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega