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Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de · Aug 8

Last week we had our second “Inverse Complexity Lab Retreat” at wonderful Traunkirchen!

skewed.de/lab/group.ht...

Nothing like eldritch C++ incantations by the sunny lakeside! 🏖️

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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · Jul 27

This is of course absolutely true

Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · Jul 27

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

George Pearkes @peark.es · Jul 27

The UK: we must reinvigorate our uncompetitive and slow growth economy!

Also the UK: time to censor the easiest general reference of archive of human knowledge, which is also free.

Clord TC, Comics Guy @clordtc.bsky.social · Jul 26

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia

write to your MPs.

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Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de · Jul 22

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

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...

arxiv.org

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Bojan Evkoski @bojanevkoski.bsky.social · Jul 21

🧵 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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OSF

osf.io

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Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de · Jun 29

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!

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”

www.oeaw.ac.at

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Jun 26

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...

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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · Jun 23

Looking forward to chatting soon!

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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

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

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

osf.io/preprints/os...

The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · Jun 22

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....

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · Jun 21

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

From the Cambridge Disinformation Summit

youtu.be/k5IA96g0U5s

The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

youtu.be

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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jun 6

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...

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.

www.desmog.com

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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

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Matteo Cinelli @matteocinelli.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · Jun 2

Looking forward to hosting this tomorrow! Lots of great talks!
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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · May 27

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...

Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science

galeale.github.io

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Gale @galessandro.bsky.social · Jun 1

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

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NetPlace @netplace.bsky.social · May 29

🎉 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.

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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · May 27

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

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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · May 27

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...

Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science

galeale.github.io

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · May 23

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

From the Cambridge Disinformation Summit meetings.

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

The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · May 21

The rise (and fall?) of misinformation research.

Google scholar results for query "misinformation"

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Thomas Robiglio @thomrobiglio.bsky.social · May 19

🎙️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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Data Stories (11th Edition)

events.ceu.edu

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · May 15

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 […]

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