Rafael Prieto-Curiel
@rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social
Faculty member @csh.ac.at
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Cities are often seen as hotbeds of violence, with the assumption that bigger cities are more dangerous. New research by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social ( @csh.ac.at ) and @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social ( @exeter.ac.uk ), published in #NatComms, highlights that 𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.
shorturl.at/ii3jm
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People In Isolated Cities Suffer More Violence Against Civilians
New study from the Complexity Science Hub and the University of Exeter reveals that city isolation, not size, may drive political violence in Africa.
csh.ac.at
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Cities are often seen as hotbeds of violence, with the assumption that bigger cities are more dangerous. New research by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social ( @csh.ac.at ) and @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social ( @exeter.ac.uk ), published in #NatComms, highlights that 𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.
shorturl.at/ii3jm
shorturl.at/ii3jm
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Large cities are often assumed to be more violent, but our review shows there’s nothing universal about urban violence.
In our new study, @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social and I show that isolated cities tend to experience higher rates of violence against civilians.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new study, @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social and I show that isolated cities tend to experience higher rates of violence against civilians.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Large cities are often assumed to be more violent, but our review shows there’s nothing universal about urban violence.
In our new study, @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social and I show that isolated cities tend to experience higher rates of violence against civilians.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new study, @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social and I show that isolated cities tend to experience higher rates of violence against civilians.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our new study challenges assumptions about urban violence in Africa.
Surprising finding: isolated cities face 4x higher violence risk than large, connected cities. Size matters less than connectivity.
Amazing work with @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65728-6
Surprising finding: isolated cities face 4x higher violence risk than large, connected cities. Size matters less than connectivity.
Amazing work with @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65728-6
Violence, city size and geographical isolation in African cities - Nature Communications
In Africa, violence against civilians is more prevalent in small, isolated cities, with this trend rising in recent years.
nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our new study challenges assumptions about urban violence in Africa.
Surprising finding: isolated cities face 4x higher violence risk than large, connected cities. Size matters less than connectivity.
Amazing work with @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65728-6
Surprising finding: isolated cities face 4x higher violence risk than large, connected cities. Size matters less than connectivity.
Amazing work with @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65728-6
Large cities are often assumed to be more violent, but our review shows there’s nothing universal about urban violence.
In our new study, @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social and I show that isolated cities tend to experience higher rates of violence against civilians.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new study, @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social and I show that isolated cities tend to experience higher rates of violence against civilians.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Large cities are often assumed to be more violent, but our review shows there’s nothing universal about urban violence.
In our new study, @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social and I show that isolated cities tend to experience higher rates of violence against civilians.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new study, @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social and I show that isolated cities tend to experience higher rates of violence against civilians.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🦂🚨🦂 New Chalkdust alert! 🦂🚨🦂
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
Chalkdust: Read Issue 22 now
A magazine for the mathematically curious. Issue 22 now available: DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
chalkdustmagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🦂🚨🦂 New Chalkdust alert! 🦂🚨🦂
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
I am glad to be back at @ox.ac.uk to present the research of my team at @csh.ac.at on cities at @inetoxford.bsky.social!
See you later today!
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www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/citie...
See you later today!
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www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/citie...
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I am glad to be back at @ox.ac.uk to present the research of my team at @csh.ac.at on cities at @inetoxford.bsky.social!
See you later today!
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www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/citie...
See you later today!
🌇
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/citie...
I analysed the modal share of nearly 400 European cities, comparing those with a metro, only a tram, and without any rail system.
Large cities with a metro have roughly half the car share of cities served only by a tram.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Data: CitiesMoving.com
Large cities with a metro have roughly half the car share of cities served only by a tram.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Data: CitiesMoving.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I analysed the modal share of nearly 400 European cities, comparing those with a metro, only a tram, and without any rail system.
Large cities with a metro have roughly half the car share of cities served only by a tram.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Data: CitiesMoving.com
Large cities with a metro have roughly half the car share of cities served only by a tram.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Data: CitiesMoving.com
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How can car traffic in cities be reduced? New research by CSH's @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social shows that while metros are effective in reducing car traffic, a study of nearly 400 European cities finds no evidence that trams have the same effect: csh.ac.at/news/metros-...
Metros Cut Car Use In European Cities – Trams Fall Short
People drive significantly less in European cities with a metro system than in cities that only have trams or no rail-based public transport at all.
csh.ac.at
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
How can car traffic in cities be reduced? New research by CSH's @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social shows that while metros are effective in reducing car traffic, a study of nearly 400 European cities finds no evidence that trams have the same effect: csh.ac.at/news/metros-...
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🌐 How can we address organized crime?
Last week, we hosted a #workshop, organized by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, exploring the complexity of violence – including cartels and their recruitment practices, social media dynamics, crypto crimes, and law enforcement strategies
Last week, we hosted a #workshop, organized by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, exploring the complexity of violence – including cartels and their recruitment practices, social media dynamics, crypto crimes, and law enforcement strategies
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🌐 How can we address organized crime?
Last week, we hosted a #workshop, organized by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, exploring the complexity of violence – including cartels and their recruitment practices, social media dynamics, crypto crimes, and law enforcement strategies
Last week, we hosted a #workshop, organized by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, exploring the complexity of violence – including cartels and their recruitment practices, social media dynamics, crypto crimes, and law enforcement strategies
This week, we had the honor of welcoming @sergioaguayo.bsky.social and his team from Colmex to @csh.ac.at. Throughout the week, we discussed science, violence, migration, politics and more.
This Wednesday, his column in Reforma was dedicated to complexity and violence.
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This Wednesday, his column in Reforma was dedicated to complexity and violence.
⚗️🥼🔬
October 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This week, we had the honor of welcoming @sergioaguayo.bsky.social and his team from Colmex to @csh.ac.at. Throughout the week, we discussed science, violence, migration, politics and more.
This Wednesday, his column in Reforma was dedicated to complexity and violence.
⚗️🥼🔬
This Wednesday, his column in Reforma was dedicated to complexity and violence.
⚗️🥼🔬
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📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference!
🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference!
🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
Maria Corina Machado - "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."
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October 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Maria Corina Machado - "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."
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🗓️ Join us for an event on tackling organized crime:
Next week, CSH hosts a #workshop & #panel organized by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, exploring how science can contribute to policy approaches.
Info & livestream: csh.ac.at/events/scien...
Next week, CSH hosts a #workshop & #panel organized by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, exploring how science can contribute to policy approaches.
Info & livestream: csh.ac.at/events/scien...
Science And Policy Against Organized Crime | Workshop & Panel
Violence remains one of the most pressing and complex challenges of our time. Driven by the expansion of organized crime and entrenched cartel...
csh.ac.at
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🗓️ Join us for an event on tackling organized crime:
Next week, CSH hosts a #workshop & #panel organized by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, exploring how science can contribute to policy approaches.
Info & livestream: csh.ac.at/events/scien...
Next week, CSH hosts a #workshop & #panel organized by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, exploring how science can contribute to policy approaches.
Info & livestream: csh.ac.at/events/scien...
Join us next week at @csh.ac.at for the Science and Policy Against Organized Crime workshop!
It includes many talks on violence and science, and a panel with:
🏳️José Antonio Zabalgoitia (Amb. of Mexico)
🌍 Dmitry Orlov (UNODC)
🎓 Sergio Aguayo (COLMEX/Harvard)
Register 👇
csh.ac.at/events/scien...
It includes many talks on violence and science, and a panel with:
🏳️José Antonio Zabalgoitia (Amb. of Mexico)
🌍 Dmitry Orlov (UNODC)
🎓 Sergio Aguayo (COLMEX/Harvard)
Register 👇
csh.ac.at/events/scien...
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Join us next week at @csh.ac.at for the Science and Policy Against Organized Crime workshop!
It includes many talks on violence and science, and a panel with:
🏳️José Antonio Zabalgoitia (Amb. of Mexico)
🌍 Dmitry Orlov (UNODC)
🎓 Sergio Aguayo (COLMEX/Harvard)
Register 👇
csh.ac.at/events/scien...
It includes many talks on violence and science, and a panel with:
🏳️José Antonio Zabalgoitia (Amb. of Mexico)
🌍 Dmitry Orlov (UNODC)
🎓 Sergio Aguayo (COLMEX/Harvard)
Register 👇
csh.ac.at/events/scien...
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Very stimulating lectures at @crmatematica.bsky.social by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social on Cities as Complex Systems
September 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Very stimulating lectures at @crmatematica.bsky.social by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social on Cities as Complex Systems
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Call for Nominations: Young Scientist Awards 2026
Physics of Socio-economic Systems Division (phi·SOE), German Physical Society (DPG)
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Sponsored by Capital Fund Management (CFM)
Further details:
www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigunge...
Physics of Socio-economic Systems Division (phi·SOE), German Physical Society (DPG)
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Sponsored by Capital Fund Management (CFM)
Further details:
www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigunge...
September 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Call for Nominations: Young Scientist Awards 2026
Physics of Socio-economic Systems Division (phi·SOE), German Physical Society (DPG)
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Sponsored by Capital Fund Management (CFM)
Further details:
www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigunge...
Physics of Socio-economic Systems Division (phi·SOE), German Physical Society (DPG)
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Sponsored by Capital Fund Management (CFM)
Further details:
www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigunge...
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Congratulations to Dr. Rafael Prieto-Curiel, winner of the Junior Scientific Award 2025, for his contributions to complex systems research through innovative mathematical modelling of social phenomena🎉
September 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Rafael Prieto-Curiel, winner of the Junior Scientific Award 2025, for his contributions to complex systems research through innovative mathematical modelling of social phenomena🎉
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Now at the criminal complexity satellite, @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social just gave a wonderful talk showing his progress when modeling organized crime recruitment by Mexican cartels. His results show that current Mexican and US policies are not enough to effectively reduce recruitment.
#CCS2025
#CCS2025
September 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Now at the criminal complexity satellite, @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social just gave a wonderful talk showing his progress when modeling organized crime recruitment by Mexican cartels. His results show that current Mexican and US policies are not enough to effectively reduce recruitment.
#CCS2025
#CCS2025
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We are excited to invite you to Criminal Complexity, our Satellite Event at #CCS2025 in Siena, focusing on Crime, Violence, and Complexity Science!
Join us for a series of talks that explore the intersection of criminal phenomena and complex systems.
criminalcomplexity.weebly.com/programme.html
Join us for a series of talks that explore the intersection of criminal phenomena and complex systems.
criminalcomplexity.weebly.com/programme.html
August 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We are excited to invite you to Criminal Complexity, our Satellite Event at #CCS2025 in Siena, focusing on Crime, Violence, and Complexity Science!
Join us for a series of talks that explore the intersection of criminal phenomena and complex systems.
criminalcomplexity.weebly.com/programme.html
Join us for a series of talks that explore the intersection of criminal phenomena and complex systems.
criminalcomplexity.weebly.com/programme.html
We are excited to invite you to Criminal Complexity, our Satellite Event at #CCS2025 in Siena, focusing on Crime, Violence, and Complexity Science!
Join us for a series of talks that explore the intersection of criminal phenomena and complex systems.
criminalcomplexity.weebly.com/programme.html
Join us for a series of talks that explore the intersection of criminal phenomena and complex systems.
criminalcomplexity.weebly.com/programme.html
August 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We are excited to invite you to Criminal Complexity, our Satellite Event at #CCS2025 in Siena, focusing on Crime, Violence, and Complexity Science!
Join us for a series of talks that explore the intersection of criminal phenomena and complex systems.
criminalcomplexity.weebly.com/programme.html
Join us for a series of talks that explore the intersection of criminal phenomena and complex systems.
criminalcomplexity.weebly.com/programme.html
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While in Vienna, CSH resident journalist Will Grimond was fascinated to learn about grätzloase--neighbourhood oasis made by and for residents to enjoy shared urban life. And he wrote a story about it for @theguardian.com (featuring @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social and @csh.ac.at): shorturl.at/gC6Ch
‘Why would you take away a parking place?’: the city where anyone can build an urban oasis
Grätzloasen – low-cost, urban ‘parklets’ built by volunteers – are on the rise in Vienna as sceptics are being won over by the splash of welcome greenery and boost to community spirits
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August 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
While in Vienna, CSH resident journalist Will Grimond was fascinated to learn about grätzloase--neighbourhood oasis made by and for residents to enjoy shared urban life. And he wrote a story about it for @theguardian.com (featuring @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social and @csh.ac.at): shorturl.at/gC6Ch
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🚶🚌🚗 Where you live in a city shapes how you commute. @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social (CSH) & Filipe Barroso (Universidade de Aveiro) analyzed Lisbon & Porto and found: car use rises ~1% every 2 km from downtown, reaching 75%+ in outer neighborhoods. Over the decade, car trips increased nationwide.
August 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚶🚌🚗 Where you live in a city shapes how you commute. @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social (CSH) & Filipe Barroso (Universidade de Aveiro) analyzed Lisbon & Porto and found: car use rises ~1% every 2 km from downtown, reaching 75%+ in outer neighborhoods. Over the decade, car trips increased nationwide.
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🚔 #Crime has a rhythm — can we decode its beat? In a new study co-authored by CSH's @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, 12 years of detailed crime data reveal relatively stable temporal “heartbeats” for different crime types over time. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🚔 #Crime has a rhythm — can we decode its beat? In a new study co-authored by CSH's @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social, 12 years of detailed crime data reveal relatively stable temporal “heartbeats” for different crime types over time. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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No, it's not the case that only China is responsible for the large decline in extreme poverty over the past decades.
We wrote about it recently: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china
We wrote about it recently: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china
July 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
No, it's not the case that only China is responsible for the large decline in extreme poverty over the past decades.
We wrote about it recently: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china
We wrote about it recently: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china