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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Jun 11

Last week I presented our (@giuliorossetti.bsky.social) open #Bluesky dataset at @netsciconf.bsky.social.

We release augmented, anonymized content/network data from 81% of users over a year.
The #dataset is available at zenodo.org/records/1466...
#networkscience #opendata #socialmedia #openscience

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Jun 9

@vpansanella.bsky.social kickstarts our #SimulatedSocieties tutorial at #HHAI2025. Here we present YSocial, a #digitaltwin of a #socialmedia platform. Read more at ysocialtwin.github.io

#networkscience #ai #llm

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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · Jun 5

@andreajpg.bsky.social on Tracking Community Evolution via Multi-Faceted Events at the temporal networks session at #netsci2025

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks, Alex! Looking forward to working with you :)

Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · May 27

📢 Deadline Extension! 📢
Are you working with higher-order networks (e.g., #hypergraphs)? This one's for you! 🚀

Join us at HyperSCI in Niagara Falls, Canada 🇨🇦 🌊, as part of #ASONAM2025 🔗

📅 Submit by June 15, 2025 (AoE) 🕐

🔗 hypersci2025.github.io
#networkscience

Home | HyperSCI

Website for HyperSCI: 2nd International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Hypernetwork Science

hypersci2025.github.io

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Alessia Galdeman @alessianetwork.bsky.social · May 13

🚨Deadline extension🚨

If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the TENET satellite @CCS in Siena!
📅New deadline: June, 16 2025
📝Submit two page abstract

More info here: sites.google.com/view/tenet-c...

TENET@CCS25

Temporal networks are powerful models for understanding dynamical complex systems where entities and interactions appear and vanish as time goes by. Unlike static networks, which simply provide a snap...

sites.google.com

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Valentina Pansanella @vpansanella.bsky.social · Mar 25

Call for Papers! 📣 📜

Join us in unraveling the impact of social media on human behavior 💻🙋🤳 for the 2nd edition of The Social Media Sway Workshop!

📅 Submit your papers by July 1st, 2025 (AoE). #SocialMedia #SMS25 #ASONAM25 #CFP

sms-workshop.github.io.

The Social Media Sway | Home

The SMS International Workshop website.

sms-workshop.github.io

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Mar 21

@css-conference.bsky.social

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Mar 21

🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨
Simulated Societies @ #CCS2025 (Sept 3–4, Siena 🇮🇹)
Explore opinion dynamics, agent-based models & AI-driven social sims.
Submit by April 24 👉 simulatedsocieties.github.io
#AI #ComplexSystems #DigitalTwins #SocialSimulation #LLM

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Feb 13

Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed our research! The number is based on public information available at the time of collection. Bluesky claimed it had nearly 5M users, while we found 4M.

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Jan 31

🚨New WP🚨
Remember Musk+Zuck+Trump+Jordan etc crying fact-checker bias b/c Reps were flagged more than Dems? We analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and guess what: posts flagged as "misleading" are 67% more likely to be written by Reps! The issue is Reps, not fact-checkers...
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · Jan 21

Extremely happy to share that "Curation Bubbles" is online (open access!) at @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Title: Curation Bubbles
Abstract: Information on social media is characterized by networked curation processes in which users select other users from whom to receive information, and those users in turn share information that promotes their identities and interests. We argue this allows for partisan “curation bubbles” of users who share and consume content with consistent appeal drawn from a variety of sources. Yet, research concerning the extent of filter bubbles, echo chambers, or other forms of politically segregated information consumption typically conceptualizes information’s partisan valence at the source level as opposed to the story level. This can lead domain-level measures of audience partisanship to mischaracterize the partisan appeal of sources’ constituent stories—especially for sources estimated to be more moderate. Accounting for networked curation aligns theory and measurement of political information consumption on social media.

Figure 1: Stylized Examples
a) Users consuming information directly from sources
b) Users curating information for other users

Figure 4: URL Scores by Share Volume for Selected Domains on Twitter and Facebook

Figure 8: Proportion of URLs Substantively Distinct from Domain for Different Facebook Engagement Types

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Jan 15

📢If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, consider joining the TENET satellite
@netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht!
🔎We accept one-page abstracts concerning all aspects of temporal network theory and real-world applications.
📅Deadline: February 7
Info here 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/27ntstep

TENET@NetSci25

Temporal networks are powerful models for understanding dynamical systems where entities and interactions appear and vanish as time goes by. Unlike static networks, which simply provide a snapshot of ...

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Dec 22

Wow, that's an amazing resource!

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Erica Cau @ericacau.bsky.social · Dec 10

First day of #complexnetworks2024 🔍

Today, I presented our work (@andreajpg.bsky.social @giuliorossetti.bsky.social) Bots of a Feather: Mixing Biases in LLMs' Opinion Dynamics✨

#cna2024 #cna #networks

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Dec 10

Today at #ComplexNetworks2024 i presented #YSocial , an LLM-powered #DigitalTwin of a #SocialMedia ecosystem.

Find out more at ysocialtwin.github.io

#NetworkScience #AI #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience
(w/ @giuliorossetti.bsky.social & several other cool researxhers)

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NetPlace @netplace.bsky.social · Nov 29

We are thrilled to announce the merger of two key organizations supporting early-career researchers in network science: SYNS (Society of Young Network Scientists) and NetPLACE (Networks, PhD Life, and Complexity). Together, we are now NetPlace!

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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · Nov 27

New paper in PNAS 📰🚨
Beyond a binary theorizing of prosociality
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Nov 24

Research wordcloud. Made 🦋 With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com

h/t ‪@gianlucabertaina.bsky.social‬

Research wordcloud. Dominated by universe, dark, time, quantum, energy, cosmological.

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Nov 22

Era la mia prima volta con plos, ma ha sorpreso anche me 😂

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Nov 22

Thanks for this analysis, it would sure be interesting to see if/how the situation will change. Have you checked if federation has an impact on user connections? Or is still everyone mostly on .bsky.social?

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Giulio Rossetti @giuliorossetti.bsky.social · Nov 21

#YSocial v1.0.0 (Hoid) is out!

This version integrates:
- News Pages
- Agents' dynamic interests
- Multimodal (Text & Image) content sharing
- Agents' churn

Try it out and let us know!

#SocialDigitalTwin

ysocialtwin.github.io/blog/

Blog | Y Social

News from the agents -

ysocialtwin.github.io

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Nov 17

If you have the feeling that @bsky.app is different, maybe you are right.

The current migration is breaking the typical rich-get-richer effect wrt other platforms #scaling

Data:

Twitter: 10.9M users
BlueSky (Mar 2024): 4.1M users, 🙏 @andreajpg.bsky.social
Mastodon: 3.8M users, 🙏 @tiago.skewed.de

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