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𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼 @complenet.bsky.social · 23d

📢 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

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Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 23d

(Last week highlights) Huge congrats to our @elisamurators.bsky.social for winning the best poster award at @css-conference.bsky.social ☄️🎉

Bravissima, Elisa 👏👏

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Thomas Louf @tlouf.bsky.social · 23d

Super happy to share that, after two great years @chub-fbk.bsky.social, I've just joined @uc3m.es and the GISC as an assistant prof in applied maths :)))

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Kaveh @kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social · Sep 5

Siena, science, and so much inspiration.
Delighted to present my research on news media analysis at #CCS2025 Computational Social Science satellite.

Viva Italia! 🇮🇹

@css-conference.bsky.social
@chub-fbk.bsky.social

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Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · Sep 3

Also seen yesterday at @css-conference.bsky.social a work on reinforcement learning applied to ants behaviour by Alessio Pitteri, our study of the historical evolution of EU projects by @verorsanigo.bsky.social and the study on Coordinated Behavior by @elisamurators.bsky.social #CCS2025

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Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · Sep 3

The studies presented analyse respectively:
Twitter by @annabertani.bsky.social
Telegram by @tlouf.bsky.social
Mastodon by @arregui.bsky.social
Youtube by @matteoscianna.bsky.social
#CCS2025

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Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wide coverage of social media and disinformation analysis yesterday from our lab at the @css-conference.bsky.social, with four talks presenting our works associate to the European projects #AI4TRUST #AICODE_EU #HATEDEMICS

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Ulysse Marquis @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social · Sep 3

New pre-print out ! Work led by @eleandre.bsky.social, in collaboration with M. Napolitano and @ricgallotti.bsky.social. Using Foursquare data from Bologna, we find that the distribution of POIs follows a clear power-law pattern at the city scale. To explain this, we introduce a framework where ...

physics.soc-ph @arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social · Sep 3

Scale-free Points-of-Interest Distribution in a City Emerging from Homogeneous Poissonian-point Processes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01699

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · Sep 2

Finishing the social media session, @tlouf.bsky.social explores Telegram as a weighted, directed temporal network. His methodology reveals clustering, burstiness, and assortativity, all of them phenomena that are relevant when building reliable agent-based models.

#CCS2025

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Matteo Scianna @matteoscianna.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just me pointing at prioritized communities at @css-conference.bsky.social.
Great journey, so far. 🍉

❓Presentation: Multilevel pipeline for tackling potential disinformative content in YouTube.
👥 @jordicondomtibau.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social

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Elisa Muratore @elisamurators.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thrilled to share that I just gave my first-ever scientific conference talk at @css-conference.bsky.social!

I presented our work "MarkedTemporalPointProcesses for simulating and capturing coordinated behaviour" on enhancing disinformation detection.

Huge thanks to my supervisors and the audiance!☀️

@chub-fbk.bsky.social
@csaalto.bsky.social

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Mattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you're at #CCS25 and are interested in human mobility and inequalities, at 11:30 in Room 149 I will talk of experienced segregation. This is a work we started at the @complexity72h.bsky.social workshop last year.
Take a look at the preprint and see you there 🙂
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2407.01799

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · Sep 1

2nd keynote Manlio De Domenico discusses approaches to figure out functionalities of complex systems
#CCS2025

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Elisa Muratore @elisamurators.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great energy at the poster session today! It was a pleasure to be part of it presenting our work "How to design a collection strategy for monitoring disinformation and hate speech in Telegram".

Excited for round two tomorrow – see you all there! ☀️

Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today’s Poster Session in pictures – thank you to all presenters!

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Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yesterday was our first day at @css-conference.bsky.social
in Siena 🇮🇹. We presented on Telegram data collection @elisamurators.bsky.social , city growth @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social and urban traffic (Alberto Amaduzzi). Excited for 5 more talks today! #CCS2025

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here’s the final program for CCS2025—check it out!
🔗 ccs25.cssociety.org/programme-at...

Programme at A Glance – Conference on Complex Systems 2025

ccs25.cssociety.org

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Matteo Scianna @matteoscianna.bsky.social · Aug 18

📣🚨 New work out on @plos.org Computational Biology!

Excited and proud to have provided the world with more maps of Puglia🕷️

Thank you all @luzuzek.bsky.social Oriol Artime @ricgallotti.bsky.social @mtizzoni.bsky.social

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
💊main results below👇

Comparing the effectiveness of ring and block-vaccination strategies on networks

Author summary Infectious diseases such as measles and Ebola have shown how quickly outbreaks can spread and how essential vaccination is to protect individuals. In our work, we investigate a spectrum...

journals.plos.org

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land-fbk.bsky.social @land-fbk.bsky.social · Aug 4

📢 Do you want to join our group? We opened **two** calls for a fully funded PhD. Details are in the image and at the following links.

Calls: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
PhD Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

Deadline: August 22nd, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST)

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Kaveh @kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social · Jul 26

New Preprint:
A Data-Driven Approach to Supporting Fact-Checking and Mitigating Mis/Disinformation Through Domain Quality Evaluation

🔗 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
@chub-fbk.bsky.social
#AI4Trust
#WebCredibility
#Misinformation

OSF

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Mattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · Jul 18

📢 Happy to announce the next keynote speaker for UrbanSys at CCS2025
🏙️ Lin Chen
Researcher at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
🔗 linchen-65.github.io/linchen/
Check our final line-up!
🔗 urban-sys-net.weebly.com/keynote-spea...

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Thomas Louf @tlouf.bsky.social · Jul 11

Our latest work with @martonkarsai.bsky.social, David Sánchez and José Ramasco just got published! (and open access)

Here's a short thread to give you our main results ⏬

NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Jul 11

When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use - EPJ Data Science

The socioeconomic background of people and how they use standard forms of language are not independent, as demonstrated in various sociolinguistic studies. However, the extent to which these correlati...

epjdatascience.springeropen.com

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Lucila Álvarez-Žužek @luzuzek.bsky.social · Jul 4

So excited to see this come together! 🎉

Our latest study explores the interplay between science and misinformation in public debates during COVID-19 🔍 arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481

👇Take a look

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · Jul 4

New preprint! 🚨

We study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter during COVID-19 based on ~407M tweets. Both science and misinformation featured prominently during the pandemic, but the interaction between the two has not been studied on this scale before.

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Mapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweets.
Publication from @luzuzek.bsky.social, Juan Pablo Bascur, @annabertani.bsky.social, @ricgallotti.bsky.social. This project is supported by European Media and Information Fund.

Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific understanding related to the topic evolved rapidly. Along with scientific information being discussed widely, a large circulation of false information, labelled an infodemic by the WHO, emerged. Here, we study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter (now X) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We built a comprehensive database of 407M COVID-19 related tweets and classified the reliability of URLs in the tweets based on Media Bias/Fact Check. In addition, we use Altmetric data to see whether a tweet refers to a scientific publication. We find that many users find that many users share both scientific and unreliable content; out of the 1.2M users who share science, also share unreliable content. Publications that are more frequently shared by users who also share unreliable content are more likely to be preprints, slightly more often retracted, have fewer citations, and are published in lower-impact journals on average. Our findings suggest that misinformation is not related to a ``deficit'' of science. In addition, our findings raise some critical questions about certain open science practices and their potential for misuse. Given the fundamental opposition between science and misinformation, our findings highlight the necessity for proactive scientific engagement on social media platforms to counter false narratives during global crises.

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Riccardo Gallotti @ricgallotti.bsky.social · Jun 26

The Grand Amphithéâtre of @sorbonne-universite.fr is definitively not a bad venue for a the keynote session of @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social #Sunbelt2025

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Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Cocktails in Paris 🥂
Thanks @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social for this amazing view ✨🇫🇷

@ricgallotti.bsky.social
@tlouf.bsky.social @luzuzek.bsky.social @annabertani.bsky.social

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