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Complex Multilayer Networks Lab @comunelab.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome @valedand.bsky.social to BlueSky!

If you are interested in biological complexity, computational neuroscience and population dynamics (eg epidemics) click on the follow button 🧠🦠!

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Thrilled to release the official repository of the @comunelab.bsky.social!

It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries.

A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code

We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems

👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Jun 3

Physical devices operating out of equilibrium are affected by thermal fluctuations, limiting their operational precision

Coherent quantum dynamics can surpass the traditional thermodynamic precision limits, guiding development of future high-precision quantum devices
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Precision is not limited by the second law of thermodynamics - Nature Physics

Clock precision is thought to be fundamentally limited by entropy production in out-of-equilibrium systems. A theoretical work now introduces a quantum clock design where precision grows exponentially...

www.nature.com

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨 A new work from an international collaboration with the great @yuetinghan.bsky.social, Paolo Turrini, Marya Bazzi, @giuliandr.bsky.social & Eugenia Polizzi

Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with
(mis)information and its visibility at scale

👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.06106

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚨 New paper from @comunelab.bsky.social !

We review the latent geometry emerging from network-driven processes, with an eye to network functionality and applications from biological systems to infrastructures.

👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.09616

#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience 🧪🌐

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Jun 2

It was a pleasure to lecture at the @netsciconf.bsky.social for an interested & interactive audience.

What's a model? Why do we model? Is our network a network? Can we restore broken and forgotten links?

I will post on #ComplexityThoughts about this lecture, which I have enjoyed to prepare.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Jun 2

I own a math proof for a slides to a young network scientist attending my lecture this morning.

I promised the proof at the end of the talk, but it was lunchtime and we missed the chance to discuss.

Can you help me to find/reach him? 🙏

Tomorrow, 10:35, FSE C1.005 at PHS1

@netsciconf.bsky.social

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Jun 3

The joint prob that you are in Maastricht and you still don't which satellite to attend is nearly zero.

But still, you can show up to our MIX-NEXT if you are curious about where the field is going and what we can do to make it happen.

Scales, structure, dynamics, information

#NetSci20025

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 12

"the concept of the formose reaction as a prebiotic source of ribose on early Earth needs serious reconsideration, and other models/options should be explored"

#OoL #OriginOfLife 🧪🧬

www.cell.com/chem/abstrac...

Abiotic aldol reactions of formaldehyde with ketoses and aldoses—Implications for the prebiotic synthesis of sugars by the formose reaction

The formose reaction is proposed to produce sugars of relevance to biomolecules (RNA). By 13C-NMR, the aldol reactions of formaldehyde are shown to proceed to form linear and finally branched ketoses....

www.cell.com

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 19

“The view from my window” – Cassini-Huygens spacecraft

It's so reassuring that that little, pale, blue dot it's us, about 1 billion km away.

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Complex Multilayer Networks Lab @comunelab.bsky.social · May 15

From ecology to epi, from resilience to climate change, the members of our lab will present several results at the next @netsciconf.bsky.social, while @manlius.bsky.social will give a lecture about the broken, lost and future links in #NetworkScience

Let's meet in Maastricht & let's get in touch!

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 4

The internet is one of the greatest achievements of humankind.

Yet, we didn't learn how to use it, especially since we give for granted that it has almost zero cost, like natural resources.

Well, indeed it does cost, a lot. And we should learn how to get the most at minimum collateral effects.

Lone Cub Productions @lonecub.bsky.social · May 4

This pointless race to nowhere is part of what is rapidly driving the annual automated internet emissions beyond international aviation and shipping emissions.

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how...

How bots are driving the climate crisis and how we can solve it

The internet now makes up around 7.4 per cent of global emissions – with half of that made up of bots. But it’s possible to track the perpetrators of bot-related energy waste, say University of Melbou...

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 3

Do you know what's inside an ant nest?

It is possible to unravel its hidden organization into an intricate web of tunnels: a complex "city" emerges.

#ComplexSystems 🧪🐜🐜🐜🐜

youtu.be/dECE7285GxU?...

Secret Megalopolis of Ants Uncovered - Truly a Wonder of the World !

YouTube video by wocomoWILDLIFE

youtu.be

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 5

Glad to see that our recent paper on digital twins for biomedical systems aligns with this view: simple correlational data cannot be used for digital twins and, accordingly, for building decisions.

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

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · May 8

Nice write up on the consciousness IIT gwt debate. And huge fan of adversial collaboration. Although the problem here is that it was a collaboration between two overambitious theories. The right adversarial would have been convinced that such theories can not currently exist.

Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 8

(Trying to) Measuring consciousness in the lab?

The latest essay from #ComplexityThoughts feat. @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & @kordinglab.bsky.social to discuss about consciousness and how to define/measure it:
👉 open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com...

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(Trying to) Measuring consciousness in the lab

What did we learn from a rigorous adversarial test?

open.substack.com

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 7

This highlights how a strong mutualistic interaction can promote the diversification of entire clades by influencing their phenotypes, defining their geographic distribution, and ultimately contributing to their evolutionary and ecological success 🧪🧬🐠

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Host use drives convergent evolution in clownfish | PNAS

Clownfishes (Amphiprioninae) are a fascinating example of a marine radiation. From a central Pacific ancestor, they quickly colonized the coral ree...

www.pnas.org

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 8

(Trying to) Measuring consciousness in the lab?

The latest essay from #ComplexityThoughts feat. @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & @kordinglab.bsky.social to discuss about consciousness and how to define/measure it:
👉 open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com...

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(Trying to) Measuring consciousness in the lab

What did we learn from a rigorous adversarial test?

open.substack.com

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 12

"we emphasize how a characterization of the unpredictability of a system gives a measure of its complexity. Adopting this point of view, we review some developments in the characterization of the predictability of systems showing different kinds of complexity"🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Predictability: a way to characterize complexity

Different aspects of the predictability problem in dynamical systems are reviewed. The deep relation among Lyapunov exponents, Kolmogorov–Sinai entrop…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 12

"It is shown that a dynamical system subject to both periodic forcing and random perturbation may show a resonance (peak in the power spectrum) which is absent when either the forcing or the perturbation is absent"

The stochastic resonance!

#ComplexSystems 🧪

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 14

Preparing my next @netsciconf.bsky.social School lecture.

There are several #ComplexityThoughts I'll unpack across 2.5 hours (and many liquids).

💡 One spoiler: all unreliable networks are alike; each reliable network is reliable in its own way.

See you in Maastricht. #NetSky

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · May 8

Thrilled for the latest work from @comunelab.bsky.social !

We introduce a multilayer + multiscale model in two distinct frameworks (particle- & force-based), identifying how to balance contact and mobility cuts to mitigate epidemics. #ComplexSystems

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦠

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Apr 4

Latest #ComplexityThoughts just out: Issue #57

Network reconstruction (well done), a special about #fungi, #evolution and #Neuroscience this week 🍄🧠🧬🦠🧫🧪🌐

Podcast available on Spotify and Apple as usual.

Enjoy and have a nice weekend with #ComplexSystems!

open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Apr 8

New #ComplexityThoughts out there, about the resurgence of measles in the U.S.

Post: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

👉 With links to interactive experiments to better understand the complexity behind this process.

🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... (also available via Apple)

#EpiSky

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Apr 9

Using 🐁watching "The Matrix", scientists have reconstructed the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a cubic millimetre of a mouse’s brain tissue.

82k neurons, 500 million synapses

#Neuroscience 🧪🧠

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

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Apr 9

As we enter an era marked by multipolar power dynamics, shifting alliances and institutional stress, the possibility of sudden breakdowns in global governance becomes real.

New #ComplexityThoughts: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com...

Fragile balances: understanding global stability

Predicting the fate of world order using a toy model

open.substack.com

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