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NetPlace @netplace.bsky.social · 6d

Happening soon, we hope to see you there!

NetPlace @netplace.bsky.social · 9d

Our fall seminar series begins this Thursday, Oct. 2 (4pm UTC+1/11am EDT) with a talk by Elena Candellone. She’ll be speaking about “Mapping extreme users through negative ties in online social interactions”, followed by a discussion on “the joy of planning scientific events”.

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haily merritt, phd @h-merritt.bsky.social · May 19

shout out to the organizers of these seminars for a great semester, thank you @gulsahakcakir.bsky.social @elenacandellone.bsky.social and Echo Liu!

if you or someone you know would be a good fit for a future seminar, you can nominate them here docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/... we’d love to have you!

Nominate a speaker for WiNS Seminar

The Women in Network Science (WiNS) seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar with the aim to promote and showcase research by women and nonbinary researchers in network science. Attendance is open to e...

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Iacopo Iacopini @iaciac.bsky.social · Jul 23

The #CRAB2025 🦀 programme is out!

Join us in Siena on Sept 3 at #CCS25 for the 2nd edition of the Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite 🐜🐦🦋🐳🐙🐝

🧑‍🏫 Invited talks by S. Melillo & P. Bartashevich

Full programme: sites.google.com/view/crab202...

@jbbrask.bsky.social @saraneven.bsky.social

CRAB2025

Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour Satellite @ CCS 2025 - Siena, 3 September 2025 Animal groups can be considered as complex systems of interacting entities (the individuals). The collective beha...

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Elena Candellone @elenacandellone.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'll have a poster on Thursday, come say hi! zenodo.org/records/1626...

#ic2s2

Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization

Poster for the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (Norrköping, Sweden | July 21-24, 2025)

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clara eminente @claraeminente.bsky.social · Jul 22

Attending #ic2s2? My poster is up today!

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Lorenzo Betti @loreb92.bsky.social · Jul 22

Interested in the relationships between team dynamics, leadership dynamics, and success?

I’ll be presenting my poster today at #ic2s2 (poster #82).

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

Attending @ic2s2.bsky.social? Checkout the poster presented by @thomrobiglio.bsky.social! #ic2s2

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...

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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

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OSF

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Gianmarco De Francisci Morales @gdfm.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨Are moral judgements biased by the gender of the subject?
We find *no* direct effect when looking at Reddit!

Our causal study design is based on carefully matching similar situations that people with different genders experience (and share).

Study led by @loreb92.bsky.social

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Moral judgments in online discourse are not biased by gender

Scientific Reports - Moral judgments in online discourse are not biased by gender

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Onkar Sadekar @onkarsadekar.bsky.social · Jun 19

📢📢📢
Thrilled to share our new paper "Drivers of cooperation in social dilemmas on higher-order networks", out now in J. R. Soc. Interface! 🚀

With Andrea Civilini, Vito Latora & @fede7j.bsky.social

🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Drivers of cooperation in social dilemmas on higher‐order networks | Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Understanding cooperation in social dilemmas requires models that capture the complexity of real-world interactions. While network frameworks have provided valuable insights to model the evolution of ...

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Lorenzo Betti @loreb92.bsky.social · Jun 11

Link to the paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lorenzo Betti @loreb92.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚀 Our last paper on leadership dynamics in open-source software teams has been featured in the Editor's highlights at @natcomms.nature.com

www.nature.com/collections/...

Applied physics and mathematics

The highlights include but are not limited to the research areas of electronics, optoelectronics, computing technologies and theories, soft matter physics, ...

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CEU Department of Network & Data Science @ceu-dnds.bsky.social · Jun 10

DNDS at NetSci 2025: 40+ talks, 3 awards, and a strong showing in Maastricht!

🔗 bit.ly/4dR6SKw

#WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #NetSci2025 #ComplexSystems

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CEU Department of Network & Data Science @ceu-dnds.bsky.social · Jun 5

🚨 Epidemics don’t hit everyone equally.
🎓 Adriana Manna wins CEU’s Best Dissertation Award for showing how social inequalities shape disease spread.

📖 Read it: bit.ly/4mJi5RD

#CEU #PhD #SocialJustice #Epidemiology

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CEU Department of Network & Data Science @ceu-dnds.bsky.social · Jun 2

Can we track epidemics at the individual level without invading privacy? New article by @odorg.bsky.social & @martonkarsai.bsky.social finds signs of epidemic awareness behavior in SARS-CoV-2 genetic data.
Read more: go.nature.com/3SRuw05

#GenomicEpidemiology #BehavioralEpidemiology #HumanDynamics

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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)

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CEU Department of Network & Data Science @ceu-dnds.bsky.social · May 14

🎉 Data Stories is almost here!

Join us next Tuesday, May 20 at 16:00 for an inspiring event exploring the power of data through keynote talks by data visualization experts, interactive discussions, and a poster exhibition!

📍 RSVP: events.ceu.edu/2025-05-20/d...

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Data Stories (11th Edition)

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Lorenzo Betti @loreb92.bsky.social · Apr 28

Happy to see this finally out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🎉

"The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing collaboration with @lgajo.bsky.social, @johanneswachs.bsky.social and @fede7j.bsky.social

The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams - Nature Communications

Understanding how team dynamics impact performance in collaborative environments remains an open question. Here, authors use fine-grained activity data from software projects to characterize team evol...

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CEU Department of Network & Data Science @ceu-dnds.bsky.social · Apr 7

How do group interactions shape the world? Collective behavior isn’t just one-to-one—it’s synergy. New research by T. Robiglio, F. Battiston & colleagues shows how higher-order interactions drive emergent effects.
🔍 Read more: shorturl.at/sYgqe

Synergistic Signatures of Group Mechanisms in Higher-Order Systems

A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system's collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.

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Bojan Evkoski @bojanevkoski.bsky.social · Apr 1

Data Stories is back! 🎉

Does your research tell a story through data? Share it with us! 👀

🗓️ Submit your visualizations by April 30:
networkdatascience.ceu.edu/data-stories

Join us May 20 at CEU Vienna (or online!) to celebrate the power of data viz.

#DataStories11 #DataViz #CEU

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Márton Karsai @martonkarsai.bsky.social · Mar 19

Open postdoc position at @ceu-dnds.bsky.social in Vienna in the Computational Human Dynamics Lab of @martonkarsai.bsky.social on inequalities in 15-minutes cities in collaboration with www.dut-coline.org. Check it out: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P...
@ic2s2.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social

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CEU Department of Network & Data Science @ceu-dnds.bsky.social · Mar 21

🎉 Congrats to Federico Battiston!
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆

Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...

Professor Federico Battiston Receives the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- and Econophysics

YouTube video by Central European University

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Márton Karsai @martonkarsai.bsky.social · Mar 12

New paper alert! Check it out if you want to know more about the distinguishability of simple and complex contagion processes at the individual level! Great collaboration with @elsaandres @gregodor @iaciac.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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janoskertesz.bsky.social @janoskertesz.bsky.social · Jan 23

Open postdoc position at CEU in data science, network science or computational social science. Deadline: Feb. 22.

Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

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