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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 1d

As usual, I'd say, it's our fault.

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

When the most credible voice for freedom turns out to be an actor who once played a rebel, you know history has a strange sense of irony.

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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

Between rocky Earths and gas-rich Neptunes, there are worlds that should exist but don’t. Why?

New exoplanet surveys reveal how stellar radiation may strip planets bare, showing that our solar system isn’t the rule: maybe it’s the exception.
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...

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

Between rocky Earths and gas-rich Neptunes, there are worlds that should exist but don’t. Why?

New exoplanet surveys reveal how stellar radiation may strip planets bare, showing that our solar system isn’t the rule: maybe it’s the exception.
🧪🌐🪐

www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...

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

Ciao @valedand.bsky.social!

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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 · 5d

And these huddles are not static blobs.

They are dynamic: penguins shift in slow traveling waves, circulating between the exposed edge and the warm center.

This constant motion ensures fairness and resilience: pure self-organization (cooperation) in action!

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

Emperor penguin huddles are a breathtaking example of emergent cooperation

1000s of 🐧 self-organize into dense clusters that conserve energy: sharing warmth, shielding from the wind and lowering metabolic costs. A collective solution to Antarctic survival.

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www.nature.com/articles/385...

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

Amazing. Art.

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

This is the second paper of a series. The third one will hopefully see the light in early 2026, a fourth in mid 2026. Stay tuned!

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 6d

It is often argued that the origin of life must be related to "phase transitions"

This concept is often misused, or even abused.

In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Bifurcations and phase transitions in the origins of life | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The path towards the emergence of life in our biosphere involved several key events allowing for the persistence, reproduction and evolution of molecular systems. All these processes took place in a given environmental context and required both molecular ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 6d

It is often argued that the origin of life must be related to "phase transitions"

This concept is often misused, or even abused.

In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Bifurcations and phase transitions in the origins of life | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The path towards the emergence of life in our biosphere involved several key events allowing for the persistence, reproduction and evolution of molecular systems. All these processes took place in a given environmental context and required both molecular ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 6d

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

royalsocietypublishing.org

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

Nearly 4,000 y ago, Egyptians finished their pyramids

Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜

Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering!
🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social

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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 7d

Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?

Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...

▪️ All career stages welcome
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GRAND Recruitment

Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).

tinyurl.com

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 8d

📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

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

This is very interesting, Ricard.

Once you got it published on a journal, please get in touch: it could provide a nice trigger for a #ComplexityThoughts post.

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

Each mound is ~2.5 m tall, 9 m wide, part of a vast tunnel network moving 10 km³ of soil.

To make sense of it, that's about 4,000 Great Pyramids worth of earth.

Proof that we’re not the only species (bigger than microbes) re-engineering the planet.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds

Martin et al. show that in Northeast Brazil an estimated 200 million, regularly spaced, termite mounds are up to 4000 years old. Each mound is 2-4m high by 9 m in diameter; they occupy 230,000 km2, an...

www.cell.com

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

Nearly 4,000 y ago, Egyptians finished their pyramids

Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜

Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering!
🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social

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

Thanks Michele, it was due!

We have often released our code and the data, but we were lacking a centralized platform with well organized indices.

Also, we were lacking production-ready python/R packages developed by us.

We hope that our latest effort will be of help for the community!

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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 · 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 · 10d

The digital age means that people trust the content that is produced or spread by individual accounts, by influencers regardless of their ideological leanings, more than they tend to trust established institutions’ accounts. And that is inherently dangerous

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests

Rioters were influenced by network that exposes hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist disinformation, Guardian research indicates

www.theguardian.com

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 10d

This interview is about one professor claiming that:

- AI will lead to 99% global unemployment
-he fears super intelligence will kill us all
- he is sure we all live in a simulation

All of this w/o providing any scientific argument.

7M+ views on YouTube 🤯

youtu.be/UclrVWafRAI?...

The AI Safety Expert: These Are The Only 5 Jobs That Will Remain In 2030! - Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO

youtu.be

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe we should get more worried about the hidden (to some of us) costs of AI.

youtu.be/KBrIeGrAFm0?...

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