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Michele Tizzoni
@mtizzoni.bsky.social
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Associate professor at Uni Trento. Infectious disease modeling | computational social science.
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · Feb 17
🎉 Today, our perspective on "Using mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities" is finally published in Nature Human Behavior. I am honored to be listed among many stellar coauthors and thankful for their valuable insights.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities - Nature Human Behaviour
Xu et al. review applications of urban mobility behaviour data and propose a temporal bipartite network that reveals mobility patterns between people and places. It helps to track urban inequalities i...
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 3d
Venti forti anche sulle Alpi Piemontesi?
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 6d
Latest out: Controlling the spread of deception-based cyber-threats on time-varying networks. Great collaboration with @ngozzi.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2510.00731
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 7d
fantastic resource, Manlio!
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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 7d
𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University!
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.

@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 7d
📌 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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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · 14d
New paper in NHB 📄🚨
We ran extensive experiments to show that making the rules of some canonical economic games looser, makes people more cooperative
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social networking agency and prosociality are inextricably linked in economic games - Nature Human Behaviour
Jia et al. experimentally show that when individuals can tailor their actions to each neighbour—a freedom termed social networking agency—they display higher levels of cooperation, trust and fairness in economic games.
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 15d
📣 New paper out! ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m deeply grateful to @ariadnaalbors.bsky.social and @gcampedelli.bsky.social for this project, which has taken me into the realm of crime forecasting for the first time.
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 15d
Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 16d
Epidemic amplification by correlated superspreading
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15338
Epidemic amplification by correlated superspreading
Infectious pathogens often propagate by superspreading, which focusses onward transmission on disproportionately few infected individuals. At the same time, infector-infectee pairs tend to have more s...
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 18d
congrats! 👏
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 20d
Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 20d
Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature
People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by ...
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 25d
The @nytimes.com has rarely felt as hopelessly out of its depth as in the past two days or so. There is still much I admire, many journalists I respect and trust, but on the Charlie Kirk assassination it simply hasn’t been very informative - not to mention some atrocious opinion “journalism”.
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 26d
The Computational Foundations of Collective Intelligence
arxiv.org/abs/2509.07999
The Computational Foundations of Collective Intelligence
Why do collectives outperform individuals when solving some problems? Fundamentally, collectives have greater computational resources with more sensory information, more memory, more processing capaci...
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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · 28d
3-year Responsible AI PhD studentships @ Politecnico di Torino (Turin)

Focus: Responsible AI, computational social science, urban AI, climate, future of work.

Start Mar 2026 (or earlier).

Apply by 20 Sept 2025 → [email protected] (subject: “PhD studentships”).
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Sep 1
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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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

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💊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...
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · Aug 5
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Socioeconomic determinants of protective behaviors and contact patterns in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: A cross-sectional study in Italy
Author summary COVID-19 outcomes have been shown to vary across different socioeconomic groups, but the mechanisms by which socioeconomic conditions influence transmission are not yet fully understood...
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · Aug 1
Human Mobility in Epidemic Modeling
www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.22799 great work by @pholme.bsky.social and collaborators
Human Mobility in Epidemic Modeling
Human mobility forms the backbone of contact patterns through which infectious diseases propagate, fundamentally shaping the spatio-temporal dynamics of epidemics and pandemics. While traditional mode...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Jul 25
Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world
Human activities increase zoonotic disease risk.
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · Jul 25
Faculty publication rates peak before tenure. Post-tenure, output stays high in lab-based fields but drops in others (i.e. sociology) and faculty produce more novel work but fewer highly cited papers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tenure and research trajectories | PNAS
Tenure is a cornerstone of the US academic system, yet its relationship to faculty research trajectories remains poorly understood. Conceptually, t...
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Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · Jul 24
Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Jul 23
Day 2 Keynotes kicked off with Laura Nelson's inspiring presentation, “Why Qualitative Research Needs Computational Social Science”. What is the state of this maturing field called qualitative computational methods? What are the ongoing debates and futures? #ic2s2
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Jul 22
Parallel sessions are underway, with multiple tracks covering network dynamics, LLMs, mobility and urban science, political narratives, and more. Scan the program, join the talks that excite you, and share your insights with the community #ic2s2.
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Gianmarco De Francisci Morales @gdfm.bsky.social · Jul 22
Causality center stage at #ic2s2 with opening keynote by @eckles.bsky.social
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · Jul 19
Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond

arxiv.org/abs/2507.11521
Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond
Opinion dynamics, the study of how individual beliefs and collective public opinion evolve, is a fertile domain for applying statistical physics to complex social phenomena. Like physical systems, soc...
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