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Alexandre Bovet

@abovet.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Network Science at the University of Zurich - Networks, Computational Social Science, Complex Systems, Data Science He/Him

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Juniper Lovato @juniperlov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Congratulations @lhd.bsky.social for winning the Erdős-Rényi award and giving a kickass acceptance talk at the netsci @netsciconf.bsky.social conference!!
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Now at Dynamics and Control, @abovet.bsky.social connects diffusion on graphs with information theory, tracking how conditional entropy evolves over time. The result is a thermodynamic-style view of network diffusion that links structure, irreversibility, and dynamics. #NetSci2026
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
At the Social Networks parallel session, @abovet.bsky.social finds that simple, independent decisions driven by peer influence, rather than complex contagion, drive mass social media migration, suggesting social media platforms are more contestable than previously understood. #NetSci2026
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What's your favorite temporal network generation models? Yasaman Asgari and I are preparing a review and would like to be sure to cover the extensive literature on this topic. Let us know here: forms.gle/xrLBfAcWZVyR... or you can also just reply below.
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Call for Articles: Temporal Network Generative Model Review
We (Yasaman Asgari & Alexandre Bovet) are preparing a review paper on temporal network generative models and would like to be sure to cover as most of the extensive literature. Please let us know of ...
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#NetSci2026 TENET keynote Huijian Wang studies spreading dynamics on temporal higher-order networks @netsciconf.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#NetSci2026 TENET invited speaker proposes the opportunistic attachment network growth model @netsciconf.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#NetSci2026 TENET satellite keynote Alexandre Bovet discusses the use of continuous-time random walk for analyzing temporal networks @netsciconf.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Interested in network science, evolutionary biology, and animal behavior? I am seeking a PhD student to join the Quantitative Network Science group at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning of the University of Zurich. Info and application here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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UZH: PhD in Network Science: Modeling of Animal Networks
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our Quantitative Network Science research group at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning at the University of Zurich. Wild ...
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NetSci 2027 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Still on the fence about NetSci? 👀 We’ve lined up an incredible group of speakers across complex systems, AI, biology, and more. Fresh ideas, deep dives, and new connections await. This is your sign—register now 😉 www.netsci2026.com/registration Huge thanks to our speakers, with more to come!
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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📢 Speaker Alert & Deadline Extension TENET @netsciconf.bsky.social 2026 (June 1st): @abovet.bsky.social , Asst. Prof. @ UZH 📷 Submit your abstract by March 16th: tinyurl.com/48ys2vx9 #Netsci2026 #Tenet26 #networkscience
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Daniel Saraga @danielsaraga.eurosky.social · 04/12/2025
Fake news spreads differently from reliable information. I report on the results of network analysis made by @abovet.bsky.social applied to #Twitter in Horizons, the magazine of @snsf.ch www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/12/04/t... 1/n
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GOTHAM lab @gotham-lab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🎉 So excited to host the next CompleNet conference 🎉 Don’t miss it 👇 See you next May in Zaragoza!!!
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Yuan Zhang @yuan1227.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
New publication with @abovet.bsky.social @esserfrank.bsky.social @laiacastro.bsky.social With today’s political environment becoming increasingly complex, how can political selective exposure be measured beyond the traditional ‘left vs. right’ lens? Read more: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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A multilevel network approach to revealing patterns of online political selective exposure
Selective exposure, individuals’ inclination to seek out information that supports their beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts them, plays an important role in the emergence of polarizat...
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Elena Candellone @elenacandellone.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This paper is now published on Network Science! 🎊 Open-access published version: doi.org/10.1017/nws.... (and the dataset is freely available!) Menéame.net user interaction dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @javiergbe.bsky.social @abovet.bsky.social
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Negative ties highlight hidden extremes in social media polarization | Network Science | Cambridge Core
Negative ties highlight hidden extremes in social media polarization - Volume 13
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2025
1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
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Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...
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Dillon Eastoe @dillon-eastoe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Excited to share this new paper in JPhys Complexity from @abovet.bsky.social @lambiotte.bsky.social @nicopedre.bsky.social 'Community detection on directed networks with missing edges' iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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. 🧵 (1/10)
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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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Charting multidimensional ideological polarization across demographic groups in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Ojer et al. use data from the American National Election Studies to map US voters in a two-dimensional ideological space. Democrats and Republicans have grown more polarized over the past 30 years, wh...
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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 30/06/2025
Most people don’t find excessive wealth immoral when considered separately from economic inequality; however, people in countries with high GDP and high levels of inequality find being too rich more morally wrong than being of average wealth. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
The perceived immorality of too much wealth in 20 nations. Scores are standardized, and whiskers represent the 95% confidence interval.
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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Adamic-Glance Awardee Keynote: @gvrkiran.bsky.social on misinformation on whatsapp through the lens of a large data donation program #icwsm
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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Our work on Bluesky: doi.org/10.1609/icws... Joint work with @bibo7086.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @asonur.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social
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Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
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Alessia Galdeman @alessianetwork.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The Detox Workshop at @icwsm.bsky.social has wrapped up. Thanks to our keynote @maxfalken.bsky.social , all our speakers, my co-organisers, and everyone who joined the event! 🫖 We don’t have all the solutions yet, but it’s clear that tackling platform harms requires new methods and data sources!
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Excited for my first #ICWSM! I'll be showing our work on the Twitter to Bluesky academic migration this afternoon at the nextgensocial-workshop.github.io (paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801) @yuan1227.bsky.social will show our paper on incivility on Thursday: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs. For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky! Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7 Let me know if I missed anyone!
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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
📢 The NetSci-X 2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your work and join us in #Auckland to explore diversity in network science. 📅 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 AoE 🌐 More info: netscix2026.github.io @mluczak.bsky.social‬ Michael Small @droneale.bsky.social‬ Daniela Paolotti
Promotional graphic for NetSciX 2026 in Auckland, New Zealand. The image features a cityscape of Auckland with the Sky Tower prominently visible against a clear blue sky and harbor. On the right side, bold text reads "CALL FOR ABSTRACTS" with a note encouraging submissions on diversity in network science. The deadline is listed as "Friday, 5 September 2025 at 23:59 AoE." The website for more information is netscix2026.github.io.
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@yasasgari.bsky.social @dorianquelle.bsky.social @yuan1227.bsky.social @SamuelKoovely
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
10 years ago, I went to my first #NetSci. I had just finished my PhD, had nothing to present, knew nobody, but I knew I was finally where I wanted to be. Fascinating science and people. I feel very lucky to have helped organize @netsciconf.bsky.social this year and to have brought my great students!
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Anda Iamnitchi @andai.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It has been a pleasure hosting the #NetSci2025 conference in Maastricht! Our thanks to all participants for their energy, ideas, talks, posters, discussions, and laughter!
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Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This turned out great, thanks to three amazing speakers and an engaged audience. Great job everyone! Let's maybe turn this into a regular NetSci satellite? @netsciconf.bsky.social
Omid V. Ebrahimi, Riet van Bork, Anne Roefs at the Netsci focus session on network psychometrics
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
And the sustainability award for cycling to Maastricht from Venice!
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nelsonaloysio.bsky.social @nelsonaloysio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Francesca Giuffrida @fragiuffri.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Now that #NetSci25 is over and the adrenaline has settled, all I can say is: thank you! It's always a blast - and winning an unexpected prize makes it even more special. I hope e-values found a place in (some of) your hearts. Stay tuned, the paper is coming soon!
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Leto Peel @piratepeel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Thanks to everyone who helped us put this whole event together. Thanks to everyone who joined us this week. Seeing so many happy network scientists was truly wonderful!
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
@netsciconf.bsky.social
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#netsci2025 awards! Congrats to all winners!
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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Interested in building new digital tools to understand how the media frames different topics? ➡️ Open postdoc position in my group at the University of Zurich on Machine Learning/NLP for Media Monitoring and Discourse Analysis: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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UZH: Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning/NLP for Media Monitoring
The Quantitative Network Science group at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning (DM3L) of the University of Zurich (UZH) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher posit...
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Yu Tian @yutian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Always happy to chat! I believe my excellent collaborators @skojaku.bsky.social, @hirokisayama.bsky.social, and Renaud are all happy to discuss more!!
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Sadamori Kojaku @skojaku.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What if edge weights are MATRICES? 🤯 We showed matrix-weights are a natural represention of multidimensional interactions (eg your climate views influencing my economic beliefs), generalizing the notion of communities & structural balance. Find us to discuss more.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #NetSci2025
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Last day of #NetSci2025 Keynote speaker Michael Macy discusses how network mechanisms can cause "shallow deep division" in society
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Our last #NetSci2025 keynote speaker is Michael Macy, who discussed polarization not from the opinion perspective but from the people point of view. His work was very insightful when showing the importance of 'early movers' when generating polarization cascades. @netsciconf.bsky.social
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Jari Saramäki @jsaramak.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Time-respecting path problem: getting by train to Düsseldorf. Your first train is cancelled. Should you wait for a direct connection (to be cancelled with probability p) or pick a route with many hops (p again per hop, but increasing number of alternatives). There must be a DAG for this #NetSci2025
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Kicking off the machine learning session, @moritzlaber.bsky.social studies how incorporating prior knowledge about network dynamical systems into neural ODEs influences sample efficiency, as well as the correlation between network structure and performance. #NetSci2025
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Now at signed networks, Anna Gallo proposes an algorithm to obtain statistically validated projections of bipartite, signed networks where two nodes sharing a statistically-significant number of concordant relationships are connected by a positive edge. #NetSci2025
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We just had @ericacau.bsky.social at the Dynamics session proposing a framework for allowing complex simulations with Large Language Model agents in order to study opinion evolution, overcoming previous limitations using simpler agent based models. #NetSci2025
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Closing the fourth #NetSci2025 day, Linda Douw shows us her approach to study the brain using multilayer networks. She particularly focused on how network science could be useful when treating neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's. #NetSci2025
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Linda Douw @lindadouw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This was fun! #netsci2025
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My collaborator Yu Tian's talk on MWNs (matrix-weighted networks) today at #NetSci2025
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Now at temporal networks Andrea Failla reconceptualizes classical events as archetypes. In this way, he developed a methodology with applications beyond simply characterizing community evolution/detection, including selecting appropriate aggregation time scales. #NetSci2025
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