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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Exciting news! Marco Fernandez da Silva (right) is the 25th recipient of the Zachary's Karate Club CLUB prize. For his talk @netsciconf.bsky.social NetSci 2026, he was awarded the trophy of legend from @nwlandry.bsky.social on behalf of @arash.network. #networkscience networkkarate.tumblr.com

The official handshake passing off the Zachary Karate Club trophy though the trophy itself nor Arash Badie-Modiri were sadly not able to be there.

Marco presenting the talk that won him the ZKC award!

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 02/03/2026

More than two decades ago user AaronSW committed the first citation of a research paper to Reddit (that we have been able to find.) www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com...

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From the reddit.com community on Reddit: PLoS Medicine: Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies

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Márton Karsai @martonkarsai.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, let me to present the Computational Human Dynamics Lab, DNDS-CEU, Vienna #netsci2025

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Hurray! 🎉 @arash.network (left) is the 24th recipient of the Zachary's Karate Club CLUB prize. For his talk @netsciconf.bsky.social NetSci 2025, he was entrusted with the illustrious trophy 🏆 from @nwlandry.bsky.social #networkscience networkkarate.tumblr.com

A delightfully nerdy photo of @arash.network receiving a small karate club trophy from @nwlandry.bsky.social

An "action shot" of @arash.network during his award winning talk, with a TV in the background showing the famous karate club network

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Arash Badie-Modiri @arash.network · 08/05/2025

They also systematically disadvantages non-native speakers and anyone with social anxiety.

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Takayuki Hiraoka @takayukihir.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

When you have network data with node metadata, how can you use them to improve community detection? One way is to make the communities align with the metadata. In our new preprint, we propose another way: to discount the effects of the metadata from the detected communities. arxiv.org/abs/2502.20083

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Block-corrected Modularity for Community Detection

Unknown node attributes in complex networks may introduce community structures that are important to distinguish from those driven by known attributes. We propose a block-corrected modularity that dis...

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Arash Badie-Modiri @arash.network · 12/02/2025

Our study demonstrates the dangers of entrenched affective polarisation on how the public engages with science. In a world of overlapping crises, science communication needs strategies to address cross-domain polarisation. Check out the full paper for details: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05255

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Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement

Affective polarization and its accompanying cleavage-based sorting drives incivility and contentiousness around climate change and other science-related issues. Looking at the COVID-19 period, we stud...

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Arash Badie-Modiri @arash.network · 12/02/2025

We also show that pre-existing political cleavages—anti-internationalist populist sentiments—provide a pathway for this spillover, helping link climate skepticism to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. This overlap further entrenches anti-science sentiment across different policy domains.

Quarterly difference in toxicity between tweets containing references to international organizations and those that do not, compared to the baseline quarter (2019 Q4). The lighter confidence intervals are computed from standard errors clustered at the Twitter account level.

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Arash Badie-Modiri @arash.network · 12/02/2025

These findings highlight a "cross-domain spillover": political flashpoints in one science-related issue (e.g., vaccine hesitancy) can fuel hostility in another (e.g., climate policy). In other words, polarised behaviours are not confined to a single topic—they can spread.

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Arash Badie-Modiri @arash.network · 12/02/2025

By analysing millions of climate change and climate science posts, we found that mentions of COVID-19 or Anthony Fauci derailed climate conversation into incivility and contentiousness. These patterns strengthened during major pandemic events.

Presence of COVID-19 content and incivility of climate posts. Panel A shows coefficient estimates from linear probability model of toxicity in climate posts across three social media systems. Panel B shows coefficient estimates from Cox proportional hazards models of toxicity onset in climate conversations on Twitter. Panel C shows temporal trends in daily climate tweet toxicity by difference in content. Panel C’s inset shows the temporal trends for climate science tweets and Reddit comments

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Arash Badie-Modiri @arash.network · 12/02/2025

Excited to share our new preprint: "Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement." We examine how affective polarisation surrounding COVID spilled over into climate change discussions on Twitter and Reddit in 2019-2021. @tedhchen.com @hastinz.bsky.social

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Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement

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Jari Saramäki @jsaramak.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We're organizing a NetSci'25 satellite workshop on Directed Acyclic Graphs — if you're working on, e.g., citation graphs, pedigrees, causality, temporal-network event graphs, network representations of spacetime, or any other areas where DAGs play a role, please contribute! www.dagshop.xyz

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DAGSHOP’25 — A WORKSHOP ON DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS - Dagshop — a NetSci'25 satellite

DAGSHOP — A Workshop on directed acyclic graphs Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) appear in many contexts in network science, from citation networks and pedigrees to temporal-network event graphs and rep...

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Jari Saramäki, Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University "Networks in Time and Space" #NetSci2025 @jsaramak.bsky.social

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