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Ciro Cattuto

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Data Science · Digital Epidemiology · Computational Social Science · Tech for good, but not a technosolutionist · Scientific Director at @isi.it · Happier outdoors. 🇪🇺🇮🇹🏔️

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...
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AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem
Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.
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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1/ Complexity science has moved from a niche corner of theoretical physics into one of the most consequential interdisciplinary lenses for understanding health, from cells to societies, argues Daniel Henryk Rasolt in this new InterArticle: buff.ly/0pP73Aj
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The Convergence of Health and Complexity: How an Interdisciplinary Approach to Complex Networks and Nonlinear Phenomena is Helping to Address Interconnected Maladies of Minds and Bodies - The InterPlex
“Our methodological approach goes on and on down to the level of microbiology and finally finding cures for many diseases,” says Italian American physicist
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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🚀 EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS have released Apertus 1.5, one of the world's largest fully open LLMs. Now multimodal, Apertus offers improved reasoning, instruction following and tool use for more capable and transparent AI. Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus... #EPFL #AI #OpenSource
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Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Last week our @cberaproject.bsky.social forum was an amazing mix fest of high quality science and art, but most of all, friendship, family, collegiality and respect! @ccattuto.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @amarallab.bsky.social @clbockting.bsky.social @joanagsa.bsky.social
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CBeRa - Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems fo @cberaproject.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Save the Date | CBeRa Forum 2026 Join us in Lisbon from June 19–24! More information and registration details coming soon on the CBeRa website: www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-forum/ #CBeRa #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 09/06/2026
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments: A study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/ovg650Z9lBP For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/wzIV50Z9lBO.
Aggregated contact networks measured with wearable proximity sensors across the four deployment periods (Months 1, 3, 6, and 9). Each node represents a sensor. Red circles and orange diamonds correspond to members of the two nationality groups; the blue square represents the ESA medical doctor; green stars correspond to stationary sensors placed in shared rooms; and purple triangles represent stationary sensors located near the accommodation areas
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thank you for having me!
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Sebastian Walther @waltherseb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Excited about our new paper: Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments: A study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @andrea cantisani @jan schmutz team performance drops while loneliness or paranoia increase over time
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New #SocioPatterns study in PNAS: we studied how social behavior and psychological well-being evolve at Concordia Station in Antarctica during the extreme isolation and confinement of a 10-month overwinter mission. Lessons for deep-space crews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #NetSci #NetworkScience
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2026
“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.
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U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Kicking off the @cs2italy.bsky.social Italian Conference on Computational Social Science at with a stellar keynote by @robysinatra.bsky.social ! @isi.it @nerdsitu.bsky.social
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🔈 CS2Italy has been officially opened by @ccattuto.bsky.social at OGR Torino 🔹 AI and human behavior 🔹 Social and information networks 🔹 Urban science and mobility 🔹 Misinformation and digital platforms 🔹 Inequality, cooperation, and collective behavior 🔹 Science and society in the age of AI
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Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Hold dates for our ERA Chair Forum. It will include Reka Albert, @amarallab.bsky.social, @anaisabelbento.bsky.social, @clbockting.bsky.social, Luis Bettencourt, @ccattuto.bsky.social, Marta Gonzalez, Jörg Menche, Daniela Paolotti, @joanagsa.bsky.social, Marta Sales-Pardo, etc.Register below and pass
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>
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NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony
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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Interdisciplinary PhD offer in Marseille, starting Oct. 2026, on "Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics" Project description and application website: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... DM for more info on the position
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics (M/F)
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Keynotes++ 👉 Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com University of Southern California His research uncovers the spatial logic of urban planning, from street network structures to their effects on public health and policy 🏙️ Register by April 15 for a lower Early Bird rate! cs2italy.org
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📢 Keynotes++: Roberta Sinatra (University of Copenhagen) She combines network science, data science, and the science of science to uncover how careers, collaboration, and discovery evolve—along with the impact of generative AI on scientific writing. 🖋️ Register by April 15 for Early bird rates!
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The notifications are OUT! Super excited to hear our 16 highlighted talks and a whopping 116 parallel talks, and to see all the posters -- Register by April 15 to be our Early Bird! cs2italy.org
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James Munday @jdmunday.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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ISI Foundation @isi.it · 30/01/2026
📣 CS2Italy 2026 the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science ⏰ Today is the last day to submit your abstract 📍 Turin, May 19–21 We welcome abstract submissions in: #ComputerScience #NetSci #ComplexSystems #Sociology #Economics #Politics #CognitiveScience #Psychology 👉 cs2italy.org
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The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cl...
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
📢 Keynotes++: Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University 👉 information propagation 👉 online misinformation 👉 social influence 📷 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!) cs2italy.org
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/01/2026
And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization. Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard. www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
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          WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.President Trump on January 20, 2025, announced the U.S. plan to leave the WHO. During the yearlong process, the U.S. stopped funding WHO, withdrew all personnel from WHO, and began pivoting activities previously conducted with WHO to direct bilateral engagements with other countries and organizations. With the exit from WHO, the U.S. will be coordinating with WHO solely in a limited fashion to effectuate withdrawal.  The WHO delayed declaring a global public health emergency and a pandemic during the early stages of COVID-19, costing the world critical weeks as the virus spread. During that period, WHO leadership echoed and praised China's response despite evidence of early underreporting, suppression of information and delays in confirming human-to-human transmission. The organization also downplayed asymptomatic transmission risks and failed to promptly acknowledge airborne spread.After the pandemic, the WHO did not adopt meaningful reforms to address political influence, governance weaknesses or poor coordination, reinforcing concerns that politics took priority over rapid, independent public health action and eroding global trust. Its report evaluating the possible origins of COVID-19 rejected the possibility that scientists cre…
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ISI Foundation @isi.it · 19/01/2026
⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply! @isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability 📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026 🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...
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Lagrange Fellowship Call
The Lagrange Project started in 2003 and it is regarded as one of the pioneering and most innovative European projects on complex systems science and data science. It is promoted and funded by Fondazi...
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin ▶️ cs2italy.org
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it
A grid of images showing SocioPatterns wearable devices, collaborators of the project, proximity graphs, and deployments in museums, hospitals, villages.
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science to join us in Turin on May 19-21 We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more For more: cs2italy.org
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Nino Cartabellotta @cartabellotta.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Senza interventi strutturali per arginare la fuga dal SSN e rendere attrattive le specialità disertate, il rischio della riforma #Bernini è evidente Utilizzare risorse pubbliche per formare #medici destinati al libero mercato, in una #sanità dove il pubblico arretra e il privato avanza #SalviamoSSN
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Ho partecipato al crowdfunding di @valigiablu.it Insieme per resistere crowdfunding.valigiablu.it
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Il crowdfunding per sostenere l'edizione 2026 di Valigia Blu
In cammino per capire il mondo. Valigia Blu: basata sui fatti, aperta a tutti, sostenuta dai lettori.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/12/2025
AI companies should protect your conversations from bulk surveillance by requiring search warrants and pushing back against overbroad requests. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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AI Chatbot Companies Should Protect Your Conversations From Bulk
AI companies have a responsibility to their users to make sure the warrant requirement is strictly followed, to resist unlawful bulk surveillance requests, and to be transparent with their users
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This is something I struggle with as a journalist who writes a lot about AI. I have written whole articles about how AI is a misnomer! But I feel powerless in the tides of linguistic drift. Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Networks are #complex and their dynamics often look chaotic. But we can reconstruct latent spaces where their behavior becomes strikingly regular, revealing functional organization across biology, society and technology. How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐 Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I wrote this piece at the start of the year, so it's nice to see it finally out before the year's end! It looks at the notion of "hard steps" in evolution that allegedly make intelligent life rare in the universe, and why that might not be correct after all. nautil.us/we-might-not...
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We Might Not Be So Strange
We Might Not Be So Strange: Perhaps intelligent life wasn’t so unlikely after all.
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Submission link for the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is LIVE! We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more Deadline: Jan 15 cs2italy.org
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines. But this work is now endangered. www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
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IC2S2 2026 | Burlington, Vermont
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ISI Foundation @isi.it · 29/10/2025
Meet Prof. Iyad Rahawan, winner of the Lagrange Prize 2025 🏆 Exploring how AI reshapes our society. @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social #lagrangeprize #fondazionecrt #ogr
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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems. I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years. Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Join us later today in Torino at OGR 👉 bit.ly/47hxXDN
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Premio Lagrange - Fondazione CRT 2025
Lagrange Prize - CRT Foundation ed. 2025
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I’m proud to support the Python Software Foundation and their commitment to building an inclusive community. Please consider donating if you can!
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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵
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ISI Foundation @isi.it · 27/10/2025
🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!
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ISI Foundation @isi.it · 27/10/2025
@alexvespi.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.
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Nino Cartabellotta @cartabellotta.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Vietare l’educazione alla sessualità nelle scuole medie compromette salute e sicurezza per: 👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali 👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili 👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale #Valditara #Lega
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Adrian Arnaiz @adri-arnaiz.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I've defended my PhD 🎓🙂 Huge thanks to @nuriaoliver.com for her guidance over these years and to the committee @ccattuto.bsky.social , Isabel Valera, and G. González Serrano for their time, insights, and an inspiring discussion 🙏 Excited for what's coming next!
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
PubMed is in trouble This is beyond bad for medical research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“If the social platforms and language models that increasingly shape our understanding of the world are inscrutable black boxes, Wikipedia is the opposite, maybe the most legible, endlessly explainable information management system ever made." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
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𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟽 @complenet.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📢 Keynotes unlocked: 4/12. Thrilled to have Anna Levina as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about #networks, #neurons and #criticality! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
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