Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabAlessio Pitteri @alessiopitteri.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Many thanks to my co-authors @andreaguizzo.bsky.social and @lferrarotti.bsky.social and to @ricgallotti.bsky.social and Bruno Lepri for leading the project. Read the preprint: lnkd.in/eWJKugS4 032
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabAlessio Pitteri @alessiopitteri.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Excited to share our new preprint (and my first research contribution!) now available on arXiv: “Ant Swarm Functional Control via Stigmergic Reinforcement Learning Agents” 186
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026(As tradition demands) Another CHuB day at the lake 🏖☀️ with great company and a well-deserved break at Lago di Caldonazzo 051
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Congratulazioni, Elisa 👏🏼👏🏼 un riconoscimento davvero meritato 🎓 041
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour Lab𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟽 @complenet.bsky.social · 07/05/2026@verorsanigo.bsky.social finishing her talk here as part of the 4th day of the conference! 033
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour Lab𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟽 @complenet.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Great talk and subject by @elisamurators.bsky.social here at #CompleNet26 0113
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabVittoria Colizza @vcolizza.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab. 🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE) 🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX) 2-y positions | Start June 2026 #epidemiology #networks #matrices 1913
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabYoung Researchers of the Complex Systems Society @yrcss.bsky.social · 10/03/2026✨ Our grants are back! ✨ Young researcher in Complex Systems? Apply for yrCSS grants to support: 💡 conferences / schools / workshops 🤝 research visits & collaborations 🌍 extra support for low-income countries 🗓️ Deadline: 20 March 2026 👉 yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/yrcss.cssociety.orgGrantsYoung Researchers of the Complex Systems Society 01413
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabYoung Researchers of the Complex Systems Society @yrcss.bsky.social · 10/02/2026🚨 yrCSS Advisory Board Elections are Open! 🚨 Be part of shaping the future of yrCSS! Access the Ballot platform in your CSS account profile and apply now to become a member 🗳️ Applications accepted until Feb 21th. More info ➡️ yrcss.cssociety.org/elections/yrcss.cssociety.orgElectionsYoung Researchers of the Complex Systems Society 043
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 22/12/2025We're thrilled to share that last Friday, Anna Bertani 👩🏻🎓 successfully defended her PhD thesis "Quantifying and modeling the risks and dynamics of information disorders in digital ecosystems" with cum laude 👏🏼🎉 Congratulations, Anna!! And best wishes for what's next ✨ @annabertani.bsky.social 482
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabUlysse Marquis @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Thrilled to share my latest paper arxiv.org/abs/2512.046..., accepted at PRE! It challenges a critical assumption from network science : that networks are built bottom-up from nodes. In many spatially embedded networks, this is simply not true : networks are built upon lines and nodes only happen...arxiv.orgDiffusive geodesics wandering in networks of rigid chainsWe introduce an ensemble of spatial networks built from the junctions of hindered-rotation chains, incorporating directional correlations between bonds, an aspect ignored in the standard network model... 161
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour Labjanoskertesz.bsky.social @janoskertesz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025We are hiring! The Department of Network and Data Science of Central European University (Vienna) has an open position for an Assistant Professor in network science and computational social science.careers.ceu.eduAssistant Professor (f/m/d)Assistant Professor (f/m/d) 11218
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabCS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Submission 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 11917
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabLucila Alvarez Zuzek @luzuzek.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Our study of 400 million tweets shows that the “war on science” is far more complex than a simple clash between truth and falsehood. 🔍 read more in our latest article magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/what... @ricgallotti.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social @vtraag.bsky.socialmagazine.fbk.euWhat a 400-Million-Tweet study revealed about the “War on Science”The European project “Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates” (UnMiSSeD) aims at understanding the overlap between science and misinformation with a particular focus on the COVID... 173
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabUlysse Marquis @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Our work on the dynamics of urban expansion just got published in the Physical Review Letters ! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...journals.aps.orgUniversal Roughness and the Dynamics of Urban ExpansionUrban sprawl reshapes cities, yet its quantitative laws remain elusive. Analyzing built-up expansion in 19 cities (1985--2015) with tools from surface growth physics in radial geometry, we reveal anis... 163
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabArtime @oriartime.bsky.social · 03/11/2025📣 New paper out 📣 Interested in the growth of cities? We use tools from statistical physics and surface growth theories to characterize urban sprawl from satellite data. Check out all the details: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...journals.aps.orgUniversal Roughness and the Dynamics of Urban ExpansionUrban sprawl reshapes cities, yet its quantitative laws remain elusive. Analyzing built-up expansion in 19 cities (1985--2015) with tools from surface growth physics in radial geometry, we reveal anis... 183
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabYoung Researchers of the Complex Systems Society @yrcss.bsky.social · 27/10/2025💡 SECS Grant: Support for conferences, schools, or workshops 🤝 BRIDGE Grant: Support for short research visits and collaborations. 🌍 Special funding for researchers from low-income countries. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 November 2025 👉 Learn more and apply here: yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/yrcss.cssociety.orgGrantsYoung Researchers of the Complex Systems Society 034
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabLucila Alvarez Zuzek @luzuzek.bsky.social · 09/10/2025🚨 Finally our paper "Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli" is out 🤩 doi.org/10.1098/rsif... Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri and @ricgallotti.bsky.social @mobs-fbk.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.socialdoi.orgPredicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli | Journal of The Royal Society InterfaceHuman cooperation arises naturally and is essential for the development of successful societies. This study aims to identify which aspects of the interaction influence societal cooperation and defection. Specifically, we investigate human cooperation ... 1125
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour Lab𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟽 @complenet.bsky.social · 15/09/2025📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference! 🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com 02725
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025(Last week highlights) Huge congrats to our @elisamurators.bsky.social for winning the best poster award at @css-conference.bsky.social ☄️🎉 Bravissima, Elisa 👏👏 071
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabThomas Louf @tlouf.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Super happy to share that, after two great years @chub-fbk.bsky.social, I've just joined @uc3m.es and the GISC as an assistant prof in applied maths :))) 0192
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabKaveh @kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Siena, science, and so much inspiration. Delighted to present my research on news media analysis at #CCS2025 Computational Social Science satellite. Viva Italia! 🇮🇹 @css-conference.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social 041
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Also seen yesterday at @css-conference.bsky.social a work on reinforcement learning applied to ants behaviour by Alessio Pitteri, our study of the historical evolution of EU projects by @verorsanigo.bsky.social and the study on Coordinated Behavior by @elisamurators.bsky.social #CCS2025 063
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Wide coverage of social media and disinformation analysis yesterday from our lab at the @css-conference.bsky.social, with four talks presenting our works associate to the European projects #AI4TRUST #AICODE_EU #HATEDEMICS 176
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabUlysse Marquis @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social · 03/09/2025New pre-print out ! Work led by @eleandre.bsky.social, in collaboration with M. Napolitano and @ricgallotti.bsky.social. Using Foursquare data from Bologna, we find that the distribution of POIs follows a clear power-law pattern at the city scale. To explain this, we introduce a framework where ... 144
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabComplexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Finishing the social media session, @tlouf.bsky.social explores Telegram as a weighted, directed temporal network. His methodology reveals clustering, burstiness, and assortativity, all of them phenomena that are relevant when building reliable agent-based models. #CCS2025 022
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabMatteo Scianna @matteoscianna.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Just me pointing at prioritized communities at @css-conference.bsky.social. Great journey, so far. 🍉 ❓Presentation: Multilevel pipeline for tackling potential disinformative content in YouTube. 👥 @jordicondomtibau.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social 052
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabElisa Muratore @elisamurators.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Thrilled to share that I just gave my first-ever scientific conference talk at @css-conference.bsky.social! I presented our work "MarkedTemporalPointProcesses for simulating and capturing coordinated behaviour" on enhancing disinformation detection. Huge thanks to my supervisors and the audiance!☀️ 1101
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabMattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · 02/09/2025If you're at #CCS25 and are interested in human mobility and inequalities, at 11:30 in Room 149 I will talk of experienced segregation. This is a work we started at the @complexity72h.bsky.social workshop last year. Take a look at the preprint and see you there 🙂 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2407.01799 093
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabHiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 01/09/20252nd keynote Manlio De Domenico discusses approaches to figure out functionalities of complex systems #CCS2025 0164
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabElisa Muratore @elisamurators.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Great energy at the poster session today! It was a pleasure to be part of it presenting our work "How to design a collection strategy for monitoring disinformation and hate speech in Telegram". Excited for round two tomorrow – see you all there! ☀️ 0113
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Yesterday was our first day at @css-conference.bsky.social in Siena 🇮🇹. We presented on Telegram data collection @elisamurators.bsky.social , city growth @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social and urban traffic (Alberto Amaduzzi). Excited for 5 more talks today! #CCS2025 094
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabConference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Here’s the final program for CCS2025—check it out! 🔗 ccs25.cssociety.org/programme-at...ccs25.cssociety.orgProgramme at A Glance – Conference on Complex Systems 2025 033
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabMatteo Scianna @matteoscianna.bsky.social · 18/08/2025📣🚨 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 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 💊main results below👇journals.plos.orgComparing the effectiveness of ring and block-vaccination strategies on networksAuthor 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... 1146
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour Labland-fbk.bsky.social @land-fbk.bsky.social · 04/08/2025📢 Do you want to join our group? We opened **two** calls for a fully funded PhD. Details are in the image and at the following links. Calls: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... PhD Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... Deadline: August 22nd, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) 045
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabKaveh @kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social · 26/07/2025New Preprint: A Data-Driven Approach to Supporting Fact-Checking and Mitigating Mis/Disinformation Through Domain Quality Evaluation 🔗 doi.org/10.31219/osf... @chub-fbk.bsky.social #AI4Trust #WebCredibility #Misinformationdoi.orgOSF 011
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabMattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · 18/07/2025📢 Happy to announce the next keynote speaker for UrbanSys at CCS2025 🏙️ Lin Chen Researcher at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 🔗 linchen-65.github.io/linchen/ Check our final line-up! 🔗 urban-sys-net.weebly.com/keynote-spea... 032
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabThomas Louf @tlouf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Our latest work with @martonkarsai.bsky.social, David Sánchez and José Ramasco just got published! (and open access) Here's a short thread to give you our main results ⏬ 1194
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabLucila Alvarez Zuzek @luzuzek.bsky.social · 04/07/2025So excited to see this come together! 🎉 Our latest study explores the interplay between science and misinformation in public debates during COVID-19 🔍 arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481 👇Take a lookarxiv.orgMapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweetsDuring 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, labelle... 0157
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabVincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 04/07/2025New 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) 410140
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabRiccardo Gallotti @ricgallotti.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The Grand Amphithéâtre of @sorbonne-universite.fr is definitively not a bad venue for a the keynote session of @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social #Sunbelt2025 041
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Cocktails in Paris 🥂 Thanks @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social for this amazing view ✨🇫🇷 @ricgallotti.bsky.social @tlouf.bsky.social @luzuzek.bsky.social @annabertani.bsky.social 063
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabRiccardo Gallotti @ricgallotti.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I finally have the pleasure of attending Sunbelt in person for the first time, together with four members of my unit @chub-fbk.bsky.social This year among the organisers we also have many familiar faces such as @camcom.bsky.social , @chavalarias.org , Floriana Gargiulo and Emmanuel Lazega. 172
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025🚨If you're around Paris come to see @tlouf.bsky.social talking today about the structure and dynamics of information flow on Telegram at @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social and @css-fr.bsky.social 123
Complex Human Behaviour Lab @chub-fbk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025🎙️Busy morning today at @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social for CHuB talking about mis/disinformation on Twitter and Mastodon @ricgallotti.bsky.social @kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social @annabertani.bsky.social 0104
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabKaveh @kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Paris, croissants, and network science! 🌐✨ Presenting at #Sunbelt2025 on how domain-level signals help fact-checkers outsmart misinformation. Vive la vérité! @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social @insna.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabThomas Louf @tlouf.bsky.social · 16/06/2025🚨 Deadline is this Friday (23:59 CET), remember to submit your works to join us in Siena! 032
Reposted by Complex Human Behaviour LabNature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 21/05/2025This new paper finds that GPT-4 outperforms humans in debates when prompted with basic sociodemographic data. @frasalvi.bsky.social @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comOn the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4 - Nature Human BehaviourSalvi et al. find that GPT-4 outperforms humans in debates when given basic sociodemographic data. With personalization, GPT-4 had 81.2% higher odds of post-debate agreement than humans. 0155
