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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Oh io dovrei pure essere in patria, quasi quasi

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I have been going through the same path and outcome for an early career grant, so I feel you 100%.

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The network is bipartite (only heterosexuals people were interviewed) and the enrolled partners were not asked to nominate their partners, but just to enumerate them, so I am afraid the observations stop there. Community structure could be looked at instead, as we ask where people live. Thanks! 🙏

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The data comes from a sexual health questionnaire + some contact tracing, where they tried to enroll as many contacts of the indexes as possible. These people were also given the same sex questionnaire. The questionnaire asks about sexual behaviour, number of partners over a year, risky behaviour..

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I have individual-level data on people + their sexual contacts. It is easy to look at age/sex mixing. But from a network perspective,I can also study assortativity in number of reported partners. Anything else that I can check? Thinking of excess degree distribution and age/sex dynamics consistency

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Liz Fearon @lizfearon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Belated intro post: Hi, I'm Liz, interested in social influences on infectious disease dynamics, particularly in sexual health and always in the interests of health equity. We are looking for an ID modeller postdoc to work on co-production of epidemic models: join us! tinyurl.com/24ze4x5c

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I am followed by so many infectious disease modellers that I am now afraid of even using the word SIR, in any context 😅

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A list of bands in order of efficacy: 3. Placebo 2. The Cure 1. Prevention

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🇮🇹 Da oggi comincia l'avventura di @comunelab.bsky.social e il nostro modello predittivo per #influenza A/B/ILI 🦠🧪 su dati ISS, come parte dell'hub nazionale #influcast🇮🇹: influcast.org Congratulazioni a @tommasobertola.bsky.social per questo 1° significativo traguardo del suo progetto. 1/

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Manlio, this went out literally now 🤣 "Are LLMs about to emulate human behavior in cooperative dilemmas on networks? These results highlight a crucial gap: LLMs struggle to emulate the nuanced, adaptive social strategies humans deploy in fixed networks" arxiv.org/abs/2411.10294

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Static network structure cannot stabilize cooperation among Large Language Model agents

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to model human social behavior, with recent research exploring their ability to simulate social dynamics. Here, we test whether LLMs mirror human beh...

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There's already a number of papers on arxiv showing that it "kind of" works. I personally think that there's a number of big problems to address 1) reproducibility 2) the need of "small" language models if you have one specific population (culture/religion...) 3) scalability 4) what do you "fit"?

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tangential to this: when using agent-based models, e.g. to simulate epidemics, would you replace a set of simple, mechanistic rules that you coded/control yourself, with a set of LLM agents that exhibit much more complex behaviour? (let's forget about the reproducibility issue with LLM for now)

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Following up on this because it is quite fascinating

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I wonder why it is centered around a 1000, and if it has moved in the last few months.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you have the feeling that @bsky.app is different, maybe you are right. The current migration is breaking the typical rich-get-richer effect wrt other platforms #scaling Data: Twitter: 10.9M users BlueSky (Mar 2024): 4.1M users, 🙏 @andreajpg.bsky.social Mastodon: 3.8M users, 🙏 @tiago.skewed.de

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Mahan Ghafari @mghafari.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

1/ Hello, BSky community! 👋 I’m an incoming Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow & Group Leader at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on the molecular evolution of pathogens, especially viruses with pandemic potential. You can find out more about our work here: users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"The first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult"

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Sono più nell'infectious disease modelling che nell'epi applicata, ma consiglierei questo starter pack qui bsky.app/profile/scau...

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Quando ero meno applied, in un paper avevamo usato l'idea che la dinamica di un SIR/SIS a livello di popolazione "somiglia" a un birth death process per fare inferenza, quindi quando è uscito l'articolo abbiamo aperto una discussione sui limiti e le proprietà di tale approssimazione...

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Sì faceva strano anche a me, credo sia un miscuglio del fatto che parecchi articoli nel campo più applied usino metodi molto standard, quindi è interessante mostrare i risultati e discuterne le implicazioni. Articoli "meno applied" spesso si basano invece su una intuizione interessante da spiegare

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Is it difficult to check for assortativity? I would expect it to be low, IIRC...

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Preliminary #scaling of the number of followers vs the number of follows in @bsky.app from a random sample of about 20,000 users. This is ~linear (provided this sample is representative), while it was very different for Twitter, or am I wrong? @emilioferrara.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Based on rich gets richer I ma surprised, it doesn't seem to work too well on here? I wonder what's the size of the network at which a similar effect is expected to happen...

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A me a questo giro pare davvero definitiva la cosa. Nel campo mio (net science/infectious disease modelling/complex systems) oramai son qua le discussioni. Comunque non c'è ancora la massa critica quello no. (Ma se non altro non ci sono troppi asini che si sentono superiori e senza capire nulla)

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

2 gradi in cinquant'anni mi sento male a pensare al futuro

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

"you should remain on Twitter because there is still a lot of good science discussed over there" The science

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Thus one is too controversial for me, sorry

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

As a computational social scientist I could not miss to follow this beautiful creature: the BlueSky social network during its growth in the last hours! In this video I show just a snapshot for about 210k users and their 500k-ish connections #academicsky Zoom in the next post youtu.be/JcmYZtWGnjQ

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The “great Xodus” and the growth of BlueSky

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is cool Manlio, too bad there is no dramatic soundtrack playing along with it!

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 13/11/2024

Reminder we have a post-doc position open in our lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de, at IT:U, Linz, Austria 🇦🇹! Deadline is Nov 30. Spread the word! #AcademicSky

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Question I was asked this morning during a mock-up interview: how many six digit numbers of the form abcab(c+1) [E.g. 123124] are perfect squares?

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

there are civilians left, starving them is a war crime and forcible displacement of a civilian population is a war crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 15/10/2024

🚨Job alert!🚨 Come join us at the Inverse Complexity Lab! @invcomplexity.bsky.social We’re hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join our group at IT:U, Linz, Austria. skewed.de/lab/call.html Deadline is 30 Nov 2024. 1/8

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Francesco Di Lauro @francescodilauro.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Hello blue people, I will start using this more often. I have also run out of things to share, so I will probably read and comment.

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