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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jonas Juul receives the 2026 ITU Teaching Award nerds.itu.dk/2026/09/28/j...

Smiling researcher in front of glass building

NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anders Giovanni Møller defends his PhD: “AI in Modern Society: From computational methods to societal consequences” nerds.itu.dk/2026/09/26/a...

Left: PhD student in front of title slide titled "AI in Modern Society", Right: Student and 4 committee members smiling

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CS2Nordics was a blast! nerds.itu.dk/2026/09/26/c...

Collage of photos showing speakers, lecture room, social event

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Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've joined the editorial board of a Disinformation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (journals.sagepub.com/home/DIN ) . I'm in very good company and I'm sure this will evolve into an interesting venue for a lot of relevant research!

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

#CS2NORDICS is over. Fantastic talks - Fantastic conference! Here photos from talks on the #bicycle #network topic.

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Chiara Zappalà @chiarazappala.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First #CS2NORDICS happening now in beautiful Copenhagen! New conference, same slides because: why should I change this one?

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Today's & tomorrow's #CS2NORDICS in Copenhagen will feature 3 presentations from our #bicycle #network research: nosocss.org/program.html 1) Manuel Knepper: #BikeNetKit: Open-source bicycle network analysis 2) Riccardo Basilone: Cyclicity: a […] [Original post on datasci.social]

BikeNetKit banner showing a network and 3 approaches to improving bicycle networks

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our army of computational social scientists from the North is storming #CS2NORDICS in Copenhagen: nosocss.org/conference.h... With 18 NERDS registered, presenting 4 plenary, 2 lightning, 12 parallel talks & 9 posters. Winter is coming.

Artistic drawing of game of throne's undead army getting ready for attack

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Our research assistant Manuel Knepper is soon on his way to #CRBAM to present this Friday morning: #BikeNetKit : Developing an open-source bicycle network software suite for urban planners pretalx.com/crbam-2026/talk/QAZLGF

Title slide titled "BikeNetKit: Developing an open-source bicycle network software suite for urban planners"

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 10/09/2026

Panel discussion at @eccv.bsky.social ECCV 2026 on The Age of LLMs: Who Is the Researcher Now? How LLMs Are Changing Search, Ideation, and Scientific Judgment, featuring @annarogers.bsky.social, @iaugenstein.bsky.social, and @robysinatra.bsky.social, moderated by Anna Rohrbach (1/2)

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our @robysinatra.bsky.social will discuss later today at @eccv.bsky.social "The Age of LLMs: Who Is the Researcher Now? How LLMs Are Changing Search, Ideation, and Scientific Judgment" eccv.ecva.net/virtual/2026...

The Age of LLMs: Who Is the Researcher Now? How LLMs Are Changing Search, Ideation, and Scientific Judgment
About the speakers

Anna Rogers
Anna Rogers is a tenured Associate Professor in the Data Science Section at the IT University of Copenhagen, affiliated with the NLPNorth research group. Her work focuses on interpretability and robustness of NLP applications based on Large Language Models, as well as their sociotechnical impacts. She is currently an editor-in-chief of ACL Rolling Review, the peer review platform for all major NLP conferences. She is also one of the chief scientists of the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAISA).
Roberta Sinatra
Roberta Sinatra is Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Copenhagen (KU) and at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), and External Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Austria. She co-founded the NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS) research group at ITU, which she led from 2019 to 2022, and is co-lead of the Pioneer Centre for AI in Copenhagen. Her research sits at the intersection of network science, data science, and computational social science. She has received several awards, including the Complex Systems Society Junior Prize, the DPG Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics, a Villum Young Investigator grant, and an ERC Consolidator Grant.

Abstract

LLMs are changing how researchers move from the existing literature to new scientific questions. Beyond finding and summarizing papers, these systems can suggest connections across fields, identify possible gaps, propose hypotheses, support experiments, and critique manuscripts. As they move from retrieving information to influencing research directions and evaluation, it becomes increasingly important to ask where assistance ends, and intellectual contribution begins, and which aspects of originality, responsibility,

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Come to #D3A @ Nyborg on Oct 8 - We are organizing the workshop Data Science of Human-centric Mobility! d3aconference.dk/data-science-of-hu… Showcasing latest research and innovations like #BikeNetKit!

Info-Flyer for the D3A parallel session Data Science of Human-centric Mobility showing the faces of the 4 organizers and text:

This 90-minute workshop will bring together professionals from data science and network science who research human-centric mobility and who develop software applications, and everyone else who is interested in the topic and its applications, especially in the context of the green transformation in Denmark.

The workshop will feature few short, engaging scientific talks on the topics of human mobility and bicycle networks, an interactive hands-on session to introduce the open-source Python software suite BikeNetKit with interactive visualizations, and discussion sessions in-between, for an audience to engage in diverse ways with the state-of-the-art of the field.

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New NERDS paper in PNAS! More is different in AI multiagent systems nerds.itu.dk/2026/09/03/n...

Population size effects on collective bias. For all convention pairs tested, collective preference for a given convention increases with population size until convergence becomes deterministic. Panels (A–D) show Phi, GPT, Qwen, and Llama populations, respectively. The individual bias is reported at
. Error bars (SEM) are smaller than the marker size. Across population sizes, all runs reached consensus except in three cases: In Llama populations, the convergence rate decreases beyond a certain
for {old, young} and {less, more}, and in small Qwen populations, a few runs failed to converge for the word pair {husband, wife}.

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New NERDS paper on conversational biases in AI multi-agent systems nerds.itu.dk/2026/09/01/n...

Delta computed via our framework. For each conversation, we consider the maximum deviation (in absolute values), and average the results over the 50 simulated chatrooms.

A score of 4 indicates that the LLM instantiated as Liberal responded in a strongly Conservative manner, while indicates the opposite. Empty cells indicate 0-values, while cells with the “-” symbol indicate unavailable results. The darker the color of the cell, the more prominent the detected shift.

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New NERDS paper on ‘Data production biases in human mobility data’ nerds.itu.dk/2026/08/27/n...

Two maps of New York City showing mobility patterns

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I'll speak at the Digital Tech Summit 2026 on Nov 4th about: BikeNetKit: Open Bicycle Network Algorithms for boosting the Green Transition of European Cities event.ing.dk/dts6/session/4412917/b… […]

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happening this week: wed & fri!

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Carl Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com visiting NERDS and SODAS Save the dates: Wed 19 Aug, 14:00 & Fri 21 Aug, 11:00 nerds.itu.dk/2026/08/07/c...

Photograph of an attentive scientist wearing glasses and a grey pullover

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Michele Coscia @mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Comparing the Italian and Danish music industries, we can see structural similarities, but also differences in which music genres and periods are more "exploratory" in each country. We can also see which are the bands that tie the countries together. Read more, blog post […]

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

NERDS Paper on Comparing the Italian and Danish Music Industries nerds.itu.dk/2026/07/27/n...

The unipartite band–band network for Denmark (left) and Italy (right). Nodes are bands, connected if they have statistically significant artist collaborations. The node color is the average year of the band’s record releases, while the node size is proportional to the node’s betweenness centrality. Edge width is proportional to the edge weight, and the color is proportional to its significance. Note that the node sizes and colors are not consistent between the two networks because the different sizes and time spans of the two networks make them not comparable. We made visualization choices to detect variability within each network rather than across the networks.

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New NERDS publication on right-wing votes and bike network delays nerds.itu.dk/2026/07/17/n...

Left: Scatterplot of the share of bicycle lanes built
against left-wing votes
, Right: against right-wing
votes, with corresponding maps of the voting patterns. The black lines show fitted linear regressions. Dashed gray lines show the average values for each axis.

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New NERDS publication on fairness of human-AI collaboration in candidate recommendation nerds.itu.dk/2026/06/29/n...

A visualization of the recruiter workflow in the different conditions. Recruiters are first presented with the slateof recommended candidates ( AI recruiting ). They can choose to skip these recommendations, after which their slate ofselected candidates will solely be based on their own searches ( Human recruiting ). If recruiters decide to engage with theslate of recommended candidates, their workflow is a combination of AI-based recommendation and manual searching( Human + AI recruiting ), which we further divide into the AI oversight phase ( AI oversight ) and the manual searchingphase after having interacted with the recommendations ( Post-AI oversight ).

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

The slides of my talk two days ago at #Complexity Science Hub #Vienna are now online [pdf]: michael.szell.net/downloads/talk_sz… The complex socio-technical system of #bicycle networks: From politics to planning software […] [Original post on datasci.social]

Title slide showing a bicycle network in Vienna and the title: The complex socio-technical system of bicycle networks: From politics to planning software

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Complexity Science Hub @csh.ac.at · 15/07/2026

CSH External Faculty member @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy (@nerdsitu.bsky.social, @itu.dk) presented his latest work on 𝗯𝗶𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 🚲🧪 🧑‍💻 bikenetkit.org, the digital toolkit to support network design, launches later this year 👉 New paper on #cycling #politics: shorturl.at/BXsXJ

Speaker Michael Szell standing in front of the presentation screen in the salon of the Complexity Science Hub, captured in a moment where he smiles at the audience

An attedee of the talk ask a question. Photograph from the side

Michael Szell point at a figure on the screen. The audience looks at him attentively

The speaker discusses a question with another attendee. Medium long shot

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Full house at #CSH for @mszll 's talk on #bicycle networks from politics to planning software #GISChat #MobilityDataScience

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Tuesday, July 14th, 2pm I'll give a talk at Complexity Science Hub #vienna : The complex socio-technical system of #bicycle networks: From politics to planning software csh.ac.at/events/the-complex-socio-…

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

We find a strong correlation between right wing votes and delays in bike network development in #paris. Qualitative observations for such a link have been reported in the past, but we now have the data to back it up.

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

🚨 New paper on #cycling #politics: Right-wing Votes Relate to Delays in Bicycle Network Development findingspress.org/article/163938-ri…

Left: Paris’ Plan Vélo 2021-2026 progress on street level, Right: share of bicycle lanes built
aggregated by political voting unit

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Looking forward to #agit2026, presenting our analysis on the Danish Bicycle Node Network, and our progress on @bikenetkit bikenetkit.org #BikeNetKit July 9th, session 10B from 13:00. See you in Salzburg!

Title slide with title, authors, and a colorful map/network of Denmark

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Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm happy to announce that the Handbook of Social and Communication Networks is finally out: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han... The work, co-edited with @toledobastos.bsky.social , attempts to define what happens when network science meets communication studies. It's a collection of works,

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Handbook of Social and Communication Networks

This comprehensive Handbook explores the application of social network analysis and network science in the field of communication studies. Leading experts examine the interactions between social and c...

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

TFW you invest a whole day of work into something, unsure if it's worth the effort, and then you see the outcome 🤩 #quadrangulation

Manhattan street network, quadrangulated

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Alessia Galdeman @alessianetwork.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Loved being at #CS2Italy in Turin 🇮🇹 Two exciting works to share: 🌱 Greta Thunberg & self-sustaining social processes 🤖 LLMs & propaganda (presented by @alessant.bsky.social , with @ariannapera.bsky.social @luciolcw.bsky.social and Giovanni) Great community ✨

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New NERDS paper on drug traffic and migration nerds.itu.dk/2026/06/01/n...

Change in domestic immigration comparing migration flows between the periods 2010–2015 and 2015–2020. Source: Authors’ own calculations. Note: Nodes represent municipalities, and links represent migration flows. Node colour indicates changes in migration flows between periods (green: increase, yellow: no change, orange: moderate decline, red: strong decline). The layout is topological rather than georeferenced to visualise changes in connectivity rather than geographic proximity.

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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Don't miss the first NoSoccs conference! Abstract deadline in about a month nosocss.org/conference.h...

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CS2Nordics – Nordic Society for Computational Social Science

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Chiara Zappalà @chiarazappala.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New year, new conference! Back to beautiful Turin to attend the second edition of @cs2italy.bsky.social Thanks to the amazing crowd who joined the Science of Science session today!

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Our @robysinatra.bsky.social just opened @cs2italy.bsky.social in Turin with an impressive keynote on Science of Science in the Age of AI cs2italy.org #CS2ITALY

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We have successfully held our first retreat nerds.itu.dk/2026/05/18/w...

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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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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Ariel Avanzi has joined NERDS nerds.itu.dk/2026/05/11/a...

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

RE: datasci.social/@nerdsitu/1165350486… Very happy this paper is published! Great+deep work led by Clément Sebastiao. We systematically study strategies to grow a transport network step by step - motivated by #bicycle networks which need to be functional as soon as possible […]

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New NERDS publication on transport network growth nerds.itu.dk/2026/05/07/n...

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Two New NERDS Papers: Politician Campaigns; and Money Laundering nerds.itu.dk/2026/05/04/t...

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

View over the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Two new NERDS papers: data storytelling visualization, LLMs for complex information needs nerds.itu.dk/2026/04/16/t...

Overview of the three data storytelling conditions and visualizations used in our experiment. The baseline visualizations for each topic are shown in (a) and (b); they served as the baseline for the NO storytelling conditions. Figure (c) shows the written narrative for the Written storytelling condition and Figure (d) shows a single frame from the video used in the Verbal storytelling condition.

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Arianna Pera @ariannapera.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Thrilled to share that our work has been accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026 🌟 Thanks @cerenbudak.bsky.social and @lajello.bsky.social for the great collaboration! 📖 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

New 🚲 preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2604.07029 Quality assessment of a country-wide bicycle node network with loop census analysis We analyzed the new 30000km long Danish #bicycle node network, exploring all 28M round trips in the network up to day-trip length. 🧵

Network of 7000 nodes and 10000 links spanning Denmark, nodes colored from red to blue.

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