From the cover of PNAS, our latest paper on how selective social interactions regulate the movement of fish schools. In collaboration with A. Puy, E. Gimeno, J. Torrents, P. Bartashevich, M.C. Miguel and Pawel Romanczuk 🇺🇦
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Con entusiasmo presentamos la Escuela Iberoamericana de Redes y Sistemas Complejos ENREDANDO 2024 sites.google.com/unal.edu.co/en… en Bogotá, Colombia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Departamento de Física Unal Bog Departamento de Estadística - Universidad Nacional. 29 de julio a 2 de agosto. Página, inscripciones, envíos, y becas ya disponibles.

So nice to see Nature News & Views research briefing of W. Quattrociocchi Matteo Cinelli Andrea Baronchelli et al's @nature paper out last week. It does a great job summarizing the paper, which shows that long discussions online are the most toxic across platforms, topics & time: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Seemingly legit message: 'Hi Andrea, <company> is looking for mathematics experts to help train AI systems and LLMs. Your profile stood out', 'Earn up to $50 per hour'

Freud’s three 'great outrages upon humanity’s naive self-love':
1. Copernicus' heliocentrism,
2. Darwin's evolution, and
3. Freud's revelation of the unconscious.
Is AI the 4th, ending our status as the smartest in the room?

Who would guess #1: Cutting money to unis makes them vulnerable to rich donors
Who would guess #2: Rich donors may have bad intentions

📢 New preprint: Urban highways are barriers to social ties: arxiv.org/abs/2404.11596

We overlay the highway network with a massive, geolocated online social network, and measure how social ties are impacted by highway segments in 50 US cities.
#geospatial #urbanism #segregation

It is - if you want the kid to eventually do what *you* want.
It is not - if you want the kid to discover and do what *the kid* wants.

Nature Research Briefing about our last paper recently published in Nature.
Ricerca Sapienza Sapienza Università di Roma
nature.com/articles/d4158…

What we call 'learning prompt engineering', LLMs call 'training humans'

The challenge: distilling the rapidly evolving field of Quantitative Text Analysis into one overview paper. The outcome: our latest publication in Nature Reviews Methods Primers. I hope reading it offers you as many insights as co-writing it brought me! Read it here: rdcu.be/dErq6

Postdoc position in Marseilles in an interdisciplinary project with Andrea Brovelli
cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~barrat/postdo…
Deadline for applications: June 5, 2024

🚨 New Paper 🚨

Price of Anarchy in Algorithmic Matching of Romantic Partners

Or: Do online dating sites have incentive to give you the best match?
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Deepfakes are now a commercial reality. We need more research to understand and mitigate the potential impacts.

'Deepfakes of Chinese influencers are livestreaming 24/7'

technologyreview.com/2023/09/19/107…