Iacopo Iacopini
@iaciac.bsky.social
#ComplexNetworks · #ComplexSystems · #Cities
Associate Professor @ Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London.
Associate Professor @ Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London.
🗞️ The latest NGN features a discussion with I. kiss on our latest paper "Disentangling the Role of Heterogeneity and Hyperedge Overlap in Explosive Contagion on Higher-Order Networks" recently published in PRL [https://doi.org/10.1103/z3d5-94zb]
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/24/w...
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/24/w...
Why do the latest fads spread like wildfire? Research explains
Network scientists found that the social overlap between groups plays a major part in how fast a phenomena or contagious illness transmits.
news.northeastern.edu
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🗞️ The latest NGN features a discussion with I. kiss on our latest paper "Disentangling the Role of Heterogeneity and Hyperedge Overlap in Explosive Contagion on Higher-Order Networks" recently published in PRL [https://doi.org/10.1103/z3d5-94zb]
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/24/w...
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/24/w...
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We are excited to share the NetSci Conference announcement of its 1st plenary speakers! 🥁 🥁
Two pioneers—one stage: 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will reflect on the ideas that shaped their work and transformed our field in a joint keynote!
NetSci 2026: tinyurl.com/4jdxb4kv
Two pioneers—one stage: 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will reflect on the ideas that shaped their work and transformed our field in a joint keynote!
NetSci 2026: tinyurl.com/4jdxb4kv
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We are excited to share the NetSci Conference announcement of its 1st plenary speakers! 🥁 🥁
Two pioneers—one stage: 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will reflect on the ideas that shaped their work and transformed our field in a joint keynote!
NetSci 2026: tinyurl.com/4jdxb4kv
Two pioneers—one stage: 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will reflect on the ideas that shaped their work and transformed our field in a joint keynote!
NetSci 2026: tinyurl.com/4jdxb4kv
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Latest out: Fairness in infectious disease modeling. Great collaboration with Yuhan Li, @ngozzi.bsky.social @mtizzoni.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Latest out: Fairness in infectious disease modeling. Great collaboration with Yuhan Li, @ngozzi.bsky.social @mtizzoni.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
And here's the published version: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Great teamwork with @federicomalizia.bsky.social, @andresguzmanm.bsky.social, and I. Kiss -- with special thanks to Federico for leading the effort!
Great teamwork with @federicomalizia.bsky.social, @andresguzmanm.bsky.social, and I. Kiss -- with special thanks to Federico for leading the effort!
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
And here's the published version: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Great teamwork with @federicomalizia.bsky.social, @andresguzmanm.bsky.social, and I. Kiss -- with special thanks to Federico for leading the effort!
Great teamwork with @federicomalizia.bsky.social, @andresguzmanm.bsky.social, and I. Kiss -- with special thanks to Federico for leading the effort!
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𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University!
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.
@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.
@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
📌 Save the Date!
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University!
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.
@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.
@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
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We found a nice way to accurately solve the SIS model. Rather than expanding in space with ever larger moment closures (pairs, triples, ...), we expand in time. No more difficult than pair-approximations yet much more accurate.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11706
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11706
The threshold and quasi-stationary distribution for the SIS model on networks
We study the Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible (SIS) model on arbitrary networks. The well-established pair approximation treats neighboring pairs of nodes exactly while making a mean field approxima...
arxiv.org
September 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We found a nice way to accurately solve the SIS model. Rather than expanding in space with ever larger moment closures (pairs, triples, ...), we expand in time. No more difficult than pair-approximations yet much more accurate.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11706
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11706
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✨ Hope your summer was as cool as the news we’re about to drop…
We’ve just launched our official IG channel 👉 @complexity72h - follow us for updates!
⏳ Only ~24h left to discover the location of the next edition of Complexity72h — revealed across all our socials and live at CCS 👀
Stay tuned! 🚀
We’ve just launched our official IG channel 👉 @complexity72h - follow us for updates!
⏳ Only ~24h left to discover the location of the next edition of Complexity72h — revealed across all our socials and live at CCS 👀
Stay tuned! 🚀
September 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
✨ Hope your summer was as cool as the news we’re about to drop…
We’ve just launched our official IG channel 👉 @complexity72h - follow us for updates!
⏳ Only ~24h left to discover the location of the next edition of Complexity72h — revealed across all our socials and live at CCS 👀
Stay tuned! 🚀
We’ve just launched our official IG channel 👉 @complexity72h - follow us for updates!
⏳ Only ~24h left to discover the location of the next edition of Complexity72h — revealed across all our socials and live at CCS 👀
Stay tuned! 🚀
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Read what is going on at NETSI. A lot of network science happened during the summer.
August 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Read what is going on at NETSI. A lot of network science happened during the summer.
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Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc
July 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc
The #CRAB2025 🦀 programme is out!
Join us in Siena on Sept 3 at #CCS25 for the 2nd edition of the Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite 🐜🐦🦋🐳🐙🐝
🧑🏫 Invited talks by S. Melillo & P. Bartashevich
Full programme: sites.google.com/view/crab202...
@jbbrask.bsky.social @saraneven.bsky.social
Join us in Siena on Sept 3 at #CCS25 for the 2nd edition of the Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite 🐜🐦🦋🐳🐙🐝
🧑🏫 Invited talks by S. Melillo & P. Bartashevich
Full programme: sites.google.com/view/crab202...
@jbbrask.bsky.social @saraneven.bsky.social
CRAB2025
Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour
Satellite @ CCS 2025 - Siena, 3 September 2025
Animal groups can be considered as complex systems of interacting entities (the individuals). The collective beha...
sites.google.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The #CRAB2025 🦀 programme is out!
Join us in Siena on Sept 3 at #CCS25 for the 2nd edition of the Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite 🐜🐦🦋🐳🐙🐝
🧑🏫 Invited talks by S. Melillo & P. Bartashevich
Full programme: sites.google.com/view/crab202...
@jbbrask.bsky.social @saraneven.bsky.social
Join us in Siena on Sept 3 at #CCS25 for the 2nd edition of the Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite 🐜🐦🦋🐳🐙🐝
🧑🏫 Invited talks by S. Melillo & P. Bartashevich
Full programme: sites.google.com/view/crab202...
@jbbrask.bsky.social @saraneven.bsky.social
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The deadline to apply for the warmup has been extended to the 27th of July (this time for real!)
Your last chance to apply: forms.gle/DxatcCQt4LBk...
See you in Siena 🇮🇹
Your last chance to apply: forms.gle/DxatcCQt4LBk...
See you in Siena 🇮🇹
July 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The deadline to apply for the warmup has been extended to the 27th of July (this time for real!)
Your last chance to apply: forms.gle/DxatcCQt4LBk...
See you in Siena 🇮🇹
Your last chance to apply: forms.gle/DxatcCQt4LBk...
See you in Siena 🇮🇹
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🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
July 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
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📆 Early registration for #CCS25 closes on July 20!
One week left to secure your spot at the conference and benefit from reduced fees! Join researchers from around the world at the premier conference on complex systems.
📷 Register here: ccs25.cssociety.org/registration/
One week left to secure your spot at the conference and benefit from reduced fees! Join researchers from around the world at the premier conference on complex systems.
📷 Register here: ccs25.cssociety.org/registration/
Registration – Conference on Complex Systems 2025
ccs25.cssociety.org
July 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📆 Early registration for #CCS25 closes on July 20!
One week left to secure your spot at the conference and benefit from reduced fees! Join researchers from around the world at the premier conference on complex systems.
📷 Register here: ccs25.cssociety.org/registration/
One week left to secure your spot at the conference and benefit from reduced fees! Join researchers from around the world at the premier conference on complex systems.
📷 Register here: ccs25.cssociety.org/registration/
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Our 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 ⏬
Here's a short thread to give you our main results ⏬
When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
When dialects collide: how socioeconomic mixing affects language use - EPJ Data Science
The socioeconomic background of people and how they use standard forms of language are not independent, as demonstrated in various sociolinguistic studies. However, the extent to which these correlati...
epjdatascience.springeropen.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Our 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 ⏬
Here's a short thread to give you our main results ⏬
Reposted by Iacopo Iacopini
Latest out: Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout
Author summary The COVID-19 vaccines rollout initially faced significant challenges. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) complemented vaccinations in addressing these issues. However, the interpla...
journals.plos.org
July 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Latest out: Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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1/8 How do networks of social relationships evolve over time? This evolution is driven by a complex interplay of cognitive, emotional, and social factors. It’s only natural to assume that such complexity would make this dynamics highly unpredictable. But…
June 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
1/8 How do networks of social relationships evolve over time? This evolution is driven by a complex interplay of cognitive, emotional, and social factors. It’s only natural to assume that such complexity would make this dynamics highly unpredictable. But…
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@lordgrilo.bsky.social also offered a valuable bird's eye view of the field of higher-order network science as a whole and where TopoNets fits in at NetSci.
June 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
@lordgrilo.bsky.social also offered a valuable bird's eye view of the field of higher-order network science as a whole and where TopoNets fits in at NetSci.
Next week at @netsciconf.bsky.social -- it's time for another edition of TopoNets!
🗓️ June 3, 2025
📍 FPN Paarse Zaal
A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope
Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...
🗓️ June 3, 2025
📍 FPN Paarse Zaal
A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope
Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...
May 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Next week at @netsciconf.bsky.social -- it's time for another edition of TopoNets!
🗓️ June 3, 2025
📍 FPN Paarse Zaal
A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope
Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...
🗓️ June 3, 2025
📍 FPN Paarse Zaal
A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope
Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...
Reposted by Iacopo Iacopini
CRAB: Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour will be back at #CCS2025 Siena!
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐜🐁🦍🐋🦋🐦
Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB 🦀
👉 sites.google.com/view/crab202...
⏰ Deadline: June 1st 2025
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐜🐁🦍🐋🦋🐦
Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB 🦀
👉 sites.google.com/view/crab202...
⏰ Deadline: June 1st 2025
CRAB2025
Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour
Satellite @ CCS 2025 - Siena, 3 September 2025
Animal groups can be considered as complex systems of interacting entities (the individuals). The collective beha...
sites.google.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
CRAB: Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour will be back at #CCS2025 Siena!
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐜🐁🦍🐋🦋🐦
Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB 🦀
👉 sites.google.com/view/crab202...
⏰ Deadline: June 1st 2025
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐜🐁🦍🐋🦋🐦
Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB 🦀
👉 sites.google.com/view/crab202...
⏰ Deadline: June 1st 2025
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We present Epydemix: open-source python package for all stages of epidemic modelling: from models' definition to their calibration via ABC methods. Website: www.epydemix.org. Paper: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... High level summary: www.epistorm.org/activities/e...
May 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We present Epydemix: open-source python package for all stages of epidemic modelling: from models' definition to their calibration via ABC methods. Website: www.epydemix.org. Paper: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... High level summary: www.epistorm.org/activities/e...
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📢 Early-Career researchers! Did your abstract for @css-conference.bsky.social get accepted, but you're struggling to find funding? ✨Apply for our special CCS - SECS grants!✨ Applications are open until June 30th. 💸
yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/secs/
yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/secs/
SECS
Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society
yrcss.cssociety.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📢 Early-Career researchers! Did your abstract for @css-conference.bsky.social get accepted, but you're struggling to find funding? ✨Apply for our special CCS - SECS grants!✨ Applications are open until June 30th. 💸
yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/secs/
yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/secs/
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2nd British NetSci Symposium, London, June 9, 2025. If you are a PhD student or a Post-Doc working in the field, submit an abstract. Deadline May 28th. All info all links here: www.netsci.uk/events.html
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
2nd British NetSci Symposium, London, June 9, 2025. If you are a PhD student or a Post-Doc working in the field, submit an abstract. Deadline May 28th. All info all links here: www.netsci.uk/events.html
CRAB: Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour will be back at #CCS2025 Siena!
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐜🐁🦍🐋🦋🐦
Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB 🦀
👉 sites.google.com/view/crab202...
⏰ Deadline: June 1st 2025
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐜🐁🦍🐋🦋🐦
Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB 🦀
👉 sites.google.com/view/crab202...
⏰ Deadline: June 1st 2025
CRAB2025
Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour
Satellite @ CCS 2025 - Siena, 3 September 2025
Animal groups can be considered as complex systems of interacting entities (the individuals). The collective beha...
sites.google.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
CRAB: Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour will be back at #CCS2025 Siena!
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐜🐁🦍🐋🦋🐦
Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB 🦀
👉 sites.google.com/view/crab202...
⏰ Deadline: June 1st 2025
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐜🐁🦍🐋🦋🐦
Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB 🦀
👉 sites.google.com/view/crab202...
⏰ Deadline: June 1st 2025
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🚀 Now accepting applications for the new MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern!
Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools.
🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV
📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory
Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools.
🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV
📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory
April 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
🚀 Now accepting applications for the new MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern!
Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools.
🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV
📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory
Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools.
🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV
📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory
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The past couple of months have been incredibly busy at the Network Science Institute, so we've decided to share some updates with you right away instead of waiting for our usual quarterly edition of "Notes from NetSI".
Stay connected & sign up to join the NetSI community!
mailchi.mp/neu/news-fro...
Stay connected & sign up to join the NetSI community!
mailchi.mp/neu/news-fro...
April 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The past couple of months have been incredibly busy at the Network Science Institute, so we've decided to share some updates with you right away instead of waiting for our usual quarterly edition of "Notes from NetSI".
Stay connected & sign up to join the NetSI community!
mailchi.mp/neu/news-fro...
Stay connected & sign up to join the NetSI community!
mailchi.mp/neu/news-fro...