This paper is now published on Network Science! 🎊
Open-access published version: doi.org/10.1017/nws....

(and the dataset is freely available!)
Menéame.net user interaction dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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🧵1/ Paper out
How does COVID-19 spread through school and family networks?
We analyzed Dutch population registry data (containing info on everybody in the Netherlands) to understand which social ties mattered most in student infections from 2020–2021.
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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In summary, while unsigned data may be enough to assess ideological polarization, they fall short of identifying extreme users engaging in antagonistic behavior, only possible with signed data.

Thanks to S. Babul (first shared co-author), Ö. Togay, @abovet.bsky.social , and @javiergbe.bsky.social