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Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
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Physicist • Postdoc @chub-fbk.bsky.social 👩🏼‍💻
• Interested in human social behavior and network science 🕸️ and random stuff bc why not 🫟🎨

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Lucila Álvarez-Žužek @luzuzek.bsky.social · Jul 4
So excited to see this come together! 🎉

Our latest study explores the interplay between science and misinformation in public debates during COVID-19 🔍 arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481

👇Take a look
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
thelancet.com
Endometriosis affects around 190 million women and girls globally. Despite progress, the exact causes remain unknown.

The latest issue of @lancetobgyn-wh.bsky.social features articles on advancements & the research still needed.

🔗 : tinyurl.com/4by2evfs
Alt-text: The cover of The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health which features artwork of a woman curled around, holding her abdomen due to pain from endometriosis. The world map is visible in the background. Copyright: Cover image by Elizabeth Sanduvete Chaves.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
luzuzek.bsky.social
Our study of 400 million tweets shows that the “war on science” is far more complex than a simple clash between truth and falsehood.

🔍 read more in our latest article

magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/what...

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@vtraag.bsky.social
What a 400-Million-Tweet study revealed about the “War on Science”
The European project “Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates” (UnMiSSeD) aims at understanding the overlap between science and misinformation with a particular focus on the COVID...
magazine.fbk.eu
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
ulyssemarquis.bsky.social
Our work on the dynamics of urban expansion just got published in the Physical Review Letters ! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Universal Roughness and the Dynamics of Urban Expansion
Urban sprawl reshapes cities, yet its quantitative laws remain elusive. Analyzing built-up expansion in 19 cities (1985--2015) with tools from surface growth physics in radial geometry, we reveal anis...
journals.aps.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
netscience.bsky.social
Mapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweets arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481
Mapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweets
During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific knowledge evolved rapidly, accompanied by a surge of misinformation, labelled an infodemic by the WHO. In this context, we study the interaction between scienc...
arxiv.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
vtraag.bsky.social
📢 New reviewed preprint, published by @elife.bsky.social at doi.org/10.7554/eLif.... We study two effects in science funding across 14 different funding programmes from 6 research funders across Europe and North America: (1) The Matthew effect; and (2) and the early-career setback effect.

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Illustration of the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. An academic, say Alice, first applies for early-career funding in 2015. She received early-career funding, and goes on to reapply for later-career funding in 2020. According to the Matthew effect, the chances of Alice receiving later-career funding is higher when she received early-career funding. Alice showed a high Mean Field Citation Rate (MFCR) before receiving her early-career funding, and similarly a high MFCR in between the early-career and later-career applications. According to the early-career setback effect, had she instead not received funding, her "Between" MFCR would have been higher. We not only study the "Between" MFCR, we also study the MFCR after the early-career application ("Post (early)") and after the later-career application ("Post (later)").
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
luzuzek.bsky.social
🚨 Finally our paper

"Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli"

is out 🤩 doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri and @ricgallotti.bsky.social

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Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Human cooperation arises naturally and is essential for the development of successful societies. This study aims to identify which aspects of the interaction influence societal cooperation and defection. Specifically, we investigate human cooperation ...
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
ulyssemarquis.bsky.social
New pre-print out ! Work led by @eleandre.bsky.social, in collaboration with M. Napolitano and @ricgallotti.bsky.social. Using Foursquare data from Bologna, we find that the distribution of POIs follows a clear power-law pattern at the city scale. To explain this, we introduce a framework where ...
arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social physics.soc-ph @arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social · Sep 3
Scale-free Points-of-Interest Distribution in a City Emerging from Homogeneous Poissonian-point Processes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01699
September 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
matteoscianna.bsky.social
📣🚨 New work out on @plos.org Computational Biology!

Excited and proud to have provided the world with more maps of Puglia🕷️

Thank you all @luzuzek.bsky.social Oriol Artime @ricgallotti.bsky.social @mtizzoni.bsky.social

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
💊main results below👇
Comparing the effectiveness of ring and block-vaccination strategies on networks
Author summary Infectious diseases such as measles and Ebola have shown how quickly outbreaks can spread and how essential vaccination is to protect individuals. In our work, we investigate a spectrum...
journals.plos.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
tlouf.bsky.social
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 ⏬
July 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
simonecent.bsky.social
🚀Job loss disrupts individuals’ mobility and their exploratory patterns🚀
Thanks to a great collaboration with @marcodena.bsky.social, @marcotonin.bsky.social, Bruno Lepri and @lorenzolucchini.bsky.social our latest study is finally out in iScience!
July 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
netscience.bsky.social
Mapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweets arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481
Mapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweets
During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific understanding related to the topic evolved rapidly. Along with scientific information being discussed widely, a large circulation of false information, labelle...
arxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
luzuzek.bsky.social
So excited to see this come together! 🎉

Our latest study explores the interplay between science and misinformation in public debates during COVID-19 🔍 arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481

👇Take a look
July 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
payoub.bsky.social
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
chub-fbk.bsky.social
Cocktails in Paris 🥂
Thanks @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social for this amazing view ✨🇫🇷

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June 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
chub-fbk.bsky.social
🚨If you're around Paris come to see @tlouf.bsky.social talking today about the structure and dynamics of information flow on Telegram at @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social and @css-fr.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
chub-fbk.bsky.social
🎙️Busy morning today at @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social for CHuB talking about mis/disinformation on Twitter and Mastodon

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June 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
ulyssemarquis.bsky.social
How do cities expand?
Using surface growth physics, we found a unique exponent governing their local geometry. Instead, their dynamics range from smooth diffusion to abrupt coalescence, with demographic pressure driving where each city lands on that spectrum.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.10656
Universal roughness and the dynamics of urban expansion
We present a new approach to quantify urban sprawl using tools from surface growth physics. Analyzing built-up area expansion in 19 cities (1985-2015), we uncover anisotropic growth with branch-like e...
arxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
chub-fbk.bsky.social
Summer vibes in Trento ☀️

perfect for a CHuB-day at the Caldonazzo lake ⛰️🏖️

@ricgallotti.bsky.social @luzuzek.bsky.social @tlouf.bsky.social @andreaguizzo.bsky.social @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social
The @css-conference.bsky.social is offering travel grants for presenters from low- and middle-income countries who need support for travel, fees, or visas.

Last week to apply & share your research in person:
👉 ccs25.cssociety.org/open-arms-gr...

#CCS2025 #OpenArmsGrant
June 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reposted by Lucila Álvarez-Žužek
vtraag.bsky.social
Great to see @luzuzek.bsky.social present our work on the interaction between science and misinformation during COVID-19 yesterday at @netsciconf.bsky.social
Lucila stands in front of slides with two network visualizations of papers highlighting which papers are more often shared by scientists (left) and reliable users (right), with more reliable users/scientists displayed in yellow and less reliable/non-scientists in purple.
June 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
luzuzek.bsky.social
Hello world 👩🏼‍💻
June 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM