Michele Tizzoni
@mtizzoni.bsky.social
Associate professor at Uni Trento. Infectious disease modeling | computational social science.
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Michele Tizzoni
@mtizzoni.bsky.social
· Feb 17
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities - Nature Human Behaviour
Xu et al. review applications of urban mobility behaviour data and propose a temporal bipartite network that reveals mobility patterns between people and places. It helps to track urban inequalities i...
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🎉 Today, our perspective on "Using mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities" is finally published in Nature Human Behavior. I am honored to be listed among many stellar coauthors and thankful for their valuable insights.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Intersectional inequalities in social ties www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Intersectional inequalities in social ties
At identity intersections, inequality transforms, revealing network patterns that single-dimensional models fail to explain.
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Intersectional inequalities in social ties www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble
www.wkow.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Proud of this work published in @pnasnexus.org! Thanks to @marcotonin.bsky.social and Bruno Lepri for a great collaboration!
Who people spend time with in physical space is more predictive of voting behavior than who they connect with online, according to a study. The study uses real-world colocation data derived from the Facebook app’s location services feature. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/PBTe50XhFcC
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Proud of this work published in @pnasnexus.org! Thanks to @marcotonin.bsky.social and Bruno Lepri for a great collaboration!
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Who people spend time with in physical space is more predictive of voting behavior than who they connect with online, according to a study. The study uses real-world colocation data derived from the Facebook app’s location services feature. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/PBTe50XhFcC
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Who people spend time with in physical space is more predictive of voting behavior than who they connect with online, according to a study. The study uses real-world colocation data derived from the Facebook app’s location services feature. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/PBTe50XhFcC
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I meno svegli potranno dire che non dovuto ad azione dell'uomo.
Quelli fessi proprio dicono che è sempre stato così.
@giuliofirenze.bsky.social
Quelli fessi proprio dicono che è sempre stato così.
@giuliofirenze.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I meno svegli potranno dire che non dovuto ad azione dell'uomo.
Quelli fessi proprio dicono che è sempre stato così.
@giuliofirenze.bsky.social
Quelli fessi proprio dicono che è sempre stato così.
@giuliofirenze.bsky.social
Un dato drammatico che resta quasi del tutto ignorato.
Solo il 32% dei 25-34enni italiani ha una laurea contro il 44% della media dell'Unione Europea. L'Italia ha il secondo peggior dato dopo quello della Romania. Siamo anche uno dei paesi con più giovani che si fermano alla terza media, quasi uno su cinque.
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Un dato drammatico che resta quasi del tutto ignorato.
Reposted by Michele Tizzoni
Solo il 32% dei 25-34enni italiani ha una laurea contro il 44% della media dell'Unione Europea. L'Italia ha il secondo peggior dato dopo quello della Romania. Siamo anche uno dei paesi con più giovani che si fermano alla terza media, quasi uno su cinque.
October 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Solo il 32% dei 25-34enni italiani ha una laurea contro il 44% della media dell'Unione Europea. L'Italia ha il secondo peggior dato dopo quello della Romania. Siamo anche uno dei paesi con più giovani che si fermano alla terza media, quasi uno su cinque.
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I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems.
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems.
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
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Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
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arXiv alert! 📄🚨
A review paper about the physics of news, rumors, and opinions
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053
w @manlius.bsky.social @sarawalk.bsky.social Guido Cadarelli et al.
A review paper about the physics of news, rumors, and opinions
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053
w @manlius.bsky.social @sarawalk.bsky.social Guido Cadarelli et al.
The Physics of News, Rumors, and Opinions
The boundaries between physical and social networks have narrowed with the advent of the Internet and its pervasive platforms. This has given rise to a complex adaptive information ecosystem where ind...
arxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
arXiv alert! 📄🚨
A review paper about the physics of news, rumors, and opinions
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053
w @manlius.bsky.social @sarawalk.bsky.social Guido Cadarelli et al.
A review paper about the physics of news, rumors, and opinions
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053
w @manlius.bsky.social @sarawalk.bsky.social Guido Cadarelli et al.
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
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Learn, code, and connect 🌎
The Social Network Summer School 2026 (Jan 12–16, Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱) brings together keynotes speakers & ChiSocNet scholars for a hands-on week in R + network modeling.
Apply before Nov 5 ➡️ snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
@insna.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
The Social Network Summer School 2026 (Jan 12–16, Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱) brings together keynotes speakers & ChiSocNet scholars for a hands-on week in R + network modeling.
Apply before Nov 5 ➡️ snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
@insna.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Learn, code, and connect 🌎
The Social Network Summer School 2026 (Jan 12–16, Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱) brings together keynotes speakers & ChiSocNet scholars for a hands-on week in R + network modeling.
Apply before Nov 5 ➡️ snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
@insna.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
The Social Network Summer School 2026 (Jan 12–16, Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱) brings together keynotes speakers & ChiSocNet scholars for a hands-on week in R + network modeling.
Apply before Nov 5 ➡️ snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
@insna.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
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Latest out: Social inequalities in vaccine coverage and their effects on epidemic spreading. Great collaboration with Adriana Manna and @martonkarsai.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Social inequalities in vaccine coverage and their effects on epidemic spreading
Author summary We investigate how social inequalities in vaccination uptake influence epidemic outcomes. To this end, we adopt a generalized modeling framework to incorporate socioeconomic status (SES...
journals.plos.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Latest out: Social inequalities in vaccine coverage and their effects on epidemic spreading. Great collaboration with Adriana Manna and @martonkarsai.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Latest out: Controlling the spread of deception-based cyber-threats on time-varying networks. Great collaboration with @ngozzi.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2510.00731
October 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Latest out: Controlling the spread of deception-based cyber-threats on time-varying networks. Great collaboration with @ngozzi.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2510.00731
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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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New paper in NHB 📄🚨
We ran extensive experiments to show that making the rules of some canonical economic games looser, makes people more cooperative
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We ran extensive experiments to show that making the rules of some canonical economic games looser, makes people more cooperative
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social networking agency and prosociality are inextricably linked in economic games - Nature Human Behaviour
Jia et al. experimentally show that when individuals can tailor their actions to each neighbour—a freedom termed social networking agency—they display higher levels of cooperation, trust and fairness in economic games.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
New paper in NHB 📄🚨
We ran extensive experiments to show that making the rules of some canonical economic games looser, makes people more cooperative
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We ran extensive experiments to show that making the rules of some canonical economic games looser, makes people more cooperative
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📣 New paper out! ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I’m deeply grateful to @ariadnaalbors.bsky.social and @gcampedelli.bsky.social for this project, which has taken me into the realm of crime forecasting for the first time.
I’m deeply grateful to @ariadnaalbors.bsky.social and @gcampedelli.bsky.social for this project, which has taken me into the realm of crime forecasting for the first time.
September 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
📣 New paper out! ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I’m deeply grateful to @ariadnaalbors.bsky.social and @gcampedelli.bsky.social for this project, which has taken me into the realm of crime forecasting for the first time.
I’m deeply grateful to @ariadnaalbors.bsky.social and @gcampedelli.bsky.social for this project, which has taken me into the realm of crime forecasting for the first time.
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Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships
If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.
Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.
Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
September 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships
If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.
Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.
Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
Epidemic amplification by correlated superspreading
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15338
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15338
Epidemic amplification by correlated superspreading
Infectious pathogens often propagate by superspreading, which focusses onward transmission on disproportionately few infected individuals. At the same time, infector-infectee pairs tend to have more s...
arxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Epidemic amplification by correlated superspreading
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15338
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15338
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Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature
People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by ...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...