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CEU Department of Network & Data Science
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Interdisciplinary. Analytical. Challenging. • Where #networkscience and #socialdatascience meet.

An international department with students and faculty from all over the world: networkdatascience.ceu.edu

Come join us! Take your career to the next level 🚀
🚨 New paper in EPJ Data Science! 🚨

@elisaomodei.bsky.social, Andrea Lo Sasso & Loredana Bellantuono study how cancer incidence relates to the Sustainable Development Goals using complex networks & ML.

🌱 Beyond health: agriculture, resources & water also matter.

🔗 bit.ly/4hHnwhW
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨

As part of our mini-interview series with DNDS faculty, today we introduce you to @elisaomodei.bsky.social, Associate Professor at @weareceu.bsky.social

#MeetDNDS #WeAreCEU #SocialDataScience #NetworkScience
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Join us at @weareceu.bsky.social for a special academic 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝗮́𝗻𝗼𝘀 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲́𝘀𝘇’𝘀 𝟳𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆 and his exceptional contributions to 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, & the study of 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀.
📆 Dec. 1
📍Vienna
Find all the information here 👉 bit.ly/3Jf5vuq
Complexity, Networks & the Economy: A Life in Models - 75th Birthday Symposium honoring János Kertész
events.ceu.edu
October 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📢 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗛-𝗔𝗧 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 & 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁 @ 𝗖𝗘𝗨 – 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!

Explore digital tools & projects in the humanities from CEU and partner institutions across Austria.

📍 CEU Auditorium, Vienna
🔗 Event details & registration: bit.ly/47dSGso

#DigitalHumanities #CEU
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨

As part of our mini-interview series with DNDS faculty, today we introduce you to Balázs Vedres @vedres.bsky.social, Professor at @weareceu.bsky.social.

#MeetDNDS #WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience
October 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🚨 New study in Scientific Reports!

Online peer support can complement clinical understanding of PMDD.

Analysis of 17k+ Reddit users over 12 years shows shifting comorbidities, diverse symptoms & treatments.

👉 bit.ly/4nySxGR

#WeAreCEU #PMDD #MentalHealth #Reddit #DNDSatCEU
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder in online peer support communities: a Reddit case study - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Premenstrual dysphoric disorder in online peer support communities: a Reddit case study
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October 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨

As part of our mini-interview series with DNDS faculty, today we introduce you to János Kertész, Professor at @weareceu.bsky.social.

#MeetDNDS #WeAreCeu #NetworkScience #DataScience
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🎓 Welcome to our new PhD cohort in Network Science!

(top row, L→R) Nathalia, Miguel @msanchezc.bsky.social, Zhina
(bottom row, L→R) Jiachen, Dima and Laura

Wishing you an inspiring start to your journey—looking forward to all the ideas and discoveries ahead! 💡🌍
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗡𝗗𝗦!

We started the year by doing a mini interview to our faculty members, so you can get to know them too. Today, we introduce you to @markwittek.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at @weareceu.bsky.social

#meetDNDS #weareceu #computationalsocialscience
September 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Are digital traces giving us a biased view of polarization? 🤔

New paper by Yijing Chen, @elisaomodei.bsky.social & co-authors shows that APIs capturing only visible engagement (💬 YouTube comments) may suggest stronger segregation than less visible forms (▶️ views).

🔗 bit.ly/3JAp2Fz
August 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New paper co-authored by @elisaomodei.bsky.social explores how combining complexity science & transdisciplinary approaches can foster learning & action for sustainability 🌍✨

Published in Humanities & Social Sciences Comms (Nature)

bit.ly/41qVGzp
Transdisciplinary complexity science: deepening system understanding for sustainability - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Transdisciplinary complexity science: deepening system understanding for sustainability
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August 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🕊️ How do social ties shape one of the world’s most secretive elections?

New paper by our PhD candidate Leonardo Rizzo et al. reveals hidden influence in the papal conclave through network analysis.

📘 Social Networks
🔗 bit.ly/450YDJn

#NetworkScience
July 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
DNDS at #IC2S2 2025 in Sweden

A strong presence at the top conference in computational social science!

10+ talks and posters by current & former members on networks, behavior, inequality and digital society.

#WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #SeeUatCEU
July 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Proud to share our presence at #StatPhys29!

Prof. @janoskertesz.bsky.social opened the conference as IUPAP Commission Chair
PhD students Helcio Felippe & @jymmt.bsky.social gave oral talks
Visiting Prof. @tiago.skewed.de gave an invited talk

Great to see DNDS at StatPhys!
July 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How do social inequalities shape epidemic outcomes?

Our PhD alum Adriana Manna shares insights from her award-winning dissertation on contact patterns, vaccination gaps & a novel modeling framework.

📖 Interview: bit.ly/44uT6KF

#NetworkScience #EpidemicModeling
How Do Socioeconomic Factors Influence Epidemic Outcomes? | Central European University
Research illuminating the characteristics driving behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic was carried out by PhD candidate Adrianna Manna.
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July 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
New paper in J. Royal Society Interface! We show that social structure—especially higher-order and overlapping interactions—is central to sustaining cooperation.

@onkarsadekar.bsky.social with @fede7j.bsky.social, Andrea Civilini & Vito Latora.

🔗 bit.ly/4lmhy6y
Drivers of cooperation in social dilemmas on higher‐order networks | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Understanding cooperation in social dilemmas requires models that capture the complexity of real-world interactions. While network frameworks have provided valuable insights to model the evolution of ...
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June 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reposted by CEU Department of Network & Data Science
Huge thanks to my brilliant collaborators, specially my supervisor
@fede7j.bsky.social
who has taught me so many things over the past few years!

Check out the open-access paper here:
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@ceu-dnds.bsky.social

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Drivers of cooperation in social dilemmas on higher‐order networks | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Understanding cooperation in social dilemmas requires models that capture the complexity of real-world interactions. While network frameworks have provided valuable insights to model the evolution of ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🎉 Our paper on leadership & success in software dev teams was selected for Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights!

By Lorenzo Betti, Federico Battiston, Luca Gallo & Johannes Wachs.

📄 Paper: bit.ly/45gn9GM
🌟 Highlights: bit.ly/43DJTPM

#WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #SeeUatCEU
The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams - Nature Communications
Understanding how team dynamics impact performance in collaborative environments remains an open question. Here, authors use fine-grained activity data from software projects to characterize team evol...
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June 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🎥 Missed Data Stories 11? The recording is now up! Dive into talks on networks, narratives & visualizing data.

▶️ bit.ly/4jBC2XI

#DataStories #DataViz #WeAreCEU
June 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
DNDS at NetSci 2025: 40+ talks, 3 awards, and a strong showing in Maastricht!

🔗 bit.ly/4dR6SKw

#WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #NetSci2025 #ComplexSystems
June 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🚨 Epidemics don’t hit everyone equally.
🎓 Adriana Manna wins CEU’s Best Dissertation Award for showing how social inequalities shape disease spread.

📖 Read it: bit.ly/4mJi5RD

#CEU #PhD #SocialJustice #Epidemiology
June 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
@martonkarsai.bsky.social (Professor and Head of Department at DNDS @weareceu.bsky.social) presented as a keynote speaker at #NetSci2025
TENET keynote Martin Karsai discusses static representations of temporal event networks
#NetSci2025
June 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Can we track epidemics at the individual level without invading privacy? New article by @odorg.bsky.social & @martonkarsai.bsky.social finds signs of epidemic awareness behavior in SARS-CoV-2 genetic data.
Read more: go.nature.com/3SRuw05

#GenomicEpidemiology #BehavioralEpidemiology #HumanDynamics
June 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📢 The Data Stories poster gallery is out! 📢

Come explore 16 eye-catching visualizations that turn data into stories — spanning science, the arts, and sports.

👉 bit.ly/43xT8zH

#DataStories #DataViz #ScienceCommunication #NetworkandDataScience #SeeUatCEU
CEU Data Stories 2025
An exhibition celebrating the role of data visualization in research across disciplines.
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May 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🚀 Data Stories – 11th Edition
Join us TOMORROW, May 20, 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm for a hybrid event featuring keynotes on data visualization and an exciting student poster exhibition!

🎤 Renata Raidou | Tobias Batik | Sandra Schober
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4mkABPQ

#DataStories #DataViz #SeeUatCEU
May 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM