Ansammlungen von mehr als 5 Personen verboten, Abstandhalten auf Baustellen Pflicht – so will der Bundesrat die Bevölkerung schützen und überlastete Spitäler verhindern. Wir alle stehen in der Verantwortung: Bleiben Sie wenn möglich zu Hause! #CoronaInfoCH

Credo che il governo debba smettere di mandare in televisione Borrelli a recitare numeri sempre più gravi ma incompleti e sostanzialmente inutilizzabili. 1/

“Switzerland is the safest country in the world right now for COVID-19.” forbes.com/sites/johnkoet…

Dear worldwide network science community, can you help us spread the word? 5 fully-funded scholarships available at CEU Department of Network & Data Science Central European University in Vienna, to start in September 2021. Applications deadline: February 28th, 2021. networkdatascience.ceu.edu/phd-program-ne… Why DNDS CEU in Vienna? Well... 1/

My colleague Jon Kleinberg and his coauthors trained a chess engine to play more like a human. It learned what kinds of mistakes human players make at specific skill levels, as well as the level of skill where they stop making them. news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/0…

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"Life is about taking challenges" - Magnus Carlsen: The Breakthrough Junior Challenge aims to bring big ideas in life sciences, physics and math to people all over the world. Find out more about this year's challenge in this 3-minute video. #ChessChamps youtube.com/watch?v=fW2gGg…

A PhD in Social Networks and Learning? A new doctoral program in the Learning Sciences (jointly at ETH Zurich Zürich and EPFL Lausanne🇨🇭) is recruiting a first cohort of doctoral students with a possible affiliation with Social Networks Lab (deadline Dec 1) 👩‍🎓🏞️🏔️ lse.ethz.ch/doctoral-progr…

Two years of planning, meeting, negotiating, discussing, writing. This Master aims to provide all the notions of #SNA I wish I had access to when I first fell in love with this perspective. Interdisciplinary, multi-methods, and a lot, lot of fun!

A study in Nature Communications reports a model to describe the formation of online communities and rise of influencers on social media platforms, based on the quality of user generated content. go.nature.com/3rnWdAM

Mathematics: Investigating how social media influencers arise Research highlight | Nature Communications go.nature.com/3lnjzCY #SocialMedia #influencer #SocialNetworks

A simple mechanistic model explaining some of the statistics we see on social network platforms based on user-generated content: nccr-automation.ch/news/2022/behi… @nccr_automation Nicolò Pagan Arian Bastani Nature Communications

A team of researchers of the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the @nccr_automation, investigated how social media #influencers arise and how communities form around them. The results may lead to measures that mitigate the polarization that occurs on the platforms. ee.ethz.ch/news-and-event…

In 2013, I was asked to contribute to a collection of essays on the theme, "What should we be worried about?" This was my answer at the time.

Are #socialnetworks' #recommendationsystems #fair? We recently discussed this at the EANA - The European Alliance of News Agencies conference on #socialmedia #trends of the #young generations. Thanks to my collaborators Florian Dörfler, Wenjun Mei, Ancsa Hannak, and funds @nccr_automation. nicolo-pagan.github.io/research/EANA_…

I’m honored to be appointed to the United Nations High-level Advisory Body on AI. I’m looking forward to contributing, together with this esteemed group of people from all over the world, towards global governance for AI to realize its potential for the benefit of humanity.

Our last talk of the Respecting Preferences session is, “A Classification of Feedback Loops and Their Relation to Biases in Automated Decision-Making Systems” and is being presented by Nicolò Pagan and Joachim Baumann! #EAAMO23 (1/3)