We showcase this with the reconstruction of two large microbial interaction networks, from the human and earth microbiome projects. These involve more than 10⁵ species!
Have you seen reconstructed networks of this magnitude before? I haven't.
If you had the feeling that the online discussion about COVID-19 vaccines was biased depending on the actors, you are right.
Using #MachineLearning and #NetworkScience we have shown that being a human or a bot, verified or unverified (according to previous Twitter rules) and political leaning were relevant factors for choosing the words in posts and, accordingly, the corresponding emotions to trigger.
A genuine computational social science study, led by Anna Bertani for her Msc thesis, now published also in collaboration with Riccardo Gallotti and Pierluigi Sacco
A network that shaped our present: ~400,000 km of roads connecting thousands of cities & villages.
An emblematic physical manifestation of complex adaptive systems, allowing for goods, people and cultures to flow through continents and flourish along millennia.
From this map of Roman roads one can see where the winters are icy, snowy and awful in the Iberian peninsula ... Barely any roads.
The map also shows us how much the climate has changed: modern-day Tunisia and Northern Algeria where strong agricultural lands. Quite the contrast with today.
@albertcardona Exactly! That's in the keyword 'complex adaptive': since they have built a great infrastructure that at their time was satisfying their needs.
Reading this from Ecological Complexity: “The adaptive cycle: More than a metaphor” and wondering if you have favorite non-metaphorical perspectives on measuring adaptive capacity in organizations and networks?
@robin@christina@mariafarrell@Valdis@dajb@ntnsndr@RuthMalan Bassett's work goes into a lot of network science, so markov blankets a la Friston could easily be applied, in a formal sense, to curiosity networks / knowledge graphs. A lot of this is adjacent to the central Complex Adaptive Systems literature, so there's natural connections, but not necessarily in a "grand unifying insight" sense. "Adaptive Capacity" depends in my view on model constructs
Quiz: can you guess what it is (in terms of a general dynamical process or even using a specific example) just by watching how the system changes over time?
@manlius from what I see there are 4 states : the naive/resting one in grey, a very brief blue state (exposed?) followed by a transition to an orange state (infectious?), then a green state (recovered?), going back to the initial naive (susceptible?) state.
Hi fellow academics! I was wondering if y'all can give me some feedback on the poster I am working on for IJCAI (https://ijcai-23.org/)? I'm playing a bit with the design and how to make it attractive.
I'm attaching two screenshots. My questions are about the big eye-catcher in the middle. If you have a minute, can you please let me know what you think?
Do you get the reference?
Does the effort to make the reference distract you?
Do you think that the text in the big pink box has NSFW vibes?
Does the text in the big pink box help to pique your interest in the poster?
@ubi thanks! I guess that’s kind of the point, to have something stand out. If the take home message had been shorter, more to the point, no reference, do you think that that might work better for you?