New paper published!

Ever wondered how some seemingly well-functioning political systems can suddenly switch to a completely different behaviour?
Ever thought about the effect that the attention span of people towards news has on this?
Ever felt that the impact of indifferent people on the stability of the system may be stronger than that of committed persons?
Good! Here, we make a mathematical model that shows exactly this.

@benroyce I think you will find the last three paragraphs of the conclusions particularly interesting.

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/xd9p-tvz1

#physics #mathematics #science #complexnetworks #complexity #complexsystems #politics #bifurcations #propaganda #botfarms

✨Meet Cytoscape: Open Source Software for Visualizing Complex Networks

I share an article I wrote on Medium about this tool:

🔗https://medium.com/@vespinozag/cytoscape-open-source-software-for-visualizing-complex-networks-9e8175b32723

#Cytoscape #NetworkScience #MachineLearning #DataVisualization #Bioinformatics #ComplexNetworks

My student did a Science!

One week from now, Denisa Arsene will present the her BSc thesis research at the 14th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, held in Binghamton, New York, USA!

More details and preprint: https://latower.github.io/posts/2025/11/sana/

I'm super proud of her, and I'm super happy that I got to do this project with her and two of my former colleagues from Leiden University: Rachel de Jong and Frank Takes!

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #Preprint #Privacy #SocialNetworks #CombinatorialOptimisation #Combinatoris #StochasticSearch #SimulatedAnnealing #StudentLife #ComplexNetworks #Conference #Science #Research

Glad to present our work at INTROMET 2025 & engage in insightful discussions with fellow researchers. Congrats Shri Vignesh for the best poster award on "Role of turbulence in droplet size growth during the onset of precipitation in warm clouds".
#Conference #IITMadras #ClimateScience #Innovation #Atmosphere #Monsoon #Cyclone #Complexnetworks
The Roman road network was one of the greatest feats of ancient engineering, with over 400,000 km (yes!) of roads connecting an empire. Here I fused historical data with modern cities to show how Roman infrastructure still echoes in today’s Europe. #ComplexSystems #ComplexNetworks #History 🧪