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estebanmoro

@estebanmoro@datasci.social

Researcher, scientist. Associate professor @uc3m & researcher @mit Connection Science

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Food LEGO!

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi7069

Seems like molecular gastronomy supercharged.

I'm most curious about what kinds of new textures it can unlock.

estebanmoro,
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@yy bold way to start your paper and first figure: "The idea of building large structures from small building blocks has had a long history in the human imagination, from the beautifully intricate shells assembled from silica by unicellular algae to the Egyptian pyramids built from stone."

yoginho, to random
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Christmas is coming early this year: we just dropped a new preprint!

"Beyond networks: explaining dynamics in the natural and social sciences."

https://osf.io/htc78

It's a broad criticism of network modeling in both the natural & social sciences & a study of where its shortcomings originate historically. 🧵

estebanmoro,
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@manlius @teixi @yoginho @junosz @axoaxonic @beneuroscience @cyrilpedia @DrYohanJohn Yes, the writing is really ambiguous. In any case, I think the preprint will improve if it acknowledges the vast literature of temporal and multilayer networks. Some of the ideas in the preprint are already contained in the literature. For example, we (and many other) found that temporal networks are intrinsically different than their static aggregated representations

estebanmoro, to random
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📣 New work! Places, businesses, and amenities depend on each other. Using massive human mobility data, we unravel that behavioral-based network of dependencies, important for resilient planning, policy-making, and urban design.

Lifestyles of urban dwellers connect places & businesses really far away. Dependency between businesses goes beyond the traditional "proximity" paradigm. That long-range structure improves predictability of urban shocks (e.g., COVID19) by 40%.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18108

estebanmoro, (edited ) to random
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During the last weeks, I have been meeting with (~20) students interested in funded positions at my new SUN group
at the Network Science Institute. It was an enriching experience. Here are some thoughts (1/2):

  • Most students prepare really well for the meeting! Slides, research ideas, etc. Be ready!
  • ChatGPT is here; it is obvious and sometimes helpful. But, please, don't use it for your first communication with other people.
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Children's independent mobility has declined, together with mental health. Probably not a coincidence: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/26/new-study-in-the-journal-of-pediatrics-says-maybe-its-not-social-media-but-helicopter-parenting-thats-making-kids-depressed/

estebanmoro,
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@robinlovelace @giocomai @mszll @martinfleis my experience growing as a kid is that cul de sac play a similar role in cities. It could be another natural experiment

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📢I'm recruiting fully-funded PhD students to join me in my new group, Social Urban Networks Lab, at the Network Science Institute, under the PhD program in Network Science. Join me! Application deadline is Dec 1st. Please RT! More information at http://estebanmoro.org

estebanmoro, to random
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📢 We are hiring a postdoc/researcher at my new group (SUN) at the Network Science Institute (Northeastern University). Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? Contact me! Please re-post

Here is the offer:

https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campus/Postdoctoral-Research-Associate-Associate-Research-Scientist---Social-Urban-Networks_R119961

estebanmoro,
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@stevensanderson #rstats !

estebanmoro, to random
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What a fantastic program for this year's edition of @NetMob23: Official statistics, bias reduction, inequality, air pollution, economic prediction, and more incredible research/applications with mobile phone data. See you in Madrid this October!

https://netmob.org/program/

jlovato, to random

I defend my dissertation in one week! So so exciting and nerve racking. Stories always calm my nerves. What was your defense like? (Give me the good the bad and the ugly) #phd

estebanmoro, (edited )
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@jlovato My story: relax. You are the world's top leader expert on the subject of your thesis, so everything is going to be okay. My defense had 3 hours of exciting questions from 5 members of the Committee. I wish I could attend yours! I'm sure it will be great. Enjoy the moment

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A must-read about recent Meta collaboration. It shows the scale, depth, and problems of Computational Social Science when industry-academy collaborations are needed to understand large-scale social problems.

Independence by permission | Science

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adi2430

estebanmoro,
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Here are some exciting quotes from the article:

The project was mostly between Meta and nearly 100 North-American based scholars.

"some project structures that were appropriate to US-based faculty are unlikely to apply to other parts of the world."

estebanmoro,
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Understanding how and what data companies collect is crucial to shaping the research question.

"academics were not precisely aware of how Fb groups were joined and, in some cases, left, by users. [...] this led to changes in the working paper examining behavioral polarization"

estebanmoro,
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Also, academic and corporate culture is very different. This example is great 😅and sad and tells a lot about academia 🙃:

"academics learned about corporate cultural behaviors: Meta staff did not work, unlike many of the outside academics who regularly worked while on vacation"

estebanmoro,
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The final messages are the most important for the CSS community:

"Perhaps the biggest problem with 2020EP is that it worked so well; the high quality of scholarship may encourage interpretations that the project is a model for future social media company—academy collaborations"

hirokisayama, to random

NRT
Heading to NetSci 2023 @ Wien

estebanmoro,
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@hirokisayama sorry to miss you at netsci. Are you going to IC2S2?

estebanmoro,
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@hirokisayama Too bad! I hope to see you some other place soon!

estebanmoro, to random
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Really sorry to miss @netsci2023 this year. Our group will be well represented. Do not miss Taka’s presentations on our last work on urban networks. See you at @IC2S2 !!

estebanmoro, to random
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Goodbye Madrid! After two intense weeks teaching here is time to get back to Boston.

estebanmoro, to random
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New paper in Nature Communications! Changes of behavior during (lockdowns) and after (working from home, less exploration, etc.) the pandemic decreased by 15-30% the diversity of encounters in cities. This is likely the single most impactful event to affect experienced segregation in years. Fantastic work led by Takahiro Yabe and the rest of the team https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37913-y

estebanmoro, to mastodon
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Update on the growth of #mastodon in the last months. After the big wave of new accounts on Nov 17th, the growth seems steady for the last week at around 50k new accounts/users per day. Only in the last couple of weeks, 1M new accounts were added. At this rhythm, #mastodon will get 1.5M accounts/users per month.

estebanmoro, to mastodon
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Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

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