Manlio De Domenico
@manlius.bsky.social
Emergence, Networks & Complexity | Collective Behavior(s) from Cells to Societies 🧬🦠🧠🌇
Prof. @UniPadova, Galileo's University | Lab: @comunelab.bsky.social | Web: https://linktr.ee/manlius
Thoughts at manlius.substack.com
Prof. @UniPadova, Galileo's University | Lab: @comunelab.bsky.social | Web: https://linktr.ee/manlius
Thoughts at manlius.substack.com
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Manlio De Domenico
@manlius.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Complexity Thoughts
YouTube video by Manlio De Domenico
www.youtube.com
Why #ComplexitySci is fascinating?
#ComplexSystems are ubiquitous!🧬🦠🧫🔬🐠🦜🧠🌪️🧪
And provide an analytical framework to study the behavior of phys, bio, eco, human & artificial systems #AcademicSky
Curious? I write about them 👉 #ComplexityThoughts: manlius.substack.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Sv...
#ComplexSystems are ubiquitous!🧬🦠🧫🔬🐠🦜🧠🌪️🧪
And provide an analytical framework to study the behavior of phys, bio, eco, human & artificial systems #AcademicSky
Curious? I write about them 👉 #ComplexityThoughts: manlius.substack.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Sv...
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Reduction down to a single source is abstracting away too much #information and losing the explanatory power of understanding deeper, #complex connections in an interdependent world.
The problem is, that this is the perfect way to mislead people w/BS, intentional or not.
bsky.app/profile/manl...
The problem is, that this is the perfect way to mislead people w/BS, intentional or not.
bsky.app/profile/manl...
Excess mortality is *not* a simple count. It's a deviation capturing direct deaths, indirect effects, misclassification, delayed care: all shocks moving through a connected system. One number, many mechanisms.
w/ @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
manlius.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
#ComplexityThoughts
w/ @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
manlius.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
#ComplexityThoughts
Can a single number tell a story about a complex society?
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics”
manlius.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Reduction down to a single source is abstracting away too much #information and losing the explanatory power of understanding deeper, #complex connections in an interdependent world.
The problem is, that this is the perfect way to mislead people w/BS, intentional or not.
bsky.app/profile/manl...
The problem is, that this is the perfect way to mislead people w/BS, intentional or not.
bsky.app/profile/manl...
Reposted by Manlio De Domenico
"The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics," my lecture series for the Great Courses (24 half-hour lectures), is still available on Prime video for a few days! Tell your family that watching football on Thanksgiving is hopelessly uncool.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics," my lecture series for the Great Courses (24 half-hour lectures), is still available on Prime video for a few days! Tell your family that watching football on Thanksgiving is hopelessly uncool.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
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Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science?
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science?
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
Excess mortality is *not* a simple count. It's a deviation capturing direct deaths, indirect effects, misclassification, delayed care: all shocks moving through a connected system. One number, many mechanisms.
w/ @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
manlius.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
#ComplexityThoughts
w/ @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
manlius.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
#ComplexityThoughts
Can a single number tell a story about a complex society?
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics”
manlius.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Excess mortality is *not* a simple count. It's a deviation capturing direct deaths, indirect effects, misclassification, delayed care: all shocks moving through a connected system. One number, many mechanisms.
w/ @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
manlius.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
#ComplexityThoughts
w/ @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
manlius.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
#ComplexityThoughts
Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science?
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science?
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
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Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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400 years old shark.
Slow growth, slow metabolism.
No meetings, and no AI to enhance productivity.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Slow growth, slow metabolism.
No meetings, and no AI to enhance productivity.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)
Greenland sharks can live to be 400 years old and only become sexually mature at 150, raising conservation concerns.
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
400 years old shark.
Slow growth, slow metabolism.
No meetings, and no AI to enhance productivity.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Slow growth, slow metabolism.
No meetings, and no AI to enhance productivity.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
🧵 1/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
🧵 1/
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
🧵 1/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
🧵 1/
This study tested whether an unexpected event, such as the presence of a person dressed as Batman, could increase prosocial behavior by disrupting routine.
Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This study tested whether an unexpected event, such as the presence of a person dressed as Batman, could increase prosocial behavior by disrupting routine.
Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Not perfect 📸, but fair enough for 1h exposure.
Bortle 7 sky.
No telescope, no AI.
#Astrophotography #Pleiades #M45
Bortle 7 sky.
No telescope, no AI.
#Astrophotography #Pleiades #M45
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Not perfect 📸, but fair enough for 1h exposure.
Bortle 7 sky.
No telescope, no AI.
#Astrophotography #Pleiades #M45
Bortle 7 sky.
No telescope, no AI.
#Astrophotography #Pleiades #M45
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NASA Simulation’s Plunge Into a Black Hole: Explained
YouTube video by NASA Goddard
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Manlio De Domenico
Finalizing my pop public talk about modeling for #ComplexSystems, #DigitalTwins, #ClimateChange.
A journey covering nearly 6,000 years, from Helios’s sun to Thor’s thunders, from the Tiangou to chatGPT.
Challenge: explain complicated concepts without math.
Can you guess what this slide is about?
A journey covering nearly 6,000 years, from Helios’s sun to Thor’s thunders, from the Tiangou to chatGPT.
Challenge: explain complicated concepts without math.
Can you guess what this slide is about?
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Finalizing my pop public talk about modeling for #ComplexSystems, #DigitalTwins, #ClimateChange.
A journey covering nearly 6,000 years, from Helios’s sun to Thor’s thunders, from the Tiangou to chatGPT.
Challenge: explain complicated concepts without math.
Can you guess what this slide is about?
A journey covering nearly 6,000 years, from Helios’s sun to Thor’s thunders, from the Tiangou to chatGPT.
Challenge: explain complicated concepts without math.
Can you guess what this slide is about?
Science confirms I’m an improbable cocktail of Viking, Phoenician and Arabian ancestry, apparently 🙃
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fifteen millennia of human mitogenome evolution in Sicily
Mitogenomes spanning 15 millennia reveal a genetic discontinuity within Sicily and continuous gene flow from Eurasia and Africa.
www.science.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Science confirms I’m an improbable cocktail of Viking, Phoenician and Arabian ancestry, apparently 🙃
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
NASA Simulation’s Plunge Into a Black Hole: Explained
YouTube video by NASA Goddard
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Finalizing my pop public talk about modeling for #ComplexSystems, #DigitalTwins, #ClimateChange.
A journey covering nearly 6,000 years, from Helios’s sun to Thor’s thunders, from the Tiangou to chatGPT.
Challenge: explain complicated concepts without math.
Can you guess what this slide is about?
A journey covering nearly 6,000 years, from Helios’s sun to Thor’s thunders, from the Tiangou to chatGPT.
Challenge: explain complicated concepts without math.
Can you guess what this slide is about?
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Finalizing my pop public talk about modeling for #ComplexSystems, #DigitalTwins, #ClimateChange.
A journey covering nearly 6,000 years, from Helios’s sun to Thor’s thunders, from the Tiangou to chatGPT.
Challenge: explain complicated concepts without math.
Can you guess what this slide is about?
A journey covering nearly 6,000 years, from Helios’s sun to Thor’s thunders, from the Tiangou to chatGPT.
Challenge: explain complicated concepts without math.
Can you guess what this slide is about?
Looking at the current homepage of #ComplexityThoughts it is clear that I don't like #ComplexSystems at all.
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Looking at the current homepage of #ComplexityThoughts it is clear that I don't like #ComplexSystems at all.
Reposted by Manlio De Domenico
Make Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence Again!
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Make Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence Again!
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
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È bello cercare la bellezza nascosta dove sembra esserci solo buio. È bello stupirsi ancora una volta, nonostante tutto.
Cintura e Nebulosa di Orione (ovvero come rilassarsi a LBT, a fine notte, dopo le osservazioni).
Che la serata sia un abbraccio 🫂
Cintura e Nebulosa di Orione (ovvero come rilassarsi a LBT, a fine notte, dopo le osservazioni).
Che la serata sia un abbraccio 🫂
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
È bello cercare la bellezza nascosta dove sembra esserci solo buio. È bello stupirsi ancora una volta, nonostante tutto.
Cintura e Nebulosa di Orione (ovvero come rilassarsi a LBT, a fine notte, dopo le osservazioni).
Che la serata sia un abbraccio 🫂
Cintura e Nebulosa di Orione (ovvero come rilassarsi a LBT, a fine notte, dopo le osservazioni).
Che la serata sia un abbraccio 🫂
Understanding the process that favored the emergence of life is not just about looking backward to 🌎’s first dawn: it’s about learning how complexity itself begins and how it might arise again, elsewhere.
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Understanding the process that favored the emergence of life is not just about looking backward to 🌎’s first dawn: it’s about learning how complexity itself begins and how it might arise again, elsewhere.
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
Absolutely stunning how media give so much voice to a scientist talking about international conspiracies to hide the "truth" about a gigantic alien spaceship, publishing "articles" on social media.
While no voice is given to scientists publishung everyday evidence on real pressing problems.
🤦
While no voice is given to scientists publishung everyday evidence on real pressing problems.
🤦
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Absolutely stunning how media give so much voice to a scientist talking about international conspiracies to hide the "truth" about a gigantic alien spaceship, publishing "articles" on social media.
While no voice is given to scientists publishung everyday evidence on real pressing problems.
🤦
While no voice is given to scientists publishung everyday evidence on real pressing problems.
🤦
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In Padua on Nov 20th?
I’ll give a public non-technical talk, in the beautiful Sala del Romanino at the Eremitani Museum
In 40 minutes, we’ll travel from 3340 B.C. to 2100, exploring how demons, oracles & models have helped humans make sense of the world. Join!
🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
I’ll give a public non-technical talk, in the beautiful Sala del Romanino at the Eremitani Museum
In 40 minutes, we’ll travel from 3340 B.C. to 2100, exploring how demons, oracles & models have helped humans make sense of the world. Join!
🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In Padua on Nov 20th?
I’ll give a public non-technical talk, in the beautiful Sala del Romanino at the Eremitani Museum
In 40 minutes, we’ll travel from 3340 B.C. to 2100, exploring how demons, oracles & models have helped humans make sense of the world. Join!
🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
I’ll give a public non-technical talk, in the beautiful Sala del Romanino at the Eremitani Museum
In 40 minutes, we’ll travel from 3340 B.C. to 2100, exploring how demons, oracles & models have helped humans make sense of the world. Join!
🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
In Padua on Nov 20th?
I’ll give a public non-technical talk, in the beautiful Sala del Romanino at the Eremitani Museum
In 40 minutes, we’ll travel from 3340 B.C. to 2100, exploring how demons, oracles & models have helped humans make sense of the world. Join!
🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
I’ll give a public non-technical talk, in the beautiful Sala del Romanino at the Eremitani Museum
In 40 minutes, we’ll travel from 3340 B.C. to 2100, exploring how demons, oracles & models have helped humans make sense of the world. Join!
🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In Padua on Nov 20th?
I’ll give a public non-technical talk, in the beautiful Sala del Romanino at the Eremitani Museum
In 40 minutes, we’ll travel from 3340 B.C. to 2100, exploring how demons, oracles & models have helped humans make sense of the world. Join!
🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
I’ll give a public non-technical talk, in the beautiful Sala del Romanino at the Eremitani Museum
In 40 minutes, we’ll travel from 3340 B.C. to 2100, exploring how demons, oracles & models have helped humans make sense of the world. Join!
🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
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According to decades of behavioral experiments, humans defy logic.
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/the-unreas...
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/the-unreas...
The unreasonable math of decisions? Part I
Non-classical behaviors without quantum brains
manlius.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
According to decades of behavioral experiments, humans defy logic.
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/the-unreas...
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/the-unreas...
According to decades of behavioral experiments, humans defy logic.
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/the-unreas...
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/the-unreas...
The unreasonable math of decisions? Part I
Non-classical behaviors without quantum brains
manlius.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
According to decades of behavioral experiments, humans defy logic.
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/the-unreas...
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/the-unreas...