Flaminio Squazzoni

The same voting reform can polarize one democracy and moderate another. It comes down to system size. Thomas Mustillo (@KeoughGlobalND, @KelloggInst) breaks down his new #JASSS paper on party competition under costly voting🎥youtu.be/lWkAIoc_hIE

Here is our latest @LaStatale @BehaveLab_unimi @MarcoV_98 paper. We studied how the structure of the @Bitcoin transaction network evolved during periods of uncertainty, including the 2014 Mt. #Gox crisis and the #COVID #pandemic. Check it out! academic.oup.com/ser/advance-ar…

Why is it so hard to stop eating #UltraProcessedFoods? The simple truth is that dieting alone will not do it. A new #ABM study shows that only drastically reducing UPF availability can reverse learned food preferences. Read the full #OA article in #JASSS: jasss.org/29/3/3.html

Finding out that the European Commission has selected my proposal, PRISM, to promote sustainable #peerreview innovations in #journals and #publishing platforms for funding is a great way to start the summer! More news to follow!

Happy to be part of this new #journal on research on #research with a bunch of friends and colleagues including @GemmaDerrick @tonyR_H and many others! roration.org/j-ror

@BruceEdmonds @JASSSJournal It's all fake: I mean the @JASSSJournal editor, the t-shirt, the person who pretends to be me, the sea and all the rest!

@JASSSJournal @squazzoni I still want one of those t-shirts!

It looks like our editor @squazzoni took some days off. Don't expect prompt replies in the next couple of days!

System-level interventions can ignite cascades of change. They can also collapse under mis-targeting. New #JASSS paper by @gaveltri models the tradeoff and proposes a portfolio approach to scale power without losing the safety net Read #OpenAccess here: jasss.org/29/3/1.html

The case of @JASSSJournal could be relevant here (pro domo mea, superflous moral signalling statement)!

With @raffaelevacca & @FrancescoRenz27, we applied #network science methods to a dataset from a sales-network business community designed by Logotel . Check out what we found out! weconomy.it/en/mapping-the…

My friend and colleague @gaveltri has something to say about the pros and cons of different approaches to #behavioural #policy in this nice video below and his associated paper here jasss.org/29/3/1.html

At this link, you find the proceedings of a conference on Lucio #Fontana organised in 2024, with interesting contributions by art critics and historians on the incredible journey of this genius of the 20th Century. fondazioneluciofontana.it/en/2026/06/22/…

Do you want to learn how to design, implement, test, analyse and communicate #ABM agent-based #computational #simulation #modeling @NetLogo? We have still a few places available in our @LaStatale summer school 2026. Deadline for application on 5 July! behavelab.org/behave-summer-…

Super happy to see this joint paper by one of our @BehaveLab_unimi @LaStatale fellows @FrancescoRenz27 and Josh Epstein from @nyuniversity showing a nice example of #ABM #computational model that demonstrates that #fear and #adaptive #behaviour explain #finance #markets patterns!

@BehaveLab_unimi @federico_fb @FrancescoRenz27 @LaStatale @Elisabel76 nice paper!

Here is a new paper showing how negative social #networks ties influence the uptake of preventive anti-#malaria measures with data from a hard-to-reach village in Meghalaya, India! Congrats to @federico_fb & @FrancescoRenz27 from our @LaStatale lab! osf.io/preprints/soca…

Check out our latest #computational social science article with @ElenaDeGioannis @BehaveLab_unimi @LaStatale that shows that stereotypical views on older adults #ageing still prevail in the Italian media coverage journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Recent studies show AI is helping people pump out more papers. But are those papers good or slop? The recent Org Sci paper on this topic is probably the best evidence we have right now. (Caveats: just one journal, etc) TLDR: Slop A quick thread (1/n)

@BigBigBLessing talks on criminal leviathans at @CollegioCA today!

A #token based system for #peerreview? We should link the different roles of researchers (#authors, #reviewers #editors) to their academic #citizenship, i.e. the rights and duties of the social contract of #science with the #public cacm.acm.org/research/from-…

This is a call for expressions of interest only, ahead of possible future 18-month research appointments. Deadline: 30 June 2026 Call: tinyurl.com/socialfis Please circulate/share with potentially interested candidates.

@MishaTeplitskiy @umsi Congratulations!

I guess I'm no longer assisting and can finally ASSOCIATE!!! (And get ready for the posts / takes to get spicier! 🌶️🌶️🌶️) Huge thanks to my *students*, colleagues, advisors! And frankly huge thanks to @umsi for supporting junior faculty, and having reasonable standards, and good leadership. I hear at other places pre-tenure period can be super stressful and sleepless, but here it's been (almost entirely) fun! <3