This is a the network of political attitudes in the US in 2021. (Thus, nodes - i.e. the circles - are not people🧑 but attitudes🗣️). In the top figure you see the colors based on response level to a survey (i.e. red=the most Republican response, blue=the most Democrat, grey=the

Note: since this is very innovative, we still don't have "the whole system". Here we show that a completely "flat" system could work even with millions of people collaborating together. But future works should explore potential exploits, limitations, improvements, etc.

Do we really need representatives in a democracy? Our paper shows how systems based on collective intelligence could be used by citizens to identify and find solutions to their problems even at a national scale! https://t.co/REAoJXussz

I mean, at a certain point they even wrote that we claimed something when we actually claimed the exact opposite... 😅

So, somebody wrote a comment on one of my articles. Their core message is rather sound (indeed it's the same as what we wrote in our article). The problem is that they make so many mistakes I don't really know what to make of this... https://t.co/cYCnDiZrA8

Today we have the first public event of the Special Interest Group on Strongly Empirical Modelling, with a talk from Bruce Edmonds titled: Towards inferring clusters of “cognitive models” from survey data. See you at 2pm CET! https://t.co/HpQyNFZ3X3

Why do people prefer using statistical tests that nobody ever heard of instead of just bootstrapping? (I'm really asking, it's not a complaint or sarcastic or anything) Wouldn't bootstrapping also make results more understandable?

A talk between @JustaNormalDino and @dangerdailisan about remixing and collective intelligence! https://t.co/pnrxE3gjzY

Another figure from a (now retracted) scientific publication. I'm not an expert, but I feel proportions may be a little off... https://t.co/McE5l0tR8w

Yes, this is a real image from a scientific publication 😅 https://t.co/8XiYHHVXrU

Some years ago I applied ResIN to a Harry Potter dataset. The more two people are similar (in terms of how they relate to other characters), the tighter their connection. As you can see, the HP world is heavily polarized. But now my question is: why did I do something like that??

Apparently ignoring all those predatory journals made me very popular with girls! (btw, all these emails are from a single day)

To cite this meme: Photoshop et al. (2025)

How can we develop a better understanding of Complex Attitude-Identity Systems (CAIS)? Here👇we introduce a theory of Belief Networks to explain how to accurately measure them. This will help us understand how beliefs connect, evolve and shape identity. https://t.co/PIZioPIBcB

Today, both Samuel Moor-Smith and I will give a presentation at the Social Simulation Conference. If you are interested in the validation of ABMs, their classes of equivalence and how psychometrics plays an important role, join us!

I am finally back from holid... what happened? Did I sleep for 50 years?

https://t.co/lyE8u9J5Su

Looking wise while totally lost — a timeless academic tradition.

How well do *opinion dynamics* models perform on empirical data? Results are here and... let's say they are not the best... I think we really need to focus more effort on improving models' realism and testing procedures. https://t.co/siQWwwc6Lo

Should I discuss anything else in the Conclusion section?

Tired of AI images that look like Studio Ghibli's? Me neither, but here's Dragon Ball style, for no specific reason.