Afternoon keynote on day 3 at #NetSciX2026 by Yukie Sano covering a breadth of work on dynamics of collective attention and memory online

Day 2 of #NetSciX2026 and the weather is no worse than yesterday. We're kicking off the main conference programme this morning with an exciting keynote talk by @eliassi.bsky.social on hypergraphs.

Public Discourse Toward Older Drivers in Japan Using Social Media Data From 2010 to 2022: Longitudinal Analysis Background: As the global population ages, concerns about older drivers are intensifying. Although older drivers are not inherently more dangerous than other age groups, traditional surveys in Japan r...

Finally out!! Public Discourse Toward Older Drivers in Japan Using Social Media Data From 2010 to 2022: Longitudinal Analysis infodemiology.jmir.org/2025/1/e69321

ぐうたら感謝の日。Happy lazy day. (Unofficial)

APCTP APCTP

We're organizing the "APCTP Workshop on the Roles of Heterogeneity in Nonequilibrium (RHINO 2025)"; the workshop will be held from 29 August to 1 September 2025 in Pukyong National University (PKNU), Busan, Korea.

www.apctp.org/theme/d/html...

今日の授業はペンちゃんをお招きして、鏡映の説明をしました。

Sunbelt 2025 accepted. Flight to Paris!! sunbelt2025.org
I am very looking forward to attending Sunbelt for the first time!

Twitter communities are associated with changing user’s opinion towards COVID-19 vaccine in Japan Scientific Reports - Twitter communities are associated with changing user’s opinion towards COVID-19 vaccine in Japan

New paper published! -> Twitter communities are associated with changing user’s opinion towards COVID-19 vaccine in Japan, Sci Rep 15, 11716 (2025).
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is a paper by Akito, an M2 student who studied abroad in Italy for six months. It is wonderful to see that he has tackled a new theme in six months and returned home with a finished product. And he will graduate soon..,

Analyzing the Safety of Japanese Large Language Models in Stereotype-Triggering Prompts In recent years, Large Language Models have attracted growing interest for their significant potential, though concerns have rapidly emerged regarding unsafe behaviors stemming from inherent stereotyp...

New preprint by a master's student in our lab, based on research conducted at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.01947

Quantifying collective attention and fan engagement: a case study of the Japanese professional baseball league - Journal of Computational Social Science The rise of social media has led to new studies on collective attention in specific events such as elections and sports. In the context of collective attention, phenomena such as rapid increases in th...

📢 New paper out!
"Quantifying collective attention and fan engagement: A case study of the Japanese professional baseball league" w/ @soramame0518.bsky.social et al.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...