Max Falkenberg

MSCA Fellow & Computational social scientist @dnds_ceu

Networks, polarization, climate politics, climate finance.
PhD @ImperialPhysics

[Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken]

The Twitter exodus has started, but maybe it should have started long ago?

Our new study in @NatureComms shows that political abuse on X is a global, widespread, and cross-partisan phenomenon

https://t.co/Hk6cIe8Dkl

[TVP World @TVPWorld_com]

What is not helpful [...] is to immediately suggest that the whole energy policy of a country moving towards renewables is not viable," Max Falkenberg [@MaxFalken], a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Central European University [@dnds_ceu] said in the latest episode of the Anatomy of Disinformation with @MaiaMazurkiewic, discussing the recent blackout in Spain.

[Lorenzo Betti @LoreBetti]

Happy to see this finally published in @NatureComms! 🎉

https://t.co/RCH8Xmg2Cv

A short thread below 🧵
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[Alessia Galdeman (alessianetwork.bsky.social) @AlessiaGaldeman]

🚨 We’re happy to announce the keynote speaker for our workshop "Detox: Countering the Degradation of Social Media" at @icwsm :
🎤 Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken from the Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University, Vienna!
⏰ Submit before March 31, 2025!

[Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken]

Just a few days left to apply for our @netscisociety Netsci2025 📡Satellite 📷 "Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science". We have added an FAQ on about potential contributions.

Submit by February 10th!
https://t.co/pgA5NWA2YN

[Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken]

Last day to apply for our satellite on "Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science"!

Submit by 23:59 AoE: https://t.co/pgA5NWA2YN

Come join us at @NetSciConf in Maastricht in June!

[Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken]

Just a few days left to apply for our @netscisociety Netsci2025 📡Satellite 📷 "Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science". We have added an FAQ on about potential contributions.

Submit by February 10th!
https://t.co/pgA5NWA2YN

[Andrea Lo Sasso @_a_l_s]

I attended #Complexity72h in Madrid last year! Unforgettable experience with young researchers exploring complex systems, AI, and networks. I studied social media polarization under the tutelage of @DeveloperGale and @MaxFalken. Deeply enriching!

https://t.co/iXDJ8NLD4f

[Matteo Cinelli @matteo_cinelli]

Hey! Don't forget to apply for our NetSci 📡Satellite 📡 "Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science". We have added a FAQ about potential contributions. Deadline 10-02-2024.
Spread the word with Bluesky people!
@MaxFalken @DeveloperGale
https://t.co/QfMqqBzXiL

[Guido Caldarelli 贵多 @GuidoCaldarelli]

a "champion", nothing less!!! God bless #complexity72 and the real champions @eugeValdano @antonionialb https://t.co/TQCNuT0olL

[NetScience @net_science]

Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science (UNCSS) workshop at NetSci25 is looking for submissions! https://t.co/C4pwQs0hfB

[Matteo Cinelli @matteo_cinelli]

Hey people! Together with @MaxFalken & @DeveloperGale we are organising a 🛰️Satellite🛰️ at @NetSciConf on Understudied Networks in CSS!

Special (invited) guest 🦒🇨🇭@BovetAlexandre 🇨🇭🦒

We accept WIP and the deadline is Feb. 10.
Details here: https://t.co/asFCTyUF5O

[Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken]

Submit your abstract before February 10th 👇

[Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken]

Announcing the 1st Satellite on Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science to be held at @NetSciConf in Maastricht, June 2-6.

We welcome contributed presentations on CSS research using understudied social network data (not X, Facebook etc.!): https://t.co/NNpi5cdjEC

[Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken]

Announcing the 1st Satellite on Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science to be held at @NetSciConf in Maastricht, June 2-6.

We welcome contributed presentations on CSS research using understudied social network data (not X, Facebook etc.!): https://t.co/NNpi5cdjEC

[Martina Contisciani @mcontisc]

🎊 Our paper "Flexible inference in heterogeneous and attributed multilayer networks" is now published @PNASNexus! Great collaboration with @MariusHobbhahn, @eleanorapower, @PhilippHennig5, and C. De Bacco.

📎 https://t.co/eWwE7c10S0
👩‍💻 https://t.co/CwQUmIZFp6

[Mason Porter @masonporter]

Here's my version of this meme.

(h/t NatashaJ for the file that I modified)

[Ross Dahlke 🔑 @Ross_Dahlke]

Politics are structurally polarized on X, with out-group interactions being more toxic and receiving lower engagement, compared to in-group interactions, across 9 countries, finds @MaxFalken @zollofab @Walter4C @JurgenPfeffer @a_baronca https://t.co/iZCIB4bEz3

[Taha Yasseri @TahaYasseri]

We're hiring one more Assistant Professor (tenure track - €41,000 - €98,564 per annum) in Sociology at @TCDsociology https://t.co/JerJYI7M7X @TCD_SSP

[Vili Lehdonvirta @ViliLe]

🚨 Hiring a new postdoc! 🚨 I'm looking for someone with quantitative analysis skills to join me in the ERC-funded project GEOCLOUD: The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing. Hot topic, cool data, excellent career development opportunities! Apply by 9 Jan https://t.co/eCmcNJppmh

[Max Falkenberg @MaxFalken]

It's official 🥳 Merriam Webster have decided that polarization is only between two poles!

Guess we can move on from studying it in those strange multi-party countries 🤡

https://t.co/mBgvfIp1nE

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Merriam-Webster announced Monday that "polarization" is its word of the year.

“Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, told The Associated Press. “Polarization means that we are tending toward the extremes rather than toward the center.”

Polarization is defined as "division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially: a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes."

The noun also has scientific meaning. Merriam-Webster also describes polarization as "the action of polarizing or state of being or becoming polarized: such as the action or process of affecting radiation and especially light so that the vibrations of the wave assume a definite form, the state of radiation affected by this process, an increase in the resistance of an electrolytic cell often caused by the deposition of gas on one or both electrodes or magnetization."

Other top words of the year from Merriam-Webster reflected trends and current events in 2024. They included "demure," "totality," "fortnight," "resonate," "allision," "pander," "weird," "cognitive" and "democracy."

[Chris Bail @chris_bail]

Join our team using LLMs to simulate social media to improve civility in our platforms!