Arash Badie-Modiri
"The hypothesis of vortices is press'd with many difficulties."
Postdoc at the Central European University, working on temporal networks.
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- Reposted by Arash Badie-ModiriBlock-corrected modularity for community detection link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
- Reposted by Arash Badie-ModiriLadies and gentlemen, let me to present the Computational Human Dynamics Lab, DNDS-CEU, Vienna #netsci2025
- Reposted by Arash Badie-ModiriHurray! 🎉 @arash.network (left) is the 24th recipient of the Zachary's Karate Club CLUB prize. For his talk @netsciconf.bsky.social NetSci 2025, he was entrusted with the illustrious trophy 🏆 from @nwlandry.bsky.social #networkscience networkkarate.tumblr.com
- Reposted by Arash Badie-ModiriWhen you have network data with node metadata, how can you use them to improve community detection? One way is to make the communities align with the metadata. In our new preprint, we propose another way: to discount the effects of the metadata from the detected communities. arxiv.org/abs/2502.20083
- Excited to share our new preprint: "Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement." We examine how affective polarisation surrounding COVID spilled over into climate change discussions on Twitter and Reddit in 2019-2021. @tedhchen.com @hastinz.bsky.social
- By analysing millions of climate change and climate science posts, we found that mentions of COVID-19 or Anthony Fauci derailed climate conversation into incivility and contentiousness. These patterns strengthened during major pandemic events.
- These findings highlight a "cross-domain spillover": political flashpoints in one science-related issue (e.g., vaccine hesitancy) can fuel hostility in another (e.g., climate policy). In other words, polarised behaviours are not confined to a single topic—they can spread.
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View full threadOur study demonstrates the dangers of entrenched affective polarisation on how the public engages with science. In a world of overlapping crises, science communication needs strategies to address cross-domain polarisation. Check out the full paper for details: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05255
