Reader in Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University working on Network Science, Data Science, and digital Epidemiology. Website: www.nicolaperra.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mk5sfgeanc2hEnsemble forecasts of COVID-19 activity to support Australia’s pandemic response: 2020–22 https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.101419923 Apr 2026 10:27 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5sfgeanc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mk5scccfns2aTemporal heterogeneity shapes diffusion dynamics in complex networks https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41467-026-72161-w23 Apr 2026 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5scccfns2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mk5s6rxy6c23Malaria shaped human spatial organization for the past 74 thousand years | Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea231623 Apr 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5s6rxy6c23https://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjz7wn4nac2sPolarization and Integration in Global AI Research arxiv.org/abs/2604.17602 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.1760221 Apr 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjz7wn4nac2shttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjyfct4wmk2oCorrecting socioeconomic bias in mobile phone mobility estimates using multilevel regression and poststratification arxiv.org/abs/2604.16193 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.1619321 Apr 2026 06:49 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyfct4wmk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjqzd3f56c2rMaximum entropy temporal networks http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/78vv-hs7218 Apr 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjqzd3f56c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjomy3nnys27Simon's model does not produce Zipf's law: The fundamental rich-get-richer mechanism for any power-law size ranking arxiv.org/abs/2604.13184 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.1318417 Apr 2026 09:40 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjomy3nnys27https://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjma2c7z2225Forecastability of infectious disease time series: are some seasons and pathogens intrinsically more difficult to forecast? https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.101417516 Apr 2026 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjma2c7z2225https://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjjr2vwnsc2oDozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fd41586-026-00697-415 Apr 2026 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjr2vwnsc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjjqofqiwc2dHamiltonian structure and integrability of the susceptible-cleric-zombie-recovered epidemic model http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/cs87-l34c15 Apr 2026 11:03 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjqofqiwc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjhjrvdumk25The parenthood effect in urban mobility arxiv.org/abs/2501.02299 https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.0229914 Apr 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhjrvdumk25https://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjgunj6shc2oNonlinear effects of noise on outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.101346614 Apr 2026 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjgunj6shc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjbyya3gz224Combining structural modeling and deep learning to calculate the E. coli protein interactome and functional networks https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41467-026-71166-912 Apr 2026 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjbyya3gz224https://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjbys5czj22kThe Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets arxiv.org/abs/2012.15753 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.1575312 Apr 2026 09:06 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjbys5czj22khttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjbyogwrus2qAnalysis of non pharmaceutical interventions with SIR epidemic models: decreasing the infection peak vs. minimizing the epidemic size arxiv.org/abs/2604.08420 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0842012 Apr 2026 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjbyogwrus2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjbyiovlrk2wHarmonic morphisms and dynamical invariants in network renormalization arxiv.org/abs/2604.08386 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0838612 Apr 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjbyiovlrk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mjbyh7w5gc2aModeling non-Poissonian temporal hypergraphs by Markovian node dynamics arxiv.org/abs/2604.07694 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0769412 Apr 2026 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjbyh7w5gc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mj2wdsqzek25Temporal Structure Mediates the Robustness and Collapse of Plant-Pollinator Networks arxiv.org/abs/2604.07347 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0734709 Apr 2026 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2wdsqzek25https://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mj2nmplgvs2qMeasuring the co-evolution of online engagement with (mis)information and its visibility at scale arxiv.org/abs/2506.06106 https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.0610609 Apr 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2nmplgvs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mj2nfiaw2c2fRatio of Quantiles Indicates Burstiness with Fewer False Negatives than the Conventional Burstiness Parameter arxiv.org/abs/2604.05188 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0518809 Apr 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2nfiaw2c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mivdv6nffc2nAn international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41591-026-04287-907 Apr 2026 08:20 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivdv6nffc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mivdneppmc2jUnderstanding the complexity of frequency and phase angle fluctuations in power grids arxiv.org/abs/2604.03133 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0313307 Apr 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivdneppmc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mispdadfvk2oPremature termination of unemployment benefits increased COVID-19 transmission and deaths in the USA https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41562-026-02431-606 Apr 2026 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mispdadfvk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3minrpg34ss2iThe Retraction Epidemic in Science Across Publishers, Fields, and Countries arxiv.org/abs/2604.02302 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0230204 Apr 2026 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3minrpg34ss2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mijdljhq5c2oToward AI foundation models for epidemics: Promise, challenges, and paths forward https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2526192123?af=R02 Apr 2026 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijdljhq5c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mijcvul5ok25Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41586-025-10078-y02 Apr 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijcvul5ok25https://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mijcnk3kuk2tUncovering simultaneous breakthroughs with a robust measure of disruptiveness | Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx342002 Apr 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijcnk3kuk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mijcb3djlc2xMultiroute pathogen transmission is different | Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeg914302 Apr 2026 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijcb3djlc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mijc7l2qxk2wCar Dependency in Urban Accessibility arxiv.org/abs/2604.01019 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0101902 Apr 2026 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijc7l2qxk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/netscience.bsky.social/post/3mijc4demcc24Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.0094302 Apr 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:d3hkcs4lca46ic74i6hcytfi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijc4demcc24