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Wesley Cota

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Physicist. Assistant Professor at UFV/Brazil. Complex Systems Scientist | Network Science | Epidemic modeling Website: https://wcota.me

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🌍 We are excited to announce that we are introducing a reduced registration fee for participants from developing countries.
🚨 Last days to send your contribution – submit by Nov 30, 2025 (sharp deadline)!

26.11.2025 10:56 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1

Idea for absolutely shameless citation gaming

Close every paper with the sentence "If you enjoyed this paper, you may also enjoy other publications by the authors [26-359]."

26.12.2025 21:38 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Esse humanismo de ocasião me enoja. Pura expressão da ideologia segregacionista que impera entre essa galera. Nunca se preocuparam com a população carcerária, até tortura defendiam, e agora que a água bateu na bunda deles resolvem achar tudo muito ruim, tudo muito cruel? Tenham vergonha na cara.

04.12.2025 13:37 👍 117 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 1
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Jair Bolsonaro Arrested in Brazil Amid Fears He Might Flee to Avoid Prison The arrest came days before the former president was expected to be ordered to begin a 27-year prison sentence for staging a failed coup.

Police in Brazil arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday amid fears that he might escape house arrest to avoid serving a 27-year prison sentence for a failed coup plot, according to a Brazilian court order.

22.11.2025 14:55 👍 400 🔁 57 💬 46 📌 35
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Impacts of bridging nodes on the epidemic activation mechanisms Bridging nodes, which connect critical components of a network, play an important role in maintaining structural integrity and facilitating communication within the network, representing indirect yet ...

Our new paper on @arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2511.12787
With @silviojrufv.bsky.social, @wcota.me , José Carlos M. Silva, and Diogo H. Silva

21.11.2025 21:07 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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O TEMPO on Instagram: "CONFUSÃO - O "aulão" de Inteligência Artificial (IA), que reuniu cerca de 30 mil alunos da rede estadual de educação no Mineirão, foi paralisado após uma pancadaria generalizada... 7,179 likes, 961 comments - otempo on November 19, 2025: "CONFUSÃO - O "aulão" de Inteligência Artificial (IA), que reuniu cerca de 30 mil alunos da rede estadual de educação no Mineirão, foi paralisa...

Governo Zema armou com a Google um aulão de Inteligência Artificial no Mineirão com 30 mil alunos. Virou pancadaria.

Sim, a cada palavra a frase ficava pior.

19.11.2025 16:26 👍 292 🔁 77 💬 15 📌 71

We’re grateful for the incredible response to the call for contributions! Due to many requests, we have decided to extend the deadline until November 30, 2025 (AoE).

🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
🚨 Extended deadline: Submit by Nov 30, 2025!

18.11.2025 13:52 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈

Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy

Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++

Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org

plz reshare

18.11.2025 09:30 👍 29 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 1

Jos\'e Carlos M. Silva, Diogo H. Silva, Wesley Cota, Francisco A. Rodrigues, Silvio C. Ferreira: Impacts of bridging nodes on the epidemic activation mechanisms https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12787 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.12787 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.12787

18.11.2025 06:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Efficient Gillespie algorithms for spreading phenomena in large and heterogeneous higher-order networks Higher-order dynamics refer to mechanisms where collective mutual or synchronous interactions differ fundamentally from their pairwise counterparts through the concept of many-body interactions. Pheno...

Efficient Gillespie algorithms for spreading phenomena in large and heterogeneous higher-order networks arxiv.org/abs/2509.20174

26.09.2025 10:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A emissão da Carteira Nacional Docente é pra humilhar o professor mesmo. Quando finalmente dá certo, pede para clicar em "ok" mas o botão não aparece 🤡

18.10.2025 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Behold one of the mightiest tools in mathematics: the camel principle.

I am dead serious. Deep down, this tiny rule is the cog in many methods. Ones that you use every day.

Here is what it is, how it works, and why it is essential:

11.10.2025 18:00 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Well don't I feel stupid

26.09.2025 23:02 👍 26029 🔁 6827 💬 289 📌 143
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Mather and smoot share Nobel physics prize for measuring the cosmic microwave background In the early 1990s, NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer first revealed the microwave background’s spectral perfection—and spatial imperfection—required by Big Ban

We are sad to hear that George Smoot passed away. Smoot, an experimental astrophysicist, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Mather for his work on the COBE satellite, which demonstrated that the cosmic microwave background has a near-perfect blackbody spectrum.

26.09.2025 15:43 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

That's so sad. I had the opportunity to meet him personally during a Laureate Lunch at the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting last year.

26.09.2025 23:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absurdo o Estado brasileiro gastar com viagem diplomática do chefe de Estado.

Na próxima Assembleia da ONU a gente manda o Lula pra Nova York montado num jegue.

26.09.2025 11:53 👍 71 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
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Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election

Guilty www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

11.09.2025 19:04 👍 462 🔁 127 💬 14 📌 16

Atendimento por chatbot é revolucionário. Antigamente você precisava gastar um tempão no telefone falando com uma pessoa de carne e osso sem a garantia de ter seu problema resolvido; agora, com meia dúzia de cliques, você consegue rapidamente ter certeza que seu problema jamais será resolvido.

11.08.2025 21:54 👍 1425 🔁 365 💬 12 📌 17
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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team

This is big. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company.

www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

11.08.2025 17:12 👍 121 🔁 79 💬 10 📌 20
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🚨VEXAME: Ao vivo na GloboNews, Zema passou vergonha ao tentar defender os golpistas do 8 de janeiro e foi desmentido na hora.

Minas Gerais não merece um governador que passa pano pra criminoso e envergonha o estado em rede nacional.

08.08.2025 21:56 👍 1369 🔁 335 💬 121 📌 205
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I have spent at least 50% of my life studying, practicing, and teaching mathematics.

The most common misconceptions I encounter:

• Mathematics is useless
• You must be good with numbers
• You must be talented to do math

These are all wrong. Here's what math is really about:

08.08.2025 17:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
adultização
adultização YouTube video by Felca

Em quase 24h, o vídeo do Felca sobre "adultização" e exploração da imagem de menores em redes sociais já tem 2,8 milhões de views. Além das denúncias do vídeo, ele também denunciou formalmente todos os citados e o MP está em cima. Atitiude de influencer é essa:

youtu.be/FpsCzFGL1LE...

08.08.2025 11:26 👍 1582 🔁 400 💬 19 📌 66
Cartaz do evento ENREDANDO 2026, com fundo em tons de roxo e silhueta do prédio da UFV cercado por palmeiras. Ao fundo, uma rede de pontos e conexões representa sistemas complexos. Texto informa que o evento ocorrerá em Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brasil, de 27 a 31 de julho de 2026. Há logotipos da UFV, do grupo GISC e da rede LANET, além de um QR Code no canto inferior direito.

Cartaz do evento ENREDANDO 2026, com fundo em tons de roxo e silhueta do prédio da UFV cercado por palmeiras. Ao fundo, uma rede de pontos e conexões representa sistemas complexos. Texto informa que o evento ocorrerá em Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brasil, de 27 a 31 de julho de 2026. Há logotipos da UFV, do grupo GISC e da rede LANET, além de um QR Code no canto inferior direito.

O ENREDANDO 2026, a Escola Ibero-americana de Redes e Sistemas Complexos (Escuela Iberoamericana de Redes y Sistemas Complejos) do LANET (@lanetconference.bsky.social) será em Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brasil!

📅 27 a 31 de julho de 2026

Mais informações em enredando.giscbr.org

Organização: GISC/UFV

01.08.2025 16:26 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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Now @gomezgardenes.bsky.social giving a really cool invited talk about metapopulation and diseases spreading with application to control polices.

29.07.2025 14:16 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Different countries, several scientific backgrounds, one aim: Understanding the complexity of nature!

28.07.2025 19:43 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Fui processado pela Folha de S.Paulo Na tarde de sexta (25/7), tive uma desagradável surpresa na forma de um e-mail, enviado pelo escritório Rodrigues Barbosa, Mac Dowell de Figueiredo, Gasparian Advogados, de São Paulo (SP)…

Fui processado pela Folha de S.Paulo: manualdousuario.net/processo-fo...

27.07.2025 11:27 👍 525 🔁 219 💬 27 📌 43

foda cara a existência desse desocupado que fica tocando trompete o jair desestabiliza demais kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk o cidadão sexta feira de manhã está DISPONÍVEL pra ir na pf tocar uma corneta pra vagabundo tem que admirar

18.07.2025 14:48 👍 933 🔁 249 💬 7 📌 34
Comic. The Three Types of Unsolved Physics Problem (First panel) Vague. PERSON [next to curved diagram] What is the nature of time in quantum gravity? Is it a background parameter, a dynamic aspect of spacetime, or an emergent phenomenon? (Second panel) Precise. PERSON 2 with short hair [device with equation below: 71Ga + νe → 71Ge + e- .] Why does the *S.A.G.E.* Gallium Neutrino Capture Experiment produce only 75% as much germanium as predicted? (Third panel) Cursed. PERSON 3 with white hat [rectangular block with hairs growing out of it labeled Zinc Whiskers] Why does some metal randomly grow hairs? It keeps causing short circuits and we have no idea what’s going on. OFF-PANEL: Is this a joke? PERSON 3: No! Please help!

Comic. The Three Types of Unsolved Physics Problem (First panel) Vague. PERSON [next to curved diagram] What is the nature of time in quantum gravity? Is it a background parameter, a dynamic aspect of spacetime, or an emergent phenomenon? (Second panel) Precise. PERSON 2 with short hair [device with equation below: 71Ga + νe → 71Ge + e- .] Why does the *S.A.G.E.* Gallium Neutrino Capture Experiment produce only 75% as much germanium as predicted? (Third panel) Cursed. PERSON 3 with white hat [rectangular block with hairs growing out of it labeled Zinc Whiskers] Why does some metal randomly grow hairs? It keeps causing short circuits and we have no idea what’s going on. OFF-PANEL: Is this a joke? PERSON 3: No! Please help!

Unsolved Physics Problems

xkcd.com/3115/

16.07.2025 04:54 👍 4327 🔁 673 💬 47 📌 43

Coisas que o governo dos EUA exigiria para o Brasil eliminar:

- sanduíche de pernil em porta de estádio (prática desleal contra o McDonald's)

- vacinação gratuita no SUS (prática desleal contra a big pharma)

- Bolsa Família (prática desleal contra distribuição de cupons em supermercados)

16.07.2025 12:10 👍 708 🔁 175 💬 9 📌 12
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Did you know that in Brazil we can do money transfers instantly, without taxes, between any banks, just using your smartphone? It's a system called PIX, it was created by our government and now the US government is attacking it claiming it's unfair to big US credit card companies

16.07.2025 12:41 👍 1398 🔁 486 💬 21 📌 39