3 papers
cs.SI2026
Social Contagion in COVID-19 Discussions within the Belgian Reddit Community: A Statistical and Modeling Study
Tim Van Wesemael, Luis E. C. Rocha, Tijs W. Alleman +1
Understanding how sentiment toward COVID-19 mitigation measures evolves on social media can inform both epidemiological models and public health policy. We analyzed 655,642 posts b…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Restoring detailed balance in non-Hermitian Markov processes
Tim Van Wesemael, Gilberto Nakamura, Jan Baetens +3
Stochastic processes out-of-equilibrium often involve asymmetric contributions that break detailed balance and lead to non-monotonic entropy production, limiting thermodynamic inte…
physics.soc-ph2025
Epidemic risk perception and social interactions lead to awareness cascades on multiplex networks
Tim Van Wesemael, Luis E. C. Rocha, Jan M. Baetens
The course of an epidemic is not only shaped by infection transmission over face-to-face contacts, but also by preventive behaviour caused by risk perception and social interaction…