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Social Physics: A manifesto
János Kertész, Marc Barthelemny, Marc Barthelemy +21
Social Physics seeks quantitative, empirically testable explanations of collective human behavior. Its name has a long and contested history, but its contemporary program is neithe…
Glassy dynamics of metropolitan human mobility frozen near the gravitational equilibrium
Yixuan Y. Zheng, Hideki Takayasu, Misako Takayasu
This research establishes a connection between macroscopic urban commuting flows and thermal equilibrium. Using mobility data from around 30 million records across six Japanese cit…
No persistent circadian oscillator at genome resolution: pseudo-coherence in gut microbiome dynamics
V. Troude, L. Takayasu, R. Maskawa +4
Diurnal rhythms in the gut microbiome are commonly read as evidence of host-driven entrainment or of microbial oscillators that synchronise to a common clock. We reanalyse hourly g…
Linking Opinion Dynamics and Emotional Expression in Online Communities: A Case Study of COVID-19 Vaccination Discourse in Japan
Qianyun Wu, Yukie Sano, Hideki Takayasu +1
Social media discourse on COVID-19 vaccination provides a valuable context for studying opinion formation, emotional expression, and social influence during a global crisis. While…
Stable Emotional Co-occurrence Patterns Revealed by Network Analysis of Social Media
Qianyun Wu, Orr Levy, Yoed N. Kenett +4
Examining emotion interactions as an emotion network in social media offers key insights into human psychology, yet few studies have explored how fluctuations in such emotion netwo…
Do Railway Commuters Exhibit Consistent Route Choice Rationality Across Different Contexts and Time? Evidence from Tokyo metropolitan Commutes
Yixuan Y Zheng, Hideki Takayasu, Misako Takayasu
In urban railway systems, if every commuter were perfectly rational, concentrated demand on optimal routes would undermine system performance. Understanding the actual degree of co…