The newly founded Open Social Web Alliance (OSWA) brings together researchers, civil society organizations, and digital policy experts to develop a roadmap for open, interoperable, and public interest oriented social networks. Philipp Lorenz-Spreen is among the founding members.

A new paper co-authored by our colleague Kamil Fuławka, published in PNAS, combines behavioral experiments with participants' own explanations of their decisions, analyzed using large language models, to reveal the reasoning behind individual choices.

A new preprint by Kamil Fuławka studies how people can make healthier food choices using simple decision rules.

A new paper supervised by Philipp Lorenz-Spreen examines participation inequality in online political discussions and how incentives and moderation affect discourse.

SynoSys will coordinate DREAM EP, a national research initiative aimed at advancing pandemic forecasting through data-driven, multiscale modeling.

Dirk Brockmann's book Survival of the Nettest has been awarded Science Book of the Year 2025 in the Overview category.