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Educational Intervention Can Rewire Village Social Networks

14 | Connection Intervention , Economics , Experiment , Global Health , Honduras , LMIC , Maternal and Child Health (MNCH) , Multiplex Network , NAC Favorite , Nature , RCT , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Trellis Software

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Papamichalis, M., Forastiere, L., Airoldi, E.M. et al. Educational intervention can rewire village social networks. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11154-7

Gut Microbiome Strain-sharing within Isolated Village Social Networks (Nature, 2024)

14 | Friendship , Genetics , Global Health , Homophily , Honduras , Indigenous Social Network , Infectious Disease , LMIC , Microbiome , NAC Favorite , Nature , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Trellis Software

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Beghini F, Pullman J, Alexander M, Shridhar SV, Prinster D, Singh A, Matute Juárez R, Airoldi EM, Brito IL, Christakis NA. Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks. Nature. 2025 Jan;637(8044):167-175. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08222-1. Epub 2024 Nov 20. PMID: 39567691; PMCID: PMC11666459.

Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China

6 | China , Epidemic Disease , Infectious Disease , NAC Favorite , Nature , Global Health

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J.S. Jia, X. Lu, Yuan Y., G. Xu, J. Jia, and N. A. Christakis, “Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China,” Nature, 582(7812), 389–394 (Apr 2020) DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2284-y

Machine Behaviour

4 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Bots , Hybrid Systems , Nature

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I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian, N. Obradovich, J. Bongard, J.F. Bonnefon, C. Breazeal, J.W. Crandall, N. A. Christakis, I.D. Couzin, M.O. Jackson, N.R. Jennings, E. Kamar, I.M. Kloumann, H. Larochelle, D. Lazer, R. McElreath, A. Mislove, D.C. Parkes, A. Pentland, M.E. Roberts, A. Shariff, J.B. Tenenbaum, and M. Wellman, “Machine Behaviour,” Nature, 568: 477-486 (Apr 2019)

Locally Noisy Autonomous Agents Improve Global Human Coordination in Network Experiments (Nature, 2017)

13 | Methodology , Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Biological Network , Behavior Genetics , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Bots , NAC Favorite , Nature , Breadboard Software , Experiment , Hybrid Systems , Public Goods

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H. Shirado and N.A. Christakis, "Locally Noisy Autonomous Agents Improve Global Human Coordination in Network Experiments" Nature, 545, 370–374 (18 May 2017) doi:10.1038/nature22332

Inequality and Visibility of Wealth in Experimental Social Networks (Nature, 2015)

11 | Cooperation , Inequality , NAC Favorite , Nature , Economics , Social Contagion , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Breadboard Software , Experiment , Public Goods

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A. Nishi, H. Shirado, D.G. Rand, and N.A. Christakis, "Inequality and Visibility of Wealth in Experimental Social Networks" Nature, Published online 09 September 2015. doi:10.1038/nature15392

Social Networks and Cooperation in Hunter-Gatherers (Nature, 2012)

11 | LMIC , Cooperation , Tanzania , Social Network , Evolutionary Biology , NAC Favorite , Nature , Homophily , Indigenous Social Network , Friendship , Public Goods

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C.L. Apicella, F.W. Marlowe, J.H. Fowler, and N.A. Christakis, "Social Networks and Cooperation in Hunter-Gatherers" Nature, 481(7382): 497-501 (January 2012)

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