Publications
Peer-reviewed publications
The Evolution of Evolutionary Linguistics
Poonam Brar, Chico Q. Camargo
Journal of Language Evolution (2024)
Analyzing Misinformation Claims During the 2022 Brazilian General Election on WhatsApp, Twitter, and Kwai
Scott A. Hale, Adriano Belisario, Ahmed Mostafa, Chico Q. Camargo
International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2024)
Non-Poissonian Bursts in the Arrival of Phenotypic Variation Can Strongly Affect the Dynamics of Adaptation
Nora S. Martin, Steffen Schaper, Chico Q. Camargo, Ard A. Louis
Molecular Biology and Evolution (2024)
Unraveling the Structure of Knowledge: Consistency in Everyday Networks, Diversity in Scientific
Owen G. W. Saunders, Chico Q. Camargo, Massimo Stella
International Conference on Complex Networks (2024)
Bias in the Arrival of Variation Can Dominate Over Natural Selection in Richard Dawkins's Biomorphs
Nora S. Martin, Chico Q. Camargo, Ard A. Louis
PLOS Computational Biology (2024)
Impact of Network Centrality and Income on Slowing Infection Spread after Outbreaks
Shiv G. Yücel, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Pedro S. Peixoto, Chico Q. Camargo
Applied Network Science (2023)
Heritage site-seeing through the visitor's lens on Instagram
Tania Loke, Yayoi Teramoto, Chico Q. Camargo, Kathryn Eccles
Journal of Cultural Analytics (2022)
Mis- and disinformation studies are too big to fail: Six suggestions for the field’s future
Chico Q. Camargo and Felix Simon
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review (2022)
SemEval-2022 Task 8: Multilingual news article similarity
Xi Chen, Ali Zeynali, Chico Q. Camargo, Fabian Flöck, Devin Gaffney, Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Scott A. Hale, David Jurgens, and Mattia Samory
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. Association for Computational Linguistics (2022)
Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution
Iain G. Johnston, Kamaludin Dingle, Sam F. Greenbury, Chico Q. Camargo, Jonathan P. K. Doye, Sebastian E. Ahnert, and Ard A. Louis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)
Coverage: NY Times | Le Monde | Phys.org | Oxford Physics | University of Oxford | SyFy | University of Bergen | Nederlands Dagblad | Salon.com | SciTechDaily | Tilt UOL | Nature Reviews Physics
Measuring the Volatility of the Political agenda in Public Opinion and News Media
Chico Q. Camargo, Peter John, Helen Z. Margetts, and Scott A. Hale
Public Opinion Quarterly (2021)
Autopsy of a metaphor: The origins, use and blind spots of the 'infodemic'
Felix M. Simon and Chico Q. Camargo
New Media & Society (2021)
Estimating Traffic Disruption Patterns with Volunteered Geographic Information
Chico Q. Camargo, Jonathan Bright, Graham McNeill, Sridhar Raman, Scott A. Hale
Nature Scientific Reports (2020)
Boolean Threshold Networks as Models of Genotype-Phenotype Maps
Chico Q. Camargo, Ard A. Louis
Complex Networks XI (2020)
New methods for the steady-state analysis of complex agent-based models
Chico Q. Camargo
Frontiers in Physics (2020)
Diagnosing the performance of human mobility models at small spatial scales using volunteered geographic information
Chico Q. Camargo, Jonathan Bright, Scott A. Hale
Royal Society Open Science (2019)
Deep learning generalizes because the parameter-function map is biased towards simple functions
Guillermo Valle-Pérez, Chico Q. Camargo, Ard A. Louis
Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2019)
Tight PAC-Bayesian generalization error bounds for deep learning
Guillermo Valle-Pérez, Chico Q. Camargo, Ard A. Louis
ICML workshop on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning (2019)
Input-output maps are strongly biased towards simple outputs
Kamaludin Dingle, Chico Q. Camargo, Ard A. Louis
Nature Communications (2018)
Under review
Science, Public Service and the New Normal: Two Years of Coverage on the COVID-19 Vaccine in Newspapers from the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and China
Luiz Neves, Luisa Massarani, Chico Q. Camargo
Under review.
Evaluating the Performance of Large Language Models for Framing Function Identification
Emily Robinson, Ranadheer Malla, Chico Q. Camargo
Under review.
TVTropes Machine Learning Reveals Temporal and Geographical Trends in Popular Media
Isabel Sebire, Chico Q. Camargo
Under review.
The Effect of #MeToo on Rape Myths in the Media: a Global Multi-Lingual Analysis
Hubert Au, Joana Perrone, Chico Q. Camargo
Under review.
Boosting Transformers: Recognizing Textual Entailment for Classification of Vaccine News Coverage
Luiz Neves, Luisa Massarani, Chico Q. Camargo
Under review.
Public writing
Viu Política: Mapping political content on YouTube in the 2022 Brazilian elections
Ana Julia Bernardi, Beatrice Bonami, Chico Camargo, Isabela Inês Bernardino, Rodger Richer, Camila Tsuzuki
University of Exeter, Vero Instituto, Mozilla Foundation (2022)
Website | Full report (English) | Full report (Portuguese) | Dataset
Does this button work? Investigating YouTube’s ineffective user controls
Becca Ricks, Jesse McCrosky, et al.
Mozilla Foundation (2022)
YouTube Regrets: A crowdsourced investigation into YouTube's recommendation algorithm
Jesse McCrosky, Brandi Geurkink, et al.
Mozilla Foundation (2021)
Are We Really Living in an 'Infodemic'? Science Suggests a Different Story
Chico Q. Camargo, Felix M. Simon
The Oxford Internet Institute Blog (2021)
YouTube's algorithms might radicalise people – but the real problem is we’ve no idea how they work
Chico Q. Camargo
The Conversation (2020)
Complexity Explained: A Grassroot Collaborative Initiative to Create a Set of Essential Concepts of Complex Systems
Manlio De Domenico, Dirk Brockmann, Chico Q. Camargo, Carlos Gershenson, Daniel Goldsmith, Sabine Jeschonnek, Lorren Kay, Stefano Nichele, José Nicolás, Thomas Schmickl, Massimo Stella, Josh Brandoff, Ángel José Martı́nez Salinas, Hiroki Sayama
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/tqgnw (2019)
Video Series
Nerdologia Fake News | Série
Chico Q. Camargo, Mila Laranjeira, Altay de Souza, Ana Arantes
Nerdologia (2022)