
Pádraig MacCarron
@padraigmacc
Complex Networks Researcher at the University of Limerick.
Formerly in Coventry University and the University of Oxford.
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04-02-2010 23:15:59
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Just a bad flu? How Irish death notices debunk that Covid-19 myth rte.ie/brainstorm/202… via RTÉ with Pádraig MacCarron Andrew Parnell Maynooth University Hamilton Institute Maynooth Geography

Our new Brainstorm article showing COVID-19 is much more severe than the seasonal flu is now online, with Gerard McCarthy Rebecca Dempsey and Andrew Parnell


I'll be advocating a Solas red ale brewed locally in Kildare courtesy of Rye River Brewing Co.... as well as our paper of course!


Our work on Fantasy Premier League has been published in PLOS One check it out here journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… and below for a summary of our findings! Also featured in The Times and The Sunday Times this morn thetimes.co.uk/article/best-f… With my great collaborators James Gleeson and David O' Sullivan MACSI


Is there a better email to get when you're about to shut down on a Friday? Well done Arran Davis and Emma Cohen


New paper just out in PLOS One with Arran Davis and Pádraig MacCarron on the links between social reward & support, energy and performance parkrun 🌳 Thanks to parkrun UK and all the #parkrunners who took part ❤️🔥🏃♀️🏅#openaccess doi.org/10.1371/journa…


📌#PhDFairy Fully funded 4-year #PhD in Applied Mathematics available with Kevin Moroney at MACSI University Of Limerick Faculty of Science & Engineering | UL #scholarship Info👉bit.ly/PhD-Vacancies-… Deadline👉30/06/22 Contact [email protected] Please RT #AcademicTwitter #PhDPosition



2-year full-time postdoc in computational humanities and network science au.dk/om/stillinger/… in Aarhus Denmark on the Past Social Networks project carlsbergfondet.dk/en/Forskningsa… yrCSS | Now on Bluesky & Mastodon #SYNS #css


A pre-print of our paper "Fitting degree distributions of complex networks" is now available on arXiv! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2212.06649 Pádraig MacCarron


A preprint of our latest paper "Fast degree-preserving rewiring of complex networks" with Pádraig MacCarron Akrati Saxena and Frank Takes is now available here arxiv.org/abs/2401.12047. Thanks to my co-authors for all of the hard work involved!

Watch as Doireann O'Kiely, lecturer in Applied Maths at University of Limerick, explains how math may be the key to overcoming real-world problems in a sustainable way. Learn more about Research at UL: ul.ie/research #StayCurious UL Research

New paper: Interconnected Kingdoms: comparing ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ adaptations across media using complex networks with Arthur Amalvy | @[email protected], M. Janickyj, Shane Mannion and Pádraig MacCarron Journal: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Preprint: hal.science/hal-04722579

Thrilled to announce my paper with David O' Sullivan and Pádraig MacCarron entitled "Finding polarized communities and tracking information diffusion on Twitter: a network approach on the Irish Abortion Referendum" is now published in the Royal Society Open Science. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…