Fabio Lamanna

Check PyConIT 2026 schedule for sessions and workshops

Have you checked out the #PyConIT 2026 schedule? 👀

If you're planning to join a workshop, don't wait!

Browse the programme and sort your ticket before the good spots disappear.

🗓️ pycon.it/schedule
🎟️ pycon.it/tickets

#PyConIT #PyConIT26 #Python

Diego Russo keynoter at PyCon Italia 2026

Big news! 🎉 @diegor.it is keynoting #PyConIT26!

His talk: "From 'Fast Enough' to 'Fast by Design': The Evolution of CPython Performance"

The story of how Python stopped apologising for being slow. 🐍⚡

🎟️ Get your ticket at pycon.it/tickets

#PyConIT #PyConItalia

🎉 The #PyConIT26 schedule is live!

Talks, workshops, AI, web, data & more. It’s time to plan your days in Bologna 👇
🔗 2026.pycon.it/en/schedule

🎟️ Tickets are available on our website.

👀 Which sessions are you most excited about? Tell us below!

#PyConIT #PyConIT26

⏲🛫 New study in Transportation Research Part E reveals that flight delays propagate across continents, forming a global network of disruption. Using complex systems methods, IFISC researchers identify key airports driving long-range delay dynamics.

🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/glob...

Due to numerous requests from participants, we are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for papers, posters, and SUMO moments has been extended by one week.

New submission deadline: Sunday, March 01, 2026 - 23:59 UTC.

🎉 The PyCon Italia 2026 talks are out!

👇 You can now browse the accepted speakers & sessions:
🔗 2026.pycon.it/en/speakers

ℹ️ This is a draft list and may change in the next few days.

🗓️ Full schedule coming very soon. Stay tuned! 👀

#PyConIT #PyConItalia #PyConIT26 #PythonCommunity

Thanks to our media partners!

Huge thanks to our media partners supporting #PyConIT 2026! 🤝

🐍 Python Campania
🐍 PyData Roma Capitale
🐍 PyData Venice
🐍 Venice Python user group

Your support is helping us grow the Python community across Italy! 🙌

#PyConIT26 #MediaPartner #TechCommunities

#r5rgui v0.2 for r5r (@urbandemog.bsky.social)
New:
- compare routes and transport modes
- compare networks! (e.g. OSM vs official streets Trafikverket.se)
- query speed
- custom basemaps (via `mapgl` @kylewalker.bsky.social )

Still in one line of code!

www.ekotov.pro/r5rgui/

#rstats #gischat

Thanks to the fantastic local Python communities supporting PyCon Italia 2026 as media partners 🤝

@pescara.python.it, PyRoma, Python Torino, Python Marche, Python Catania!

Your support helps us spread the love for Python 🐍💙

#PyConIT #PyConIT26 #PyConItalia #mediapartner

thank you Python User Group Reggio Emilia, Python Milano, Python Biella, PyBari!

Thanks to the fantastic local Python communities supporting PyCon Italia 2026 as media partners 🤝

Python User Group Reggio Emilia, Python Milano, Python Biella, PyBari!

Your support helps us spread the love for Python 🐍💙

#PyConIT #PyConIT26 #mediapartner

Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) This release brings multiple features and fixes relating to public transport which affect network import, GTFS import, simulation behavior and output.It also fixes various bugs related to lane changing...

Dear friends and users,
we are happy to announce the release of SUMO version 1.26.0.

The download links are at sumo.dlr.de/Download.

If you cite the new release in your publications, please use the DOI
10.5281/zenodo.18406080 (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)

CFP is now closed and it is time to VOTE 🗳️ ! Head to 2026.pycon.it/voting-info

Have a ticket, attended a past conference, are a member of Python Italia or sent a proposal? You can vote!

#PyConIT

Finally it's here: Jupyter notebooks inside QGIS. I don't know about you but I've been hoping for someone to get around to doing this for quite a while.

http://anitagraser.com/2026/01/10/notebooks-in-qgis/

The Same Deep Water as You
Homesick
One More Time

My favorite #Python package to use is spopt, a library for spatial optimization.

It helps you with:

📊 Facility location planning;
📊 Sales territory design;
📊 Maximizing market share;

And much more! Check it out here:

pysal.org/spopt/

Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

🎄 The holiday season is thinking time.

😌 Use the festive break to work on your PyCon Italia proposal — our CFP is open!

👇 Submit your proposal:
🔗 2026.pycon.it/en/call-for-...

#PyConIT2026 #pyconit #pyconitalia #pythoncommunity #cfp #callforproposal

that's a pity, it was so true and funny! Love you Roger!

But did they cut Roger's false note on Secrets?? ;-) It was so funny!

People have been asking about the materials for the Data Science for Transport Planning course in Leeds and I'm happy to share that we've made them #openaccess for anyone who wants to get started in this space: tdscience.github.io/dstp/ #itsleeds.

We’ve just released Epistorm-Mix, a new open dataset on how people in the U.S. mix across ages and settings in the post-COVID era.

📊 Contact-level data + contact matrices
Built for epidemic modeling & forecasting
Fully open data & code

🔗 www.epistorm.org/data/epistor...

Stanford University has published the World’s Top 2 % Scientists 2024, a global ranking of the world's most cited scientists in various disciplines.

A total of 14 IFISC researchers appear in the ranking
🔗: ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/rank...

Looking forward to presenting on modelling transport systems with simple and efficient tools at the Transport and Mobility colloquium in Zurich later today. For anyone interested, check out the slides and #opensource code to reproduce the results here: www.robinlovelace.net/presentation...

Metros Cut Car Use In European Cities – Trams Fall Short People drive significantly less in European cities with a metro system than in cities that only have trams or no rail-based public transport at all.

How can car traffic in cities be reduced? New research by CSH's @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social shows that while metros are effective in reducing car traffic, a study of nearly 400 European cities finds no evidence that trams have the same effect: csh.ac.at/news/metros-...

The Physics of News, Rumors, and Opinions The boundaries between physical and social networks have narrowed with the advent of the Internet and its pervasive platforms. This has given rise to a complex adaptive information ecosystem where ind...

The Physics of News, Rumors, and Opinions arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053

New R package: gridmappr by Roger Beecham

It automates creating small multiple gridmap layouts by optimally placing geographic points into grid cells (inspired by Jo Wood’s Observable notebooks).

👉 https://github.com/rogerbeecham/gridmappr

#RStats #RSpatial #DataViz #GISchat

📣 José J. Ramasco is the new Director of IFISC, joined by David Sánchez and Roberta Zambrini as Deputy Directors. They will continue the work of the previous team led by Emilio Hernández-García, strengthening IFISC’s mission in complex systems science.

🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/jose...

Gallery of various network visualisations.

🤩 Fantastic new network plotting package available in Python by Fabio Zanini. The package supports both networkx and igraph networks, and has a wide variety of styling options. iplotx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

IL PONTE SULLO STRETTO CONVIENE? - CityRailways Analisi ragionata dei costi e benefici del ponte sullo stretto di Messina

cityrailways.com/articoli/str.... Complimenti ad Andrea Spinosa per l'ottima analisi!