We are hiring a Postdoctoral Associate for the newly established ACT (Activate, Connect, Transform) Center at University of Rochester. Let me know if you are interested in social networks, implementation #impsci, and action. Please share in your networks!

Decline of Stack Overflow user engagement is more nuanced than it seems. The sharp activity drop in #knowledge-sharing platforms has sparked concerns re the sustainability of #GenAI. If LLMs depend on human-generated data but reduce content generation, are we hitting the so-called #peak_data? 1/n

We are searching for a new senior Program Manager for the cutting edge Network Science doctoral program @northeasternu.bsky.social! Come join us. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

This post is not about DeepSeek.

A letter from @nature.com to the President-elect on how to make science thrive. The US federal government can harness science to secure the health, prosperity and safety of Americans and the world. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI and stubborn human collaborators: a problem or a solution? 🧵 🪡 A recent paper published in JAMA ON reveals a paradoxical pattern in medical diagnostics: GPT4 achieved 90% diagnostic accuracy working independently, surpassing both unassisted physicians (74%) and LLM-assisted physicians(76%). 1/5

Here @nunetsi.bsky.social we pursue multidisciplinary research, but our community is also very multitalented. Ajitesh Srivastava (AJ), a visiting professor at NetSI is producing and headlining a comedy & music show in Somerville. Join him and bring friends! 🎟️ at www.eventbrite.com/e/house-of-l...

New Preprint: Scalable adaptive network intervention for multi-agent systems using RL+Variational Auto Encoders (VAE) Past research has shown that the network structure of agents interactions influences system-level behavior, thus can be used as an effective system governance intervention. 1/n

Fantastic news. Congratulations to @lordgrilo.bsky.social and @northeasternu.bsky.social. Out @nunetsi.bsky.social rocks!

This is the issue that the new cognitive turn in behavioral econ has to resolve head on. Is the dimensionality of factors that the new frameworks are introducing going to be so high to make them vacuous? 1/n

Finishing the move to the new office on the Thanksgiving eve.

In a wide-ranging conversation, Provost Madigan discusses research priorities, highlighting that Network Science Institute is a priority amongst research enterprises moving forward due to its high impact and leadership. news.northeastern.edu/2024/11/20/f...