The Higgs mechanism was proposed in 1964 by three independent teams. But here is the puzzle🤔: the "disruption index" says Higgs's paper is among the least disruptive ever. So what is going on? In our new paper, just out in #ScienceAdvances, we take up this puzzle: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 👇 1/7

Strongly clustered random graphs via triadic closure: Degree correlations and clustering spectrum arxiv.org/abs/2603.04669

Deep Generative Model for Human Mobility Behavior arxiv.org/abs/2510.06473

Excited for the Networks of Science of Science satellite at NetSCI 2026 this year in Boston! netscisci.github.io Be sure to submit by March 4th!

[New paper!] Mobility data are incredibly powerful, but also come with a long list of well-known biases (sampling, coverage, demographics, behavioral, etc.). In the paper, we survey them all and then zoom in on one that has been surprisingly underexplored: temporal bias. arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330

Finally, our paper is published in Physical Review E! Surprisingly, the anomalous network-dependent properties observed in ordinary percolation are washed out by the shortest-path-percolation process! An updated arXiv preprint will be available soon as well. 🔗: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

✨ Excited to announce 𝗬𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝗬𝗲𝗼𝗹 (𝗬𝗬) 𝗔𝗵𝗻 as a NetSci 2026 Plenary Speaker! A leading network and data scientist, YY explores how complex systems shape behavior, cognition, and discovery. Stay tuned for more speaker updates as we build toward an inspiring NetSci 2026! ✨ www.netsci2026.com/speakers

The Covid pandemic accelerated an ongoing shift towards remote working. Plus: scientists frequently collaborate with people from other institutions. Minus: paper impact decreased (are online interactions less creative?). @satyakisikdar.bsky.social @ftudisco.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.18481

Our team just released a comprehensive and accessible review of Signed Networks — two years in the making! Theory, methods, applications, all in one place. Feedback welcome. arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247

📢How should authors go about putting the point-by-point response to reviewers' document together, in order to make the process smoother and more efficient for authors, editors, and reviewers? Check out our latest Editorial! www.nature.com/articles/s43... #SciencePublishing #ResearchPublishing

Two variants of the friendship paradox: The condition for inequality between them arxiv.org/abs/2511.06176 a small experimental scientific communication project, encouraged by @socph.bsky.social

I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026! We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation? Want to answer these questions? details below!

Interested in how LLM tools are being creatively used for good? Check out this map of LLM Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion. Bonus: link to a public dataset of 70+ tools is included in the first page of the report.

When you randomize a weighted network, be careful! Results may depend on the unit used for the weights, particularly when you want to know if they are statistically significant. Check our paper, just out on the arXiv. @skojaku.bsky.social @filipisilva.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2510.23964

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

Dynamical Phase Transitions in Nonequilibrium Networks link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New preprint! 🚀 We ask: What happens when you bring human team science into the design of multi-agent LLM systems? In particular, how do team structure, diversity, and interaction dynamics influence how AI agents collaborate? 📄Full Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07488 👩‍💻Code: github.com/Rasikamurali...

Modeling the spatial growth of cities arxiv.org/abs/2510.03045

One of the time-consuming tasks in paper writing is to curate bibtex for references. So I automated bibtex curation with an Alfred app that fetches entries from dx.doi.org using DOI or title. It saves time, reduces errors, and maintains consistent LaTeX keys. github.com/skojaku/tobi...

Network connectivity analysis via shortest paths https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03230

Strikingly, the shortest-path percolation homogenizes scale-free networks before the phase transition, resulting in the same universality class as the Erdős–Rényi Networks! Check out our new preprint on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.09142

Q: How are resources consumed in transportation networks, and how does this shape the overall functioning of the system? We introduce the minimum-cost percolation framework and apply it to the U.S. air transportation system using publicly available data. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share this long-overdue project! We found that many real-world event sequences follow a surprisingly similar hierarchically structured pattern, and that multi-timescale memory mechanisms can explain this pattern. Feedback welcome! arxiv.org/abs/2508.18281

🧮 ~8M nodes, 330M relationships across family, household, school & work. 🇸🇪 We constructed a multilayer population-scale network for Sweden, capturing distinct features of the country. 📝 doi.org/10.1038/s415... cc: @ingakwoh.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social ++

The psychophysics of style www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Trade-Off between Directness and Coverage in Transport Network Growth arxiv.org/abs/2507.13005

New paper in PNAS!🎉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Is herd immunity to infectious diseases effective when induced by natural infection? Earlier studies have suggested that population heterogeneity makes disease-induced herd immunity more effective than previously thought. Our work challenges this notion.

🚀Ready to shape the future of #NetworkScience? Submit to #ComplexNetworks2025! 📅Dec 9–11, Binghamton, NY 🇺🇸 📄 Full Papers & Extended Abstracts ⏳ Deadline: Sept 2, 2025 👉 complexnetworks.org/submission/ #ComplexSystems #CallForPapers #ComplexNetworks

🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520

Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility arxiv.org/abs/2405.08746

Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization arxiv.org/abs/2501.05590

Geometric Criticality in Scale-Invariant Networks arxiv.org/abs/2507.11348

Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503

Deterministic simplicial complexes arxiv.org/abs/2507.07402

Charting multidimensional ideological polarization across demographic groups in the USA www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phys. Rep.: Introduction to correlation networks: Interdisciplinary approaches beyond thresholding https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157325001784?dgcid=rss_sd_all

Tested Claude Code with MCP server for symbolic calculus. Prompted it to "Add a section to derive eq:main in the latex doc" and it generated complete step-by-step derivations (1.5p in 2 columns!), with every single step verified by symbolic calculator ✅ (a forked repo) github.com/skojaku/calc...

J. Phys. Complex.: Active travel modelling: a methodological approach to networks for walking and cycling commuting analysis http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/add257

www.acornpub.co.kr/book/9791161... @stevenstrogatz.com's masterpiece 'Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos' (translated in Korean, a great honor for me to join the translation project) will come out soon! 😀

#NetSci2025 in Maastricht was fantastic! I had great chances to present my works at the satellite-Critical Phenomena In Networks (CPIN) and the parallel session-Mobility and spatial networks. I thank to all of my collaborators and mentors for amazing support :)

Quantifying invisible barriers and bridges in city learned from mobility data using neural embedding by @estebanmoro.bsky.social @danielhankim.bsky.social Guanyuan Weng @yyahn.bsky.social #NetSci2025

I'm releasing the v2.0 version of my guide on using LLM (mainly OpenAI models) for computational social science tasks. Major changes: - Adopt the new Responses API. - Better handling of the structured output. Link: github.com/yang3kc/llm_... Please star if you find it useful~

Phys. Rev. E: Weight dynamics of learning networks http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054208

Congrats Dr. Kaiser @kaiserdaniel.bsky.social who successfully defended his dissertation 🥳 I’m glad I was part of Daniel’s amazing project and sad that he will leave the group 🥲 Wish you the best at UVA 👏🏻

I've just published a new version of the pygris #Python package, helping you work with U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line shapefiles and other data resources. Grab the new version now with `pip install pygris`; it resolves issues with the Census website and ensures you can get your data.

Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate Bluesky’s journey from an invitation only platform with a few thousands of users to reaching 30 million users in terms of user activity and network growth. 📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902 💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris... 💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...

This week, I gave a one-hour tutorial at our group meeting on message passing methods on complex networks and their application to percolation studies. I’m always reminded that the best way to learn is to teach someone else! Repo: github.com/danielhankim...

New Pre-print out 📝 We propose a minimum-cost percolation (MCP) framework to model resource consumption in transportation networks, applied to the US air system. Encouraging cooperation among air carriers can boost the system’s robustness to disruptions! arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.04245

Phys. Rev. Lett.: High Reconstructability of Degree-Heterogeneous Networks http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.137402