Amazing! Congrats to @lordgrilo.bsky.social @maximelca.bsky.social Alaa Maalouf, Joseph DelPreto, and all the authors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Explore moment-by-moment of the most in-depth documentation of any cetacean birth in the new CETI paper, “Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events,” published in @natureportfolio.nature.com’s Scientific Reports: bit.ly/4bIVZKc

By: Alaa Maalouf, Joseph DelPreto, @maximelca.bsky.social, @poetz.bsky.social, Jacob Andreas, Antonio Torralba, Shane Gero, @lordgrilo.bsky.social, Daniela Rus, David F. Gruber. @csail.mit.edu, @northeasternu.bsky.social, @carleton.ca, @baruch.cuny.edu

A sperm whale was born, and we were lucky enough to witness it with @projectceti.bsky.social. Read about it below, and go watch the videos! 🐳 @science.org: bit.ly/4bIKkeo

Looks like a fundamental study and approach ... Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature. Insects at high elevations utilize plasticity to cope with rising temperatures, whereas lowland species have limited plastic abilities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌐

A study in Nature shows that the single-celled form of a tiny, aquatic organism can turn into a multicellular version by three different routes. The discovery adds insight to the possible origins of multicellular life, suggesting a previously unrecognized degree of flexibility. 🧪

Filamentous growth everywhere! It is really fascinating that no matter if you are the fungus that grows as a "mold" in bread or on decomposing wood, in very unrelated lineages; the trademark is filamentous network growth!

Nat. Rev. Phys.: Collective dynamics on higher-order networks https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-025-00916-3

When should we favour a model with higher-order interactions over classical pairwise ones? "Reducibility of higher-order networks from dynamics" is now out in @natcomms.nature.com Paper: rdcu.be/e3tH4 Code: t.ly/pdELP w/ @lgajo.bsky.social A. Ghavasieh @fede7j.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social 🧵1/

The final version of "Reducibility of higher-order networks from dynamics" is finally out in Nature Communications! 👇👇👇

Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

We wrote a little something! @nwlandry.bsky.social and I talk about how new software to study networks with groups (like @xgi.bsky.social !) can help interdisciplinary collaborations tackle old questions from social ontology and the science of groups. www.siam.org/publications...

The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th! Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply. #PHD #CENTURI

One week left to apply to the UVA Biology PhD program! If you or someone you know are interested in contagion from a complex systems perspective, please reach out! I'm looking for a grad student! bio.as.virginia.edu/how-apply-gr...

Lots of higher-order interactions at the joint @beyondtheedge.network and RUNES workshop at AMU in Marseille this week. Thanks to @alainbarrat.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social!

Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

⚠️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️ Postdoctoral Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Marseille) in collaboration with @alainbarrat.bsky.social. Join us to study higher-order brain interactions in causal learning using information theory and network science. More info www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Come be my colleague! Happy to answer any questions about what it's like living in Charlottesville and being in the department.

🚨🚨 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

Thrilled to finally share a huge piece of my PhD project! Our paper “The Topological Architecture of Brain Identity” is now out on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n

🧠 Want to understand how different higher-order methods compare in brain connectivity analysis? Check out our new preprint — a fantastic collab with past & present NPL members @lordgrilo.bsky.social : 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread🧵

@nwlandry.bsky.social fighting against vibes-based estimations of the convergence when sampling from the configuration model. Good content. Bonus: @xgi.bsky.social viz

Our first keynote @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening TopoNets @netsciconf.bsky.social with higher-order interactions for neuroscience

Learning from @maximelca.bsky.social how to be nice to people in science 🤣🤣 @netplace.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

If you are at #NetSci25, join us at 1pm for our @netplace.bsky.social panel on the topic of "Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression", with panelists @asteixeira.bsky.social, @maximelca.bsky.social and @captainkirk1041.bsky.social

Tomorrow at lunch 👇👇👇

🎉 Very happy to announce Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social as our next panelist! Maxime is an FNRS Postdoc at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems & UCLouvain in Belgium. He is interested in dynamical systems, complex systems, networks, and their applications to life sciences.

Next week at @netsciconf.bsky.social -- it's time for another edition of TopoNets! 🗓️ June 3, 2025 📍 FPN Paarse Zaal A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...

Tomorrow after lunch I'll talk about fungi 👇👇👇

PhD fellowship to work with me and Benedetta Franceschiello on the analysis and modelling of fast sampled fMRI data! www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

📣 Commentary by @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social (thanks!) on our latest led by @thomrobiglio.bsky.social now out in PRL. Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Would you like to engage in scientific communication for the general public? In Siena during @css-conference.bsky.social it will be your occasion! 4 scientists will be chosen and coached by Scienza Coatta to step into the spotlight of a big event-show-scientific quiz. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1/6 New work in PRE selected as editor's suggestion! With a new hyperedge overlap matrix we characterize its impact on synchronizability in systems with HO interactions go.aps.org/3FfNGJ6 @santiagolaot.bsky.social, @federicomalizia.bsky.social, V. Latora, M. Frasca & @gomezgardenes.bsky.social

Our newest research in @nature.com We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

This is result of several efforts from the Complex Systems Society to strive for fairer publishing and evaluating systems in academia. cssociety.org/about/manife...

Higher-order Laplacian renormalization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New online today: ($) A diffusion-based RG scheme enables the study of scale invariance and universality in higher-order complex networks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 "Higher-order Laplacian renormalization" finally out in Nat. Phys.! Well done Marco and @martasolves.bsky.social for leading this one! 👏 Thanks to the great team with Francesco, Tommaso, and @lordgrilo.bsky.social rdcu.be/ea16y

#ClimateJob for a scientist (postdoctoral) contract at the Belgian Climate Centre @meteobe.bsky.social on the topic "Societal tipping points and social-ecological inequalities". 2 year, SW2 salary scale, Uccle (&collaboration with ULB - Ixelles), deadline 16 march 2025. www.meteo.be/fr/infos/act...

🚨3 days remaining to submit your abstract to our Physical Networks Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social! Working on complex networks in which physical constraints & embeddings matter? Send your abstract to [email protected] by 17th Feb! Details: sites.google.com/view/physnet... #NetSci25