I've got so so many project ideas from #netsci2026 but now I have to somehow finish the ones I was already working on first 😔

It was surreal seeing my research presented today to the whole of @netsciconf.bsky.social. A huge congratulations to @barabasi.bsky.social on receiving the Euler Award. Excited to see how network design grows (or should I say assembles?) in the field! Preprint coming very very soon…. #NetSci2026

Pumped to be at #NetSci again this year! I’ll be in the poster session tomorrow sharing preliminary work on reconstructing network statistics. And make sure to check out my collaborator Jasper van der Kolk’s talk Wednesday at 5 pm in Harvard Square B on our work assembling reproducible networks!

Excited to share a new publication on modifying PageRank! This was joint work with a great team that formed at BYU during my time there: Mark Kempton, Alice Oveson and Tyler Jones. Check it out!

So excited to share that I successfully defended my dissertation and am now “Dr. Cory”! Thank you to all my collaborators, labmates, cohortees, friends and family who supported me in this journey. I found my scientific home at Northeastern and am proud to call myself a network scientist. #phd #netsi

Excited to be at APS again this year! If you’re around and want to see some work on reproducing target network structures, come to my talk tomorrow, March 17, at 1:20 in the Statistical Physics of Networks session up in the Bluebird ballrooms!

If you’re at APS this morning and want to see a great talk, stop by the Networks and Graphs in Biology section at 10:30 to hear Jasper van der Kolk talk about our work on networks built from designed building blocks!

I am really excited to co-organize this year's Science of Science Satellite of NetSci 2026 in Boston. Submissions are very open and can include work in progress, work under review, or accepted publications. Please consider submitting before March 18th! Website: netscisci.github.io

We are hiring🚨 We are looking for 2 postdocs and 1 reasearch assistant to work in the ERC project “Tipping dynamics and resilience in adapting ecological systems” at @eawag.bsky.social Find the description of each position and the link to apply in the thread ⬇️

Gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

How complex should network models be? 🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior). 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

New 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 study by @barabasi.bsky.social & colleagues reveals a new organizing principle for 3D physical networks. From blood vessels to neurons, these systems evolve by minimizing surface area, explaining brain and vascular architecture & predicting neuronal sprouting. Paper 🔗 tinyurl.com/v34bxer

Looking forward to @ismarvolic.bsky.social talk on the mathematics of democracy

Excited to be at #JMM2026 this year! If you’re around and want to chat about networks, let me know!

I'm on the job market! I graduate with my PhD in network science this April, seeking a postdoc in Atlanta or remote. I work on theoretical and data-driven problems under Albert-László Barabási. I love being the "math guy" on interdisciplinary teams. Want help studying networks? Please reach out!

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Time for my non-science post of the year…my top six albums curated by me not Spotify. Not in any particular order. Plus a bonus single and guitar solo for good measure. 🧵1/10

Some really interesting "composition networks" showing musical transitions through a song by Niccolo di Marco, @walter4c.bsky.social and others. I love how Autumn Leaves is so much denser than everything else. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.07557

I'm on the job market! I graduate with my PhD in network science this April, seeking a postdoc in Atlanta or remote. I work on theoretical and data-driven problems under Albert-László Barabási. I love being the "math guy" on interdisciplinary teams. Want help studying networks? Please reach out!

11/10 opinion video by @jackconte.bsky.social. We need more human centric scientific thinking. An excellent explanation of how we should be thinking about the next step in algorithm development and even big data research www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

It is finally out! Have you ever wanted to get into information theory, complexity, and networks? If so, this is the paper for you: a comprehensive tutorial review on information theory for complexity scientists specifically. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📌 Save the Date! The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science. Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

Really fascinating application of network epidemiology to understand historical phenomena. It's such a creative way to combine quantitative tools with historical records and link rumor spread with infectious disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Submit your work to COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025! 📍 Binghamton, NY, Dec 9–11 📝 Proceedings of full papers (Springer) & abstracts (Book of Abstracts) 🎤 Keynotes: Bettencourt, Girvan, Glass, Newman, Stark 📅 Submission deadline: Sept 2 👉 complexnetworks.org/submission/ #ComplexNetworks2025

#ProcB in @science.org | Dispersed female networks: female gorillas’ inter-group relationships influence dispersal decisions: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Someone at a conference asked me what new dataset I am most excited about. This is it. macaquenet.github.io

Hard to believe that the first chapter of my dissertation came out a year ago. We investigated link entanglement in physical networks and found some interesting connections between the network's structure and it's ability to entangle itself. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

So stoked to see this in press! Diverging network architecture of the C. elegans connectome and signaling network journal: journals.aps.org/prxlife/acce... preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14498 1/3

Really cool work by @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, @maximelca.bsky.social, @lordgrilo.bsky.social and more blending higher order networks, dynamics and information theory to distinguish causal mechanisms and emergent behavior in networks, particularly when group interactions are involved.

I cannot get over how cool this paper is from @ctestard.bsky.social, Michael Platt, @ljnbrent.bsky.social and more. If you are interested networks measuring adaptive behavior or honestly, just monkeys being resilient, check it out! #networkscience #animalbehavior www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are remote post-docs a thing? Is it worth reaching out to PIs in different countries/cities even if I am unable to move to that location due to other constraints? #AcademicSky #PostDoc

Anyone with insightful tips for the two-body problem? There’s the common “look for jobs in academic focused cities” but curious to hear other helpful insights. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Postdoc #Science

I learned a lot working on this new paper with this group of network scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and behavioural ecologists. We're hoping it helps anyone who feels (understandably!) lost in the animal social networks weeds.

Fantastic work. Great case for using generative network models.

I've gotten some new followers so I thought I'd introduce myself. I’m a 5th-year PhD candidate in network science with an applied math background, working with @barabasi.bsky.social. I study complex systems and love being the "math guy" on interdisciplinary problems. Check out my site or say hi!

THIS! Definitely a complicated issue but we need to find a way to make space for null results in publications and not view them as lesser.

To those in #animalbehavior, does this call for collaboration from @jbbrask.bsky.social, Samuel Ellis, and @darrencroft.bsky.social still ring true? How can a network scientist help with this interdisciplinary effort? What questions are most important questions to start tackling?

Exponential random graphs have long been null models distinguishing real patterns versus random effects in networks. But what about hypergraphs, where more than two nodes can interact at once? @sarawalk.bsky.social and team show an equivalent for hypergraphs exists with solid analytical grounding.

I love when graph theory concepts stemming from the 1800s pop up to help in network science. This is a great article showing how to mitigate cascading failures in a network using graph coloring. 🧵 1/7

Emergence is something fascinating but has always felt a bit abstract to me. Turns out I'm not alone! Really interesting read by @abbasrizi.bsky.social on the need to form precise definitions of emergence with examples from physics, birds, and herd immunity.

Just finished reading this and what a book! @edyong209.bsky.social not only blew my mind explaining how differently animals sense the world, but more philosophically, how much we gain by understanding another perspective and viewing the world from a whole different angle. Highly recommend!

What are your best tips for preparing for life after a PhD? Who do you reach out to find a sponsoring scientist for your post-doc grants? How far do you reach out of your comfort zone when looking for new research projects? When is reaching out too early/too late? Any tips welcome!

🧪 New paper: how can we turn decades of work to quantify the structure of species interaction networks into something relevant for biodiversity monitoring and management? @gabdans.bsky.social lays out the roadmap in a new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A fantastic example of combining #network science techniques (network robustness) with expert domain knowledge (metaweb and habitat knowledge) in #ecologicalnetworks

Great paper to keep in your back pocket as reference for anyone translating correlation matrices into networks

Belated update: I’m officially a PhD candidate! I proposed my dissertation on how local connection rules shape the global structure of complex systems. I’m developing new network models and metrics to understand this phenomena using tools from statistical inference to knot theory. Excited to dig in!

Recently came across this paper from the @mehr.nz music lab and I cannot get over how cool it is. It puts its finger on the feeling that music has universal patterns spanning societies and introduced a fantastic dataset ripe to study lots of future questions

The longer I debug, the more convinced I am that my computer is just deliberately disobeying me

Searching mathematics literature is such an art. There’s all these little pockets of wisdom, each with 3-8 papers on exactly the question I have. But finding any one of those pockets takes 3 months of creative Google scholaring

I've recently become fascinated by #ecologicalnetworks. This excellent review out today may be specific to ecological networks but its arguments ring true for #networkscience in general. Construct your networks intentionally to answer your specific question, not for the methodological ease.