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.

Science is under unprecedented threat in the US, and we need to speak out to save it. If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle.... Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.

In honor of the @thetonyawards.bsky.social tonight, I made a Tony award nominee network! Nominees are connected if they collaborated in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Show up to the '21-'22 season. Gold = Performer / Blue = Creative / Red = Other. #tonyawards #networks 🧵 of network stats for the nerds

There's a lot of big news today/this week, but Apple just dropped a nuke of a paper about LLMs & LRMs, specially around "high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse." This is the biggest sign yet that if AI ever lives up the hype, it won't be via those approaches:

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF