EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database, is a widely used global disaster database for tracking natural and technological disasters, which risks shutting down after USAID cuts. I just signed an open letter to support them, so can you: openletter.earth/the-worlds-c... #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData

Emerging, escalating and entrenched conflicts. For the first time on record, conflict and violence forced people to flee within their countries more often than disasters in 2025.

What are the foundations of #ComplexSystems & #NetSci, really? Working in this field? Contribute a small set of papers you consider foundational (DOI only): both the obvious and the overlooked matter. 🕒 <10 minutes 👉 Take the survey: manliodedomenico.com/complexity_m... 🧵 1/ more info 👇

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

University of Amsterdam | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Synthetic Social Networks for Climate Attitude-Behaviour Diffusion - Application deadline 📆 Apr 30, 2026

It's beginning! EU journal replacement set to start this fall. Free OA publishing for all authors from 11 supporting countries. This is Germany's DFG press release: "New Publishing Opportunities for Researchers: Germany Joins Open Research Europe" […]

Come be my colleague! Postdoc position at the University of Amsterdam: Open-source AI for Social Sciences & Humanities. Work on open LLM infrastructure, reproducible research tools, and ethical AI for SSH. 🗓 Tight deadline: Apply by April 3 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Exciting day ahead 🚀🚀🚀 See you tomorrow for diverse talks, frosty beers, and a great atmosphere. 🍻 Big thanks to Danish Data Science Academy and the Technical University of Denmark for sponsoring and Absalon for the incredible venue. See you there! #databeers #Copenhagen

SODAS Lecture on March 13! 📅 Join us for this fascinating lecture, where @marioluissmall.bsky.social will discuss the availability of large-scale data and the spread of computational social science 💻 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

We are thrilled to announce our 4th speaker for the event on March 10th! 🚀🚀🚀 Christopher Cox will tell us about the effect of parental leave on mental health in men and women. Join us at #databeers #copenhagen x #Absalon1720 We are SOLD OUT❗️ Remember to cancel your ticket if you can't attend

Serving as an editor taught me the limits of academic ideals for open, accessible scholarship, which tend to get smashed into the cliffs of institutional inertia, profit motives, and extractive norms. Some orgs are better than others, but their base tendencies are varying degrees of parasitism 🔥

Excellent opportunity for a hands-on experience with a complex project, highly recommended!

You've seen the projects, the tutors, the location, the program — and it's all 🔥. You have zero excuses. Apply before Feb 28th. We'll know if you didn't. 👀

The call for participants for Complexity72h is finally open! Apply by February 28 for the best collab ever! Why??? ✨ Amazing projects 👩‍🏫 Fantastic tutors 📍 A great location 👉 Apply now: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72... Do you REALLY need anything else to be convinced? We didn’t think so.

SFI’s GWCSS program is designed for Ph.D. students pursuing thesis research in computational social science. Participants work closely with peers and faculty to advance their own research and take part in collaborative complexity-based problem solving. Apply by Feb 4, 2026 santafe.edu/gwcss

PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky

As a cognitive scientist, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realise that emotion matters a lot, not just for understanding humans, but for understanding any thinking agent. Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality. Examples:

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the US crossed an 'unacceptable line' following attacks on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro.

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

🏹 Job alert: Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH) at Aalborg University 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 📅 Apply by Feb 1st 🔗 https://bit.ly/4pLX1La

🚨 Come join @ceu-dnds.bsky.social as an 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿! 🚨 We are looking for a young and coming researcher in 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 and 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. If that sounds like you (or someone you know), check out the call & apply (or share the link): careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Really cool initiative appreciating the work of early career researchers... Other research groups could definitely copy! 👏

Ouch, what an embarrassment! 🤮

Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?

Migration has been part of human history for ages and gets more complex and intense with rising conflict and extreme weather. Last week, we took on the challenge of making sense of displacement patterns during the #Complexity72h workshop. To know more, take a 👀 arxiv.org/abs/2506.22120

You will own NOTHING and be HAPPY! At least with games, you can stop this madness of digital goods becoming inaccessible by design, by signing this petition: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

Slides from my keynote lecture "What drives the productivity of scientific labor?" at the 2025 Oxford Summer School on Economic #Networks. Part 1 of 2: why and how do elite scientists dominate scientific discourse? aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

It's #SICSS O'clock!!!! Hundreds of students all over the world are learning about computational social science *for free* thanks to the hard work of so many brilliant young scholars who dedicated their time this summer to train the next generation-- from Colombia to Kenya! sicss.io

Silicon Valley doing what it's best at, manufacturing demand!

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

Still, in the last 50 years it didn't change that much, regardless of having dem or rep governments. Will it mean something, or not? It reminds me of this: youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs?...

Open science: share all your data GDPR: do not even think about sharing all your data Open science: just anonymize your data Differential privacy experts: good luck with that

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today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

📢 Call for PhD and Postdocs: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness nerds.itu.dk/2025/03/25/c... We are looking for Phds and Postdocs to join @jonassjuul.bsky.social at @itu.dk in Copenhagen improving inference, forecasting, and mitigation in future pandemics. Deadline May 1st.

I was happy to sign this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI. www.aibiasconsensus.org

Awesome initiative asking for a code of conduct at the International School and Conference on Network Science (#NetSci), if you support the idea, consider signing & sharing with peers forms.gle/fV6XrYyTZ1Fz... @netplace.bsky.social

Reform and cultural change in academic publishing are overdue. This is a fantastic initiative, particularly by steering away from the prestige signalling of high-impact journals and bringing affordability back to the open-access agenda. The next step: having funders and hiring departments onboard!

We are glad to present 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐎𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄) 🎉 complexity-core.github.io 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 is a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community.

Can't wait to be back at @complexity72h.bsky.social, let the sleepless nights come :D #Complexity72h

Someone should write this black on white the day after H-index and impact factors started to drive decision-making processes in many scientific fields. Now the community behind the Complex Systems Society writes it and calls for similar initiatives.

How to choose a research question? "Try to first see the forest from the trees, and then focus on those trees that you find important. If you feel that some trees or entire forests are missing, you have a research question! Great advice to early career researchers jarisaramaki.fi/2025/01/29/h...

This is amazing! A wonderfully interactive way of demonstrating how you can be manipulated using visualizations! Will definitely share this with my students!