Network friends! I have been doing a "network of the day" for my Networks in Biology class. Any favorites come to mind?

I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 and ℳα†ℏ—so I wrote La𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡! It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in “tweets”, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out! keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/

The new proposed guidelines for international student/scholar visas would be devastating. Please submit a comment if you have the time: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠 Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892 #Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA

Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!

Teaching questions based on a wild first few weeks: (1) any tips for introducing Python to students with a wide range of coding skills in a network science class? Although it's clear that a 1 hour weekly lab is not enough time to learn a new coding language, I don't want to eat up all of class time.

Studying bluesky? Check out this great resource from @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and collaborators!! #polnet2025 #pacss2025

🚨🚨We’re hiring a postdoc!🚨🚨 Min two year contract; start in 2026 (flexible) & contribute to this project focused on understanding the link between bleaching recovery and disease in cnidarians!! Opportunities to work on side projects too! Deadline Nov 1! Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem

Hey #ESA2025 early risers! If you come to Species Interactions 3 in BCC 342 at 8am, you can hear me disprove the last eight years of my own work and show you some math you've never seen before!

This paper looks cool and explores something I have long wondered about (the interplay between susceptibility and transmissibility): doi.org/10.1016/j.jt.... Nice work Jeremy Harris , Esther Gallmeier, @jdushoff.bsky.social , @beckettstephen.bsky.social and @joshuasweitz.bsky.social!

How to deal with the multiscale nature of evolution, which displays different time scales of change? We need to replace classic genotype spaces with multiscapes. Here's a great paper by my friend Susanna Manrubia and coworkers @mncn-csic.bsky.social rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royo... …

Newish work from VCSI core and external team members: @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social & @nwlandry.bsky.social 👀

🚨🚨 Correction posted 🚨🚨 "The simpliciality of higher-order networks" in collaboration with @jgyou.bsky.social and @eikmeier.bsky.social is now posted! This was an intimate look into the strengths and weaknesses of the correction process. A short 🧵 epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Dr. Louis Bubrig gave an amazing defense of his dissertation exploring how dispersal affects the spread of epidemics. Congratulations, Dr. Bubrig!!

📢 There is a lab technician or lab specialist position available in my lab, starting fall 2025. The position will involve molecular biology, microbiology, drosophila work, and more. Please share with anyone who may be interested and apply here: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

It’s so cool that they deleted all the specialized opportunities so now we all have to engage in knife combat in the Most Special Little Guy In The Whole Field Pit

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

🚨🚨 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

As I was tallying my yarn stockpile, I unwittingly made a colorful histogram

The UVA Faculty Senate has voted to approve a resolution of No Confidence in the Board of Visitors

Wow, this looks cool!

Very pleased our paper looking at the diffusion of complex contagions is out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

TIL that UVA has a Prof. Law in the School of Law and a Prof. Lawless in the Politics Department. 🤯

I wrote: “Jefferson dreamed of forging a grand, vibrant Athens on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, in its third century, the United States seems a lot more like Sparta.” newrepublic.com/article/1973...

Nicholas Landry introduced an efficient sampling algorithm for microcanonical configuration models of hypergraphs. It avoids loopy edges, generates a new initial sample distinct from empirical data (adhering to realizability conditions), employs a smart criterion for MCMC sampling. #NetSci2025

Last dinner at NetSci 😊😥

Wow, @netsciconf.bsky.social --- I'm impressed.

Tim LaRock talking about the number (and properties) of hypergraphs with the same pairwise projection. Very cool work and a picture of @xgi.bsky.social in the wild 👀

#NetSci2025 Higher-order networks parallel session (2)

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

Hurray! 🎉 @arash.network (left) is the 24th recipient of the Zachary's Karate Club CLUB prize. For his talk @netsciconf.bsky.social NetSci 2025, he was entrusted with the illustrious trophy 🏆 from @nwlandry.bsky.social #networkscience networkkarate.tumblr.com

A glitch in the matrix or just another day at @netsciconf.bsky.social? @hanlinsun.bsky.social @alicepatania.bsky.social

@captainkirk1041.bsky.social talking about principled representations of higher-order networks using info theory

“This is about modelling emergence, multiscale causality, collective behaviour.. this is not a side quest, it’s the core challenge of complex systems”.

And what’s better than talking about higher order systems before the main track ;)

"Some say science is about truth, some say science is about curiosity, but it's really about the glory" - @lordgrilo.bsky.social starting off TopoNets at @netsciconf.bsky.social 😂

Software and Data satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social:

I'm excited to be participating in this #NetSci2025 satellite on sharing network data and software next week!

Packing the Zachary's Karate Club trophy for the trip to its next destination: @netsciconf.bsky.social! Tag me on Bluesky (or send me an email) with a photo if you see ZKC in the wild at the conference to crown the next worthy recipient! (For newcomers wanting context: www.tumblr.com/networkkarate)

Going to #NetSci2025 next week? Check out the satellite on "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science" Hear some great short talks & get involved: ▪️ Discussion on sharing data ▪️ Discussion on standards for describing data ▪️ Interactive software fair Complete details at netsci.nascol.net

Just opened my @overleaf.com and saw that there is finally a "Search all project files"! 🔥🔥🔥 I'm unstoppable now...

New paper out! "A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset" in collaboration with @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social, Ilya Amburg, @diesagar.bsky.social, and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social. Paper at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608 and dataset at socialmediaarchive.org/record/78

A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608

Last month, I attended one of Masashi's last concerts, a beautiful celestial-themed set culminating in a Rachmaninoff piano concerto. Masashi was brilliant and it was wonderful to see him doing something he so clearly loved. I'm so sad, but am so grateful for the time I knew him.

We are heartbroken to share that our dear colleague, Masashi Kawasaki, passed unexpectedly on Sunday. Masashi was an important member of our community and we will miss him deeply. For more about his life and legacy see bio.as.virginia.edu/masashi-kawa...

Hi #AcademicBluesky I'm prepping a new writing intensive undergrad course & am looking for resources and fun activities to build writing skills. Any recommendations of what has worked for you? Bonus points for content related to AI, crafting clear arguments, and outlining papers. Thanks!

Weekly debrief - radical reorganization of NSF expertise, slashing staff, closing Div of Equity for STEM Excellence - NIH requiring grantees to commit to anti-trans ideology BUT - Rümeysa Öztürk released - court halts large-scale RIF Darkness & light in Week 16 - buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Today we’re releasing Epydemix (www.epydemix.org), a Python package for flexible, modular, and data-driven epidemic modeling. Designed for researchers, students, and public health professionals. 🧵👇

We present Epydemix: open-source python package for all stages of epidemic modelling: from models' definition to their calibration via ABC methods. Website: www.epydemix.org. Paper: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... High level summary: www.epistorm.org/activities/e...