🚨Milestone alert🚨: The NZA has officially read over 1 MILLION pages of zoning text! 📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄 Our team is in the midst of wrapping up major work in CA, UT, ME, & NC—turning dense, local, LONG codes into open, accessible data. Check out the progress at zoningatlas.org/atlas.

Giving a talk Monday at Northeastern’s CEE Distinguished Seminar Series on "Cities Beyond Maps", using mobility data, network science & AI to uncover the invisible urban networks that shape how people move and connect.

🎓 Summer School on Social Network Research 🇨🇱 📢 Keynote speakers: ✨Pavel Krivitsky – statistical network models ✨Esteban Moro – network science & complex systems 📍In-site event in Chile for postgraduate, PhD, post-doc & early career scholars. 👉 Program & registration: snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻! Secure your spot at the flagship conference of the Network Science Society and take advantage of the early bird registration special - www.netsci2026.com/registration 📅 June 1–5, 2026 | Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA Join us as we celebrate 20 years of NetSci!

@aespinosarada.bsky.social @gvegayon.bsky.social @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social @krivitsky.net @estebanmoro.bsky.social @insna.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social

Work with us at UVA School of Data Science! @uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :) datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...

How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality. 🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Join our authors at the @broadinstitute on 30th October 2025 💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes! 📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore. @mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org

🚨 Deadline extended! Apply by Nov 5 Join the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱 📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social @krivitsky.net @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, Diego Palacios, @gvegayon.bsky.social 💻 Group projects · Network models snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

Ready for another edition of #netmob. This time in Paris!! Here we go

Stay connected with @netsciconf.bsky.social! 💬 Follow us for speaker news, deadline reminders, event highlights & community updates. Don’t miss a moment—join the conversation! 👇 LinkedIN: tinyurl.com/5n7hv5pr IG: tinyurl.com/hjbjam2a X: x.com/NetSciConf Web: www.netsci2026.com

#NetSI is proud to be well represented in Stanford’s list of the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists (single-year impact), based on Elsevier Scopus data 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc4d4yv3 @barabasi.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social @lordgrilo.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social

Why scientists should take more coffee breaks | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University! We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science. @nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

📌 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

Measuring AI’s impact on work goes beyond job losses, t’s about how tech reshapes skills & tasks. @estebanmoro.bsky.social and collaborators are building the 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙐𝙎 𝙅𝙤𝙗 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 to track job skills and predict unemployment risk more accurately. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/17/n...

Maps, roads, and skylines don’t tell the whole story of our cities. Invisible barriers + hidden connections shape urban life in ways we rarely see. I’ll dig into this at my ACM SIGSPATIAL keynote “Cities Beyond Maps.” See you all! 🚶‍♂️🏙🏢 sigspatial2025.sigspatial.org/keynotes/

Excited to announce the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱! 📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social & @krivitsky.net @insna.bsky.social & @netscisociety.bsky.social Apply by Oct 5 👉 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

Reading La Voz de Galicia this morning before our Camino de Santiago route and found this interesting interview to @drxeo.eu congrats!

🎉 Registration is OPEN for NetMob 2025! 📍 Paris, Oct 8–10 @ CNAM 📊 Join the leading community in mobile data & network science. 💸 Early bird rates until Sept 7! 🔗 Register: v4.event-vert.org/en/netmob2025/ 🛂 Need a visa? Info & support letters available! #NetMob2025 #DataScience #Mobility

Presenting #IC2S2 tutorial "Mobility Flows and Accessibility Using R and Big Open Data" www.ekotov.pro/spanish-open... - done. Next up - the rest of the conference)

We want to see you in Paris! 😀🥐🇫🇷 -Apply by July 22, 2025 (23:59 AoE). Notifications will be sent by July 28, 2025, to allow time for travel arrangements and visa processing. More details at: netmob.org/www25/#trave...

Missing this year’s edition of #IC2S2, but following the updates here using Maria’s feed. Thanks!

A new PNAS study by @ngozzi.bsky.social, Nicola Perra & @alexvespi.bsky.social shows how COVID-era data, that includes behavioral analytics, can improve models of disease spread. This could improve future projections for both pandemics & seasonal illnesses. news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/02/d...

Netmob 2025 abstract submission deadline was extended until July 7th!

NetMob News!! We now have an extension to the submission deadline, don't miss the new date. 🤗

Come work with us. PhD fellowships available.

‪The 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 | 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙪𝙢, co-hosted by #BarabasiLab and #metaLAB, gathered a community exploring data as both material and meaning. As @kimay.bsky.social put it: “We design data, & data designs us.” A timely and necessary conversation. 🧮 bit.ly/4eoUPoa @barabasi.bsky.social @jaytiesse.bsky.social

@northeasternu.bsky.social joins a $1.6M ‪ @sloanfoundation.bsky.social -funded research on AI & the workforce. @estebanmoro.bsky.social (#SUNLab, NetSI) serves as co-PI on this multi-institutional project to study how AI transforms jobs, skills & labor markets. 🔗 bit.ly/43UoX7g

Really enjoyed speaking to Cascadia R Conference today! Materials from my talk are at rfortherestofus.com/cascadia2025. #rstats

#NetSci2025 is a wrap—huge thanks to the organizers for a fantastic edition! So much energy around Network Science and its many applications. Great to reconnect with colleagues and make new (and hiMgher-order!) connections. See you all next year in Boston!

Quantifying invisible barriers and bridges in city learned from mobility data using neural embedding by @estebanmoro.bsky.social @danielhankim.bsky.social Guanyuan Weng @yyahn.bsky.social #NetSci2025

Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social participants at #NetSci2025

A recent episode of @marketplace.org highlights the economic boost from post-pandemic urban growth. As @estebanmoro.bsky.social, Director of #SUNLab at @nunetsi.bsky.social, notes: nothing beats being around others “in terms of job creation, opportunities, and innovation.” 🎙️https://bit.ly/4mGSpox

#NetSci2025 mobility and spatial networks parallel session (1)

"The share of companies abandoning most of their generative-AI pilot projects has risen to 42%, up from 17% last year" www.economist.com/business/202...

You are invited to NetMob 2025! 😎🙌 #conference #network #data #paris #france

2nd British NetSci Symposium, June 9th, UCL. Amazing lineup of speakers. PhD students and Post-Docs consider sending an abstract. Deadline May 30 AOE. Details: www.netsci.uk/events.html

The challenge is associated with the NetMob 2025 conference (netmob.org/www25/) held in Paris, France, on October 8-10, 2025. NetMob is the primary conference analyzing mobile phone datasets in social, urban, societal, and industrial problems.

Don't miss this year's edition of Netmob! Join us in Paris

NetMob 2025 will take place in October 2025 at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris, France. Located in the heart of the city, CNAM is a historic institution known for its contributions to science and technology.

Excited to be one of the invited speakers at the 2nd British NetSci Symposium and honored to be part of this fantastic lineup. Thanks @netscience.bsky.social for organizing such a great event!

Have you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort! w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279

These are real images of exoplanets. Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away. These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark. And we can see them.

Congratulations to Adina, Sam, Kishore, Ayan, and Lucas on earning your PhDs from our Network Science Program! We’re proud of all you’ve achieved and excited for what comes next. @nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social

Last week we wrapped up the year with our 𝗘𝗻𝗱-𝗼𝗳-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! 🎉 We honored the achievements of our community and gave a big congrats to our 🎓 graduating PhDs: Adina Gitomer, Sam Westby, Kishore Vasan, Ayan Chatterjee, and Lucas Almeida. We’re so proud of you—onward and upward! ✨

Important, careful analysis showing declines in international travel have (so far) been greatly overstated

Thanks to all who joined our conversation on Social Capital in the Age of AI and the screening of Join or Die. 25 years after Bowling Alone, we explored how tech is reshaping trust, connection & civic life in the algorithmic era. @danielaldrich.bsky.social @hamishgibbs.bsky.social socialurban.net

#Netmob conference is back! It will be in Paris from October 8 to October 10 this year. Mark your calendars and see you there! netmob.org/www25/ Organized by Aline Carneiro (INRIA) and team.

@complenet.bsky.social just wrapped up in Fortaleza 🇧🇷! A big shoutout to @estebanmoro.bsky.social who delivered a fantastic keynote on applying network science to urban studies and to @northeasternu.bsky.social #London team for their contributions! @marianagmmacedo.bsky.social