PhD offer " Dynamics of collective motions of self propelled particles" at the Center for Theoretical Physics in Marseilles app.doctorat.gouv.fr/proposition?...

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

This mug should be awarded to every academic who served as department chair.

Interdisciplinary PhD offer in Marseille, starting Oct. 2026, on "Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics" Project description and application website: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... DM for more info on the position

What we choose to implement - and when - matters. Our work shows that proactive screening strategies can reduce transmission by ~40% vs reactive responses. A key lesson for preparedness. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/cLnu50YCrcn

[ 🇫🇷 FRANCE ] 🔸 La France accélère sa sortie de Microsoft dans l’administration, avec un abandon progressif de Windows au profit de Linux pour les postes de l’État et la migration de 80 000 agents de l’Assurance maladie vers Tchap, Visio et FranceTransfert.

#VeilleESR #ESR Les décisions budgétaires du gouvernement mettent la recherche en grave danger. Communiqué de la Coordination des responsables des instances (C3N) du CNRS. c3n-cn.fr/2026/04/10/b...

Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab. 🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE) 🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX) 2-y positions | Start June 2026 #epidemiology #networks #matrices

Interesting piece — raises important questions about what higher-order formalisms actually buy us. Half-jokingly, it would make great panel material @netsciconf.bsky.social à la Leipzig dispute :) (Also, first commentaries are already coming out: lnkd.in/d8_nunck)

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

3. And here's an earlier thread based on the preprint that led to this paper. This thread explains what are up to in the paper and the logic behind the peer review meltdown cycle.

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Now out our latest paper on adaptive opinion dynamics! 🚨 w/ Cosimo Agostinelli and @alainbarrat.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2602.19684 How do group adaptive behaviors influence the emergence of polarization and consensus? How does group adaptation influence the structure of interactions? 1/6 🧵👇

Our work on higher-order dissimilarity measures is now out in Journal of Complex Networks! 📣 academic.oup.com/comnet/artic... with Cosimo Agostinelli and @alainbarrat.bsky.social 1/2

Another new preprint on group adaptation! 📣 Great joint work w/ @martonkarsai.bsky.social and @alainbarrat.bsky.social! Can adaptive behaviors driven by group interactions be more effective and less costly than pairwise ones? How do their adaptive mechanisms differ? arxiv.org/abs/2602.05915 🧵 1/7

Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it

Our latest with @marco-mancastroppa.bsky.social and @martonkarsai.bsky.social ! Really proud of this one!

Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science to join us in Turin on May 19-21 We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more For more: cs2italy.org

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.

The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th! Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply. #PHD #CENTURI

The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Trump’s America is a rogue state. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Hyperacute Interdynamics xkcd.com/3178/

7. Anyway, this question seems to be the standard question that people ask when you object to autonomous AI science. Julian's blog post is worth reading. "One of the panelists asked whether I would really prefer the joy of doing science to finding a cure for cancer and enabling immortality. "

The EATH model for realistic hypergraphs generation is now out in Physical Review E! 📣 journals.aps.org/pre/abstract... with @giuliacencetti.bsky.social and @alainbarrat.bsky.social 1/2

What are actually higher-order networks? The course by @beyondtheedge.network researcher Michael Schaub gives an introduction to the topic that BeyondTheEdge is all about. All course material is available at beyondtheedge.network/event/course...

In just about a week, the season's first NetSci Colloquium will happen. And we're starting with a bang . . . with none other than Iain Couzin talking about Collective Behavior in Animal Groups. September 24, 10 AM ET. Register here to get a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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⚠️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️ Postdoctoral Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Marseille) in collaboration with @alainbarrat.bsky.social. Join us to study higher-order brain interactions in causal learning using information theory and network science. More info www.fens.org/careers/job-...

🫵 Ready to tackle the world’s most complex challenges? The Complexity Science Hub is looking for #PhD candidates eager to apply large-scale data analysis, quantitative models, and complexity science to shed light on pressing global issues. 📅 Apply by 11 November 2025 ℹ️ csh.ac.at/education/gr...

Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388...

Désormais plus d'1 million de signatures contre la #LoiDuplomb, qualifiée d'"aberration scientifique, éthique, environnementale et sanitaire". Du jamais-vu sur le site de l'Assemblée, et peut-être l'organisation - avant tout symbolique - d'un débat à la rentrée. 1/5

A lire, pour comprendre le très préoccupant précédent que pourrait constituer la position du Conseil de l Ordre des Médecins dans cette affaire, une institution dont la mission est de protéger la profession et la Santé(!) Re-re-re soutien au dr @damienbarraudmd.bsky.social

New preprint out! 📣 “Emerging Activity Temporal Hypergraph (EATH), a model for generating realistic time-varying hypergraphs” with @giuliacencetti.bsky.social and @alainbarrat.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2507.01124 How can we generate realistic time-varying hypergraphs? 1/8 🧵⬇️

Updated application deadline: July 7, 2025!

CNRS tenure track on "Dynamics and collective decisions" at the interface between statistical physics and social sciences. One of the potential hosting laboratories is the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille. Application deadline: July 14, 2025 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...

Junior Professorship position at the Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille and Université de Toulon: "Non-linear dynamics and research on intelligent UAV ensembles" Deadline for applications: June 18. All details on the position and how to apply: www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~barrat/CPJ_...

Still a few spots available to attend Charting Complexity, a conference dedicated to exploring the power of Complex Systems Science (London 10-12 of June). Program: chartingcomplexity.webflow.io. If you like to attend, express your interest here: forms.gle/qFs4vuauYXwp...

Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good https://go.nature.com/42nGQt6

Upcoming Seminar – April 10, 14:00 CET 🧠 Collective Behaviours in Complex Systems: Ideas, Implementations, and Applications in Neurosciences and Beyond Speaker: Prof. Daniele Marinazzo (Ghent University) 📍Join via Zoom: link 🔗 More info: www.beyondtheedge.network/event/semina...

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Ne pas prendre son ordinateur personnel, veiller à ses discussions en ligne... Le ministère de la Recherche relaie des règles drastiques pour éviter qu'un 2e chercheur ne soit refoulé des États-Unis : "Cela me désole, mais c’est justifié." @gaellombart www.leparisien.fr/sc...

Our first preprint within the @beyondtheedge.bsky.social training network!

Yes, America has always done bad things. No shit. I was getting beaten by the cops for protesting those things while most of the qt-dunkers were still in diapers. My point: it used to be relatively safe for academics to travel to the US. It’s not anymore. Don’t do it.

Join us next Tuesday for the next BeyondTheEdge seminar with Prof. Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford) 🔬 Title: Consensus and Random Walks on Higher-Order Networks 📅 Date & Time: March 25th, 2-3pm (CET) Link: www.beyondtheedge.network/event/semina...

⌛️The abstracts deadline has been extended! 🌍You have a couple of weeks for submitting your abstract proposal!

Donc Musk menace de couper les accès à Starlink en Ukraine si ils ne signent pas les accords sur les métaux précieux. Faut vraiment ne plus travailler avec ce mec hein. Faut se passer de Starlink en Europe et en Suisse. J'ai encore vu la FNAC en faire la pub récemment j'avais envie d'exploser.

Only 30 days left until the abstract submission deadline for CCS 2025! ⏳ Don’t miss your chance to be part of this amazing event! 🌟 Submit your proposal here: ccs25.cssociety.org 📅 #CCS2025 #AbstractDeadline