We're picking up the pace with speaker announcements for #NetSci2026! Stay tuned for more 👀 ...and get those abstracts submitted! Portal closes in <24 hours www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs... **The deadline will not be extended again** @netsciconf.bsky.social

Another joint keynote at NetSci 2026 is official! 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁-𝗟𝗮́𝘀𝘇𝗹𝗼́ 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗮́𝘀𝗶 and 𝗥𝗲́𝗸𝗮 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 reunite on stage for a one-of-a-kind talk. Their discovery of scale-free networks and the Barabási–Albert model reshaped network science. We can’t wait to welcome you! @barabasi.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4t5p46yr

Continuing our exciting NetSci 2026 speaker lineup, we’re happy to welcome Eric Kolaczyk as a School Speaker! A McGill University Professor, his work advances statistical and ML foundations for network data & related data objects in computing-enabled and engineered systems. tinyurl.com/4t5p46yr

Thrilled to announce Petra Vertes as an Invited Speaker at NetSci 2026! A Cambridge University Professor, she leads the Systems Neuroscience Lab, using computational modeling & network science to uncover principles of brain organization, function, & neurodevelopmental disorders. tinyurl.com/4t5p46yr

Final reminder! 👋 Abstracts for NetSci 2026 are due January 9 (anywhere on Earth). Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of NetSci in Boston, June 1–5, 2026. Submission details here: www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs...

📣 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! 🗓️ New deadline: 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (anywhere on Earth) 👉 Find abstract requirements, conference topics, and submission instructions here: www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs... We can’t wait to see your contributions! 🚀

We’re excited to announce 𝗨𝗹𝗿𝗶𝗸 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘀 as an Invited Plenary Speaker at @netsciconf.bsky.social 2026! ✨ A leader in social network science & visualization, his work spans centrality, clustering, & more recently sports analytics using network-based approaches to football. www.netsci2026.com/speakers

Early bird reg approaching, NetSciX in New Zealand, Feb 2026. And you can travel down the north island for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium the week after. netscix2026.github.io www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/... @cna25.bsky.social @cssociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

Attending NetSci 2026? Two lodging options are available: 🏨 𝗛𝘆𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻/𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 — discounted rooms at the conference venue (book early!). 🏡 𝗕𝗨 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝟭𝟬 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝘁.) — affordable single rooms in shared suites, a 20-min scenic walk away. www.netsci2026.com/accommodations

We’re excited to announce Moon Duchin as a #NetSci2026 Plenary Speaker! A top University of Chicago mathematician, she applies geometry and computation to democracy and voting systems. Her award-winning work bridges math, policy, and complex systems. www.netsci2026.com/speakers

⏰ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵! NetSci 2026 abstract submissions close Dec 19 — just around the corner. If you’re doing exciting work in network science (theory, computation, or applications), this is your chance to share it with a global community. 📅 Submit by Dec 19 🔗 www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs...

✨ Excited to announce 𝗬𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝗬𝗲𝗼𝗹 (𝗬𝗬) 𝗔𝗵𝗻 as a NetSci 2026 Plenary Speaker! A leading network and data scientist, YY explores how complex systems shape behavior, cognition, and discovery. Stay tuned for more speaker updates as we build toward an inspiring NetSci 2026! ✨ www.netsci2026.com/speakers

⏰ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟴! Submit your Satellite proposal for NetSci 2026. Details on how to apply, the review process, and organizer responsibilities are at the link below. Don’t miss your chance to contribute to the program! 👉 tinyurl.com/42sru6kz

𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary. Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83 Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz

What happens when a network is neither perfectly ordered nor completely random? Watts & Strogatz’s 1998 “small-world” insight: add a few random shortcuts to a local network, you keep the clustering but gain short paths. 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙙, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡-𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙎𝙘𝙞 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣…

Next up: two classic sociological networks! Mohr & Duquenne (1997) map how NYC’s social welfare system evolved from strict moral categorizations of “the poor” in 1888 to a professionalized structure by 1917. A Galois lattice reveals how culture shaped the very logic of relief. 🔗 tinyurl.com/a35dr9cv

Another striking network visualization: the Network of Political Blogs during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Red = Republican, Blue = Democratic. The analysis revealed dense within-party links and few cross-party ties—an early snapshot of online polarization. Study 🔗 tinyurl.com/4mfxpr9b

🚨 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!

Another great visualization—The Network of the Conclave maps the social structure of the papal conclave, where each node represents a cardinal, colored by doctrinal orientation. Few modern decision-making processes combine secrecy, ritual, and influence as vividly as this one. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2rz3as5w

Next up! ✈️ A look at the worldwide airport network (2013). Researchers tested 12 attack strategies and found that degree-based and Bonacich-based attacks most disrupt passenger flow—laying the groundwork for smarter, more resilient air transport systems.

Continuing our network visualization series. Research has long focused on a few related disorders—but genetics now reveals links across nearly all diseases. The HDN, developed by @barabasi.bsky.social maps genetic connections between disorders, offering a genome-wide roadmap for future discoveries.

Let’s warm up your appetite for the beauty of networks! 🌐 Leading up to #NetSci2026, we’ll share iconic visualizations that reveal just how interconnected our world is. Consider this your visual warm-up before the conference! 👀

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

📌 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

Wow, I trully didn’t expect this one!! I have been awarded a Best Student Talk price at NetSci2025🤩 Thanks to all the organisers (@netsciconf.bsky.social) for this very exciting event.

#netsci2025 awards! Congrats to all winners!

This turned out great, thanks to three amazing speakers and an engaged audience. Great job everyone! Let's maybe turn this into a regular NetSci satellite? @netsciconf.bsky.social

Can a network be physically be a graph but effectively be a hypergraph? Tiago Pereira is speaking about emergent hypernetworks in the focus session “Network Dynamical Systems” at @netsciconf.bsky.social.

Had an awesome time this week at @netbiomed2025.bsky.social and @netsciconf.bsky.social. Very interesting talks and posters and nice people, I couldn’t be more excited to get back to working on this topic to study biological processes.

Final shift at @netsciconf.bsky.social presenting my poster on nonequilibrium brain network dynamics. Also got to see our fearless leader, Renaud Lambiotte, collect his well-deserved Fellowship. #NetSci2025

Our last #NetSci2025 keynote speaker is Michael Macy, who discussed polarization not from the opinion perspective but from the people point of view. His work was very insightful when showing the importance of 'early movers' when generating polarization cascades. @netsciconf.bsky.social

The Network and Data Science Department @ceu-dnds.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

Earlier this week, @lmrocha.bsky.social , Chair of CBeRa, was an invited speaker at the @netbiomed2025.bsky.social Satellite of @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht. He spoke about making digital twins more interpretable, a key move for biomedical AI! Great chance to show CBeRa to the community

Best official merchandise for @netsciconf.bsky.social!

@lindadouw.bsky.social keynoting at @netsciconf.bsky.social on multiscale network neuroscience!

@netsciconf.bsky.social #NetSci25 poster session: cool discussions with @elisalvai.bsky.social from @nerdsitu.bsky.social 🥳

People of #netsci2025! Come hear from experts of a field that has had so far little interaction with our community, but holds great potential for us physicists who think we can solve any other field 😂, at our focus session on network psychometrics on Friday! netsci2025.github.io/focus_sessio...

science = happiness @netsciconf.bsky.social

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

Super keynote by Iza Romanowska @netsciconf.bsky.social about resilience of cities in the past! #historymatters #digitalhumanities #netsci2025

Another talk at #NetSci2025 @netsciconf.bsky.social you shouldn't miss: Thilo Gross @thilogross.bsky.social will give a talk in the Ecological Networks session at 12:45 pm today. 📄Functional Motifs in Food Webs and Networks 📌0.04 Brussels

If you're looking for a quite handy multitype branching process framework for modeling diffusion in networks with communities check this work by @davidjpos.bsky.social and friends. @netsciconf.bsky.social #netsci2025

@nunetsi.bsky.social team at @netsciconf.bsky.social 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Having a great time @netsciconf.bsky.social. Presenting joint work with Tianyu Du, Raphael Heiberger, and Dan McFarland on conventionality and impact in biomedical science. Come by and check out my poster today if you are around. It's also available online: rwth-aachen.sciebo.de/s/aI1ICq6jtf...

Around at #NetSci2025? Can't wait to learn more about fairness in network rankings? Head straight to my poster at stall N. 85, during today's poster session 🚀 @netsciconf.bsky.social

My conference is more cinematic than yours (at @netsciconf.bsky.social )

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

🎶 Temporal networks as music? Jari’s audio demo makes temporal networks audible—and it’s oddly mesmerizing. Wild stuff—hear it for yourself and find more here: jarisaramaki.fi/2024/03/19/t... @jsaramak.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social #netsci2025

Finishing #NetSci2025's third day, Jari Saramäki discusses the importance of temporality in the network science paradigm. I liked his emphasis on causality, and I found event networks very compelling to defeat to explore what life is! @netsciconf.bsky.social

Turning a temporal network into MIDI and then listening to the multilayer temporal motifs. Great keynote by Jari Saramäki @netsciconf.bsky.social 2025 in Maastricht :)