The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @lordgrilo.bsky.social, who will deliver a seminar entitled 'Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.' 📆 5 November ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 📍Biomedical Building, C42 at the University of Bristol Find out more here: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n

Forthcoming in Physical Review Letters! NetSI London authors Federico Malizia, Andrés Guzmán, Iacopo Iacopini & Istvan Kiss explore how group interactions spark explosive contagion in higher-order networks. Story 🔗 tinyurl.com/84ymkz2t Video ▶️ youtu.be/7mQwvK5mje0

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

⚽📊 Dive into two days of data, sports & network(ing)s at the 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 & 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 + 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 at #NetSI! Hackathon kicks off Feb 27, followed by industry talks, panels & awards. 🗓️ Register by Dec 31 — open to all (under)grad students in Boston! 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdf5et9f

🚨 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

Join us for an insightful NetSI talk by Elizabeth Bruch, titled “Making Social Structure Visible: How Knowledge Changes the Rules.” The event will take place on Thursday, October 30 at 10:30 AM on the 11th Floor or via Zoom. www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/elizab...

Join us at 11:30 AM for an 11th Floor talk by Arianna Salazar-Miranda on “Urban Mobility, City Structure, and Segregation.” She will discuss how city design and dynamics influence movement and inequality with urban systems and spatial justice. www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/ariann...

Join us today at 1:30 PM on the 11th floor of NetSI or over zoom for a talk by Lin Chen, a new postdoctoral researcher in SunLAB. Don’t miss “Inequality and Resilience in Urban Social Dynamics” and the chance to connect with fellow researchers! www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/lin-chen

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.

A call to all the creative communicators and data visualization wizards who want to make epidemic visualizations effective, better communicate science & help support decision-makers! This is your chance!! ⚡ submissions for lightning talks are open until October. 31 for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 🎨🦠

Don’t miss a fantastic talk by Prof. Yonina Eldar. She’ll explore model-based learning, a hybrid approach that enables efficient, explainable, and data-efficient solutions for tasks such as medical imaging & diagnostics, radar & communication systems, and more. tinyurl.com/3mtpzn46

#NetSI_Sport duo, Brennan Klein & Maddalena Torricelli, joined SOURCE—Northeastern’s 2025 Showcase for Undergraduate Research—sharing a new project at the crossroads of sports, networks, and data science, soon launching as a Master’s course in Spring '26! 🔗 tinyurl.com/bddkc8vf @jkbren.bsky.social

Take a closer look in this @nuglobalnews.bsky.social story at the findings of the new national survey by the American Higher Education Barometer on American’s attitude and concerns towards higher education and the funding of science and health research. news.northeastern.edu/2025/10/15/n...

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.

@wbur.org story on our recent report on public opinion re higher education www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

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! 👀

Next week's lineup of talks will take you from diagnosing change and polarization in neighborhoods with Jordan Kemp, to temporal graph neural networks with Ingo Scholtes, & to the limits of network science with Carlos Gershenson. Join the talks tinyurl.com/mpr87m6t or watch on tinyurl.com/4n9uarhu

The 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 (𝗪𝗪𝗖𝗦𝟮𝟲) has extended its hashtag#deadline for applications to 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵! For more information 🔗 wwcs2026.github.io Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu3a8ydd

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

Exciting things in Topological Neuroscience! #NetSI_London @lordgrilo.bsky.social co-organized the “Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds” workshop at King’s College London, launching a new collaboration to advance this field. #KIHSM 🔗 tinyurl.com/4zhs2m83 #NetSI_London 🔗 tinyurl.com/25ts6as4

#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

Thrilled to announce a new collaboration between Marilyn Gatica & Giovanni Petri at #NetSI_London and #ReDLat, uniting global partners to advance dementia research through complex systems, clinical & computational neuroscience. 🔗 tinyurl.com/wwhfhu2f

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

Join Ariel Procaccia for his talk on "Thinking Outside the Ballot Box" today, Sept 30 at 3:30 PM on the 11th Floor of our Network Science Institute or via Zoom - www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/ariel-... .

WiNS Book Club is back!! Join us for a Happy Hour to plan together: Oct 8 | 6 PM UK 7 PM CET 1 PM Boston Open to WiNS members via Slack. @asteixeira.bsky.social @h-merritt.bsky.social @wins-society.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/womenin...

Exciting week at #NetSI! Ariel Procaccia (Harvard) on generative social choice, Simon David Lindner (Vienna/CSH) on cancer care stratification, and Eszter Hargittai (Zurich) launching the Misinformation Series. Details & links 🔗 www.networkscienceinstitute.org/events

Join us at 11:00 AM (4:00 PM London) for Andrew Renninger’s talk on “Human Mobility, Regularity, and Variability.” Attend via Zoom. To join from NetSI's website: www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/andrew...

We’re excited to launch the 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗟𝗮𝗯 at @nunetsi.bsky.social London, led by Prof. István Kiss . The team studies how contagion spreads through networks—biological, social, and technological, with projects spanning epidemics, inference, and healthcare. Span Lab 🔗 tinyurl.com/j4bve9n

Truthfulness isn’t always binary. Sometimes it’s… neither 🤔 Our Trilemma of Truth paper is headed to the @neuripsconf.bsky.social Mechanistic Interpretability workshop 🚀 Let’s connect in San Diego! 🌴 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.23921 Code and data: github.com/carlomarxdk/...

Join Jason Radford (@jsradford.bsky.social)on Thursday, Sep. 25th, for a virtual session on how to translate your research into a new venture and find the right path to address real-world problems through your work. Register here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mfn9bpcd

Andrew Renninger (UCL) studies cities under mobility, inequality & climate pressures. At #NetSI London Seminar Series, he’ll share his insights on mobility patterns. Join us! 🌍 in person in 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝟰𝗽𝗺, or 🌎 virtually from the 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺 📆 on September 24th 🔗 tinyurl.com/4zefp6x9

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...

Prof. Mauricio Santillana discusses a PNAS study using 430K+ survey responses from all U.S. states (2020–22). The research reveals how personal choices, politics, and health guidance shaped COVID-19 behaviors, offering a deeper view beyond policy compliance. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/17/c...

Take another look at this study on social segregation in Milan, done by @riccardodiclemente.com and colleagues. It shows that diverse amenities, strong transit, and public spaces can turn outer neighborhoods into “social bridges” across income groups. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/17/c...

Prof. Mauricio Santillana & the #MIGHTE Lab at @nunetsi.bsky.social have trained AI to predict #dengue fever outbreaks in 180 locations worldwide with 80% accuracy, offering public health officials reliable three-month forecasts to prepare for the virus. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/15/f...

Join us for a talk today at 2 PM – Boston Hub (11th Floor)! Don't miss Andrea Baronchili’s talk on “Emergent Social Conventions and Collective Bias in Human and LLM Populations” which is also available over zoom - northeastern.zoom.us/j/93421052481

Miss our first talk this week? London opened the season with Anton Tokariev (University of Helsinki), who discussed infant brain development, EEG mapping, and early-life adversity. Watch the talk now on our YouTube channel, along with past Institute recordings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-i0...

At #NetSI, @brionyswire.bsky.social studies health misinformation, focusing on 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. In a new study with UF & Utah colleagues, she uses the ECTM survey to assess patients’ exposure, sources, forms of CTM, and whether it’s discussed with oncologists. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mpwsj5hh

A new study co-authored by @riccardodiclemente.com reveals daily dynamics of urban segregation, moving beyond static views of residence and work. @pnasnexus.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vysejx5

Join us for a Talk Today @ 2:30 PM 📍 Boston Campus, 11th Floor – 177 Huntington Ave or over zoom- northeastern.zoom.us/j/93421052481 Join us for a guest talk by Bridget Smart on: "Untangling Memory and Influence in Complex Systems: Separable Markov Models for Sequence Generation" All are welcome!

Data from COVID outbreaks led to new disease progression models. New research from Alessandro Vespignani, director of the @nunetsi.bsky.social looks at how these models capture the interplay between disease transmission & behavior. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/46mWqIB #COSConnects #NetworkScience

Join Us for an Inspiring Talk Happening Tomorrow! 📍 Location: Our London Hub 🕓 Time: 4:00 PM (London) | 11:00 AM (Eastern) Zoom: northeastern.zoom.us/j/9703719231... Don't miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and engage. We look forward to seeing you there!

Exciting news for @nunetsi.bsky.social #London!!

We are going to… London! 🇬🇧✨ Save the date: 22–26 June 2026 🗓️ Stay tuned on our socials and on the website www.complexity72h.com for the calls for tutors and participants — coming soon! 🚀

After the summer break the NetSI Talks are resuming with Network Science Institute in #London hosting the first visiting speaker of the season. Join us! 🌍 in person in 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝟰𝗽𝗺, or 🌎 virtually from the 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺 📆 on September 9th 🔗 tinyurl.com/4752rmtc

#NetSI 's first-year PhD student Chethan Kavaraganahalli Prasanna co-authored a study with Univ. of Colorado Boulder featured in the NYT and published in PLOS Biology (shorturl.at/iHeXb)! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

⚡𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙎𝙄⚡ is out! This July–Aug issue spotlights NET Lab’s studies on leadership from Ancient Rome to Mars missions. Plus: research highlights, media features, awards, a PhD student spotlight & updates on events at the Network Science Institute! 📍 shorturl.at/tCMTd

A new study by Marilyn Gatica and collaborators shows that computational neuroscience can improve brain health research and advance precision medicine by identifying population-sensitive biomarkers and the underlying mechanisms of brain dysfunction. Study 🔗 shorturl.at/KW5rv #NetSI #London #NPLab