Slides from my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" this week I argue that collaboration networks act like unequally distributed (and gendered) social capital aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

Wer wissen will was #Weimer und co so mit #Mitte meinen ...

Just in case you're cooking rice today, and you need a good soundtrack, the designated mayor of New York has you covered... 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1O...

This person took this when they called the race

What a moment to wake up to! 🌎🌍🌏 🎉 Yesterday night, New Yorkers, the supporters, the team, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social have shown the whole earth 🌍 that there is hope for a better future, if we all come together! Here is Zohran's full speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnM_... It is historic!

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social feat. Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social at McGill University, Montreal, Canada on Computationally Modeling Collective Narratives ❗⏰ 17:00-19:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2) i.e. 60 minutes from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

Brilliant: #Leibniz Institute für Deutsche Sprache @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de has a really awesome #nGram analysis platform & demo, in German with zero anglicisms, funny examples ("Merkel & Markus", "sloppy bavarians", etc.), and zero exaggerating #bullshit. see #OWIDplus www.owid.de/plus/live-20...

I stopped playing games in 1994, partially out of disgust for 3D shooters going mainstream. Now, Wolfenstein-Doom-Oculus-dev John Carmack's AGI company is named after Commander Keen "defending the Earth and the galaxy from alien threats". Oculus founder Palmer Luckey builds weapons with Anduril. 🤮

@silverpebble2.bsky.social on "how collecting improves mental health" 🔥🎉

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social feat. @melvinwevers.bsky.social, Computational Historian @uva.nl on The Architecture of Information: Uncovering Structure in Newspapers, Parliaments, and Administrative Archives 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2) Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

"McKinsey & Company, Inc / Honored for passing 100 Billion Tokens" #OpenAI 🔥🌍

"Der Friedrichsdorfer Bürgermeister Lars Keitel (Grüne) musste handeln." "'Dass die Verwaltung entschieden hat, ausschließlich weibliche Formen zu verwenden, entspricht nicht der Intention unseres Antrags', sagte Fraktionsvorsitzende Katja Gehrmann."

Trump's "Neue Burg". cf. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Burg

💔 #SoftCell #TaintedLove > #TaintedDub www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVk...

"Human dignity is inviolable.* Human, Mr. #Merz! Not German human, not Christian middle-European human, not 'adapted' human – but of all human individuals!" * [German Grundgesetz = constitution, Article 1]

This in FT this morning 👇

Decades ago: "Telephone banks" of white "country club suburban" moms helped to turn #Texas red, initiating the long slide into "fascist theocracy". Now: #TexasMoms call BS on Republicans, vowing to turn the tide: "You're not going to brunch! Carry your mimosa and knock on some f***ing doors!"

Green Party membership in the UK is growing exponentially!!! 💚🌼 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🎉

#MeeyoungCha (@maxplanck.de) on "AI, Society, and Computing: Leveraging Global Data While Tackling Ethical Challenges" www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PZJ... #CulturalDataAnalytics Open Lab Seminar at #TallinnUni in #Estonia recorded 2025-10-13

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social feat. #MeeyoungCha Scientific Director, MPI for Security and Privacy @maxplanck.de on AI, Society, and Computing: Leveraging Global Data While Tackling Ethical Challenges 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+3) Details & zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

This recognition of visual family resemblance deserves an award from @elisabethbik.bsky.social (particularly the improved match by rotation further down in the thread).

📌 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

#space program (highly recommended)

"A poem by Kareem Parkis-Brown" ❤️

"Academia" is click-baiting me with an email, claiming my formal interest in architectural motifs is related to recent politics in Hungary and Austria. The algorithm doesn't seem to know me at all (or very well). 👀 🤷 🙃

#TweetTweetTweet by @sleafordmods.bsky.social not only "doesn't get old", but this late live version at Echoes is glorious: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aum... There is also a new band documentary @artefr.bsky.social available until Feb 2026, which is really worth watching: www.arte.tv/en/videos/07...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Da schau her: Stellt's Euch vor, beim jetzigen Stand in #Bayern, müsste #Söder nach einer Wahl zurück treten, und an seiner Stelle würde sich #Schwarz-Grün mit Ilse #Aigner als Ministerpräsidentin ausgehen.

Had the pleasure to hang out with some old friends last weekend: Laid-back Faun, Grumpy Medusa, and Queen Apollo say hi. The #Glyptothek café (aka the outdoor office) is still accessible for 1 Euro, much like 25 years ago. The double espresso with ice cube is the lazy Italian's Greek frappé.

"After all the question of deservedness continues to be weaponized..." "Alas, a fluid imagination is exactly what's needed in the face of fixed tropes of progress & innovation that seek to colonize our [...] world in which we can all thrive." ❤️ ruha9.bsky.social 🌊🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZseJ...

Forgot to say "Good Morning!" 🙂 ☀️💦⛷️ #skiing

Over summer, I enjoyed reading #x+y by Eugenia Cheng (dreugeniacheng.bsky.social), who provides an easy broad audience on-ramp to #CategoryTheory, and convincingly introduces the terms #ingressive vs #congressive to overcome conventional category errors in associating properties with men vs women.

In the last two days I learned something from Natives in a rather vitriolic discussion. Thank y'all! Misunderstanding & vitriol will recur as long as "The Museum of the American Indian" carries its name on the US national mall. cf. Jacki Thompson Rand (Choctaw) commonplace.online/article/why-...

All y'all of you should see this, in case you wonder "Why are the United States 🇺🇸 like this?" Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social on Thomas Jefferson, American Indians, and settler colonialism. And she doesn't even talk about slavery or the Jefferson grid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBjQ...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... Mentioned study: arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840 An important caveat: the comparison is with "(what's) previously reported for X" (and it's not an experimental study)

If you didn't have teenage kids since 2007, you may not be aware that the most important thing today is the birthday of Hatsune #Miku. They'd also like to let you know that Alien, Predator, and #fascism got nothing, because #Miku & #BabyNoMoney joined forces. Check: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Xj...

The International Conference on #Complex #Networks and Their Applications will be held in Binghamton, NY, December 8–11, 2025. Deadline extended to September 14, 2025 (final). complexnetworks.org/submission/ #ComplexNetworks #Complexity

According to Trump's interpretation, rooted in his immunity granted by the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States (07/01/2024), we are now well beyond the Enabling Act of 1933. Note: The Act was called the "Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Nation", which, ahem, "rhymes" with Trump's words.

Stellt Euch vor es ist #Twitter und keiner geht hin.

And now, let's please tell all #science institutions, peers, journalists, and fans, who are still on " #Twitter " to leave the platform owned by a hitler-greeting fascist, so its influence further vanishes entirely from the web. #Bluesky #ThisMachineKillsFascists 🎉

Check this out: It is a #Baroque revival, where very few authoritarian nepotists, from their own imagined god's grace, enrich themselves at the cost of all others. In #Fascism, they were actually fucking proud of their well working postal service while using it for their evil! #counterreformation

Highly recommended: #Ordnung (German/French w English subtitles) www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

#Florida verbietet das Tagebuch der Anne Frank! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Wer ist jetzt die #Gesprächspolizei, Herr Scheuer? cf. www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/csu-d...

Merz et al. merzen den Klimaschutz aus! Jeder Wähler von #CDU #CSU und der #ScheißAFD muß wissen daß uns die Rückkehr in ein schwarz-braun-hosenbislerisches #Heinodeutschland die gemeinsame Zukunft verspielt. Deutschland könnte cooler sein, mit echter Soft-Power, statt Burschenschaftspolitik!

They came for immigrants, due to their #xenophobia, trans folks, due to their #transphobia, fellow citizens, due to their #racism, science, due to their #ignorance, women, due to their #misogyny, nature, due to their #greed. They now come for #YOU! Your #museums, #culture, and #diversity!

"Aber das Empörende ist dass diese lokalen Gruppierungen der #CDU sich denen an den Hals schmeißen." #ScheißAFD

On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a 600 km long human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to leave the Soviet Union and Communism.