Network of the day: A bunch of trees and their mycorrhizal links to illustrate (the later discredited) wood-wide-web hypothesis. From: www.pinterest.com/pin/55415392...

Network of the day: Scottish companies from John Scott's Social Network Analysis (1991).

It's been five years since our Eurasian Summit for Models of Society. What a stellar line-up we had. 🤩 Ah, those were the days! The pandemic was on, and anything seemed possible (at least as far as Zoom conferences go).

Network of the day: Japanese educational poster about the different materials and resources produced by / deriving from the forest industry.

A humble blog post about a recent Science essay by James Evans et al. What can we say about the future collective intelligence of AI agents today? 🤖 petterhol.me/2026/03/20/s...

Next up in our colloquium series: Guido Caldarelli, truly a network science pioneer, representing a European country famous, in addition to Prof. Caldarelli himself, for its exquisite cuisine and the two Nintendo brothers. Register here: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Holme-Kim model got a paragraph in this piece about networks and nonlinear stuff in PRE over the years 🥳 journals.aps.org/over-30-years

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

Bipartite network of the day: Metalloids and their compounds from Youmans' Chemical Atlas 1856.

New paper out in Nature Communications: 🚨📄https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70369-4 We hope to bring some oldskool netsci vibes to the weekend, dusting off the understudied characteristic of shortest-path multiplicity.

🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data. Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)

one season follows another . . my mix-tape for the spring 2026. 90 minutes, to fit your BASF: open.spotify.com/playlist/02n...

Network of the day: Turkish 16th-century miniature showing the Prophet Muhammad, the Rashidun Caliphs, and people related to them in various ways. From commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tu... Shout out to @abbasrizi.bsky.social for clarifications

Are you a social network researcher using mixed methods? We invite you to contribute to the "Mixed Methods for Social Network Analysis" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus... See you in Sweden!

Network of the day: The piping of an Iraqi refinery. From dame.exeter.ac.uk/en/home/

The Song of the Banyan Tree @jasonsinghthing, the Mozart (or maybe Brian Eno) of Biosonfication, attaches electrodes to our banyan tree to record its biofeedback and turn into a soundtrack for Tishani Doshi to dance to @oliviafraserart's British Council show, A Journey Within, opening Thursday

🚨Deadline extension🚨 If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the TENET satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston! 📅 New deadline: 2 March 📝 Submit two page abstract More info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft

Come and join our Discrete Laplacian workshop in Dresden, Germany 🙌! With Karel Devriendt, Otto Sumray, and Giulio Zucal, we are organising the workshop in MPI-CBG, 22-25 Jun 2026. Thanks to the support from Heather Harrington's group at CSBD, MPI! Abstract ddl: 1 Mar 2026 More details follow 🧵

Network of the day: Social networks of the WWII Greek resistance by the communist party youth league. From: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/diagrams-o...

For the ABM and networks enthusiasts: Special Issue of Social Networks on "Agent-based Modelling for Social Network Research" - co-ed by Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács and me www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Deadlines Extended abstracts: 1 April Full papers: 15 November

Complex Systems Frameworks Collection stream.syscoi.com/2026/02/09/c...

Network of the day: An "unpruned cyclic entailment mesh" by Gordon Pask, the networkiest of cyberneticians monoskop.org/log/?p=2369

Network of the day: US air mail routes 1928. (From: www.flickr.com/photos/13590... )

Join us on Thursday, 29 January, at *13:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Bedoor AlShebli (NYU Abu Dhabi) 🔹 The Science of Science... and its Human Side 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

Aalto University is looking for an Assistant Professor in Computer Science, application deadline February 2, 2026! www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

A true legend of the game up next in our colloquium series. On January 27, Mark Newman will talk about competition networks and hierarchies. Sign up here for a Zoom link iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality. Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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

the mood 😳 youtu.be/PXpJs-myJIQ?...

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.

Kickstart your 2026 with some 1990s avant-garde animation youtu.be/56EG957YinM?...

New preprint out with @elspethready.bsky.social : "The emergence of sharing networks through indirect signaling". osf.io/preprints/so...

I think the first to go all in on "reality is made of information" was Konrad Zuze, whose Rechnender Raum is a psychedelic read. Interesting even though I don't think there is much reality in the information it provides.

The Christmas edition of Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities is out now! attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/christmas-...

Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730 The constellation Orion

Blog time! 📯 We feel that we understand things when certain patterns of explanations are in place. If reality doesn't follow those patterns, our understanding suffers. On to the third such eureka fallacy I've blogged about: explanation by optimization. petterhol.me/2025/12/10/t...

Blog time! 📯 We feel that we understand things when certain patterns of explanations are in place. If reality doesn't follow those patterns, our understanding suffers. On to the third such eureka fallacy I've blogged about: explanation by optimization. petterhol.me/2025/12/10/t...

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture and discussion with Corinna Coupette of @aalto.fi in person @dataspider.bsky.social 💽🕷️ on Computational Perspectives on Legal Systems 🤖🔭⚖️ 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 5.5 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

Yes, I used to be so much into this! Armchair deglobalization at its best. The more exotic the better, so prayer-heavy Sahelian stations like radio.garden/listen/radio... are high on my list.

Today's algorithmic art: "Verteilung elementarer Zeichen" by F. Nake, 1965. From "Bit-1: Teorija Informacija I Nova Estetika."

Time for another mixtape to get you into that wintery mood. 🎶 A cassette-friendly 90 min, of course. open.spotify.com/playlist/15s...

Time for another mixtape to get you into that wintery mood. 🎶 A cassette-friendly 90 min, of course. open.spotify.com/playlist/15s...

Network of the day. From R Riedl's "Structures of Complexity"

Network of the day: States of poverty and corresponding actions from charity organizations from Mohr & Duquenne (1997) via @netsciconf.bsky.social

New, spicy competitor for Zachary's Karate Club just dropped

We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be

@mtsvetkova.bsky.social is a panellist at the International Society for Computational Social Science (ISCSS) first-ever "Ask Me Anything" webinar, focused on PhD admissions! 🗓️ Nov 19 3.00pm ET 💻Online Register➡️ umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... 💬 Submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us on Thursday, 6 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @ajalvero.bsky.social 🔹 Generative AI and Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Network of the day. From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.

For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way 🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...