It was a ton of fun to play a small role in this project lead by the brilliant Marta Ewa Lech & @jonassjuul.bsky.social. A lot of drama & change in the world of music reflected in the song-dynamics of the Billboard Hot 100!

New paper out in EPJ Data Science! We analyze 65 years of Billboard Hot 100 data to ask: 🎵Are songs moving differently up and down the chart nowadays? 📉 Are hits shorter-lived? 📈 Or do superstars dominate more than ever? Paper: epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.... 🧵 1/7

I am ecstatic to join the Danish Young Academy starting September 2025. I cannot wait to meet the other members, start new collaborations, and learn more about the new opportunities and challenges that lie at the intersection of research, universities, and society in Denmark.

New paper alert. "More is different" & the LLMs. LLMs are usually studied in isolation. But what happens when they start interacting? We explored this by looking at their collective behaviour. Work with @ariel-flint.bsky.social and @lajello.bsky.social 1/

The new pope has a bachelor degree in mathematics! And I thought the job prospects could not get any better for math majors!

Luca Maria Aiello becomes Full Professor nerds.itu.dk/2025/04/01/luca-m Congratulations Luca @lajello.bsky.social, well deserved! 🎉👨‍🏫

We have several open positions, both Phd & Postdoc: nerds.itu.dk/positions/ On the topics of epidemic preparedness, and network science & AI & #ScienceOfScience #SciSci Deadlines in April and May!

📢 Call for PhD and Postdocs: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness nerds.itu.dk/2025/03/25/c... We are looking for Phds and Postdocs to join @jonassjuul.bsky.social at @itu.dk in Copenhagen improving inference, forecasting, and mitigation in future pandemics. Deadline May 1st.

I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs to join me in beautiful Copenhagen. Together, we will develop data science methods to improve epidemic preparedness. Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community. Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122 Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

New NERDS paper on academic mentorship nerds.itu.dk/2025/03/03/n...

Jonas wins Novo Nordisk Data Science Investigator Grant! 🥳 nerds.itu.dk/2025/02/26/j...