#NetSci2026 Day 4 starts with YY Ahn's keynote on random walks and their implications for various network problems, e.g., spreading, link prediction, embedding, community detection @netscisociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!

Okay. This is a much better quality from NASA's site of Earth. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Hockey is a ridiculous game!

That was awesome. US Gold Medal Women's Hockey 🥇

I am really excited to co-organize this year's Science of Science Satellite of NetSci 2026 in Boston. Submissions are very open and can include work in progress, work under review, or accepted publications. Please consider submitting before March 18th! Website: netscisci.github.io

Excited for the Networks of Science of Science satellite at NetSCI 2026 this year in Boston! netscisci.github.io Be sure to submit by March 4th!

Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

Nothing so far has made me feel more like a "professor" than writing draft edits using an ipad and stylus.

I'm using ChatGPT to generate fake resumes for a class assignment. I told it to generate a couple of "really bad" ones, and I'm honestly impressed with what it came up with. "LinkedIn available upon request" is sending me.

Brown University says there's an active shooter on campus. Emergency scanner says multiple victims, but unclear how many. Video footage viewed by the Brown Daily Herald "depicted several individuals lying on the ground near the Sciences Library appearing to be assisted by police."

Ready to shape the future of #ComplexSystems science? Propose a Satellite Session for #CCS2026 and put your topic in orbit!🛰️ Methods, tutorials, debates, you name it! Apply via link or scan the QR on the flyer. Please spread the word and reshare!🔁 📝 bit.ly/3LUgTNc

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026! We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation? Want to answer these questions? details below!

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

The moment every academic dreams of: I just added a picture of the panopticon to my teaching slides.

@binghamtonu.bsky.social We'll host #ComplexNetworks2025! Please join us on December 9-11 in Binghamton, NY to wrap up 2025 🎅 with researchers on network science, graph machine learning, and complex systems. Submit by Sept 2 for Springer proceedings! 😉 #NetworkScience #BinghamtonUniversity

AI & Society faculty opportunity posted just this month with a start date of Fall 2025 and beyond: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734 ‼️🐂 For "interdisciplinary scholars whose research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social scientific line(s) of study"

mamdani wins. gg

I was excited to experience some sunlight in Santa Fe. Took a short stroll in the morning, while it was still pretty cool. Turns out the sun is a deadly lazer.

Traveling to the cool desert to escape the sweltering heat of New England…

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

Update: This Fall I'll be joining University at Albany as Assistant Professor in Information Sciences & Technology! I'm ecstatic to join this great department and continue studying the social side of science & discovery. I'm also recruiting PhD students so reach out! @ualbanycehc.bsky.social

This is why you’re the dumbest motherfucker alive if you’re an academic who tries to ‘address their concerns’ these people don’t want to have a principled conversation about the appropriateness of diversity statements, professor, they want to destroy your job. You cannot meet them halfway.

The pact of the federal govt with universities was not a handout. It was a strategic decision to boost US leadership in technology, defense, and health. And it paid dividends. In tech, internet, in cancer drugs (for example), No other sector has invested in high risk high reward ideas like US govt.

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

**** Judge Sessions GRANTS BAIL/RELEASE to Rümeysa Öztürk: "The court finds that [Rümeysa Öztürk's] continued detention cannot stand."

Judge Session: I see no evidence of risk or danger of any kind. The court orders ICE to release Rümeysa Öztürk from custody IMMEDIATELY. She is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Also free to travel within Mass and VT. I'm not going to restrict her travel, because I see no danger of flight

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

Tomorrow at 7pm ET is a special moment for #NetSci: Network scientists Steve Strogatz, Nicholas Christakis, graph theorist Fan Chung, and father of the internet Leonard Kleinrock—honored to be among them—will be inducted into the National Acad. of Sciences. Live nasonline.swoogo.com/NAS162_prese...

🚀 Now accepting applications for the new MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern! Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools. 🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV 📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

*SOUTH KOREA COURT DECIDES TO OUST YOON, TRIGGERING ELECTION

Just received the email that my recent appointment to a BSC, which was supposed to be until June 2029, was terminated effective immediately.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

How accurately do citations reflect the original research? Do authors truly engage with what they cite? In a new study, we analyze millions of citation sentence pairs to measure citation fidelity and how it varies depending on authors’ engagement with prior literature. arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581 ⬇️

It looks like Maine Sea Grant is being reinstated, thanks in large part to the massive public outcry, including by our working waterfront. Celebrate the wins, because they show us what works and energize us for the next round. 💪🏻 🌊 🌲

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

Such partnerships aren't confined to New England. Indeed, papers supported by the Maine Sea Grant form a network that spans the United States and beyond. It really shows that this local grant can form connections and impact across the whole country.

Although centered in Maine, the grant has supported collaborations and partnerships across New England with other universities as well as companies, institutes, and government agencies. Disrupting the grant could have ripple effects across this network.

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

Last week, The Maine Sea Grant was abruptly terminated. I decided to conduct a quick bibliometric analysis understand the role of this grant in Science. Its clear that this grant supports locally-relevant research related to the coastal ecosystem and economy of Maine.

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so much of the tech industry's right-wing turn has been because they believe that LLMs will free them from their employees, whom they hate.

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

I'm joining Binghamton University School of Computing as an assistant professor this Sep. I'm recruiting two PhD students to work on topics related to AI and information ecosystem. If you are interested in joining me, send your CV and a short statement of purpose to my email [email protected]

🚀 We’re officially on Bluesky! 💙 The Women in Network Science (WiNS) Society connects and supports network scientists who identify as underrepresented genders in the field. Follow us for updates on events, opportunities, and exciting research from our community! #NetworkScience #WiNS

father inire's mirrors would fix me

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...