Mariano Beguerisse
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Applied mathematician and researcher at Spotify. I post mainly about research, cycling and music.
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New paper from my team "Consumption-based approaches in proactive detection for content moderation". We create a simple and effective content agnostic approach to help moderators find items to review using networks. With the awesome Shahar Elisha and John Pougué.
doi.org/10.1140/epjd...
11 months ago
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Elena Badillo Goicoechea
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Super happy that my paper on modeling artist networks is out on Harvard Data Science Review. Writing it was such a fun journey (and still so much to be done, which is the best part!)
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/t4txmd81...
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Modeling Artist Influence for Music Selection and Recommendation: A Purely Network-Based Approach
Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.
https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/t4txmd81/release/1?readingCollection=3974b7e6#abstract
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Alain Goriely
3 days ago
We just advertised the Hooke Fellowships for exceptional researchers (typically after their first post-doc). You are completely free to set up your own research agenda for three years. RT please
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Imperial Physics
27 days ago
🚀 EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Fellowships Looking to launch or strengthen your independent research career in mathematical sciences? Imperial Physics welcomes nominations from all backgrounds. 📌 Submit your EOI & CV: see our fellowships page
www.imperial.ac.uk/physics/oppo...
#ResearchFellowships
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Research fellowships
Are you considering Imperial’s Department of Physics as your host institution for a research fellowship? We’re delighted you\'re explorin...
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/physics/opportunities/research-fellowships/
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Oxford Mathematics
28 days ago
Come fly with us, let's fly, let's fly away. Full details:
www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169
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Oxford Mathematics
about 1 month ago
Probability can be counterintuitive. Or, to put it another way, plain baffling. But there's always an explanation. Becky Crossley picks her favourite example. And tries to draw a goat. Watch the full video (with extra maths):
youtu.be/zf17UgsFYCw
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NetScience
about 1 month ago
Network representations reveal structured uncertainty in music
arxiv.org/abs/2509.14053
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Network representations reveal structured uncertainty in music
Music, as a structured yet perceptually rich experience, can be modeled as a network to uncover how humans encode and process auditory information. While network-based representations of music are inc...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14053
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Georgy Scholten
about 2 months ago
New preprint: We study Lotka-Volterra ecological dynamics through computational algebraic geometry. By encoding feasibility & stability on the real Grassmannian, we prove certain ecological networks are mathematically impossible 🧮🌿
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165
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University of Oxford
about 2 months ago
'Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded – making them the most littered item on the planet.' Dr Jonathan Livingstone-Banks and Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on why cigarette filters should be banned ⬇️
#OxfordClimate
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Cigarette filters do nothing for smokers’ health and just create plastic pollution – they should be banned
Cigarette filters are one of the biggest sources of plastic pollution and they serve no purpose.
https://theconversation.com/cigarette-filters-do-nothing-for-smokers-health-and-just-create-plastic-pollution-they-should-be-banned-263374
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Dan Jurafsky
2 months ago
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here:
web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
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Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
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Terence Tao
2 months ago
I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration:
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
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I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.
The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.
https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-award-winning-mathematician
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Sloucherzine
3 months ago
My take on Belafonte Sensacional's trippy, experimental third album, Llamas llamas llamas.
sloucher.org/2025/08/04/r...
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Review: Belafonte Sensacional – Llamas llamas llamas
On their third full album, Belafonte Sensacional find new ways to reinvent themselves. No two tracks sound the same. No song resembles what formerly came before. No, Belafonte Sensacional surfed to…
https://sloucher.org/2025/08/04/review-belafonte-sensacional-llamas-llamas-llamas/
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Wikipedia
3 months ago
Turkish coffee is an unfiltered brewing method that originated in the Ottoman Empire and remains popular across the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, and parts of Eastern Europe. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)
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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان
4 months ago
It is with great pleasure that I share MAXMINDS 2.0, a new Max Planck program to support scholars in danger of displacement by war or natural disasters, and who have limited access to resources and institutional support. If you know affected scholars, please share.
www.maxminds.mpg.de
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MAXMINDS 2.0 Homepage
MAXMINDS 2.0
https://www.maxminds.mpg.de/
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Heather Harrington
4 months ago
We’re looking for a mathematical research and collaboration manager to join our new initiative of mathematics in a biology institute in Dresden, Germany!
@csbdresden.bsky.social
@mpi-cbg.de
@math-mpicbg.bsky.social
Please share widely:
careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/5734151...
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Mathematical Research & Collaborations Manager (m/f/d) – Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik
We are looking for: Mathematical Research & Collaborations Manager (m/f/d), Full Time, Dresden
https://careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/57341518/Mathematical-Research-Collaborations-Manager-m-f-d-/
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Like Stereolab and Moon Duo but wackier. Very interesting Japanese release from 1995.
open.spotify.com/track/0InxYN...
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TIME AND SPACE
DOOPEES · DOOPEE TIME · Song · 1995
https://open.spotify.com/track/0InxYNrk1WoC62Vc8N6Xv3?si=wIxnzcjiSVSX0YvC7Vrx2g
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Heather Harrington
4 months ago
We are searching for an AI researcher in lab automation, statistical ML and (theoretical) physics AI for bio/med. Expression of interest and nominations welcome!!!
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
4 months ago
Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence
@mpi-cbg.de
and
@csbdresden.bsky.social
. More information:
www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
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Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence
Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence.
https://www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreach/news-media/article/novel-research-in-biological-artificial-intelligence
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Alexandre Bovet
4 months ago
Excited for my first
#ICWSM
! I'll be showing our work on the Twitter to Bluesky academic migration this afternoon at the
nextgensocial-workshop.github.io
(paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
)
@yuan1227.bsky.social
will show our paper on incivility on Thursday:
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
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J. Doyne Farmer
4 months ago
We're hiring! Michael Wooldridge, Ani Calinescu and I are looking for a Senior Research Associate in Robust, Large-Scale Agent-Based Modelling. Applications by 7 July.
www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2454-fu...
#ABM
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Senior Research Associate in Robust, Large-Scale Agent-Based Modelling
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https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2454-full.html
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Today at
#ICWSM
session on Networks, Norms and Discovery tune in to hear the great
@themiurgo.bsky.social
present or work on link sharing and social music discovery on Spotify.
4 months ago
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Steven Strogatz
4 months ago
Dear
#mathsky
, if you repost this, it will let people see the article for free. Thanks!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem (Gift Article)
Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 dimensions.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/science/math-strogatz-spheres-packing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.V-SR.zCBlBQKMjZnW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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"Panache" is truly a fantastic word. I don't use it as much as I should
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Melanie Mitchell
5 months ago
My husband’s cell was getting calls from people thinking they were phoning a certain city’s police number. He was puzzled—his number doesn’t appear on any web page. Then he learned that if you Google “[city name] non-emergency police”, the AI overview hallucinates his number. Thanks, Google!
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Hiroki Sayama
5 months ago
#NetSci2025
keynote Iza Romanowska discusses how the study of our past informs our present and future
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I'll be presenting our work on network-based content moderation strategies at the
#NetSci2025
poster session today. If you want to learn more, come and have a chat!
5 months ago
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Christian Bick
5 months ago
Come to the Focus Session "Network Dynamical Systems" at
@netsciconf.bsky.social
Friday afternoon for a free copy of Bear Networks!
www.beyondtheedge.network/resources/be...
#NetSci2025
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Bear Networks
BeyondTheEdge publication: Bear Networks, mathematics of networks introduced by soccer-loving bears
https://www.beyondtheedge.network/resources/bear-networks
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
5 months ago
The group of Meritxell Huch
@merihuchlab.bsky.social
together with the Heather Harrington group
@math-mpicbg.bsky.social
&
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.social
develop next-generation organoid model that reconstructs liver architecture to better understand liver disease.
www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
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RIP Sebastião Salgado, legend and one of a kind
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sebastião Salgado: Legendary Brazilian photographer dies at 82
He was known for dramatic and unflinching black-and-white images of hardship, conflict and natural beauty.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2exym29pdo
5 months ago
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Oxford Mathematics
5 months ago
Say hello to soft cells. Nature hates sharp corners. It prefers curved edges and non-flat faces. Now mathematicians have cottoned on. Watch Gábor Domokos' brilliant public lecture on the soft cell. Tomorrow, Thursday 22 May, 5pm and any time after:
youtu.be/e7b5pAudnKs
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Are they sure this freelancer is not Jorge Luis Borges?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist
Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/chicago-sun-times-ai-summer-reading-list
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University of Oxford
5 months ago
NEW: Researchers have created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
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Researchers remap the world's rivers to improve flood modelling |
A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-05-16-researchers-remap-worlds-rivers-improve-flood-modelling
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Here's a nice painting by José Maria Velasco ay the national gallery
5 months ago
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Kristina Lerman
5 months ago
NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.
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This is so very cool
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NetScience
5 months ago
Amazing list of invited speakers at the 2nd British NetSci Symposium. If you are a PhD student or a Post-doc, please consider sending an abstract! The morning will be entirely dedicated to contributed talks from young researchers. Info and submission link:
www.netsci.uk/events.html
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NetScience
6 months ago
Spline tie-decay temporal networks
arxiv.org/abs/2408.11913
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Spline tie-decay temporal networks
Increasing amounts of data are available on temporal, or time-varying, networks. There have been various representations of temporal network data each of which has different advantages for downstream ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11913
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Lars Gotrich
5 months ago
I brought Beth Gibbons to the Tiny Desk and it feels like a minor miracle.
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
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Beth Gibbons: Tiny Desk Concert
There's an invitation in these songs, largely pulled from her 2024 release Lives Outgrown, to bear witness to Gibbons' own tragedy and transformation.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g-s1-65455/beth-gibbons-tiny-desk-concert
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Given that the new Pope is also a mathematician, I think he should lean on his infallibility and give the Riemann hypothesis a shot
6 months ago
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Leto Peel
6 months ago
We're looking for a new colleague to join us in Maastricht as an Assistant/Associate Professor in statistical learning in our Data Analytics and Digitalisation department. Deadline to apply: June 8th
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Statistical Learning
Assistant/Associate Professor in Statistical Learning
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-AssistantAssociate-Professor-in-Statistical-Learning/819850702/
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Andrea Baronchelli
6 months ago
*Permanent* position in Applied Mathematics at City. We are - of course - particularly interested in profiles in Computational Social Science, Network Science, Data Science, and related fields. The application deadline is June 1st.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/l...
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Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at City St George’s, University of London
An academic position as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/lecturer-in-applied-mathematics
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Helmholtz Munich
6 months ago
🌟What makes the Stem Cell Center unique? It is globally outstanding in its combination of expertise across stem cells, developmental mechanisms, cell plasticity, and
#epigenetics
. 👉
t1p.de/eoemr
#StemCellResearch
@metorrespadilla.bsky.social
epihmgu.bsky.social
@www.helmholtz.de
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Oxford Mathematics
6 months ago
Alan Turing is the star of the next set of student lectures we are showing. But not the Turing of computer science or cryptography, but the Turing of zebra stripes. Ruth Baker is talking mathematical biology and, in particular, pattern formation. Lecture 1:
youtu.be/ta3pGHqPKkg
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Movies Silently
6 months ago
Sometimes you just need to listen to a 45-minute 1970s prog song about a lute or something
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Tom Ellis
6 months ago
My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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It's an sad but true fact of life that bottled Guinness is abysmally inferior to draught Guinness. The experience is not portable
6 months ago
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Unexpected encounter at the Pisa camposanto
6 months ago
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Math for Science at MPI-CBG
6 months ago
A reminder of the newly launched Max Planck postdoc program - applications open for another couple of weeks, see here for details:
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Max Planck Postdoc Program
Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.
https://www.mpg.de/en/max-planck-postdoc-program
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Ben Sparks
6 months ago
I got a bit obsessed over caustics, cardioids, nephroids and the like a while back, ended up making simulators in GeoGebra and talking to
@bradyharan.bsky.social
on Numberphile about it:
youtu.be/hKpa9ntjgeo?...
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Cardioids in Coffee Cups - Numberphile
YouTube video by Numberphile
https://youtu.be/hKpa9ntjgeo?si=IQNYsQGvPYwO1JFG
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Ricard Solé
6 months ago
Are we true individuals? What kind of individuality can be defined when we take into account our microbial symbionts? Check this great paper by Scott Gilbert, Jan Sapp & Alfred Tauber on the holobionts & how this has changed our perspective of individuality.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...
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