New paper in NHB 📄🚨 We ran extensive experiments to show that making the rules of some canonical economic games looser, makes people more cooperative www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tried the mixing (beta) feature of Spotify on a list I had done for dinner parties during vacation. I suspect it is a play by spotify to teach their AI to mix and DJ automatically, But I was a little impressed with the options it allows for customizing mixes. open.spotify.com/playlist/3OQ...

We are hiring a PI at Asso. Professor level for our @cberaproject.bsky.social ERA Chair Projectl. Please spread to anyone excited to advance biomedical research via Complex Networks & Complex Systems. Deadline: Oct 17. Network Medicine Computational Biology. cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/recruitin...

We are hiring a PI at Associate Professor level for our @cberaproject.bsky.social ERA Chair Project at the UCP in Portugal. Please spread to anyone excited to advance biomedical research through #ComplexNetworks & #ComplexSystems. Deadline: Oct 17. See below. #NetworkMedicine #ComputationalBiology

'SARSCoV2-specific neutralizing activity was typically lost & antibody binding breadth and effector function were typically reduced in cord as compared to maternal blood, effector functions were substantially greater & broader following maternal vaccination than infection in both mothers & infants.'

Hiroki Sayama announced that CCS2026 will be held in Binghamton, USA — see you there! 🇺🇸 #CCS2026

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Great #networkmedicine work by @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social's team on deriving comorbidity networks from RNA-seq data to study complex disease relationships. Thy show that molecular mechanisms are behind many of the known comorbidities (often via immune response). doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

1/3 We are really happy to announce the latest version of our CANA Python package which allows the quantification of dynamical #redundancy and #canalization in #automata #complexnetworks, including effective connectivity and symmetry. #dynamics #BooleanNetworks doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

1/2 Very interesting discussion about pace of science (thanks @cyrilpedia.bsky.social!), but one cannot really separate the pace of innovation or disruption from the pervading economy. Given the present technofeudalism, new ideas are harder to translate to society. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

I don't love Charlie XCX's music, but truly dislike all the copycats being generated...

Punctuated equilibrium, a concept introduced by paleontologists in 1972, reimagines evolution’s tempo as a stochastic burst rather than a steady beat. A new model finds support for their theory in both molecular and fossil data. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports www.quantamagazine.org/the-sudden-s...

Want to work in Portugal, in a brand new institute, at the interface between #Health and #ComplexSystems? Open positions for #students, #postdocs and a #dataSteward under the supervision of @lmrocha.bsky.social Check it out: www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-team/o...

We’ve reopened our search for a Research Fellow Position to join our team! 🌐 More details & how to apply: Visit our careers page: www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-team/o... Know someone who’d be a great fit? Feel free to share or tag them below!

I am very honored for this prize and most grateful for the amazing and generous colleagues who wrote in support of my nomination! Thank you so much to Prof. Khasawneh and the whole School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering team that nominated me. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We are hiring at the @cberaproject.bsky.social project! a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Data Steward. Interested in integrating #ComplexNetworks and #ComplexSystems for Advancing #Biomedical Research? Talk to me and see details at www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-team/o...

Great to see this paper out! With @felipexc.bsky.social and David Soriano-Panos we demonstrate that semi-metric distortion is more characteristic than betweenness to infer edge relevance for #spreading dynamics, #sparsification and shortest paths. #NetworkScience iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

@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

Wonderful launch of our new ERA Chair project with a kind, insightful, and stellar group of scientists. Thank you Claudi Bockting, Søren Brunak, Ana Teresa Freitas, John Krakauer, Francisca Leite, Pedro Lima, Jörg Menche, Isabel Rocha, @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social Susana Vinga, and many others!

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

We're the systems originators :) come work with us!

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

Pedro Simas opening words for the presentation of the CBeRa chair (@cberaproject.eu) lead by @lmrocha.bsky.social Happy to see this complex systems initiative flying

Still time to register for this event in Lisbon on Friday. #NetworkMedicine www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-events...

This Friday in Lisbon at the Champalimaud conference center, See what population-wide, longitudinal electronic health data can achieve for biomedicine with the tools of network science and machine learning. Denmark has the most complete population-wide such data; Søren is at the center of it all :)

1/2 Very thorough argumentation. Highly recommend. I would just add that the necessary collective mechanisms to establish fact/veracity need to also deal with traditional media, which is most impactful in spreading disinformation.

Next July 4th in Lisbon come to this public event (please register in link provided). There will be a talk by Søren Brunak, discussion with @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social, Claudi Bockting, Jörg Menche, myself, and others. #ComplexSystems, #NetworkScience, #NetworkMedicine, #AI, #DigitalMedicine.

Come work with us. PhD fellowships available.

Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda... @davidsirota.com and Evelyn Quartz nail it.

It was great to see you and can't wait to start it ideas!

On this new paper we present a novel method to obtain digital cohorts from #socialmediadata which are focused on a specific #biomedical problem of interest (in our case, #epilepsy). The method uses sparsification of #knowledgegraphs to obtain relevant biomedical discourse. doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

1/4 We have two positions for PhD Students available to work in our www.cberaproject.eu CBeRa Project: cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/call-rese... cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/open-call... The focus is #networkscience, #complexsystems, and applications to #networkmedicine and #computationalbiology.

The two L.R.'s finally meet. We are different people :)

We are hiring postdocs, a (postdoctoral) data steward and PhD students for our ERA CHAIR "Strategic Integration of #ComplexNetworks and #ComplexSystems for Advancing Biomedical Research". And soon, an assistant professor position. Let's talk @netsciconf.bsky.social next week! www.cberaproject.eu

Finishing #NetSciEd2025, @lmrocha.bsky.social gave us a dialectical and historical perspective on systems thinking. I liked a lot how he pointed out the systemic constraints our current academic system puts on transdisciplinary. Very nice way to finish my #NetSci2025 day!

Kicking off our afternoon session, @cantinilab.bsky.social discusses her dual approach to capture both multi-modal dimensionality reduction and molecular network inference. She gave a very nice overview of her work! #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025 @verapancaldi.bsky.social

Highly relevant, solid work understanding and parameterizing edge weight distributions for individual medical networks.

Amazing talk. Super impressive work building digital twins.

Now @lmrocha.bsky.social goes deeper into the #digitaltwins paradigm, discussing how to build multiscale models for this purpose. What's the temporal limit when building these complex models? Can we build something as complex as biological architectures? #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025

If you're in Lisbon tonight, come dance the night away :)

Had a great time speaking at MOGA festival about creativity, AI, and art. It was great fun meeting artists, scientists and Fiona, e AI with daddy issues (@aiwdaddyissues). rna_studio n Lisbon, Johannes Stelzer, Quist Tsang.

We are hiring postdocs, a (postdoctoral) data steward and PhD students for our ERA CHAIR "Strategic Integration of #ComplexNetworks and #ComplexSystems for Advancing Biomedical Research". And soon, an assistant professor position. Let's talk @netsciconf.bsky.social next week! www.cberaproject.eu

Talk #4 of the week will be fun, at MOGA music festival. A chance to mix science, art and DJing www.mogafestival.com/program?even...

Traveling to Europe for #NetSci2025 & in backpack I have material to advertise the exciting opportunity to come to Aotearoa New Zealand in Feb 2026 for #NetSciX2026 & the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium. netscix2026.github.io www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social

Talk #3 of the week :) "Towards Extraction of Multiscale Factors via Redundancy Removal from the Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks" cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/events/cb...

Had a fantastic time giving a philosophy of science talk yesterday at the Oeiras Valley Science Festival. Had not given one of those in a while. From Cybernetics to AGI, via expanded mind hypothesis, biosemiotics, systems bio, stigmergy, collective intelligence, and, yes, David Bowie and Burroughs.