📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference! 🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com

Mirta Galesic argues the need for (complex systems) scientists to collectively raise voice to break the currently ongoing spiral of silence #CCS2025

Thank you Prof. Mirta Galesic (University of Vienna and Santa Fe Institute) for the inspiring talk “Collective moderation of public discourse” at CCS 2025!

Fascinating talk by Christian Bentz on language complexity at the Compila satellite at CCS #Compila2025 #CCS2025

A patina of hate: The targeting of academics in New Zealand, January to June 2025 www.linkedin.com/pulse/patina... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a... (WordPress) #nzpol #dangerousspeech #academicfreedom #freedomofexpression #newzealand

New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135

from a 2022 paper with @gyllingberg.bsky.social & @soccermatics.bsky.social The lost art of mathematical modelling www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Your next network science conference opportunity: NetSci-X 2026 in Auckland, New Zealand. netscix2026.github.io #NetSci2025 #NetSciX2026

@gin-bianconi.bsky.social the thoroughly deserving recipient of the Netsci Euler Award, giving her personal perspective on the nature of networks #NetSci2025

Underway at @netsciconf.bsky.social Hieko Lietz getting us underway at the Critical Phenomena satellite

After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week. I take a closer look at geographic-based moderation works on Bluesky and atproto, how it can be sidestepped, and much more fediversereport.com/bluesky-cens...

🌐 Don't miss the opportunity to submit your abstract at CCS25!

New research on inequality in online communities! We show that as communities grow, participation becomes increasingly concentrated among fewer users w/ Guilherme Machado, @diogofpacheco.bsky.social and @baxterity.bsky.social. arxiv.org/abs/2503.02661 @exetercompsci.bsky.social @uaveiro.bsky.social

Hoping to update my starterpack of the Portuguese complexity community. If you study complex systems or related things and work in Portugal or have a connection to Portugal, please get in touch! go.bsky.app/A8RRk6j

It's a network conferency day. Abstract submitted to @netsciconf.bsky.social, and while I won't be able to attend, I've also finished my reviews for @complenet.bsky.social in Fortaleza. Both shaping up to be great meetings!

More on Marsden’s dark day: There’s detailed comments via SMC www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/04/g...

We are looking for a coordinator for our new ERA Chair project based in Portugal (more news about that soon). Experience with #ComplexSystems a plus! fm.ucp.pt/news/post-sc...

This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵

Nine-day hīkoi to uphold the Treaty of Waitangi and Māori rights – in pictures

I created a starter pack for complex systems researchers in portugal, and portuguese researchers around the world. Unfortunately many of the people I would like to add are still not here! Please send me suggestions for who to add. Very much work in progress. go.bsky.app/A8RRk6j

20 million coming up.... bcounter.nat.vg

If you’re working in #NetworkScience or #ComplexNetworks, I strongly encourage you to consider joining #CompleNet25 in Fortaleza, Brazil. It’s a great opportunity to share ideas and connect with the community. Deadline is tomorrow, 15 November. @CompleNet cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CompleNet2025

It's great to see the massive wave of people coming to 🦋. Here's my first stab at a Computational Social Science starter pack: go.bsky.app/2m6iQ68 Go check out similar lists to bootstrap your network: bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Wonder if these lists could be merged somehow..

Some hard truths from Cory Doctorow: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural... It misses only one fact: Mastodon was born shitified! I still believe that the free software principles are strong and people will eventually unshitiffy it. But this hurdle will cost it a unique moment in history.