My department @cuboulder.info is hiring a TT assistant professor in the area of environmental justice! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Please share and encourage candidates to apply!

Join us today, Sep 24, at 11 AM MST for Dr Blake Vernon's #datascience + #ai lecture titled "Indirect dating with mixture density networks" 🕸️🎥🗣️🔬 @ucdsai.bsky.social calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...!

Join us for a talk today at 2 PM – Boston Hub (11th Floor)! Don't miss Andrea Baronchili’s talk on “Emergent Social Conventions and Collective Bias in Human and LLM Populations” which is also available over zoom - northeastern.zoom.us/j/93421052481

#rstats 📦 {latentnet} 2.12.0 is now on #CRAN. It implements a long-requested feature for fitting count networks (interactions, co-occurrences, etc.) using a binomial model. Different pairs of actors can now have different binomial "trials". Full news at cran.r-project.org/package=late... .

UK government* trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m... * Department for Business and Trade Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot: DBT evaluation report www.gov.uk/government/p... #govtech #AIpolicy #techpolicy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Ever joined a Summer School in January? 🌞 Join us in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱 (Jan 12–16, 2026) for the Social Network Summer School! Lecturers: @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, Diego Palacios, @gvegayon.bsky.social @chisocnet.bsky.social Apply by Oct 5 👉 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

Did you know the Cedars-Sinai’s New PhD in Health AI Program earned accreditation earlier this year? www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced... #artificialintelligence #healthAI #healthIT #bioinformatics #phd #gradschool #compsci

This is Manchis. She's the dog of Alberto Mesías Zárate, a journalist in Peru. When her human was targeted this week by criminals who threw an explosive device at their home, she barked at the perpetrators and successfully extinguished the dynamite before it detonated. 14/10 good girl, Manchis

2 x Postdocs (Berkeley, CA, USA) Infectious-disease modelling & phylodynamics for pandemic preparedness with ‪@charleswhittaker.bsky.social‬ at @petal-team.bsky.social‬ @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social‬ ‪@berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social‬ More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2351

Please join us for today's at 11 AM MST Data Science and AI lecture series to hear our invited speaker, Varun Shankar, in his talk titled "Kernel Methods for Operator Learning." We look forward to seeing you either in person or online! datascience.utah.edu/seminar.html #datascience #ai #ucdsai #ml

Excited to speak at Salt Lake City R Users Group tomorrow about how we added more sparsity support in tidymodels www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

A third of people in Britain now think the Covid pandemic was exaggerated to control people 🤯🤯 And 22% think the moon landings were staged! One of many striking findings from new @moreincommonuk.bsky.social report on shattered Britain. My write up here: 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/bb0f...

I am proud to share that CRAN has just accepted the first RSiena package version submitted by *me* as official package maintainer, succeeding Tom Snijders who did the job for 13 years. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz) is a developer and teacher whose impact on the R ecosystem is immense. He is Chief scientist at @posit.co where he leads the Tidyverse team. His keynote "I wrote this talk with an LLM" explores how AI can help rather than replace data scientists. user2025.r-project.org

Sunbelt 2025, the global conference for social network analysts, takes place in Paris from June 23 to 29, 2025! Hundreds of talks, 3 keynotes, panels, and thematic & methods workshops on: Social Networks, Mechanisms, and Algorithms. At Sciences Po & Sorbonne University Info: sunbelt2025.org.

New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against #measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.

It was so so good to work with Monash Uni students on their first steps in C++ programming for R applications! 🚀✨ They made it! And now, they're ready to code! 🤖👾 arp.numbat.space/week11/ #rstats #rcpp #armadillo

Super grateful to have received an R Consortium grant to keep working on improving igraph! Our goal is to work on the interface between the c core and the r package. To date it is still too tedious to integrate new features seamlessly. r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats cc @masalmon.eu

We'll get started at 9am with a group discussion of best practices for sharing network data. Come share your perspective and experiences!

Happy to join the morning discussions!

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Going to #NetSci2025 next week? Check out the satellite on "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science" Hear some great short talks & get involved: ▪️ Discussion on sharing data ▪️ Discussion on standards for describing data ▪️ Interactive software fair Complete details at netsci.nascol.net

Since 1975 (the past fifty years) global vaccination efforts have saved the lives of 154 million people, especially reducing infant deaths — by 40%. That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany. #ScienceMatters

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐧 "𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬" Do you use a classroom activity to help students understand networks? Share it with others in Connections! Submit your abstract (up to 300 words) to [email protected] by 15 September 2025

Mother’s Day has the apostrophe before the ‘s.’ So celebrate as many mothers as you’d like, but do so one at a time to make each extra special.

Submissions are now being accepted for the ENAR 2026 Spring Meeting being held March 15-18, 2026! The theme of the meeting is "The Role of Statistics in an AI-Augmented World." Submit yours TODAY! #ENAR2026 #AI

Philadelphia friends! We SO NEED to celebrate science. Let's raise a glass to brains. Join us Wed, 5/21 for Pint of Science. I'll be opening for headliners Dimitris Boufidis, @audreydrotos.bsky.social, & Jacqui Barker. 😊 Tickets (to support the org, $2): pintofscience.us/events/phila...

We present Epydemix: open-source python package for all stages of epidemic modelling: from models' definition to their calibration via ABC methods. Website: www.epydemix.org. Paper: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... High level summary: www.epistorm.org/activities/e...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

✴️ Request for proposals! ✴️ @navigation.org is funding focused gatherings to tackle key challenges in Open Science. We support meetings that define solvable problems and quickly move ideas toward implementation. Deadline: June 15, 2025 os.nav.fund/meeting-fund #OpenScience

Guess what? #VaccinesWork. They protect us against more than 30 deadly diseases. Choose science, choose health. #HumanlyPossible

Don't know if anybody else will find this useful, but I was recently looking for a dataset of March Madness games and couldn't find one that went back farther than 2008, so I made one: github.com/kstreet13/ma...

The #measles vaccine has saved more lives than any other vaccine in the past 50 years. 2 doses = 97% protection against the highly contagious disease. #VaccinesWork #WorldImmunizationWeek

#Polio vaccinators are heroes! So we decided to hop on the generative AI trend and show you what a polio vaccinator starter kit looks like. Did you know❓ Polio eradication efforts have directly averted 20 million cases of paralysis. Yes, #VaccinesWork! #EndPolio

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the past 50 years. A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives. #VaccinesWork bit.ly/wiw2025

“A 90-day [PEPFAR] funding freeze would result in 60K [95% UI: 49–71 thousand] excess HIV deaths” This increases to 74K excess HIV deaths [95% UI: 63–89 thousand] for a more realistic scenario “assuming near-total system collapse due to program dependencies” @thelancet.bsky.social

This is Shadow. He was found dragging his back legs. He was diagnosed with IVDD, a degenerative disease in his spine. Doctors believe his best chance at a comfortable life full of zoomies is steroid treatment and months of physical therapy. You can help him get it below ❤️‍🩹 15outof10.org/shadow-3/

So excited about this -- we're starting a new MS program in Complex Network Analysis at @northeasternu.bsky.social. Happy to chat with prospective students, or better yet, go sign up for one of the information sessions in the coming weeks! www.networkscienceinstitute.org/academics/ms...

Network thinking to solve complex challenges and extract knowledge from data!!

🚀 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

Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: [email protected] and [email protected] youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

Timely new paper from UW Center for an Informed Public's PhD student @sydneydemets.bsky.social & current Director @emmaspiro.bsky.social looking at "trajectories" of guests acoss political podcasts, showing how many move from the periphery into the center. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in the intersection of #OpenScience and #NetworkScience? Check out the new @insna.bsky.social Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials. Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

🚨New in @plosone.org🚨 Corrections of misinfo are often ignored. What can drive engagement? Twitter field exp & survey followups find -Social ties matter: users more likely to engage w corrections from accounts who followed user -Shared partisanship had smaller effects on engagement shorturl.at/0Ycdp

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27