🎙️ New episode of Knitting Networks! Tom A. B. Snijders, emeritus at Oxford & Groningen, and a key figure in statistical models for networks. A journey from math to sociology, theory to method. 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/2mrB... @aespinosarada.bsky.social @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻! Secure your spot at the flagship conference of the Network Science Society and take advantage of the early bird registration special - www.netsci2026.com/registration 📅 June 1–5, 2026 | Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA Join us as we celebrate 20 years of NetSci!

🚨 Final reminder — Applications close Nov 5! The ChiSocNet Summer School on Social Network Research offers an introduction to network analysis with a focus on statistical models and hands-on work in R. 📍 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile 📅 November 5 deadline 🔗 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

In Utah, we have been working intensively on Measles modeling. We have created advanced ABMs for public health in C++, R, shiny, and Python. You can learn more about the available tools we have deployed here: github.com/EpiForeSITE/... and reach out if you need help #measles #publichealth #rstats

Join us today, Oct 29, at 11 AM MST for Dr Anna Fariha's #datascience + #ai lecture titled "Understanding Data through Change Summarization and Causal Disparity Explanations" 🕸️🎥🗣️🔬 calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...!

R^4 post #054: Faster r-ci Contimuous Integration via r2u Container Accelerating Continous Integration at GitHub Actions dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10... #rstats

Thrilled to be a part of the 2025 Utah AI Summit! Join me for the Academic Research Experts panel: Shaping Humanity-Centric AI Through Academic Collaboration. We will explore how pioneering academic research is aligning technology with human values. aisummit.utah.gov #UtahAISummit #ResponsibleAI

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.2: mlpack is now a duckdb community extension Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10...

Learn, code, and connect 🌎 The Social Network Summer School 2026 (Jan 12–16, Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱) brings together keynotes speakers & ChiSocNet scholars for a hands-on week in R + network modeling. Apply before Nov 5 ➡️ snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/ @insna.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨 Deadline extended! Apply by Nov 5 Join the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱 📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social @krivitsky.net @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, Diego Palacios, @gvegayon.bsky.social 💻 Group projects · Network models snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

Have you made a package on top of Stan? Do you have a cool trick to make Stan faster or create a fancy model? Would you like to make a guest post at Stan blog blog.mc-stan.org? Send me a private message if you are interested (and note that with our current blog plan we don't have MathJax support)

🚀 New preprint alert! “Advancing coupled behavioural-epidemic models: An interdisciplinary framework for the collection of empirical data” 🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/6

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841 Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

📢 Last call! Applications for the 2nd Summer School on Social Network Research (ChiSocNet) close on October 6. Meet our instructors - leading experts in social network analysis 🌐 👉 Apply now: snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/ #SocialNetworkAnalysis #ChiSocNet

𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University! We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science. @nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

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