Many personal things have happened in the past few months and it is time to update the social media! I received my PhD in Network Science at @ceu-dnds.bsky.social under the supervision of @fede7j.bsky.social after a wonderful 4 years in Vienna with amazing friends and colleagues! 1/5

What does psychopathology look like from the perspective of people seeking support? Network analysis of Reddit communities vs diagnostic criteria. Just out in @jmirpub.bsky.social www.jmir.org/2026/1/e80958/ @sreblet.bsky.social @petrakn.bsky.social @ceu-dnds.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social

🎓 Yesterday, January 21, 2026, Júlia Számely successfully defended her PhD dissertation on misinformation engagement, combining survey data with digital trace data to better understand who engages with misinformation online—and why. Congratulations! 🎉📚 #WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #PhDLife

The call for participants for Complexity72h is finally open! Apply by February 28 for the best collab ever! Why??? ✨ Amazing projects 👩‍🏫 Fantastic tutors 📍 A great location 👉 Apply now: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72... Do you REALLY need anything else to be convinced? We didn’t think so.

Fourth-year PhD student @claraeminente.bsky.social presented new work on two fronts: why people overestimate the size of racial minority groups in the US, and how intersectional homophily might reduce racial segregation in school friendship networks. 👏 #WeAreCEU #NetworkScience

4th-year PhD candidate Helcio Felippe presented new work on using information theory to summarize network structure — including a measure of network & hypergraph similarity and a principled way to reduce higher-order representations. 👏 #NetworkScience

On Dec 3, 4th-year PhD candidate Martí Medina-Hernández presented how ML and network science can reveal hidden patterns of corruption across Mexico, Bulgaria & Italy. His work shows how data-driven methods can support stronger public-integrity policy. #WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #CorruptionResearch

On Dec 3, 4th-year PhD candidate @loreb92.bsky.social presented his research on group dynamics in human & animal systems. His work shows how leadership shifts affect software teams, how bird groups form stable higher-order social cores, and how to detect such structures from data. #NetworkScience

3rd-year PhD student @bojanevkoski.bsky.social presented new work on mapping the structure of psychopathology using large-scale, heterogeneous data. He compared insights from online support communities with clinical and registry data to uncover patterns that may inform future diagnostics.

Structural Reducibility of Hypergraphs link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

CEU DNDS is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join us in #Vienna! If you work in #NetworkScience or #ComputationalSocialScience, we’d love to hear from you. 👉 bit.ly/44lfXb4

Yian Yin shows initial setbacks can make you stronger and more impactful in both sport and science #ComplexNetworks2025

But many social goods — cooperation, friendship, teaching — are not only positive, but also innate. Discussed in Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society — the book I have written of which I am proudest. www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Ev...

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare

📢 Keynotes unlocked: 8/12. Thrilled to have Andrea Migliano as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about #anthropology and #networks! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!

We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching. We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

(new paper) 📑 A large-scale study of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder in online settings: looking at reported symptoms, treatments, and comorbidities on Reddit. Collaboration with @sreblet.bsky.social , @petrakn.bsky.social and Julie Riddell 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PMDD #MentalHealth

Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium.bsky.social video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?... @stevenstrogatz.com Duncan Watts @barabasi.bsky.social

🎓 Welcome to our new PhD cohort in Network Science! (top row, L→R) Nathalia, Miguel @msanchezc.bsky.social, Zhina (bottom row, L→R) Jiachen, Dima and Laura Wishing you an inspiring start to your journey—looking forward to all the ideas and discoveries ahead! 💡🌍

Ladies and Gentlemen, @ceu-dnds.bsky.social at @ccs2025.bsky.social #CCS2025

📢Take a breath, you have extra days to finish! Due to technical issues with @openreviewnet this week, we’ve extended all deadlines by 2 weeks. 🗓️New deadline for abstracts: Sept 19, 23:59 AoE 📷 More info: netscix2026.github.io @MLuczak @ProfMSmall @droneale @danielapaolotti

Animal interactions are not dyadic as usually modeled, so how relevant are higher-order relationships? The first part of #CRAB ends with Lorenzo Betti modelling biological behavior beyond pairwise interactions, uncovering higher-order structure within cohesive groups. #CCS2025

Proc. R. Soc. B: Dispersed female networks: female gorillas’ inter-group relationships influence dispersal decisions https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2025.0223?af=R

So happy to see my first PhD paper out royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... With my amazing supervisor @robinmorrison.bsky.social and the @savinggorillas.bsky.social, we examined female dispersal decisions in mountain gorillas.

We are seeking speaker nominations for the Women in Network Science (WiNS) seminar series. Let’s amplify diverse voices and break out of our usual bubbles. Nominate someone inspiring today! #WiNS #NetworkScience #WomenInScience

Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying. Deadline: October 1, 2025 Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Ethics in Complex Systems: A one-day workshop at the University of Zurich ethics.dsi.uzh.ch/project/ethi...

🎥 All keynote talks from IC²S² ‘25 are now available on our YouTube channel! #ic2s2 #css

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

DNDS at #IC2S2 2025 in Sweden A strong presence at the top conference in computational social science! 10+ talks and posters by current & former members on networks, behavior, inequality and digital society. #WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #SeeUatCEU

Prediction and explanation, together. Duncan Watts opened our final day with a keynote on “Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science,” showing how pairing causal insight with predictive testing can push computational social science forward. #ic2s2

Seeing talk titles at #ic2s2 I can't be the only one, when reading LLM or AI, having to react with "oh, yet another one 🙄"? No disrespect to colleague's work, but the topic feels overhyped.. Not *everything* needs an LLM angle. #grinchmoment

Interested in the relationships between team dynamics, leadership dynamics, and success? I’ll be presenting my poster today at #ic2s2 (poster #82).

Attending #ic2s2? My poster is up today!

👀 I’ll be presenting this work this week at @ic2s2.bsky.social (Thu, 11:00 AM · Social Media & Networks). If you’re there & interested, let’s connect! #IC2S2 N/N

🧵 New preprint! Do online mental health communities form patterns of association that mirror diagnostic systems or challenge them? “Network Analysis of Reddit Mental Health Communities: Mapping the Interconnectedness of Psychopathology” 👉 osf.io/7dfcw_v1 @ceu-dnds.bsky.social Short thread: 1/N

🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520

Review "Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond" arxiv.org/abs/2507.11521 Lab experiments, data, models, analytical/computational tools. 93 pages, >1k references. With Fabian Baumann, David Garcia, Gerardo Iñiguez, Márton Karsai, Jan Lorenz, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron. Led by Michele Starnini

How do social inequalities shape epidemic outcomes? Our PhD alum Adriana Manna shares insights from her award-winning dissertation on contact patterns, vaccination gaps & a novel modeling framework. 📖 Interview: bit.ly/44uT6KF #NetworkScience #EpidemicModeling

Our article “Evidence of equilibrium dynamics in human social networks evolving in time”, published in Communications Physics, is now featured on their homepage as part of their monthly selection of highlights! If you didn't read it yet, take a look! www.nature.com/commsphys/

Very pleased our paper looking at the diffusion of complex contagions is out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS special feature on Collective Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Dynamics Contributions from scientists in machine learning, evolutionary game theory, and their growing intersection. www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122...

📢📢📢 Thrilled to share our new paper "Drivers of cooperation in social dilemmas on higher-order networks", out now in J. R. Soc. Interface! 🚀 With Andrea Civilini, Vito Latora & @fede7j.bsky.social 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @dnds_ceu @ceu 1/7

People not only form social networks, they construct mental maps of them. People think about the ties between other people, including ties among individuals to whom they are not themselves directly connected. These “cognitive social networks” have rarely been studied. 1/

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We are happy to announce the 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 25 or 26, 2025 🗞️ Submission deadline: 17 July 2025 23:59 CET 🔔 Workshop website: t.co/yiq4aWz75d

📢 The NetSci-X 2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your work and join us in #Auckland to explore diversity in network science. 📅 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 AoE 🌐 More info: netscix2026.github.io @mluczak.bsky.social‬ Michael Small @droneale.bsky.social‬ Daniela Paolotti