It was such a blast to give a talk at the Presidential Symposium of #APS2026bcn Slides are here: dgarcia.eu/CollectiveAI...

Physical Networks IV takes place next Tuesday at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston. Join us for keynotes by Mason A. Porter, Jörn Dunkel, and Katia Bertoldi, plus invited and contributed talks on physical networks. June 2 | 14:30-18:00 | Harvard Square A sites.google.com/view/physnet26

I am so excited about this: We are doing a new kind of project with the aim of transporting knowledge and methods from the humanities into a natural science context. We'll have 5 full 3yr postdoc positions! I will post more in the coming week. But here is a preview: hifmb.de/institute/hi...

New #SocioPatterns study in PNAS: we studied how social behavior and psychological well-being evolve at Concordia Station in Antarctica during the extreme isolation and confinement of a 10-month overwinter mission. Lessons for deep-space crews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #NetSci #NetworkScience

Is the fashion industry actually becoming more inclusive? We analyzed 793,199 records over 25 years to find out. Our results are published today in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am looking for a MSc student to conduct their thesis within my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞 You will be part of the Evolutionary Cognition Group at UZH (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social). Unpaid position (funding options would need to be applied for by the candidate).

Contributing a talk or poster to NetSci 2026? Find your place in the network! Explore the interactive visualization connecting talks and posters by shared ideas and topics. Hover for titles/authors, click for abstracts and session info. Talks 🔥 tinyurl.com/2s38h2ba Posters ⚡ tinyurl.com/3nnu4s8e

Interested in network science, evolutionary biology, and animal behavior? I am seeking a PhD student to join the Quantitative Network Science group at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning of the University of Zurich. Info and application here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Now available! 📋 Program Overview: tinyurl.com/4nz8v238 🗓️ Contributed Presentations • Parallel session talks schedule: tinyurl.com/2mfxtfxd • Lightning talks: tinyurl.com/44t2ddzf A list of poster presentations will be added shortly, and a more detailed program will be available soon — stay tuned!

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

The soon-to-be-launched new journal of the @cssociety.bsky.social is searching for associate editors that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of complex systems with diversity, equity and a high level of editorial commitment. Tto be considered, please write to us through forms.gle/2skCvqFwDue5...

We are delighted to announce this year's Outstanding Service Award winner: Yamir Moreno @ymoreno.bsky.social

It is our great pleasure to announce this year's Erdős-Rényi Prize winner! Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social

A big round of applause for this year's Fellows: Filippo Radicchi, Tiziana Di Matteo, Stefano Boccaletti, Piet Van Mieghem, Dmitri Krioukov, Lise Getoor, and Danielle Bassett.

An open lecture by Vito Latora. Excellent idea to open one keynote to community at large!

Andrea Migliano is Keynote at @complenet.bsky.social and she talks about “Small Worlds, Deep Roots: the cultural origins of hunter gatherer social networks”

New theme issue of #PhilTransB: The evolution of collective intelligence. Read #OA: buff.ly/f0gWUxH

Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

📢 Reminder: submissions are OPEN until April 30 for Physical Networks IV at NetSci2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston! Topics: physical networks, spatial networks, metamaterials, connectomes & more. Don’t miss your chance👇 sites.google.com/view/physnet26 #NetSci2026 #NetworkScience

New paper: "The Cost of Representing Higher-Order Dynamics on Graphs" Can graphs represent group interactions? Yes, but graphs pay a parsimony cost when compared to using hypergraphs. Addresses recent work by Peixoto et al., Moutuou, and Lacasa. scroll.press/2026/graph-hypergraph-dynamics-cost

How many teachers are enough? Zero? Hirotaka Goto and I analyze the optimal allocation of dedicated teachers in a population. @carlbergstrom.com www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cooperative behaviours that can be costly to the individual but beneficial to others were discussed in a key 1981 publication go.nature.com/4c0jVdj

The elections have closed, the votes have been counted, and the new members are... 🥁🥁 @amahury.bsky.social, @juantgarcas.bsky.social and @onkarsadekar.bsky.social! We are excited to work with you the coming year! 🎉

🚀🚀 WE ARE HIRING!!! - Postdoc Position on Inequalities in Epidemic Processes 🚀🚀 Join as a postdoc the Network Epidemics Group at the HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (Budapest) to work on behavior driven epidemics. www.renyi.hu/node/4925

💸 Financial barriers often lock researchers from lower-income nations out of conferences. Our open arms grant supports researchers from low and middle-income countries by providing financial aid to attend #CCS2026 ! 💰🤑 Spread the word! 🔁 👉More info: ccs26.cssociety.org#open-arms-gr...

Y’all are very lucky — you still have time until March 4th to apply for the Complexity72h Workshop! Don’t miss it — hurry up and get your application in 🚀

You've seen the projects, the tutors, the location, the program — and it's all 🔥. You have zero excuses. Apply before Feb 28th. We'll know if you didn't. 👀

Projects & tutors at a glance - Turnovers, synergy, and home advantage: Statistical signatures of success in the NBA What drives momentum in NBA games? 🏀 Analyze play-by-play data on turnovers and quarter dynamics — more info here: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72...

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! 💡🌍