Submission link for the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is LIVE! We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more Deadline: Jan 15 cs2italy.org

🔈 *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

New paper out 📄 Generating graphs with realistic degree distributions, clustering, and community structures is challenging — but important for modeling dynamics on networks. We present a method to build graphs with arbitrary mesoscale structures, degree sequences and global clustering coefficient.

🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!

From latent space to real-world networks — we’ve got the structure you need! In this preprint, we introduce a new methodology for generating graphs with arbitrary community structures in one-dimensional Euclidean space. That’s right — it’s everything you need.

Is it time for us—scientists, PhDs, PostDocs, and others—to be more welcoming? Great post by @kmpanthagani.bsky.social on the impact of the word “misinformation.” I believe we should go further: listen, be welcoming, and engage in dialogue. It takes time, but in my view, it’s the only viable option.

Coincidentally, I made a video about temperature and entropy at the same time as 3B1B and Spectral Collective youtu.be/gRPv4rd_6O4

David Cope, a pioneer in computer-generated music, passed away on May 4. His "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" reshaped how we think about creativity and, perhaps, AI. Read about his legacy and listen to EMI's compositions here: substack.com/home/post/p-... @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

Prevention >>>> treatment. That's the beauty of vaccines. An animated, reimagined version of WSJ's measles visualization:

Think a balanced diet and exercise alone can keep infectious diseases at bay? Think again. History proves otherwise. @kmpanthagani.bsky.social explains why abandoning the tools that protect us is a risk we can't afford to take. Read more: yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

#numbers 2025 is a perfect square. Didn't occur since 1936 and won’t until 2116. Adding 1 to each digit gives a perfect square- 25 is the only smaller integer with this property It is sum of cubes of the first 9 integers and the square of their sum 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³=(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)²