#NetSI is proud to be well represented in Stanford’s list of the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists (single-year impact), based on Elsevier Scopus data 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc4d4yv3 @barabasi.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social @lordgrilo.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce a new collaboration between Marilyn Gatica & Giovanni Petri at #NetSI_London and #ReDLat, uniting global partners to advance dementia research through complex systems, clinical & computational neuroscience. 🔗 tinyurl.com/wwhfhu2f

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

Join Ariel Procaccia for his talk on "Thinking Outside the Ballot Box" today, Sept 30 at 3:30 PM on the 11th Floor of our Network Science Institute or via Zoom - www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/ariel-... .

WiNS Book Club is back!! Join us for a Happy Hour to plan together: Oct 8 | 6 PM UK 7 PM CET 1 PM Boston Open to WiNS members via Slack. @asteixeira.bsky.social @h-merritt.bsky.social @wins-society.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/womenin...

Exciting week at #NetSI! Ariel Procaccia (Harvard) on generative social choice, Simon David Lindner (Vienna/CSH) on cancer care stratification, and Eszter Hargittai (Zurich) launching the Misinformation Series. Details & links 🔗 www.networkscienceinstitute.org/events

Join us at 11:00 AM (4:00 PM London) for Andrew Renninger’s talk on “Human Mobility, Regularity, and Variability.” Attend via Zoom. To join from NetSI's website: www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/andrew...

We’re excited to launch the 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗟𝗮𝗯 at @nunetsi.bsky.social London, led by Prof. István Kiss . The team studies how contagion spreads through networks—biological, social, and technological, with projects spanning epidemics, inference, and healthcare. Span Lab 🔗 tinyurl.com/j4bve9n

Truthfulness isn’t always binary. Sometimes it’s… neither 🤔 Our Trilemma of Truth paper is headed to the @neuripsconf.bsky.social Mechanistic Interpretability workshop 🚀 Let’s connect in San Diego! 🌴 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.23921 Code and data: github.com/carlomarxdk/...

Join Jason Radford (@jsradford.bsky.social)on Thursday, Sep. 25th, for a virtual session on how to translate your research into a new venture and find the right path to address real-world problems through your work. Register here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mfn9bpcd

Andrew Renninger (UCL) studies cities under mobility, inequality & climate pressures. At #NetSI London Seminar Series, he’ll share his insights on mobility patterns. Join us! 🌍 in person in 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝟰𝗽𝗺, or 🌎 virtually from the 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺 📆 on September 24th 🔗 tinyurl.com/4zefp6x9

Measuring AI’s impact on work goes beyond job losses, t’s about how tech reshapes skills & tasks. @estebanmoro.bsky.social and collaborators are building the 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙐𝙎 𝙅𝙤𝙗 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 to track job skills and predict unemployment risk more accurately. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/17/n...

Prof. Mauricio Santillana discusses a PNAS study using 430K+ survey responses from all U.S. states (2020–22). The research reveals how personal choices, politics, and health guidance shaped COVID-19 behaviors, offering a deeper view beyond policy compliance. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/17/c...

Take another look at this study on social segregation in Milan, done by @riccardodiclemente.com and colleagues. It shows that diverse amenities, strong transit, and public spaces can turn outer neighborhoods into “social bridges” across income groups. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/17/c...

Prof. Mauricio Santillana & the #MIGHTE Lab at @nunetsi.bsky.social have trained AI to predict #dengue fever outbreaks in 180 locations worldwide with 80% accuracy, offering public health officials reliable three-month forecasts to prepare for the virus. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/15/f...

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

Miss our first talk this week? London opened the season with Anton Tokariev (University of Helsinki), who discussed infant brain development, EEG mapping, and early-life adversity. Watch the talk now on our YouTube channel, along with past Institute recordings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-i0...

At #NetSI, @brionyswire.bsky.social studies health misinformation, focusing on 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. In a new study with UF & Utah colleagues, she uses the ECTM survey to assess patients’ exposure, sources, forms of CTM, and whether it’s discussed with oncologists. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mpwsj5hh

A new study co-authored by @riccardodiclemente.com reveals daily dynamics of urban segregation, moving beyond static views of residence and work. @pnasnexus.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vysejx5

Join us for a Talk Today @ 2:30 PM 📍 Boston Campus, 11th Floor – 177 Huntington Ave or over zoom- northeastern.zoom.us/j/93421052481 Join us for a guest talk by Bridget Smart on: "Untangling Memory and Influence in Complex Systems: Separable Markov Models for Sequence Generation" All are welcome!

Data from COVID outbreaks led to new disease progression models. New research from Alessandro Vespignani, director of the @nunetsi.bsky.social looks at how these models capture the interplay between disease transmission & behavior. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/46mWqIB #COSConnects #NetworkScience

Join Us for an Inspiring Talk Happening Tomorrow! 📍 Location: Our London Hub 🕓 Time: 4:00 PM (London) | 11:00 AM (Eastern) Zoom: northeastern.zoom.us/j/9703719231... Don't miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and engage. We look forward to seeing you there!

Exciting news for @nunetsi.bsky.social #London!!

We are going to… London! 🇬🇧✨ Save the date: 22–26 June 2026 🗓️ Stay tuned on our socials and on the website www.complexity72h.com for the calls for tutors and participants — coming soon! 🚀

After the summer break the NetSI Talks are resuming with Network Science Institute in #London hosting the first visiting speaker of the season. Join us! 🌍 in person in 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝟰𝗽𝗺, or 🌎 virtually from the 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺 📆 on September 9th 🔗 tinyurl.com/4752rmtc

#NetSI 's first-year PhD student Chethan Kavaraganahalli Prasanna co-authored a study with Univ. of Colorado Boulder featured in the NYT and published in PLOS Biology (shorturl.at/iHeXb)! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

⚡𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙎𝙄⚡ is out! This July–Aug issue spotlights NET Lab’s studies on leadership from Ancient Rome to Mars missions. Plus: research highlights, media features, awards, a PhD student spotlight & updates on events at the Network Science Institute! 📍 shorturl.at/tCMTd

A new study by Marilyn Gatica and collaborators shows that computational neuroscience can improve brain health research and advance precision medicine by identifying population-sensitive biomarkers and the underlying mechanisms of brain dysfunction. Study 🔗 shorturl.at/KW5rv #NetSI #London #NPLab

After publishing two new studies on the #dengue virus, @nunetsi.bsky.social professors 𝗠𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮 and 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 caught the attention of @nuglobalnews.bsky.social, which covered their different approaches to #forecasting dengue fever outbreaks. news.northeastern.edu/2025/08/21/d...

@nunetsi.bsky.social 𝗠𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮 + #MIGHTE_Lab, and 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 just published 2 studies on #dengue, a disease that affects nearly 400 million people annually. Their findings could improve forecasting and public health interventions. PNAS shorturl.at/1BeaN STM shorturl.at/hPwJA

See CHIP50 updated trends in social media dashboard. www.chip50.org/social-media... A tidbit: what are the recent trends w/ younger cohort, who are leading indicators of change? -> There has been remarkable stability in usage the last 2 yrs, with only 1 platform that has significantly changed.

Half of U.S. adults use at least one major AI tool, but views on regulation are split, finds the latest #CHIP50 report 🔗 bit.ly/3Uun9fL State-level laws & public opinion can serve as a policy lab to ensure safe AI deployment while keeping the U.S. competitive. The full NGN story 👉 bit.ly/4fyOR4N

Useful data alert! Looking for audience measures of domains, based on party, gender, race, geography? Check out our new paper, led by @yang3kc.bsky.social, that uses a large panel of Twitter data linked to voter data to make demographic inferences at domain level. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@alinalungeanu.bsky.social received the 𝙎𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙋𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘽𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝘿𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 for the conference paper "When Two is Too Many and Not Enough: Shared Leadership in Ancient Rome (32 to 491 CE)". Congratulations Dr. Lungeanu and team! ✨ tinyurl.com/4embj78e

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Commendations for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/rzTeLYL

✨ Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials were developed by an interdisciplinary working group of network researchers to clarify and promote open science practices in network research. buff.ly/0WxtZIt buff.ly/rWk3R3l

We're excited to welcome Marco Nurisso to the Network Science Institute in #Boston on Tuesday, July 29! A PhD student at Politecnico di Torino and part of NetSI #London, Marco explores the topology of learning and neural network limits. Join us for his talk ⤵️  tinyurl.com/mwkwjh8k

Perfect weather, charming streets, and a poster so big it almost needed its own boarding pass 🧳✨ Excited to attend #IC2S2 in Norrköping 🇸🇪 Find me at the Poster Session on Tuesday: "Improving Probes that Track Veracity in Large Language Models" (Poster ID: 39) 🧪

Two new labs at the Network Science Institute! NET Lab in #Boston explores team networks advance the frontier of science. BRAN Lab in #London studies behavior & mental health through brain, social, and environmental dynamics. 🔗 Learn more: #NetLab bit.ly/46SqOv6 #BranLab bit.ly/4f13hu9

📍 Registration is still open for the 𝟭𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗡𝗲𝘁-𝗣𝗮𝗖𝗦𝗦), jointly hosted by #Northeastern & #Harvard University. 🗓️ Workshops: Aug 11–12 (NU) 🗓️ Panels: Aug 13–14 (Harvard) Keynote: Dr. Brennan Nyhan Registration: bit.ly/4lHu7JU

A new PNAS study by @ngozzi.bsky.social, Nicola Perra & @alexvespi.bsky.social shows how COVID-era data, that includes behavioral analytics, can improve models of disease spread. This could improve future projections for both pandemics & seasonal illnesses. news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/02/d...

🔎 NetSI Spotlight: The National Internet Observatory welcomes its first external researchers! Co-led by Prof. David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social, this new Northeastern infrastructure opens access to large-scale data on Americans' online experiences. 🔗 tinyurl.com/96j3r3js

Just wrapped an intense 3 days at #Complexity72h in Madrid! Team 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 (𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅) 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗱 analyzed 5 years of elite soccer gameplay—and wrote a paper in 3 days ⚽📄 Read it here: tinyurl.com/4hvwpcaj. Big thanks to the organizers + shoutout to #NetSI for the brainpower!

📍Our May–June Newsletter is out! Highlights include an update on the National Internet Observatory project, #NetSI at #2025NetSci, new research on modeling behavior in epidemics, and on the chemical complexity of food with implications for nutrition science and therapeutics. 🔗 tinyurl.com/y5m5ht8n

Corrections *are* effective and how we measure their impact matters

‪The 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 | 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙪𝙢, co-hosted by #BarabasiLab and #metaLAB, gathered a community exploring data as both material and meaning. As @kimay.bsky.social put it: “We design data, & data designs us.” A timely and necessary conversation. 🧮 bit.ly/4eoUPoa @barabasi.bsky.social @jaytiesse.bsky.social

@northeasternu.bsky.social joins a $1.6M ‪ @sloanfoundation.bsky.social -funded research on AI & the workforce. @estebanmoro.bsky.social (#SUNLab, NetSI) serves as co-PI on this multi-institutional project to study how AI transforms jobs, skills & labor markets. 🔗 bit.ly/43UoX7g

Today: Shuohong Wang from Harvard's Lichtman Lab presents "From Drosophila Colony Networks to Mammalian Brain Networks — via Computer Vision Techniques" at 2:00 PM on the 11th floor, with Zoom available. www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/shuoho...

Dr. Caroline Buckee will be giving a talk titled "Public Health Research and the Apocalypse: Climate Change, Epidemics, and the Role of Academia" this Friday, June 20th at 11:00 AM. The talk will take place at the Curry Student Center & will be available via Zoom northeastern.zoom.us/j/9264370636...

In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.