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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · 8d

@NetSci2026 is coming to Boston! Yay! 🎉

NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 11d

📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

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Jun Yamamoto @jymmt.bsky.social · May 19

📢Keynote Announcement📢

Marc Barthelemy will speak at Physical Network III Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social on Surfacic Networks - spatial networks on 2D surfaces with elevation.

Save the date: June 2nd, 2025 14:30 ~

🔗 Learn more: sites.google.com/view/physnet...

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Apr 24

Tomorrow at 7pm ET is a special moment for #NetSci: Network scientists Steve Strogatz, Nicholas Christakis, graph theorist Fan Chung, and father of the internet Leonard Kleinrock—honored to be among them—will be inducted into the National Acad. of Sciences. Live nasonline.swoogo.com/NAS162_prese...

Presentation Ceremony

nasonline.swoogo.com

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚀 Now accepting applications for the new MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern!

Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools.

🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV
📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Network science isn’t just theory—it’s experimentally testable (falsifiable). Two examples:
Predicting locomotion-critical neurons (Yan et al., Nature 2017)
Coupled semiconductor networks (Bonamassa et al., Nat. Phys. 2023)
Know of any more? Share, please.

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Apr 1

Join us this July in Budapest: www.biomed-data.hu

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Mar 22

“Constructing the Biennale,” coming to Venice this May, exploring the network capturing the past and present of the Venice Biennale Architettura! More details here: news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/20/v...

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Mar 16

Presenting our latest on #NetworkMaterials at the #APSSummit25 in Los Angeles @APSphysics! Join me Monday at 8am (!) for “From Physical Network to Network Materials,” Session MAR-A69, Anaheim Hilton, San Simeon AB (Level 4).
summit.aps.org/events/MAR-A69

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Mar 2

Honored to give the Keynote at Sunbelt 2024 in Edinburgh—my first Sunbelt! 🌍🎤

📺 Watch "Network Science: From Structure to Network Resilience" here:
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-cv...

#NetSci #Sunbelt2024 #NetworkScience

Thu 27 June Conference Keynote Albert Laszlo Barabasi

YouTube video by Sunbelt 2024

www.youtube.com

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Feb 13

Abstract submission open for the Precision Nutriion meeting at Harvard this year: hsph.harvard.edu/nutrition/ev...

Precision Nutrition Forum and PREDIMED Omics Symposium 2025 | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Advances, translation, and challenges in nutritional epidemiology, disease prevention, and public health interventions.

hsph.harvard.edu

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Feb 13

Physical Networks at #NetSci2025!

posfaim.bsky.social @posfaim.bsky.social · Feb 13

Still few days to submit your contribution to PhysNets III @netsciconf.bsky.social

Are you working with spatial networks where the shape of the nodes and links matter? Submit an abstract to present at PhysNets III until Feb 17 to [email protected]

Details: sites.google.com/view/physnet...

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Feb 1

Check out the #PRL2024 collection—two papers on Physical Networks! (promo.aps.org/PRL2024)
@CoryGlover “Measuring Entanglement in Physical Networks” (journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...) and
@eegyan's “Geometric Scaling Law in Real Neuronal Networks” (journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...).

PRL Collection of the Year 2024

promo.aps.org

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Jan 30

Physical Networks at NetSci-- from brain to materials...

posfaim.bsky.social @posfaim.bsky.social · Jan 30

The 3rd Physical Networks Satellite will be at @netsciconf.bsky.social!

Are you working with spatial networks where the shape of the nodes and links matter? Submit an abstract to present at PhysNets III until Feb 17 to [email protected].

Details: sites.google.com/view/physnet...

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Jan 26

Networks in Venice again! Come!
#StatPhys Satellite #NetSci
sites.google.com/view/complex...

Complex Networks

The International Workshop on Complex Networks, a satellite event to StatPhys29, seeks to bring together researchers from various scientific disciplines working on topics related to complex networks. ...

sites.google.com

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Jan 18

news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/u...

Whole Foods vs. Walmart: New research reveals hidden realities of ultra-processed foods in stores

The study is the latest in a series of research projects that use AI to identify ultra-processed foods in the American diet.

news.northeastern.edu

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Jan 14

Nature Food: Our paper revealing the degree of food processing in 50K+ items sold by Walmart, Target & Whole Foods is just out! 🍎📊
PDF at barabasi.com/science/publ...
See the data in action at www.truefood.tech
Thank @menicgiulia, @BabakRavandi et al.

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Jan 6

Network Medicine Training Course-- Boston and Rome-- which one would you choose?
www.diag.uniroma1.it/network_medi....

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Dec 23

Human-AI Coevolution is in the news! 🚨
🤖 Human-AI interactions are feedback loops that ripple through society, influencing both human behavior and AI evolution. 🌐
📰 Read more: news.northeastern.edu/2024/12/16/h...
📄 Full paper: barabasi.com/science/publ...
#AI #HumanAI #Networks

The interaction between humans and artificial intelligence demands a new field of study, Northeastern researchers say

“Human AI Coevolution” investigates how humans and AI algorithms continuously influence each other,” Alessandro Vespignani says.

news.northeastern.edu

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Dec 18

Precision Nutrition Conference at Harvard-- join us June 9,-10, 2025.
Speaking about the #DarkMatterofNutrition: barabasi.com/media/pub_im...
#ProcessedFood
barabasi.com/media/Menich...
#NetworkMedicine

hsph.harvard.edu/nutrition/ev...

Precision Nutrition Forum and PREDIMED Omics Symposium 2025 | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Advances, translation, and challenges in nutritional epidemiology, disease prevention, and public health interventions.

hsph.harvard.edu

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · Dec 17

Humbled to be honored alongside Leticia F. Cugliandolo (Sorbonne) & Salvatore Torquato (Princeton) at the 127th Statistical Mechanics Conference. First here in 1991, today Joel Lebowitz, at 94, still charing the event! Thanks @alexvespi.bsky.social for the laudatio. 🙏✨
#NetworkScience #StatPhys

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