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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · 6d

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats to my friend and Hopkins colleague Hahrie Han for being selected as one of this year's MacArthur Fellows!

www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

www.macfound.org

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · 14d

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 14d

📌 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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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Aug 4

If you are #KDD2025 this week, stop by David Liu's talk on "Bypassing Skip-Gram Negative Sampling: Dimension Regularization as a More Efficient Alternative for Graph Embeddings". This is joint work with Johan Ugander and Arjun Seshadri.
doi.org/10.1145/3711...

Bypassing Skip-Gram Negative Sampling: Dimension Regularization as a More Efficient Alternative for Graph Embeddings | Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Min...

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Khoury PhD students, postdocs make the jump to professor in 2025 - Khoury College of Computer Sciences

After building and burnishing their research chops at Khoury College, nine PhD graduates and former postdoctoral fellows are beginning their careers as professors this year.

www.khoury.northeastern.edu

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 21

Little wins: our "Trilemma of Truth" dataset just hit 150 downloads. It contains true, false, and neither-valued statements (inspired by the three-valued logic) used to stress-test LLMs for fact-checking, veracity tracking, and uncertainty handling.

Dataset📚: huggingface.co/datasets/car...

carlomarxx/trilemma-of-truth · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 22

Presented our work on veracity-tracking in LLMs at #IC2S2 today!
Now looking forward to the next few days of great talks and conversations ✨️🎓

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jul 22

New paper on “Forecasting Faculty Placement from Patterns in Co-authorship Networks” by my excellent students Samantha Dies and David Liu. If you are at #IC2S2, stop by Sam’s poster to hear more.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.14696

Forecasting Faculty Placement from Patterns in Co-authorship Networks

Faculty hiring shapes the flow of ideas, resources, and opportunities in academia, influencing not only individual career trajectories but also broader patterns of institutional prestige and scientifi...

arxiv.org

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Eddie Lee @spintheory.bsky.social · Jun 29

Are you a #postdoc in the US looking to next steps?

The Austrian Academy of Sciences is opening up 25 fellowships: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...

A great reason to use our visitor program at #Complexity #Science Hub @csh.ac.at and see how you would fit in: csh.ac.at/engage/resea... 🧪🦋

25 new scholarships for US researchers

Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: “The right signal in these turbulent times”

www.oeaw.ac.at

Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 1

🚨 New preprint!
Do LLMs really know what’s true?

In our paper, @eliassi.bsky.social and I introduce sAwMIL: a probing method that distinguishes between true, false, and neither—capturing what LLMs actually “retain.”

We evaluated 16 open models across 3 new datasets.

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.23921

The Trilemma of Truth in Large Language Models

We often attribute human characteristics to large language models (LLMs) and claim that they "know" certain things. LLMs have an internal probabilistic knowledge that represents information retained d...

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Jun 3

Just in time for #NetSci2025 a new paper on the effects of higher-order interactions and homophily on information access inequality by amazing NUNetSI students

arxiv.org/abs/2506.00156

Effects of higher-order interactions and homophily on information access inequality

The spread of information through socio-technical systems determines which individuals are the first to gain access to opportunities and insights. Yet, the pathways through which information flows can...

arxiv.org

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · May 20

New paper in Bioinformatics on negative sampling. Thanks to Ayan Chatterjee and Babak Ravandi for leading this project.

academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Topology-driven negative sampling enhances generalizability in protein–protein interaction prediction

academic.oup.com

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · May 19

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · May 19

Mindscape 315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability. Finally we decide whether all ravens are black. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode with Branden Fitelson.

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · May 3

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · May 2

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · Apr 1

Today is the (hard) deadline for the postdoctoral call listed below! Join us #postdoc #scienceofscience #AI #networkscience

Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · Mar 4

🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science.

I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science.

📍 Start: flex summer 2025
📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Mar 28

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Mar 28

Very excited about the upcoming Natural Philosophy Symposium in Baltimore, May 29-31. There still some room to register!

www.naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-phil...

Natural Philosophy Symposium 2025 - Johns Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum

The Johns Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum will be hosting an international symposium on all aspects of natural philosophy, featuring talks from philosophers and scientists in a variety of disciplines...

www.naturalphilosophyhopkins.org

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Mar 28

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Mar 18

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · Mar 17

🔬✨Bringing Network Science to the Museum of Science! 🎉
A powerful example of how the collaboration between @nunetsi.bsky.social and @museumofscience.bsky.social is transforming the way we communicate science.
Read the full feature on @nuglobalnews.bsky.social ➡️
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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Mar 14

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Mar 14

Deadline to apply for Santa Fe Institute's open resident faculty position is March 28.

santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

sfiscience

SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.

santafe.edu

Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Mar 14

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Mar 14

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

www.science.org

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Mar 8

Graph Machine Learning Summer Internship at Alexion / AstraZeneca in Boston

astrazeneca.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Alexion/job/...

Graph Machine Learning Intern

Join Our Summer Internship Program and Make a Real Impact! Are you ready to do meaningful work in a cutting-edge, research-driven organization? At Alexion (an AstraZeneca company for Rare Diseases), o...

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Mar 5

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Sagar Kumar @diesagar.bsky.social · Mar 4

Why does it feel like despite all the news and reporting we consume as a population, we rarely have any actual information about what is going on? We might have some answers… 🧵

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Feb 21

Our survey on hypergraph mining is out at ACM Computing Surveys. It was a pleasure to work with Kijung Shin and his students Geon Lee and Fanchen Bu. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

A Survey on Hypergraph Mining: Patterns, Tools, and Generators | ACM Computing Surveys

Hypergraphs, which belong to the family of higher-order networks, are a natural and powerful choice for modeling group interactions in the real world. For example, when modeling collaboration networks...

dl.acm.org

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Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social · Feb 13

Distinguished postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences (due date: Feb. 20): www.khoury.northeastern.edu/research/pos...

www.khoury.northeastern.edu

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