Tiago Peixoto
@tiago.skewed.de
Statistical mechanic, secular Bayesian.
Prof. of Complex Systems and Network Science @ IT:U, Austria
Head of the “Inverse Complexity Lab”.
@invcomplexity.skewed.de
https://skewed.de/lab
Prof. of Complex Systems and Network Science @ IT:U, Austria
Head of the “Inverse Complexity Lab”.
@invcomplexity.skewed.de
https://skewed.de/lab
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Tiago Peixoto
@tiago.skewed.de
· Nov 5
Double feature, just out on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction"
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction"
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
But then what happens to those that have zero income? 😢
January 24, 2026 at 9:49 AM
But then what happens to those that have zero income? 😢
I would strongly support this. And given the current state of the Brazilian team, I have no ulterior motives whatsoever. 🤥
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 5:22 AM
I would strongly support this. And given the current state of the Brazilian team, I have no ulterior motives whatsoever. 🤥
Reposted by Tiago Peixoto
Apparently the NeurIPS chairs decided to reopen the camera-ready submission to ensure "that the proceedings reflect the highest scientific quality.” @neuripsconf.bsky.social, is that true?
So the solution to academic misconduct is to give the authors a chance to cover their tracks?
So the solution to academic misconduct is to give the authors a chance to cover their tracks?
What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated"
It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?
It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?
NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
January 24, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Apparently the NeurIPS chairs decided to reopen the camera-ready submission to ensure "that the proceedings reflect the highest scientific quality.” @neuripsconf.bsky.social, is that true?
So the solution to academic misconduct is to give the authors a chance to cover their tracks?
So the solution to academic misconduct is to give the authors a chance to cover their tracks?
Reposted by Tiago Peixoto
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
Lapdog happy he can continue with the bootlicking.
Starmer says ‘British pragmatism’ helped resolve Greenland crisis as he welcomes Trump U-turn – UK politics live
Starmer says ‘British pragmatism’ helped resolve Greenland crisis as he welcomes Trump U-turn – UK politics live
PM says he hopes focus will now shift to the ‘hard yards’ of maintaining security in the Arctic
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Lapdog happy he can continue with the bootlicking.
I complain about the steady increase of entropy in the universe, and the best thing I can do to remedy the situation is absolutely nothing.
I am intrigued by people who complain a lot, but do nothing to improve things. Some people complain about the same things for years. It seems to me that if they would spend that energy into something productive, they would be happier, and the world would be a bit better.
January 22, 2026 at 7:48 AM
I complain about the steady increase of entropy in the universe, and the best thing I can do to remedy the situation is absolutely nothing.
The nerdiest, and thus best, way of getting a bibitex entry from a DOI is by querying it directly via the command
curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
The second best is just to use @zotero.org for everything.
curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
The second best is just to use @zotero.org for everything.
Just checking, since apparently some are using LLMs to get BibTeX snippets easily.
For Computer Science and ML papers, you know about @dblp.org, right? You know you don't have to use LLMs for that... right?
For Computer Science and ML papers, you know about @dblp.org, right? You know you don't have to use LLMs for that... right?
January 22, 2026 at 5:35 AM
The nerdiest, and thus best, way of getting a bibitex entry from a DOI is by querying it directly via the command
curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
The second best is just to use @zotero.org for everything.
curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
The second best is just to use @zotero.org for everything.
How can null models explain *anything*?
Andrea Mazzolini, Mattia Corigliano, Rossana Droghetti, Matteo Osella, Marco Cosentino-Lagomarsino: Component systems: do null models explain everything? https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13985 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.13985 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.13985
January 21, 2026 at 7:03 AM
How can null models explain *anything*?
Remarkable speech in its confession that the “rules-based international order” has been a farse all along.
Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos reportedly received a standing ovation.
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Remarkable speech in its confession that the “rules-based international order” has been a farse all along.
Reposted by Tiago Peixoto
These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
January 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
Stares blankly in Latin American.
January 19, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Stares blankly in Latin American.
This shit has been happening in Latin America and other parts of the world for half a century. Welcome to the club.
This, right here 🎯💯. I’ve been trying to communicate this to people, as a native 🇨🇦, for a year now. Again, the fact that this wasn’t immediately seen as a presidency-ending, beyond-the-pale thing for all 535 Congresspeople, the media, & the public is deeply ugly & shameful for us as a country.
January 19, 2026 at 6:59 AM
This shit has been happening in Latin America and other parts of the world for half a century. Welcome to the club.
American left? Sounds like a great idea. They should get one.
People will do literally anything to avoid saying the American left was right
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
American left? Sounds like a great idea. They should get one.
In the 23 years since, the US has had 12 years of democrats in the white house, 6 of them with full control of Congress, and another 6 with partial control.
In 2003, as part of a massive crackdown on civil liberties, Congress passed a bill creating the Department of Homeland Security, and with it, ICE.
Since then, ICE agents have wreaked havoc on our communities. Enough is enough.
Since then, ICE agents have wreaked havoc on our communities. Enough is enough.
Stop ICE's Attack On Our Communities
An ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. This news is devastating. ICE must immediately withdraw its 2,000 agents from Minnesota and Congress must block any new funding to immigration enforcement.
action.aclu.org
January 18, 2026 at 5:42 AM
In the 23 years since, the US has had 12 years of democrats in the white house, 6 of them with full control of Congress, and another 6 with partial control.
Both after and before the exchange, neither party, nor the prize, could be attributed with any dignity.
It's a pathetic pantomime, but it's somewhat fitting.
Frankly, a swag bag is a perfectly valued trade for a peace Nobel.
It's a pathetic pantomime, but it's somewhat fitting.
Frankly, a swag bag is a perfectly valued trade for a peace Nobel.
Imagine giving away your Nobel peace prize medal hoping for a presidency and getting a Trump-signed gift bag instead
No words
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/15/a...
No words
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/15/a...
Venezuela’s Machado gave Trump her Nobel prize. In return she received a swag bag but no promise of support | CNN
When Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado walked into the White House on Thursday, she came bearing the gift US President Donald Trump has long coveted: a Nobel Peace Prize.
edition.cnn.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Both after and before the exchange, neither party, nor the prize, could be attributed with any dignity.
It's a pathetic pantomime, but it's somewhat fitting.
Frankly, a swag bag is a perfectly valued trade for a peace Nobel.
It's a pathetic pantomime, but it's somewhat fitting.
Frankly, a swag bag is a perfectly valued trade for a peace Nobel.
What was wrong with the bayonet?
The murder of Renee Good by ICE is an atrocity that must face justice. Thankfully, accurate and clear video footage shows that this was a cold-blooded murder. This iteration of the print pays homage to that.
January 16, 2026 at 10:10 AM
What was wrong with the bayonet?
“Brave person”
This is a sign of ethical collapse. Trump has forced this brave person to debase herself--with gold trimming.
January 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
“Brave person”
This is awesome.
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
This is awesome.
This is hilarious: creepylink.com
CreepyLink
Make your links look as suspicious as possible
creepylink.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
This is hilarious: creepylink.com
This is a good ansatz as far as the motivation goes, which is based on the minimum description length principle. Unfortunately, this principle is not actually used in the analysis, since no encoding of the data is provided. The paper discloses this fact, but it does undermine the conclusions.
How complex should network models be?
🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
January 15, 2026 at 1:52 PM
This is a good ansatz as far as the motivation goes, which is based on the minimum description length principle. Unfortunately, this principle is not actually used in the analysis, since no encoding of the data is provided. The paper discloses this fact, but it does undermine the conclusions.
We live in the stupidest timeline.
Hundreds of millions of earbuds, headphones and speakers need a security update (yes, you need to update your earbuds) to prevent a wireless hacking technique that can hijack audio, eavesdrop via mics, and in some cases remotely track the accessory’s location. www.wired.com/story/google...
Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking
Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
www.wired.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
We live in the stupidest timeline.
Devastating statement by the Lemkin Institute.
With such a status quo, who needs the AfD?
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
With such a status quo, who needs the AfD?
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
Statement on the Role of Civil Society Organizations in Sustaining German Genocide Denial
January 13, 2026
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention condemns the persistent efforts by several high-profile German civil society organizations to deny the ongoing genocide in Gaza and to di...
www.lemkininstitute.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Devastating statement by the Lemkin Institute.
With such a status quo, who needs the AfD?
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
With such a status quo, who needs the AfD?
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
This whole thing about having “well regulated armed militias" in case of government overreach turned out to be relevant after all...
Where are they?
(Maybe they would appear if the ICE agents were black? They're already killing white people.)
Where are they?
(Maybe they would appear if the ICE agents were black? They're already killing white people.)
@statuscoupnews.bsky.social interviewing this woman in Minneapolis right now who said she came out of her home, wearing whatever she could grab to protect herself from ICE agents. You do what you can, with what you got.
January 15, 2026 at 6:02 AM
This whole thing about having “well regulated armed militias" in case of government overreach turned out to be relevant after all...
Where are they?
(Maybe they would appear if the ICE agents were black? They're already killing white people.)
Where are they?
(Maybe they would appear if the ICE agents were black? They're already killing white people.)