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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 21d

In just about a week, the season's first NetSci Colloquium will happen. And we're starting with a bang . . . with none other than Iain Couzin talking about Collective Behavior in Animal Groups. September 24, 10 AM ET. Register here to get a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · Sep 9

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il Post @ilpost.it · Sep 9

È morto lo scrittore Stefano Benni

Tra i suoi romanzi più noti ci sono "Bar Sport", "La compagnia dei Celestini" e "Margherita": aveva 78 anni

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Andrea Brovelli @brovelli.bsky.social · Sep 5

⚠️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
Postdoctoral Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Marseille) in collaboration with @alainbarrat.bsky.social. Join us to study higher-order brain interactions in causal learning using information theory and network science. More info
www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Postdoc in computational cognitive neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

www.fens.org

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Complexity Science Hub @csh.ac.at · Aug 20

🫵 Ready to tackle the world’s most complex challenges?
The Complexity Science Hub is looking for #PhD candidates eager to apply large-scale data analysis, quantitative models, and complexity science to shed light on pressing global issues.

📅 Apply by 11 November 2025
ℹ️ csh.ac.at/education/gr...

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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · Aug 18

Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388...

Global Sumud Flotilla - Global

As the genocide in Gaza gets worse by the day and the governments and institutions fail the Palestinian people, the free people of the world are trying their best to maintain solidarity and to create ...

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Nicolas Berrod @nicolasberrod.bsky.social · Jul 20

Désormais plus d'1 million de signatures contre la #LoiDuplomb, qualifiée d'"aberration scientifique, éthique, environnementale et sanitaire".

Du jamais-vu sur le site de l'Assemblée, et peut-être l'organisation - avant tout symbolique - d'un débat à la rentrée.

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Véronique Saada @verosaada.bsky.social · Jul 18

A lire, pour comprendre le très préoccupant précédent que pourrait constituer la position du Conseil de l Ordre des Médecins dans cette affaire, une institution dont la mission est de protéger la profession et la Santé(!)
Re-re-re soutien au dr @damienbarraudmd.bsky.social

Olivier Hertel @olivierhertel.bsky.social · Jul 18

Harcèlement ordonné : quand l’Ordre des médecins devient l’arme des complotistes www.lepoint.fr/tiny/1-2594632 #Santé via @lepoint.fr

Harcèlement ordonné : quand l’Ordre des médecins devient l’arme des complotistes

TRIBUNE. Le Dr Damien Barraud est harcelé auprès de l’Ordre des médecins par des membres d’un groupuscule complotiste et antivax. Contre toute attente, l’Ordre s’associe à ce harcèlement.

www.lepoint.fr

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Marco Mancastroppa @marco-mancastroppa.bsky.social · Jul 3

New preprint out! 📣

“Emerging Activity Temporal Hypergraph (EATH), a model for generating realistic time-varying hypergraphs” with @giuliacencetti.bsky.social and @alainbarrat.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2507.01124

How can we generate realistic time-varying hypergraphs?

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Emerging Activity Temporal Hypergraph (EATH), a model for generating realistic time-varying hypergraphs

Time-varying group interactions constitute the building blocks of many complex systems. The framework of temporal hypergraphs makes it possible to represent them by taking into account the higher-orde...

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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · Jun 19

Updated application deadline: July 7, 2025!

Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · Jun 3

CNRS tenure track on "Dynamics and collective decisions" at the interface between statistical physics and social sciences. One of the potential hosting laboratories is the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille.
Application deadline: July 14, 2025
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Dynamiques et décisions collectives M/F

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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · Jun 3

CNRS tenure track on "Dynamics and collective decisions" at the interface between statistical physics and social sciences. One of the potential hosting laboratories is the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille.
Application deadline: July 14, 2025
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Dynamiques et décisions collectives M/F

emploi.cnrs.fr

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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · May 19

Junior Professorship position at the Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille and Université de Toulon: "Non-linear dynamics and research on intelligent UAV ensembles"
Deadline for applications: June 18. All details on the position and how to apply:
www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~barrat/CPJ_...

CPJ position

www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · May 16

Still a few spots available to attend Charting Complexity, a conference dedicated to exploring the power of Complex Systems Science (London 10-12 of June). Program: chartingcomplexity.webflow.io. If you like to attend, express your interest here: forms.gle/qFs4vuauYXwp...

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Accueillir les chercheurs américains en France , « une ambition louable, mais irréaliste »

TRIBUNE. L’universitaire Théo Besson rappelle, dans une tribune au « Monde », que le manque criant d’investissement ainsi que le niveau des salaires dans la recherche française interdisent de fantasme...

www.lemonde.fr

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Nature @nature.com · Apr 13

Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good

https://go.nature.com/42nGQt6

Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science

Nature - Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.

go.nature.com

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BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · Apr 6

Upcoming Seminar – April 10, 14:00 CET
🧠 Collective Behaviours in Complex Systems: Ideas, Implementations, and Applications in Neurosciences and Beyond
Speaker: Prof. Daniele Marinazzo (Ghent University)

📍Join via Zoom: link
🔗 More info: www.beyondtheedge.network/event/semina...

BeyondTheEdge Seminar: Daniele Marinazzo

Daniele Marinazzo (Ghent University) speaks in the BeyondTheEdge Seminar

www.beyondtheedge.network

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Mar 28

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.

I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores

The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

christinapagel.substack.com

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Nicolas Berrod @nicolasberrod.bsky.social · Mar 26

Ne pas prendre son ordinateur personnel, veiller à ses discussions en ligne... Le ministère de la Recherche relaie des règles drastiques pour éviter qu'un 2e chercheur ne soit refoulé des États-Unis : "Cela me désole, mais c’est justifié." @gaellombart

www.leparisien.fr/sc...

Chercheur refoulé des États-Unis : le gouvernement français fait circuler des consignes drastiques - Le Parisien

À la suite de la mésaventure rencontrée récemment par un expert du spatial, les scientifiques sont invités à ne voyager qu’avec des appareil

www.leparisien.fr

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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our first preprint within the @beyondtheedge.bsky.social training network!

Marco Mancastroppa @marco-mancastroppa.bsky.social · Mar 25

Now out our new preprint “Higher-order dissimilarity measures for hypergraph comparison”!

www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.16959

With Cosimo Agostinelli and @alainbarrat.bsky.social

We extend to hypergraphs similarity measures defined previously only on pairwise networks.
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Higher-order dissimilarity measures for hypergraph comparison

In recent years, networks with higher-order interactions have emerged as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Comparing these higher-order systems remains however a challenge. Traditional similar...

www.arxiv.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 21

Yes, America has always done bad things. No shit. I was getting beaten by the cops for protesting those things while most of the qt-dunkers were still in diapers.

My point: it used to be relatively safe for academics to travel to the US. It’s not anymore. Don’t do it.

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BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · Mar 19

Join us next Tuesday for the next BeyondTheEdge seminar with Prof. Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford)

🔬 Title: Consensus and Random Walks on Higher-Order Networks
📅 Date & Time: March 25th, 2-3pm (CET)
Link: www.beyondtheedge.network/event/semina...

BeyondTheEdge Seminar: Renaud Lambiotte

Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford) speaks in the BeyondTheEdge Seminar

www.beyondtheedge.network

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Mar 22

⌛️The abstracts deadline has been extended!

🌍You have a couple of weeks for submitting your abstract proposal!

Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Mar 21

🌍CCS 2025 -Call for Abstracts!

Great news! The new deadline for submitting abstracts for CCS 2025 has been extended to April 5, 2025.

📅 New Abstract Submission Deadline: April 5, 2025, at 23:59 CEST.

🔗https://ccs25.cssociety.org/abstract-2/

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · Feb 22

Donc Musk menace de couper les accès à Starlink en Ukraine si ils ne signent pas les accords sur les métaux précieux.

Faut vraiment ne plus travailler avec ce mec hein. Faut se passer de Starlink en Europe et en Suisse.

J'ai encore vu la FNAC en faire la pub récemment j'avais envie d'exploser.

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Feb 19

Only 30 days left until the abstract submission deadline for CCS 2025! ⏳ Don’t miss your chance to be part of this amazing event! 🌟 Submit your proposal here: ccs25.cssociety.org 📅 #CCS2025 #AbstractDeadline

Conference on Complex Systems 2025

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janoskertesz.bsky.social @janoskertesz.bsky.social · Feb 19

The call for a postdoc position in Network Science / Computational Social Science / Social Data Science funded by the EU grant on Networks and the Rule of Law (NET-ROL)
IS STILL OPEN!
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P...

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