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Frank Takes @franktakes.bsky.social · 23d

We are hiring a PhD candidate in AI for network analysis. Think of agentic LLMs for network generation, AI algorithms for network analysis, and other interesting recombinations. Interested? It's a 4-year position at LIACS @unileiden.bsky.social Details: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

PhD Candidate in AI for Network Analysis

The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are looking for a:PhD Candidate in AI for Network Analysis (1.0 FTE, 4 years) About this positionAre you eager to c...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Mattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're back at UrbanSys with our next keynote speaker, Eszter Bokányi, discussing the role of urban highways in shaping segregation #CCS2025

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Eszter Bokányi @bokanyie.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out our latest manuscript which shows the effect of social capital on economic mobility at the individual level!

Yuliia Kazmina @yuliia-kazmina.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our new preprint is out
"Can social capital remedy structural inequality? Economic mobility in a longitudinal population-scale social network"
arxiv.org/abs/2508.05275
@bokanyie.bsky.social @franktakes.bsky.social

Can social capital remedy structural inequality? Economic mobility in a longitudinal population-scale social network

The promise of equal opportunity is a cornerstone of modern societies, yet upward economic mobility remains out of reach for many. Using a decade of population-scale social network data from the Nethe...

arxiv.org

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Eszter Bokányi @bokanyie.bsky.social · Jul 22

It was such a great experience to finally present this piece of research for the first time ever with all coauthors being present in the same room at @ic2s2.bsky.social 🙂 @mszell.bsky.social, @lajello.bsky.social, @sandorjuhasz.bsky.social and Anastasia Vybornova

Zsófi Zádor @zsofizador.bsky.social · Jul 22

Spent the most interesting morning in Mobility & Urban Science 1 @ic2s2.bsky.social @bokanyie.bsky.social and will be coming back here in the afternoon to give a talk on Remote work. Come check it out!

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Eszter Bokányi @bokanyie.bsky.social · Jun 2

Our PhD student @g-adel.bsky.social presenting his work on community dynamics in the TENET satellite of NetSci 2025 @netsciconf.bsky.social!

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Eszter Bokányi @bokanyie.bsky.social · May 13

Very excited to talk here, come submit an abstract!

Mattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · May 12

📢Happy to announce the first keynote speaker of UrbanSys at CCS2025!
🏙️ Eszter Bokányi, PostDoc Researcher at PLANET-NL, LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands eszterbokanyi.com
Submit your abstract to UrbanSys before Wednesday 14th of May!
🔗 urban-sys-net.weebly.com/call-for-abs...

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Eszter Bokányi @bokanyie.bsky.social · Mar 6

I'm so glad we found each other for this collaboration!

Eszter Bokányi @bokanyie.bsky.social · Mar 6

Highways originally built to connect actually separate people at short spatial scales. We quantify this effect for the first time ever using urban social networks of the top 50 metropolitan areas of the US. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Image credit Karo Berghuber (@kariot.lines)

Sándor Juhász @sandorjuhasz.bsky.social · Mar 5

🎉 New publication in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We illustrate from numerous aspects that highways are physical barriers that cut opportunities for social connections—in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the US.

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS!
The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Stylized map of Detroit (MI) showing the highway network, and the network of social connections between urban residents. The connections intersecting highways are sparser than elsewehere. Image credit Karo Berghuber (Insta: @kariot.lines)

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 5

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122

Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

Map showing a highway section in red and social ties in space crossing the highway. Wherever a tie crosses the highway, there is a cross. There are 94 crosses.

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