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arxiv cs.SI @arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social · 9d

Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596

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George Cantwell @gcant.bsky.social · 20d

The Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference group at the University of Cambridge is seeking applicants for funded PhD positions.

Anyone who wants to study networks/complex systems/statistical physics/inference can email me at [email protected]

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New papers in Network Science @networkspapers.bsky.social · Jul 18

Phys. Rev. X: Fast Nonparametric Inference of Network Backbones for Weighted Graph Sparsification
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/4pg6-mtmt

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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excited to see this out! If you need to identify a network backbone but don’t know how to choose the number of edges to keep, here’s a Bayesian solution.

NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Jul 14

Fast Nonparametric Inference of Network Backbones for Weighted Graph Sparsification link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Fast Nonparametric Inference of Network Backbones for Weighted Graph Sparsification

Network backboning simplifies networks by retaining only essential links. A new method for doing so relies on Bayesian inference and information theory to accomplish this automatically, without the ne...

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · Nov 19

types of network science papers

A meme of different kinds of generic network science papers

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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

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Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de · Jun 29

Are you from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...

If you are interested; get in touch!

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

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Jun 18

Nowadays, saying your lab is not doing AI (for something, or applied to something) is a revolutionary act.

#ComplexSystems

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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Jun 3

Next up!

Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Jun 3

Starting the SINM satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social with an exciting talk by Daichi Kuroda!

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jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · May 19

And the code is live here: github.com/DynamicaLab/...

With @allard.bsky.social and the never-online Simon Lizotte (but you can find him at siliz4.github.io)

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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · May 6

The Network Science Society has a new class of Fellows! Congratulations to the 2025 awardees:

Francesco Bullo
Guanrong Chen
Hawoong Jeong
János Kertész
Renaud Lambiotte
Philippa E. Pattison
Mason A. Porter
Eckehard Schöll
Sara A. Solla

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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · May 6

The 2025 Euler Award in Network Science goes to Ginestra Bianconi! @gin-bianconi.bsky.social 👏

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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · May 6

The Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science is awarded to Federico Battiston! ⭐

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · May 5

a thing I’ve noticed in my time in research: many people really want to believe that Data™ is some sort of magical object that contains objective truth

but the thing is, just like everything else, data is _produced_ via processes and mechanisms that profoundly affect the shape of the data

Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · May 5

True story: Sometimes when people talk to me about “synthetic data” i just scream “WHERE DO THE BITS OF INFORMATION COME FROM” at them

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Apr 28

Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks - Nature Communications

Network alignment is a fundamental problem in several domains that aims at mapping nodes across networks. Here, the authors develop a probabilistic approach that assumes that observed networks are err...

www.nature.com

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 28

Finally, the preprint+Python package "neatnet" is out: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet

If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]

[Original post on datasci.social]

Sketch showing the street network simplification process.

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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Apr 5

Journal of Physics: Complexity is an emerging interdisciplinary journal focusing on all areas of complex systems and networks, run by the excellent @gin-bianconi.bsky.social and an editorial board of top researchers across different subfields.

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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Apr 5

I've been guest editing a focus issue for Journal of Physics: Complexity with @jgyou.bsky.social, @gcant.bsky.social, and Cate De Bacco on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks. See iopscience.iop.org/collections/..., and feel free to get in touch with any questions!

Focus Issue on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks - IOPscienceSearch

iopscience.iop.org

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Mar 25

Finished reviewing my pile of papers for a premier data mining CS conference today and then read their other reviews. Wow. They are utter garbage: largely superficial, thoughtless, and vague. We should be ashamed to call this #peerreview and inflict this misery on each other and on our trainees 1/2

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CEU Department of Network & Data Science @ceu-dnds.bsky.social · Mar 21

🎉 Congrats to Federico Battiston!
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆

Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...

Professor Federico Battiston Receives the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- and Econophysics

YouTube video by Central European University

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · Mar 21

Happy that this just came out on PRX:

“Network Reconstruction via the Minimum Description Length Principle”

journals.aps.org/prx/abstract... 1/3

Network Reconstruction via the Minimum Description Length Principle

A new information-theoretic approach to analyzing complex systems uncovers hidden networks by minimizing data complexity, a method that improves accuracy and efficiency.

journals.aps.org

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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Mar 12

Every one of Tiago’s papers is a masterpiece. Give it a read if you work with networks constructed from different types of observations!

Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · Mar 12

🚨 New paper on ArXiv:

“Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction”

TL;DR; We present an efficient method to sample the entire ensemble of possible network reconstructions that are compatible with an indirect observation, e.g. a dynamics.

Short thread: 1/N

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Complexity and Networks CORE @complexity-core.bsky.social · Feb 24

We are glad to present 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐎𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄) 🎉

complexity-core.github.io

𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 is a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community.

Complexity & Networks CORE

A hub for the Complexity and Network Science community to gather and share resources.

complexity-core.github.io

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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Feb 20

Last day!

Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Feb 18

Deadline for the SINM workshop at NetSci 2025 is approaching. Only 2 more days to submit! Please feel free to reach out with any questions and see sinm.network for details.

Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · Feb 4

Missed the NetSci deadline? No problem! Submit your work to the SINM Satellite at NetSci 2025! We have an amazing lineup of speakers so far, including Michael Schaub, Vince Lyzinski, and @gcant.bsky.social. Revised deadline is Feb 20. See sinm.network for details.

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