Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

📢 Last call! Applications for the 2nd Summer School on Social Network Research (ChiSocNet) close on October 6.
Meet our instructors - leading experts in social network analysis 🌐
👉 Apply now: snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
#SocialNetworkAnalysis #ChiSocNet

𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University!
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.

@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

My department @cuboulder.info is hiring a TT assistant professor in the area of environmental justice!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Please share and encourage candidates to apply!

Join us today, Sep 24, at 11 AM MST for Dr Blake Vernon's #datascience + #ai lecture titled "Indirect dating with mixture density networks" 🕸️🎥🗣️🔬 @ucdsai.bsky.social calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...!

Join us for a talk today at 2 PM – Boston Hub (11th Floor)!

Don't miss Andrea Baronchili’s talk on “Emergent Social Conventions and Collective Bias in Human and LLM Populations” which is also available over zoom - northeastern.zoom.us/j/93421052481

#rstats 📦 {latentnet} 2.12.0 is now on #CRAN. It implements a long-requested feature for fitting count networks (interactions, co-occurrences, etc.) using a binomial model. Different pairs of actors can now have different binomial "trials". Full news at cran.r-project.org/package=late... .

UK government* trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

* Department for Business and Trade

Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot: DBT evaluation report www.gov.uk/government/p...

#govtech #AIpolicy #techpolicy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Ever joined a Summer School in January? 🌞
Join us in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱 (Jan 12–16, 2026) for the Social Network Summer School!

Lecturers: @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, Diego Palacios, @gvegayon.bsky.social @chisocnet.bsky.social

Apply by Oct 5 👉 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

Did you know the Cedars-Sinai’s New PhD in Health AI Program earned accreditation earlier this year? www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced... #artificialintelligence #healthAI #healthIT #bioinformatics #phd #gradschool #compsci

This is Manchis. She's the dog of Alberto Mesías Zárate, a journalist in Peru. When her human was targeted this week by criminals who threw an explosive device at their home, she barked at the perpetrators and successfully extinguished the dynamite before it detonated. 14/10 good girl, Manchis

2 x Postdocs (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Infectious-disease modelling & phylodynamics for pandemic preparedness
with ‪@charleswhittaker.bsky.social‬
at @petal-team.bsky.social‬ @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social‬ ‪@berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social‬
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2351

I love the Mac machine, but hate the OS. Not good if you want to do computing involving compilers and OpenMP. I end up running containers to get things working 'easily'.

Please join us for today's at 11 AM MST Data Science and AI lecture series to hear our invited speaker, Varun Shankar, in his talk titled "Kernel Methods for Operator Learning." We look forward to seeing you either in person or online! datascience.utah.edu/seminar.html #datascience #ai #ucdsai #ml

Excited to speak at Salt Lake City R Users Group tomorrow about how we added more sparsity support in tidymodels

www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

A third of people in Britain now think the Covid pandemic was exaggerated to control people 🤯🤯

And 22% think the moon landings were staged!

One of many striking findings from new @moreincommonuk.bsky.social report on shattered Britain. My write up here:

🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/bb0f...

I am proud to share that CRAN has just accepted the first RSiena package version submitted by *me* as official package maintainer, succeeding Tom Snijders who did the job for 13 years. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz) is a developer and teacher whose impact on the R ecosystem is immense. He is Chief scientist at @posit.co where he leads the Tidyverse team. His keynote "I wrote this talk with an LLM" explores how AI can help rather than replace data scientists.

user2025.r-project.org

Sunbelt 2025, the global conference for social network analysts, takes place in Paris from June 23 to 29, 2025!
Hundreds of talks, 3 keynotes, panels, and thematic & methods workshops on:
Social Networks, Mechanisms, and Algorithms.
At Sciences Po & Sorbonne University
Info: sunbelt2025.org.

🙏

New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against #measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death.

Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.