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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 7d

Governments and regulatory systems are small structures aiming to represent a much larger population and make decisions. Can this process of governance be modeled as a network? In today's @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social seminar, @juniperlov.bsky.social introduced us to her model to answer that question!

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 8d

📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social · 20d

The interactive story is by @jstonge.bsky.social and other friends: complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn....

The paper is with friends from @vcsi.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social and @unioflimerick.bsky.social.

complex-stories.uvm.edu

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Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · 20d

Excited about this paper and the interactive story to accompany it. Congrats @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @giulioburgio.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social and nice story telling @jstonge.bsky.social!

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social · 20d

The interactive story is by @jstonge.bsky.social and other friends: complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn....

The paper is with friends from @vcsi.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social and @unioflimerick.bsky.social.

complex-stories.uvm.edu

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Markus Luczak-Roesch @mluczak.bsky.social · 21d

Registrations are now also open for the #netscix2026 conference. Early bird registration available until Nov 20th. netscix2026.github.io#register

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Juniper Lovato @juniperlov.bsky.social · Sep 1

So excited to welcome you to the lab @okfranco.bsky.social

João Franco @okfranco.bsky.social · Sep 1

🎓 I've joined the PhD in Complex Systems & Data Science at @vcsi.bsky.social to work w/ @lhd.bsky.social & @juniperlov.bsky.social to explore social (complex) dynamics

🔬 Huge thanks to @joanagsa.bsky.social & Lília Perfeito for helping me get ready for this chapter

🚀 Excited for this next step!

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Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · Aug 29

We love this research profile on Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty @juniperlov.bsky.social 🐙 www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...

Juniper Lovato is a Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty member and an outstanding thinker who has been critical to many of our most significant research efforts. Learn about what makes her…...

Juniper Lovato is a Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty member and an outstanding thinker who has been critical to many of our most significant research efforts. Learn about what makes her ...

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Aug 21

It might start as a joke, belief, or rumor, easy to dismiss. But then it twists, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. Why do some ideas die out while others go viral?

A new study by researchers from the University of Vermont and the Santa Fe Institute offers answers: santafe.edu/news

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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · Jul 25

Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS!

Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jul 24

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Commendations for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science.
buff.ly/rzTeLYL

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jul 24

✨ Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials were developed by an interdisciplinary working group of network researchers to clarify and promote open science practices in network research. buff.ly/0WxtZIt buff.ly/rWk3R3l

Recommendations for sharing network data and materials | Network Science | Cambridge Core

Recommendations for sharing network data and materials - Volume 12 Issue 4

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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Jul 24

That’s a wrap on IC2S2’25! 🎉 Thank you for an unforgettable week of ideas and discussions. Congratulations to our award winners, and safe travels home. Mark your calendars: #ic2s2 ’ 26 heads to Burlington, Vermont, in the US. See you next year!

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Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc

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Juniper Lovato @juniperlov.bsky.social · Jul 27

I had such a wonderful time @ic2s2.bsky.social thank you to the 2025 organizers for such a great IC2S2! #IC2S2

Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · Jul 25

Proud of our team's talks and posters at #IC2S2 in Norrköping Sweden - what a great week. We're excited to host next year in Vermont!

Team from the University of Vermont + External faculty posing for a picture by a river

VCSI executive director announcing location for the conference in 2026, standing on a large stage with colleagues

female scholar presenting a parallel talk, engaging with the audience

PhD student presenting a research poster

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Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · Jul 21

Newish work from VCSI core and external team members: @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social & @nwlandry.bsky.social 👀

TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · Jul 19

Complexity science indirectly discovers democratic municipalism as an optimal solution to democratic governance. cool work by the folks at @vcsi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... may be of interest @jamesstout.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social

Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem - npj Complexity

npj Complexity - Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem

www.nature.com

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Juniper Lovato @juniperlov.bsky.social · Jul 20

just arrived to Norrköping for #IC2S2 can't wait to see everyones amazing new computational social science this week!

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Aviral Chawla @lucretiusbot.bsky.social · May 22

ChatGPT moat
(from upcoming work with @juniperlov.bsky.social)

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Science of Health at Columbia University @cusciofhealth.bsky.social · May 1

Hear me discuss our new paper written with the inimitable Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and colleagues! @lhd.bsky.social #Complexity #Physiology #Governance www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · Apr 30

We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓

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Jun Yamamoto @jymmt.bsky.social · Feb 14

🚨3 days remaining to submit your abstract to our Physical Networks Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social!

Working on complex networks in which physical constraints & embeddings matter? Send your abstract to [email protected] by 17th Feb!

Details: sites.google.com/view/physnet...

#NetSci25

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Marcella Tambuscio @marcella-tambuscio.bsky.social · Feb 14

Extended deadline: send your abstract until February 20th! We wait for your contribution at HISTONET, #hnr satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social about historical networks!

Marcella Tambuscio @marcella-tambuscio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Historical Network Research (HNR) is organizing HISTONET, a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social to connect with the community of network scientists! #hnr
The call for papers is open until February 15th!
Details can be found here:
historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/netsci-maast...

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AIhub.org @aihub.org · Jan 15

Great blog post from @juniperlov.bsky.social, Julia Zimmerman, and Jennifer Karson about their recent study surveying artists on their opinions of the utility and threat of generative AI

Understanding artists’ perspectives on generative AI art and transparency, ownership, and fairness - ΑΙhub

aihub.org

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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · Jan 5

Save the date!
The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2025 will take place in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, from 6-10 October 2025. The conference logo, official website launch, and more details coming soon!

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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social · Dec 10

A project with friends from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @nwlandry.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social

Funded by an ambitious AUDACE project from friends and co-authors from Université de Sherbrooke.

Started in the Green Mountains two years ago.

Fall retreat in Vermont where the project was started. Panorama with a field and hills in the distance.

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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social · Dec 9

Some decisions are best made quickly and locally. Governance can work better as a higher-order network, not a pyramid around a central state. How should we design these networks?

We looked at this with law and complexity scholars and found "effective governance" networks.

arxiv.org/abs/2412.03421

Cartoon of a top-down central state combined with a local network of decisions units.

Cartoon of decisions as a statisfiability problem (decision network) where each decision is solved by a higher-order network (governance network) of agents with their own opinions on what decisions should be made.

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · Dec 9

Today is the last day to submit your abstracts. Submit before midnight (anywhere on earth).

#NetSci2025

NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · Oct 22

Now accepting submissions. Send us your abstracts and proposals for satellites.

netsci2025.github.io/calls/

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