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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · 23h

Lots of higher-order interactions at the joint @beyondtheedge.network and RUNES workshop at AMU in Marseille this week. Thanks to @alainbarrat.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social!

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 16d

Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 19d

C. elegans connectome, protein-protein interaction network in the cell cycle, mycelium? :)

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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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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come be my colleague! Happy to answer any questions about what it's like living in Charlottesville and being in the department.

Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA

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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520

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Simone Poetto @poetz.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thrilled to finally share a huge piece of my PhD project!
Our paper “The Topological Architecture of Brain Identity” is now out on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n

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Andrea Santoro @andreasantoro.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧠 Want to understand how different higher-order methods compare in brain connectivity analysis?

Check out our new preprint — a fantastic collab with past & present NPL members @lordgrilo.bsky.social :
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A thread🧵

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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · Jun 5

@nwlandry.bsky.social fighting against vibes-based estimations of the convergence when sampling from the configuration model. Good content.

Bonus: @xgi.bsky.social viz

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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our first keynote @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening TopoNets @netsciconf.bsky.social with higher-order interactions for neuroscience

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · Jun 2

Learning from @maximelca.bsky.social how to be nice to people in science 🤣🤣 @netplace.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

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Basti Kusch @bastikusch.bsky.social · Jun 2

If you are at #NetSci25, join us at 1pm for our @netplace.bsky.social panel on the topic of "Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression", with panelists @asteixeira.bsky.social, @maximelca.bsky.social and @captainkirk1041.bsky.social

Flyer of panel on science as a craft at NetSci25

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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · Jun 1

Tomorrow at lunch 👇👇👇

NetPlace @netplace.bsky.social · May 23

🚀 After a series of successful panels in previous years, NetPlace returns to @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht with:
"Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression"

🗓️ June 2, 2025 | 1:00–2:00 PM
🔗 Details: netplace.site/event/netsci...

Panel @ NetSci25 | NetPlace

Panel discussion on "Science as a craft, Balancing career and skill progression" at NetSci25.

netplace.site

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NetPlace @netplace.bsky.social · May 29

🎉 Very happy to announce Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social as our next panelist! Maxime is an FNRS Postdoc at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems & UCLouvain in Belgium. He is interested in dynamical systems, complex systems, networks, and their applications to life sciences.

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Iacopo Iacopini @iaciac.bsky.social · May 27

Next week at @netsciconf.bsky.social -- it's time for another edition of TopoNets!
🗓️ June 3, 2025
📍 FPN Paarse Zaal

A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope

Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...

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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · Jun 1

Tomorrow after lunch I'll talk about fungi 👇👇👇

Jun Yamamoto @jymmt.bsky.social · May 21

🍄How do fungi balance efficiency, exploration & resilience?

Maxime Lucas will present underground fungal networks at Physical Network Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social !

Learn more:
🔗 sites.google.com/view/physnet...

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Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · May 15

PhD fellowship to work with me and Benedetta Franceschiello on the analysis and modelling of fast sampled fMRI data!

www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Doctoral fellow

www.ugent.be

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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · Apr 1

📣 Commentary by @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social (thanks!) on our latest led by @thomrobiglio.bsky.social now out in PRL.

Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

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Giulia Cencetti @giuliacencetti.bsky.social · Mar 20

Would you like to engage in scientific communication for the general public? In Siena during @css-conference.bsky.social it will be your occasion! 4 scientists will be chosen and coached by Scienza Coatta to step into the spotlight of a big event-show-scientific quiz.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A (fun) night with Complex Systems!

This event should be a celebration of science, designed to bring complex systems research to life for a broader audience. With the support of La Scienza Coatta, a collective of Italian science communi...

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GOTHAM lab @gotham-lab.bsky.social · Mar 4

1/6 New work in PRE selected as editor's suggestion!

With a new hyperedge overlap matrix we characterize its impact on synchronizability in systems with HO interactions go.aps.org/3FfNGJ6

@santiagolaot.bsky.social, @federicomalizia.bsky.social, V. Latora, M. Frasca & @gomezgardenes.bsky.social

Hyperedge overlap drives synchronizability of systems with higher-order interactions

This study explores the nuanced interplay between the structural organization of complex systems and their synchronization stability, specifically focusing on the effects of higher-order interactions ...

journals.aps.org

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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · Feb 27

Our newest research in @nature.com

We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · Feb 24

This is result of several efforts from the Complex Systems Society to strive for fairer publishing and evaluating systems in academia.
cssociety.org/about/manife...

Complex Systems Society

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Feb 24

Higher-order Laplacian renormalization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Higher-order Laplacian renormalization - Nature Physics

The renormalization group is a powerful tool to study the universal properties of physical systems. A diffusion-based renormalization scheme now enables the study of scale invariance and universality ...

www.nature.com

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Nature Physics @natphys.nature.com · Feb 24

New online today: ($)

A diffusion-based RG scheme enables the study of scale invariance and universality in higher-order complex networks.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Higher-order Laplacian renormalization - Nature Physics

The renormalization group is a powerful tool to study the universal properties of physical systems. A diffusion-based renormalization scheme now enables the study of scale invariance and universality ...

www.nature.com

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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · Feb 24

📣 "Higher-order Laplacian renormalization" finally out in Nat. Phys.!

Well done Marco and @martasolves.bsky.social for leading this one! 👏 Thanks to the great team with Francesco, Tommaso, and @lordgrilo.bsky.social

rdcu.be/ea16y

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