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Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · Sep 3

My mom, @bettyscarpino.bsky.social, has a piece going on display at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery!!!

The @washingtonpost.com mentioned her in their great review of the show.

She’s many of our biggest social media booster, so let’s show her lots of love ❤️

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

A screenshot of text from the WaPo article that highlights Betty Scarpino’s name and has a red arrow pointing towards her. There’s a picture of quilts from the show below the text. The text reads, “A rich display of ceramics by Katherine Po-yu Choy, woodworking by Betty J. Scarpino and a tapestry by Consuelo Jimenez Underwood — each one a state fair entry — gathers these works as evidence of the formative influence of craft fairs on artists, and vice versa. “

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Jesseba Fernando @jesseba.bsky.social · Sep 3

Packed room at our satellite!!

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cobrain starting in room 18 @css-conference.bsky.social

Program here: kgatica.github.io/CCS2025-CoBr...

@jesseba.bsky.social @nicopedre.bsky.social @marilyngatica.bsky.social

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

And honorable mentions, Cosimo Agostinelli from @beyondtheedge.network will talk about higher-order dissimilarities, and @maximelca.bsky.social about higher-order dynamics and basins (paper here: www.science.org/doi/full/10....)

Deeper but smaller: Higher-order interactions increase linear stability but shrink basins

Higher-order interactions affect collective dynamics differently when viewed from local and global perspectives.

www.science.org

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

In the meantime, @poetz.bsky.social will talk at CRAB satellite (sites.google.com/view/crab202...) about recent work by Project CETI (www.projectceti.org) on understanding social dynamics during a sperm whale calf birth.

Project CETI •-- Home

CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.

www.projectceti.org

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

and Matteo Neri (again!) on charting the higher-order landscape (big lab output, preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Charting Higher-Order Models of Brain Function

Traditional models of brain connectivity have primarily focused on pairwise interactions, over-looking the rich dynamics that emerge from simultaneous interactions among multiple brain regions. Althou...

www.biorxiv.org

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

Where Lorenzo Zaffina will speak about topological approaches to emotion in brain data in naturalistic stimuli (work with @andreasantoro.bsky.social), Marta Morandini on directional interactions in aging (with @brovelli.bsky.social),

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

On wednesday, @jesseba.bsky.social @marilyngatica.bsky.social with @nicopedre.bsky.social organize Cobrains kgatica.github.io/CCS2025-CoBr....

Satellite Complexity in the Brain: CoBrain (CCS*2025)

Overview, list of speakers, and schedule

kgatica.github.io

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

and then we double down with @jesseba.bsky.social talking about adaptive networks in a learn-relearning generalization task in rodents vs artificial networks (Biological networks #2, 2/9, with @scarpino.bsky.social).

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

We continue with Giulia Lorenzini speaking about evolution and integration of the hippocampus representation in freely roaming rodents (Biological Networks #1, 2/9, with @nicopedre.bsky.social and Giuseppe Gava)

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

We start with Matteo Neri (@matte_blacks on X) about Ok-information, an order-specific measure of higher-order information (work with @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social @brovelli.bsky.social, Human Behaviour session, 1/9)

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lots of NPL at @ConfCompSys 2025. Thread below!

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Jun 3

“This is about modelling emergence, multiscale causality, collective behaviour..
this is not a side quest, it’s the core challenge of complex systems”.

Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · Jun 3

"Some say science is about truth, some say science is about curiosity, but it's really about the glory" - @lordgrilo.bsky.social starting off TopoNets at @netsciconf.bsky.social 😂

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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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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our own @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening Toponets @netsciconf.bsky.social.

Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · Jun 3

@xgi.bsky.social in the wild 👀

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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · Jun 3

Really great overview of evidence for higher-order effects in the brain.

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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · Jun 3

@xgi.bsky.social in the wild 👀

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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · Jun 3

"Some say science is about truth, some say science is about curiosity, but it's really about the glory" - @lordgrilo.bsky.social starting off TopoNets at @netsciconf.bsky.social 😂

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · Jan 27

New PhD position open
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · Jan 27

And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at NetSI London working with me and the @nplab.bsky.social on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems.
Application deadline: 16th February 2025.
Bring your A game!

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · Jan 16

@jesseba.bsky.social from @nunetsi.bsky.social discussing joint work with @scarpino.bsky.social on network reps in a learn-relearning in mice vs artificial neural networks (while herself surviving music interference of a nearby Indian wedding :)). Literally context adaption live #netsci2025x

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Iacopo Iacopini @iaciac.bsky.social · Jan 16

Another year, another edition!💥

Join #TopoNets25 at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht and send us your work on higher-order networks: structure, dynamics, methods, inference, software, topology, #TDA, etc.

📅 Submit by Feb 7th to give a contributed talk: sites.google.com/view/toponet...

TopoNets 2025

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness of the interactions among their units. Over the past two decades, a great variety of complex systems has bee...

sites.google.com

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Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · Jan 15

What do the predictability limits of epidemics have to do with limits on our us of AI study biology?

Tomorrow at 9am in Indore (1030pm today in Boston), I'm going to try and connect these dots during my #netscix2025 keynote lecture.

Tune into the live feed here: www.youtube.com/live/frY8luh...

Screenshot shows three papers connecting into a paper on the low-rank hypothesis of complex systems connecting to a neural network and collage of pictures of plants and animals

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · Jan 16

#NetSciX2025 Day 2 keynote speaker Sam Scarpino discusses fundamental epistemic challenges and prediction limit in complex systems modeling

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Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · Jan 16

Our ability to identify mechanisms in higher-order systems is dependent on the observation scale (which depends on the network and dynamical model).

Prof @lordgrilo.bsky.social presenting at #NetSciX2025 on reconstructing higher order mechanisms.

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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · Jan 16

CS2Italy in Trento is off to a great start with @mtizzoni.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social and a a packed room of computational social scientists! cs2italy.org

Università di Trento, @isi.it , CNR ISIC, FBK

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