I've got so so many project ideas from #netsci2026 but now I have to somehow finish the ones I was already working on first 😔

It was surreal seeing my research presented today to the whole of @netsciconf.bsky.social. A huge congratulations to @barabasi.bsky.social on receiving the Euler Award. Excited to see how network design grows (or should I say assembles?) in the field! Preprint coming very very soon…. #NetSci2026

Pumped to be at #NetSci again this year! I’ll be in the poster session tomorrow sharing preliminary work on reconstructing network statistics. And make sure to check out my collaborator Jasper van der Kolk’s talk Wednesday at 5 pm in Harvard Square B on our work assembling reproducible networks!

Excited to share a new publication on modifying PageRank! This was joint work with a great team that formed at BYU during my time there: Mark Kempton, Alice Oveson and Tyler Jones. Check it out!

So excited to share that I successfully defended my dissertation and am now “Dr. Cory”! Thank you to all my collaborators, labmates, cohortees, friends and family who supported me in this journey. I found my scientific home at Northeastern and am proud to call myself a network scientist. #phd #netsi

Excited to be at APS again this year! If you’re around and want to see some work on reproducing target network structures, come to my talk tomorrow, March 17, at 1:20 in the Statistical Physics of Networks session up in the Bluebird ballrooms!

If you’re at APS this morning and want to see a great talk, stop by the Networks and Graphs in Biology section at 10:30 to hear Jasper van der Kolk talk about our work on networks built from designed building blocks!

I am really excited to co-organize this year's Science of Science Satellite of NetSci 2026 in Boston. Submissions are very open and can include work in progress, work under review, or accepted publications. Please consider submitting before March 18th! Website: netscisci.github.io

We are hiring🚨 We are looking for 2 postdocs and 1 reasearch assistant to work in the ERC project “Tipping dynamics and resilience in adapting ecological systems” at @eawag.bsky.social Find the description of each position and the link to apply in the thread ⬇️

Gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Welcome to the American Winter

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

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The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)

How complex should network models be? 🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior). 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

New 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 study by @barabasi.bsky.social & colleagues reveals a new organizing principle for 3D physical networks. From blood vessels to neurons, these systems evolve by minimizing surface area, explaining brain and vascular architecture & predicting neuronal sprouting. Paper 🔗 tinyurl.com/v34bxer

Looking forward to @ismarvolic.bsky.social talk on the mathematics of democracy

Excited to be at #JMM2026 this year! If you’re around and want to chat about networks, let me know!

I'm on the job market! I graduate with my PhD in network science this April, seeking a postdoc in Atlanta or remote. I work on theoretical and data-driven problems under Albert-László Barabási. I love being the "math guy" on interdisciplinary teams. Want help studying networks? Please reach out!

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour

Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...

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Time for my non-science post of the year…my top six albums curated by me not Spotify. Not in any particular order. Plus a bonus single and guitar solo for good measure. 🧵1/10

Some really interesting "composition networks" showing musical transitions through a song by Niccolo di Marco, @walter4c.bsky.social and others. I love how Autumn Leaves is so much denser than everything else. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.07557

I'm on the job market! I graduate with my PhD in network science this April, seeking a postdoc in Atlanta or remote. I work on theoretical and data-driven problems under Albert-László Barabási. I love being the "math guy" on interdisciplinary teams. Want help studying networks? Please reach out!

11/10 opinion video by @jackconte.bsky.social. We need more human centric scientific thinking. An excellent explanation of how we should be thinking about the next step in algorithm development and even big data research www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

Opinion | I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

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It is finally out! Have you ever wanted to get into information theory, complexity, and networks? If so, this is the paper for you: a comprehensive tutorial review on information theory for complexity scientists specifically. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Information theory for complex systems scientists: What, why, and how

In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, …

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📌 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

Really fascinating application of network epidemiology to understand historical phenomena. It's such a creative way to combine quantitative tools with historical records and link rumor spread with infectious disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature

Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than…

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🚨 Submit your work to COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025! 📍 Binghamton, NY, Dec 9–11 📝 Proceedings of full papers (Springer) & abstracts (Book of Abstracts) 🎤 Keynotes: Bettencourt, Girvan, Glass, Newman, Stark 📅 Submission deadline: Sept 2 👉 complexnetworks.org/submission/ #ComplexNetworks2025

#ProcB in @science.org | Dispersed female networks: female gorillas’ inter-group relationships influence dispersal decisions: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

When female gorillas relocate, they look for where their besties live

New study sheds light on social structures within our great ape cousins

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Someone at a conference asked me what new dataset I am most excited about. This is it. macaquenet.github.io

The Database

A Global Collaboration Of Macaque Researchers

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Hard to believe that the first chapter of my dissertation came out a year ago. We investigated link entanglement in physical networks and found some interesting connections between the network's structure and it's ability to entangle itself. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Measuring Entanglement in Physical Networks

A new mathematical measure of knottiness could help improve the transport efficiencies of subway and road systems, as well as other physical networks.

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So stoked to see this in press! Diverging network architecture of the C. elegans connectome and signaling network journal: journals.aps.org/prxlife/acce... preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14498 1/3

Really cool work by @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, @maximelca.bsky.social, @lordgrilo.bsky.social and more blending higher order networks, dynamics and information theory to distinguish causal mechanisms and emergent behavior in networks, particularly when group interactions are involved.

Synergistic Signatures of Group Mechanisms in Higher-Order Systems

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I cannot get over how cool this paper is from @ctestard.bsky.social, Michael Platt, @ljnbrent.bsky.social and more. If you are interested networks measuring adaptive behavior or honestly, just monkeys being resilient, check it out! #networkscience #animalbehavior www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ecological disturbance alters the adaptive benefits of social ties

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