Young academics interested in democracy: check out the postdoc program at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins! @snfagora.bsky.social snfagora.jhu.edu/fellowships-...

Postdoctoral Fellows Program

Postdoctoral Fellows Program SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

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TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

By Nihar B. Shah

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What do we think the groupchat for all the Fields Medal winners was called? @jugander.bsky.social

Also shows there is new physics to discover: a learned equation was more accurate than one derived by standard argument, so a better approximation *exists*. Now we just need to find it from first principles!

Joe Bacchus George@joebacbac.bsky.social · last wk.

Neural networks can supposedly solve a Millennium Prize problem, but they still can't colour graphs... I am pleased to share my first preprint on combinatorial optimisation with @gcant.bsky.social. Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.07456

(deadline extended to September 13)

COMPLEX NETWORKS 2026@complexnetconf.bsky.social · 3w ago

⌛️ Only ONE WEEK LEFT to submit to #ComplexNetworks2026! Don't miss the chance to share your research in Granada 🇪🇸! Whether full papers or extended abstracts, we want your #NetworkScience insights! 📅 Deadline: Sept 2 👉 Submit here: complexnetworks.org/submission/ #ComplexNetworks

SFI is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to work with SFI Professor David Wolpert on the thermodynamic cost of distributed computation, from digital circuits to human brains. We are seeking a scholar with expertise in physics, computer science, or a related field. santafe.edu/about/jobs/p...

I must have implemented simulated annealing 100 times. Here’s a vibe coded version w. MaxCut interface (the vibe was “mildly annoyed by comparisons to straw-man baselines”). github.com/gcant/anneal...

GitHub - gcant/annealMaxCut: Simulated annealing for MaxCut (and other Ising problems)

Simulated annealing for MaxCut (and other Ising problems) - gcant/annealMaxCut

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Interested in complex systems research in beautiful Vermont? Teams @vcsi.bsky.social hope to fill postdoctoral positions on very short notice. One position is at the intersection of cognitive and epidemiological modeling. DM for details or keep an eye out for postings on here.

"Puzzles reveal the limits of AI. The missing Aha! moments" by Cris Moore. Gift link 🎁. A more humanistic view on the value of solving problems ourselves. iai.tv/articles/puz... #MathSky 🧪

Puzzles reveal the limits of AI

<p><em>Puzzles compress the experience of insight into miniature, letting us watch understanding take shape in real time. Computer scientist <strong>Cristopher Moore</strong> argues that while AI can ...

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Sharing this postdoc opportunity at Imperial to develop and apply machine-learning and structural-bioinformatics methods for protein design, with focus on modern generative approaches such as protein diffusion models and flow-based models.

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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

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My new book! Written w my pal Alex Townsend, it's about the math behind enormous systems (medical scans, AI, etc.) and what happens when they outgrow our ability to understand them. Pre-order at @barnesandnoble.com for 25% off -> www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-math-s... @littlebrown.bsky.social

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Now with a nice "Editors' Suggestion" badge! We have some further rigorous results (i.e., not approximations) to follow shortly.

NetScience@netscience.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Threshold and quasistationary distribution for the susceptible-infectious-susceptible model on networks link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

A report for university chancellors and presidents concerned about the state of academic scholarship: Statistical thinking is postmodern.

The Objective Pursuit of Knowledge

Why statistical thinking is postmodern.

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Interested in network science, evolutionary biology, and animal behavior? I am seeking a PhD student to join the Quantitative Network Science group at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning of the University of Zurich. Info and application here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: PhD in Network Science: Modeling of Animal Networks

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our Quantitative Network Science research group at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning at the University of Zurich. Wild ...

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I didnt know there were such dreams to live as a child!

We wrote a perspective piece on future directions & challenges for stochastic thermodynamics. Great collaboration with Jan Korbel, Sarah Loos, Gonzalo Manzano, Rosalba Garcia-Millan, Olga Movilla Miangolarra, Edgar Roldan arxiv.org/abs/2604.26601

Quo vadis, stochastic thermodynamics?

Stochastic thermodynamics is a framework for describing non-equilibrium processes at the level of fluctuating trajectories, where the state of a system evolves as a stochastic time series,...

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Claude does not seem able to reliably answer: "how many cathedrals does the Church of England have?" What a weird blind spot.

Next week, my course on Networks and Complexity is starting again, which is always taught online. We have some space left for international students. Lectures will be on mondays and thursdays 16:00-18:00 CEST. Starting 9th. 24 Lectures total. More info in the reply.

Journal publishing is bad now, but …this year is the 40th anniversary of my first published paper and the 43rd anniversary of it being accepted for publication.

Can't get over the fact that in the ML literature the act of *sampling* from an inferred model is now called “inference.” We really are in the worst timeline.

We are looking for a PhD student to work with us on network science methods for biomedicine. The student can be enrolled in any graduate program. #NetworkMedicine #ComplexSystems.

CBeRa - Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems fo@cberaproject.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Now hiring: Research Fellow Focus: Network models in biomedicine. Redundancy and canalization. 📍 Oeiras, Portugal 🗓 Start date: 02/2026 🔗 cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/bolsa-inv...

I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected. This is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods. skewed.de/lab/posts/co...

The perplexing “connected cluster axiom” – Inverse Complexity Lab

Research group on inverse problems in complex systems and network science.

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A principled graph embedding that also appears to work well in practice: arxiv.org/abs/2512.02694

Embedding networks with the random walk first return time distribution

We propose the first return time distribution (FRTD) of a random walk as an interpretable and mathematically grounded node embedding. The FRTD assigns a probability mass function to each node, allowin...

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Our review on multilayer network science is out on the arXiv. Thanks to all collaborators of the AccelNet MultiNet project, great working with you all 🙏 @alexvespi.bsky.social @ymoreno.bsky.social @lordgrilo.bsky.social @anduviera.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.23371

Multilayer network science: theory, methods, and applications

Multilayer network science has emerged as a central framework for analysing interconnected and interdependent complex systems. Its relevance has grown substantially with the increasing availability of...

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Very good post. I very much agree with the overall position.

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · last yr.

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596

Our fall seminar series begins this Thursday, Oct. 2 (4pm UTC+1/11am EDT) with a talk by Elena Candellone. She’ll be speaking about “Mapping extreme users through negative ties in online social interactions”, followed by a discussion on “the joy of planning scientific events”.

arXiv alert! 📄🚨 Robustness of small networks arxiv.org/abs/2509.23670 Great to dust off one of my favorite topics and get to collaborate with the legendary @aliceschwarze.bsky.social and Peter Mucha

Robustness of 'small' networks

Modeling how networks change under structural perturbations can yield foundational insights into network robustness, which is critical in many real-world applications. The largest connected component ...

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