This is a special moment for a bunch of us, working to make it happen. Welcome to NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social main conference, the 20th anniversary of it, here in Boston
estebanmoro
@estebanmoro.bsky.social
Researcher, scientist. Professor at the Network Science Institute @Northeastern and director of the Social Urban Networks Lab. Formerly @uc3m & @mit
NetSci 2026 has started! Fantastic to see so many people at the satellite sessions this morning! @netsciconf.bsky.social #netsci2026
Now available! 📋 Program Overview: tinyurl.com/4nz8v238 🗓️ Contributed Presentations • Parallel session talks schedule: tinyurl.com/2mfxtfxd • Lightning talks: tinyurl.com/44t2ddzf A list of poster presentations will be added shortly, and a more detailed program will be available soon — stay tuned!
Don't miss today's live info session if you want to learn more about the Master's program in Complex Network Analysis at the Network Science Institute. Register here 👉 tinyurl.com/593etxbm Can't make it? No worries, two more sessions are planned for May 12th and May 14th tinyurl.com/2dsncmjs
Caleb Chandler explores how societies emerge and evolve. Rather than engineered systems, he sees them as complex, adaptive, and emergent, and in the MS in Complex Network Analysis (2025–26 cohort), he’s found the grounding to pursue this path. Read more: tinyurl.com/hssa3t37
As we look ahead to the next academic year, join one of five live info sessions for our MS in Complex Network Analysis, led by @jkbren.bsky.social (Brennan Klein). Learn about concentrations, experiential learning, and career paths. Register and share with anyone interested. tinyurl.com/2dsncmjs
The Higgs mechanism was proposed in 1964 by three independent teams. But here is the puzzle🤔: the "disruption index" says Higgs's paper is among the least disruptive ever. So what is going on? In our new paper, just out in #ScienceAdvances, we take up this puzzle: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 👇 1/7
Uncovering simultaneous breakthroughs with a robust measure of disruptiveness
An embedding-based disruption measure not only robustly captures disruptive works but also reveals simultaneous discoveries.
doi.org
We have just updated our "Atlas of Inequality." Have a look at the new version and our research on how to map experience segregation in cities inequality.media.mit.edu
Atlas of Inequality
Explore income inequality among visitors to places in U.S. cities—an interactive map developed by the SUNLab at Northeastern and the Media Lab at MIT.
inequality.media.mit.edu
We’re excited to welcome 𝗘𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗢. 𝗡𝘀𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗲 as an invited speaker at NetSci! A BU professor & leading data scientist, she advances health equity using AI & data—from mobile phones to satellites—through global collaborations and initiatives. tinyurl.com/4t5p46yr
Still on the fence about NetSci? 👀 We’ve lined up an incredible group of speakers across complex systems, AI, biology, and more. Fresh ideas, deep dives, and new connections await. This is your sign—register now 😉 www.netsci2026.com/registration Huge thanks to our speakers, with more to come!
New on the arxiv: “Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions” arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937 We clarify central misconceptions in the recent literature on "higher-order networks". w/ @piratepeel.bsky.social , @manlius.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social Explainer 🧵: 1/N
Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions
We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a commo...
arxiv.org
⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks? We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference. Submit your work by March 10th! causnets.github.io
CausNetS: Toward a Causal Network Science
A NetSci 2026 Satellite
causnets.github.io
So yeah, already fourth iteration of my Data Analysis with AI course. gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/ All open source. I have an intro overview of AI and its use in data. gabors-data-analysis.com/courses/da-w...
The speaker lineup keeps getting better! ✨ Meet our next speaker, 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗝𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻. A Professor of Physics at IIT Indore, her work spans nonlinear dynamics, complex systems & network science, revealing how network structure shapes collective behavior. Welcome! #Speakers 👉 www.netsci2026.com/speakers
[New paper!] Mobility data are incredibly powerful, but also come with a long list of well-known biases (sampling, coverage, demographics, behavioral, etc.). In the paper, we survey them all and then zoom in on one that has been surprisingly underexplored: temporal bias. arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330
Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330
Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys
GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variations in the quality ...
arxiv.org
Excited to share that I’ll be giving a talk at @nunetsi.bsky.social on Thursday, Feb 19, 2026, at 1:30 pm ET (hybrid). If you’re around (or want to join virtually), I’d love to see you there! #ComputationalSocialScience #CareerMobility #Skills #FutureOfWork #Migration
LLMs were trained heavily on Reddit data, and now someone has built Reddit for LLMs: MoltBook, a social network for AI agents. (1/3)
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.
moltbook.com
Another fantastic Invited Speaker joining NetSci 2026 💫 𝗔𝘀𝘂 𝗢𝘇𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗿 (MIT), MathWorks Professor and Head of EECS. Her work spans optimization, machine learning, economics, and networks, focusing on incentives and algorithms for data-driven human-machine systems. Welcome! tinyurl.com/4t5p46yr
Please join us in welcoming 𝗞𝗶𝗺 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁 as the next School Speaker at NetSci 2026 ✨ A data & media artist and information designer, Kim explores how data and computational systems shape visibility in contemporary culture. Speakers 🔗 www.netsci2026.com/speakers
📣 Announcing 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗼 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶 as Invited Speaker at NetSci Conference 2026! Professor at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca & at Leiden University’s Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, his research combines statistical physics, information theory, & random-graph modeling.
New post: learn how to use the new interactive legends and screenshot control in R's mapgl package. These features are great for interactive demos and visualizing custom scenarios without Shiny. The new release (v0.4.4) is on CRAN now, so go get it! walker-data.com/posts/mapgl-...
Submit your abstracts to #NERCCS2026! See you in Rochester NY in March
@cssusne.bsky.social · 8mo agoDid you miss the deadline for #NetSci2026? Submit your work to #NERCCS2026! Join us March 11–13 at the University of Rochester to celebrate the Ninth Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems. Click on the link (or scan the QR) and submit now! ⬇️ shorturl.at/52o0q
And all these was written a lot time ago by James C. Scott in his famous book "Seeing like a state". We need a more complex systems approach to systems of systems (like transportation)
YY Ahn@yyahn.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Confessions of a recovering engineer" by Chuck Marohn (@strongtowns.org) viscerally captures the chasm between the "metrics" that drive engineering projects and what most people consider critical and important. www.amazon.com/Confessions-...
En España somos los reyes de los canales de youtube de la «IA basura» (slop) caracterizada por vídeos de baja calidad, poco auténticos o imprecisos. En el Top #100 español hay 8 canales dedicados principalmente a estas mierdas, con 20+ millones de suscriptores www.digitaltrends.com/computing/th...
Great surprise to catch @estebanmoro.bsky.social speaking in Lisbon NOVA IMS organized by Flávio Pinheiro and including @joanagsa.bsky.social .
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The Fall 2025 Speaker Series by #SUNLab wrapped up! Industry leaders from Meta, Spatial.ai, Citadel, and CARTO shared how behavioral and mobility data drive decisions across tech, retail, finance, and geospatial analytics. Thanks to all speakers and organizers! @estebanmoro.bsky.social
