Just came back from #dwebcamp. By far the best community event I've been to! So many in-depth talks about everything from decentralized communication to open knowledge. Thanks to @getdweb.net, @dod.ngo, and the volunteers for the amazing effort! Much love to everyone there and hope to see you soon!

So much energy in this place!! My group are doing great work 🔥🔥

Complexity 72h@complexity72h.bsky.social · last mo.

T-48h! 🚀 Our amazing spokespeople are giving the first presentations of their projects! Fantastic job, folks — keep up the great work and see you at the next check-in in 24 hours! ⏰⚙️

Before the conference begins, join us for 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗨𝗻𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱: an informal evening on the stories behind research. Professor 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗻 will share the journey behind her landmark 2002 PNAS paper on community structure in networks. 📅 May 31 | 6 PM ✏️ Register: tinyurl.com/2e73wt46 🍕 Snacks included

Can't wait to meet more of the community! Discount tickets running out though so get them while you still can.

DWeb@getdweb.net · 3mo ago

⏳30 hours to go! DWeb Camp Early Bird ticket sales and Call for Proposals close tomorrow at 23:59 CET! Get your tickets and submit your ideas soon!

📢We're organzing a 2-hour hybrid event on May 20 at @iasamsterdam.bsky.social titled Network Science for the Society of the Future, with a keynote speech by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social! Go to our website to sign up:

Platform for Large-scale Analysis of Networks@planet-nl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How can network science contribute to the society of tomorrow? Join PLANET‑NL at the UvA IAS Festival on May 20 (14:00–16:00 CET) for “Imagining 2036" - a deep dive into how network science can shape the next decade. More info & online registration here: www.planetnl.org/post/virtual...

Really great oppportunity for a Postdoc in my research group. If you have any questions hit me up!

Platform for Large-scale Analysis of Networks@planet-nl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢Postdoc Opportunity in Network Science! PLANET-NL invites applications for a Postdoc at Leiden University. Have a strong track record in network science and solid programming skills/computational analysis experience? Apply here before 10 May: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Postdoc-...

This is me in 2017 after the first workshop on complex systems for high school students at Allameh Helli High School in Tehran. Teenage boys and girls were sitting next to each other, curious and full of questions. I loved that school. Seeing it damaged by US and Israeli bombs is heartbreaking.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles. 13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger. The law didn't change. torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak

In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

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When you have to scroll over two pages of AI-generated "summary" drivel to reach, you know, the text abstract written by the authors, you know the Elsevier people have really lost the plot

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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Today we launch ORION: a coordinated initiative to make open research information more inclusive, accessible and democratic. Our experience with GoogleBigQuery support collaborative and community solutions for ORI infrastructures, increasing sustainability & resilience. doi.org/10.54900/2pn...

Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online

Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

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We have an amazing panel ready for you at NetSciX in Auckland!

NetPlace@netplace.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to announce the panelists on the NetPlace panel at NetSciX 2026 New Zealand: Akrati Saxena, Roland Molontay and Natalia Albert Llorente 🗓 Feb 17, 2026 | 🕠 5:30–6:30 PM @netscisociety.bsky.social All welcomed!

Three new preprints from our group are now live on arXiv! We explore community mixed membership in aggregated networks, fragmentation in a population-scale social network of the Netherlands, and how social capital shapes economic mobility. Read more:

Three New Preprints Published on arXiv

We are glad to share that our group’s researchers have recently published three new preprints on arXiv, showcasing advances in network analysis and population-scale social systems.Link Fraction Mixed ...

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On Monday I was at @internetarchive.eu in Amsterdam for @jwyg.bsky.social talk about his new book, Public Data Cultures. Instant purchase!

Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.

Raphael Wimmer@raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com

A must-read, in my opinion

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

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These people are losing their thought agency to just act as envoy for LLMs... "Second AI opinion" pffft www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread...

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

Eleven killed at Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese brands attack on Jewish worshippers act of antisemitism and terrorism

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Can people organizing academic conferences in the US please get a grip?

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

One week to go! Next week we’re hosting an international workshop in Amsterdam on Population-Scale Social Network Analysis. Leading teams from five different countries will join us to share new insights and explore future collaborations. Learn more:

Upcoming International Workshop on Population-Scale Social Network research

We are excited to announce that our team will be hosting an international workshop on population-scale social network research in December 2025. This invitation-only event is a follow-up to a previous...

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Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of participating in the NetSci 2025 conference in Maastricht. Our team shared exciting new research across topics from social network dynamics to mobility, privacy, and community structure. We even brought home two awards!

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

Proud member of this great team! Stay tuned for more updates on our work soon👀

Platform for Large-scale Analysis of Networks@planet-nl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣We’re pleased to (re)introduce the PLANET-NL group! (formerly POPNET) Our researchers are continuing to collaborate to provide expertise, tools, and opportunities for large-scale social network analysis. Be ready to get to know more about us in the coming days!

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems. I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years. Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor

ISI Foundation@isi.it · 9mo ago

🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!

Great for us Egyptians to be an inspiration for world leaders again! Who knew well-oiled dictatorships were in such high demand?

Omar won! He won! 🤩 So wonderful! From Palestinian refugee to Nobel glory: Omar Yaghi’s incredible journey Born in Amman to refugee parents, Yaghi rose from humble roots to reshape modern chemistry gulfnews.com/world/americ...

From refugee roots in Amman to Nobel triumph — Omar Yaghi’s inspiring journey of science and grit

Born in Amman to refugee parents, Yaghi rose from humble roots to reshape modern chemistry

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Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

‼️ UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/u...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

🤩 Fantastic new network plotting package available in Python by Fabio Zanini. The package supports both networkx and igraph networks, and has a wide variety of styling options. iplotx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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