1/10 How does a sperm whale hunt in darkness, hundreds of metres beneath the surface? Our new preprint reveals a two-level strategy: persistent search across whole dives, paired with rapid switching between distinct prey-capture tactics. Link in🧵

What an exciting week at @netsciconf.bsky.social ! If you still have some curiosity left, stop by this afternoon. I'll be presenting, “Toward Fairness in Network Algorithms: Rankings by Biased Random Walks.” 📍 Where: Algorithms, Inference & Reconstruction 3 (Kendall Square) 🕰️ When: 5PM

Later today (3.45pm) I’ll be talking at the NSIA (network-science-ai.github.io/schedule.html) workshop of @netsciconf.bsky.social about (exciting!) work on the interplay between generalization and working memory limits. Come through!

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NPlab@nplab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New PhD position open in the lab. Details here: t.co/HZ1BvpSuAB

There seems to be a broad perception across psychology and neuroscience that work shouldn't be "too technical" in order to reach the broadest possible audience. While I think we should strive for accessibility, I feel that this attitude can also be self-defeating: why are we dumbing down?

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NPlab@nplab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New PhD position open in the lab. Details here: t.co/HZ1BvpSuAB

New PhD position open in the lab. Details here: t.co/HZ1BvpSuAB

Very good article what it would take for AI to have "agency" and self-preservation goals (w/ a few quotes from me). & I appreciate the reiterated debunking of the "GPT-4 on its own lied to a TaskRabbit worker to solve a captcha" story. www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-te...

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Project CETI@projectceti.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Female sperm whales support one another during the birthing journey—behavior that was long considered unique to humans and a few primates. Read now in @science.org: bit.ly/4bIKkeo

As Giovanni Petri shared with #NGN, sperm whales and humans have more in common than we think. Their coordinated support during a calf’s birth shows survival has driven strong social ties, even beyond kin. news.northeastern.edu/2026/03/26/s... @lordgrilo.bsky.social @projectceti.bsky.social

Whales display behavior typically seen in humans, new research shows

Scientists captured the first detailed footage of a sperm whale birth and found it was not just a family affair.

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By: Alaa Maalouf, Joseph DelPreto, @maximelca.bsky.social, @poetz.bsky.social, Jacob Andreas, Antonio Torralba, Shane Gero, @lordgrilo.bsky.social, Daniela Rus, David F. Gruber. @csail.mit.edu, @northeasternu.bsky.social, @carleton.ca, @baruch.cuny.edu

The 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨 study dives into the acoustic side of a sperm whale birth 🐋, analyzing clicks and codas to reveal distinct vocal shifts during labor, birth, and early interactions, offering rare evidence of coordinated, non-kin birth assistance in the wild. tinyurl.com/m3pshz8y

Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events

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Interesting piece — raises important questions about what higher-order formalisms actually buy us. Half-jokingly, it would make great panel material @netsciconf.bsky.social à la Leipzig dispute :) (Also, first commentaries are already coming out: lnkd.in/d8_nunck)

Tiago Peixoto@tiago.skewed.de · 5mo ago

New blog post: "Higher orders need higher standards" skewed.de/lab/posts/hi... I discuss our current work disentangling misconceptions around "higher-order" networks: arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937 Explainer thread for the paper here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...

Renormalization in the brain? With @andreasantoro.bsky.social and @jesseba.bsky.social we're organizing a workshop at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social (Lisbon, March 16) on how coarse-graining principles from physics can explain neural computation across scales. nplresearch.github.io/neurorenorm2...

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Network Science Institute@nunetsi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

‪🎉 Big news! Giovanni Petri has been selected for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the Museum of Science. He’ll join 40+ fellows to advance the impact of science through digital storytelling. 👏 tinyurl.com/68skdhdy @lordgrilo.bsky.social, @museumofscience.bsky.social

‪🎉 Big news! Giovanni Petri has been selected for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the Museum of Science. He’ll join 40+ fellows to advance the impact of science through digital storytelling. 👏 tinyurl.com/68skdhdy @lordgrilo.bsky.social, @museumofscience.bsky.social

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...

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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.

skewed.de

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...

arxiv.org

How do brain areas control each other? 🧠🎛️ ✨In our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper, we introduce a data-driven framework to answer this question using deep learning, nonlinear control, and differential geometry.🧵⬇️

Another fantastic Turing Seminar last week! 👨‍🏫 Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social from @northeasternu.bsky.social and @nunetsi.bsky.social delivered a very captivating talk, Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.

It finally happened. I found a place in London that gives you your espresso within 30secs of ordering it. 🤯🤯

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻! Secure your spot at the flagship conference of the Network Science Society and take advantage of the early bird registration special - www.netsci2026.com/registration 📅 June 1–5, 2026 | Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA Join us as we celebrate 20 years of NetSci!

The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @lordgrilo.bsky.social, who will deliver a seminar entitled 'Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.' 📆 5 November ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 📍Biomedical Building, C42 at the University of Bristol Find out more here: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n

Lots of higher-order interactions at the joint @beyondtheedge.network and RUNES workshop at AMU in Marseille this week. Thanks to @alainbarrat.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social!

Exciting things in Topological Neuroscience! #NetSI_London @lordgrilo.bsky.social co-organized the “Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds” workshop at King’s College London, launching a new collaboration to advance this field. #KIHSM 🔗 tinyurl.com/4zhs2m83 #NetSI_London 🔗 tinyurl.com/25ts6as4

Federico Turkheimer introducing the King’s institute for Human and Synthetic minds and opening the workshop

Giovanni Petri@lordgrilo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Next week (on the 15th and 16th), with @yasserroudi.bsky.social and Federico Turkheimer we will organize a workshop on the "The Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds" Please do join us! (Registration is free but required for access/catering!) lordgrilo.github.io/topology-nat...

Topological signal processing works! :P Check out out latest one out!

Andrea Santoro@andreasantoro.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Latest work at #EUSIPCO25!🚀 We bring Topological Signal Processing to the brain 🧠 — showing that edge-based approaches outperform classical GSP in task decoding. Great collab with M.Nurisso & @lordgrilo.bsky.social 🙌 Paper 👉 eusipco2025.org/wp-content/u... #Neuroimaging #SignalProcessing #TSP

Latest work at #EUSIPCO25!🚀 We bring Topological Signal Processing to the brain 🧠 — showing that edge-based approaches outperform classical GSP in task decoding. Great collab with M.Nurisso & @lordgrilo.bsky.social 🙌 Paper 👉 eusipco2025.org/wp-content/u... #Neuroimaging #SignalProcessing #TSP

Next week (on the 15th and 16th), with @yasserroudi.bsky.social and Federico Turkheimer we will organize a workshop on the "The Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds" Please do join us! (Registration is free but required for access/catering!) lordgrilo.github.io/topology-nat...