🧬🐬 Culture may leave a molecular footprint. Our new study on Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins @researchdolphin.bsky.social explores how a socially learned behaviour — sponging— may be reflected in DNA methylation. OA: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... Hosted by a Phil Trans B special issue:

Do animals contribute equally to group cohesion? And what can that mean for collective movement decisions? At #ISBE2026 Turin, I’ll present how high-resolution GPS data and movement dynamics can reveal the social organization in vulturine guineafowl. Room Berlino, 13:15, or let’s chat over lunch!

Our CRAB satellite meeting is returning for its third year at @css-conference.bsky.social in Binghamton in October. Two weeks left to submit abstracts for talks at the satellite meeting. More information here: sites.google.com/view/crab2026/ Or please get in touch if you have any questions.

Before there was speech, there was laughter! Our new study traces the evolution of laughter across the great apes and reveals a gradual increase in vocal flexibility over millions of years. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Rhythm and timing in laughter reveal that human vocal plasticity falls on a hominid continuum - Communications Biology

Comparative analysis of laughter rhythm across all extant great apes reveals that isochrony is ancestral to hominids, with tempo, variability, and context-sensitivity increasing progressively toward h...

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Can penguins link what they hear with what they see? Our new study shows that African penguins associate low-pitched sounds with large objects, and high-pitched sounds with small ones. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 🧵👇🐧

Hypergraphx-data now published open access in the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. Co-authored by Quintino Francesco Lotito, Lorenzo Betti, Berné Nortier, Alberto Montresor & Federico Battiston, the repository offers 100+ real-world datasets for higher-order network analysis. doi.org/10.1093/comn...

Almost synchronously with our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper on “Levelling: behaviours that constrain inequality in animal societies”, I'm also excited to advertise the first PhD student position in my Emmy Noether project @humboldtuni.bsky.social

📎 Today, we are releasing Hypergraphx-data: hgx-team.github.io/hypergraphx-... Hypergraphx-data offers more than 100 real-world datasets to explore higher-order interactions across domains such as social networks, biology, and finance, and supports directed, temporal, and multiplex hypergraphs.

🔊 Dr. Valente and I are guest editors of a Special Issue on Animal Sounds on Current Zoology! How do environment, social dynamics & biology shape acoustic communication? We'd love to hear your take, feel free to reach out! Deadline: 31 Dec. 👉 academic.oup.com/cz/pages/call-for-papers-animal-sounds

Special issue on Animal Sounds: Environmental, Social, and Biological Drivers of Acoustic Communication

Submission deadline: 31 December 2026 Publication date: April 2027 Animal sounds, including both airborne and substrate-borne signals, are widespread acro

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🚀🚀 WE ARE HIRING!!! - Postdoc Position on Inequalities in Epidemic Processes 🚀🚀 Join as a postdoc the Network Epidemics Group at the HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (Budapest) to work on behavior driven epidemics. www.renyi.hu/node/4925

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...

What does psychopathology look like from the perspective of people seeking support? Network analysis of Reddit communities vs diagnostic criteria. Just out in @jmirpub.bsky.social www.jmir.org/2026/1/e80958/ @sreblet.bsky.social @petrakn.bsky.social @ceu-dnds.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social

The Structure of Psychopathology on Reddit: Network Analysis of Mental Health Communities in Relation to the ICD Diagnostic System

Background: Social media platforms such as Reddit have become important spaces where individuals articulate their distress, seek support, and explore alternative ways of understanding mental health ou...

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⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply! @isi.it & CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: 🩺 public health · 🌍 humanitarian response · 🏙️ urban development · ♻️ sustainability 📅 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026 🔗 Details here: sites.google.com/view/lagrang...

Lagrange Fellowship Call

The Lagrange Project started in 2003 and it is regarded as one of the pioneering and most innovative European projects on complex systems science and data science. It is promoted and funded by Fondazi...

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🌱 Out in Communications Physics: “The microscale organization of directed hypergraphs” ➡️ What can we learn from the directionality of group interactions in real-world systems? 📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42... ⚙️ Tools: github.com/HGX-Team/hyp... w/ Vendramini, Montresor, @fede7j.bsky.social

CEU DNDS is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join us in #Vienna! If you work in #NetworkScience or #ComputationalSocialScience, we’d love to hear from you. 👉 bit.ly/44lfXb4

We are hiring! The Department of Network and Data Science of Central European University (Vienna) has an open position for an Assistant Professor in network science and computational social science.

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I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.

Happening soon, we hope to see you there!

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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”.

shout out to the organizers of these seminars for a great semester, thank you @gulsahakcakir.bsky.social @elenacandellone.bsky.social and Echo Liu! if you or someone you know would be a good fit for a future seminar, you can nominate them here docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/... we’d love to have you!

Nominate a speaker for WiNS Seminar

The Women in Network Science (WiNS) seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar with the aim to promote and showcase research by women and nonbinary researchers in network science. Attendance is open to e...

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The #CRAB2025 🦀 programme is out! Join us in Siena on Sept 3 at #CCS25 for the 2nd edition of the Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite 🐜🐦🦋🐳🐙🐝 🧑‍🏫 Invited talks by S. Melillo & P. Bartashevich Full programme: sites.google.com/view/crab202... @jbbrask.bsky.social @saraneven.bsky.social

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Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour Satellite @ CCS 2025 - Siena, 3 September 2025 Animal groups can be considered as complex systems of interacting entities (the individuals). The collective beha...

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I'll have a poster on Thursday, come say hi! zenodo.org/records/1626... #ic2s2

Attending #ic2s2? My poster is up today!

Interested in the relationships between team dynamics, leadership dynamics, and success? I’ll be presenting my poster today at #ic2s2 (poster #82).

Attending @ic2s2.bsky.social? Checkout the poster presented by @thomrobiglio.bsky.social! #ic2s2

Inverse Complexity Lab@invcomplexity.skewed.de · last yr.

New preprint: “Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides”, with @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, Martina Contisciani, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503

🧵 New preprint! Do online mental health communities form patterns of association that mirror diagnostic systems or challenge them? “Network Analysis of Reddit Mental Health Communities: Mapping the Interconnectedness of Psychopathology” 👉 osf.io/7dfcw_v1 @ceu-dnds.bsky.social Short thread: 1/N

🚨Are moral judgements biased by the gender of the subject? We find *no* direct effect when looking at Reddit! Our causal study design is based on carefully matching similar situations that people with different genders experience (and share). Study led by @loreb92.bsky.social rdcu.be/eumlQ

Moral judgments in online discourse are not biased by gender

Scientific Reports - Moral judgments in online discourse are not biased by gender

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📢📢📢 Thrilled to share our new paper "Drivers of cooperation in social dilemmas on higher-order networks", out now in J. R. Soc. Interface! 🚀 With Andrea Civilini, Vito Latora & @fede7j.bsky.social 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @dnds_ceu @ceu 1/7

Drivers of cooperation in social dilemmas on higher‐order networks | Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Understanding cooperation in social dilemmas requires models that capture the complexity of real-world interactions. While network frameworks have provided valuable insights to model the evolution of ...

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🚀 Our last paper on leadership dynamics in open-source software teams has been featured in the Editor's highlights at @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/collections/...

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The highlights include but are not limited to the research areas of electronics, optoelectronics, computing technologies and theories, soft matter physics, ...

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DNDS at NetSci 2025: 40+ talks, 3 awards, and a strong showing in Maastricht! 🔗 bit.ly/4dR6SKw #WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #NetSci2025 #ComplexSystems

🚨 Epidemics don’t hit everyone equally. 🎓 Adriana Manna wins CEU’s Best Dissertation Award for showing how social inequalities shape disease spread. 📖 Read it: bit.ly/4mJi5RD #CEU #PhD #SocialJustice #Epidemiology