Network of the day: Network of lemurs from Japan Monkey Center. The edges represent the inter-monkey sentiments and can be very different:

Too Lazy to Read the Paper just passed 10,000 downloads (17,873 if we count YouTube). Not bad for unedited, hour-long conversations with my favorite scientists. The whole story, including both season trailers – one features me on a ukulele: sunelehmann.com/blog/too-laz...

Visualization is a balance between letting the data speak for itself and making it look nice and attractive. This is, for sure, the textbook out there that best captures these forces, so whether you're into visualization or not, treat yourself to a copy!

Juuso Koponen@juusokoponen.bsky.social · 2w ago

📊 My and @jhilden.bsky.social’s book has been out of print for some time, as our publisher closed down its general publishing arm. We are working on a 2nd edition, but it is not going to be ready anytime soon, so we’re making the current edition available as an e-book for €9.90. payhip.com/b/zbl43

A blog post raising a glass for slow science 😊 petterhol.me/2026/07/21/i...

I don’t want to hear your elevator pitch

… but I’d love to talk science with you for hours, on the shores of Sakhalin or in bars of Beirut, or in the nearest available seminar room. This is a short armchair-philosophical elegy for slow sc…

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This was a nice collaboration, exploring the use of MARL to model network evolution 📄 🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A blog post raising a glass for slow science 😊 petterhol.me/2026/07/21/i...

I don’t want to hear your elevator pitch

… but I’d love to talk science with you for hours, on the shores of Sakhalin or in bars of Beirut, or in the nearest available seminar room. This is a short armchair-philosophical elegy for slow sc…

petterhol.me

Network (or, perhaps, systems diagram) of the day: From Ragnar Frisch's 1933 chart-topper "Propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics"

Networks of the day: Hilz & Turoff, The Network Nation (1978)

Network of the day, from: Ros, Wevers (2024) "Epistemic Capture Through Specialization in Post-World War II Parliamentary Debate"

hmmm I wonder if there are any fields of study that focus on people as they go about their lives... 🤔https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01957-z

Make science more reliable: study people as they go about their lives

Researchers have long discussed the replication crisis. Now it’s time to tackle another problem in the behavioural sciences: generalizability.

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The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...

World-leading researchers to headline new lecture series in analytical sociology

Some of the world's most influential researchers in analytical sociology, network science, and computational social science will visit Linköping University this autumn as part of a new international l...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

*Upcoming lecture series and PhD course at IAS* 📚 In Fall 2026, IAS will host an online lecture series featuring many of the scholars whose work has been instrumental in the development of analytical sociology.

Preprint alert 🚨📄 Some good ol' network science about the relation between short cycles and shortest path multiplicity www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...

LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

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@icelabumu.bsky.social in Umeå is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science (ML focus). Start your own group in a genuinely interdisciplinary lab. Awesome science, fantastic people. Deadline Aug 10, 2026. www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Assistant Professor in Computing Science with a focus on machine learning - linked to IceLab’s Center for modeling adaptive mechanisms in living systems under stress

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💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.

What's your favorite temporal network generation models? Yasaman Asgari and I are preparing a review and would like to be sure to cover the extensive literature on this topic. Let us know here: forms.gle/xrLBfAcWZVyR... or you can also just reply below.

Call for Articles: Temporal Network Generative Model Review

We (Yasaman Asgari & Alexandre Bovet) are preparing a review paper on temporal network generative models and would like to be sure to cover as most of the extensive literature. Please let us know of ...

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News, rumors, opinions, misinformation, polarization, collective attention: can we understand their dynamics using the tools of statistical physics? Our new Physics Reports review brings together theory, models, and empirical evidence from across the field: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The physics of news, rumors, and opinions

The boundaries between physical and social networks have narrowed with the advent of the Internet and its pervasive platforms. This has given rise to …

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Chapter 13: @jsaramak.bsky.social & @pholme.bsky.social on temporal networks of social interactions. A fascinating chapter showing why static network snapshots often miss the most important thing: the timing and order of interactions. Social networks are dynamic processes, not just fixed structures.

Taha Yasseri@tahayasseri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chapter 12: @fedebotta.bsky.social from @exetercompsci.bsky.social on online images and computational social science. A fascinating chapter on how images shared online can help us study politics, misinformation, culture, & collective behaviour and why visual data deserves a much bigger place in CSS.

Summer is around the corner. Here's a new mixtape for your never-ending summer nights 💽♫ open.spotify.com/playlist/0zm...

Summer '26

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I'm currently at #ICWSM / @icwsm.bsky.social Ping me if you're on the job market as we are/will be hiring for SOUNDS - Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (www.sounds-observatory.org).

I want an app to quickly check what level of meaninglessness “ontology” has now descended to.

Don't miss the first NoSoccs conference! Abstract deadline in about a month nosocss.org/conference.h...

ArXiv alert 📣 arxiv.org/abs/2605.22587

Endogenous drivers of gender disparity in online dating

In its early days, online dating was heralded as a great equalizer, removing biases built into the structures of heterosexuality courtship. However, as repeatedly observed, that prophecy was never ful...

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Network of the day. From: Knoke, Political Networks, 1990.

Replication: 60% of the time, it works all the time.

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Network of the day: From Knowles, Economic and social geography made simple, 1976.

Join us Monday @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with #CarlaScaletti of @symbolicsound.com on #AuditoryAnalytics 🎶🔬 Data Sonification and Analytical Listening for Exploration and Discovery. 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 Zoom & details: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-... #synthsky

Network of the day: The 26 sporadic groups and their subquotient relations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadi...

Interdisciplinary PhD offer in Marseille, starting Oct. 2026, on "Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics" Project description and application website: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... DM for more info on the position

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....