Sandro Sousa
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Scientist | Socioeconomic inequality, it's emergence & anything in between | Algorithms & Society | Complexity, Networks & Computational Social Science | @cphsodas.bsky.social
Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
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Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society@yrcss.bsky.social · last mo.⏳ Last 2 days to apply for SECS! ⏳ For those planning to attend CCS26 in Binghamton: Up to €800 to cover registration, travel, accommodation, and visas! Open to everyone up to 4 years post-PhD working on complex systems! ⏳Deadline: July 8th 2026 (AoE) 📋https://yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/secs/
EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database, is a widely used global disaster database for tracking natural and technological disasters, which risks shutting down after USAID cuts. I just signed an open letter to support them, so can you: openletter.earth/the-worlds-c... #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData
The World's collective disaster memory must be preserved
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Emerging, escalating and entrenched conflicts. For the first time on record, conflict and violence forced people to flee within their countries more often than disasters in 2025.
What are the foundations of #ComplexSystems & #NetSci, really? Working in this field? Contribute a small set of papers you consider foundational (DOI only): both the obvious and the overlooked matter. 🕒 <10 minutes 👉 Take the survey: manliodedomenico.com/complexity_m... 🧵 1/ more info 👇
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....
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/
University of Amsterdam | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Synthetic Social Networks for Climate Attitude-Behaviour Diffusion - Application deadline 📆 Apr 30, 2026
Vacancy — Postdoc Synthetic Social Networks for Climate Attitude-Behaviour Diffusion
<p><strong><span>Do you want to build realistic social network models when the real networks cannot be shared? Are you excited about developing privacy-safe synthetic networks that still preserve the...
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It's beginning! EU journal replacement set to start this fall. Free OA publishing for all authors from 11 supporting countries. This is Germany's DFG press release: "New Publishing Opportunities for Researchers: Germany Joins Open Research Europe" […]
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Come be my colleague! Postdoc position at the University of Amsterdam: Open-source AI for Social Sciences & Humanities. Work on open LLM infrastructure, reproducible research tools, and ethical AI for SSH. 🗓 Tight deadline: Apply by April 3 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher in Open AI research for social sciences and humanities
<p>The Humane AI research priority area of the University of Amsterdam is looking for a new PostDoc to amend our existing team (<a href="https://humane-ai.nl/">https://humane-ai.nl/</a>). AI is everywhere. Chatbots, translation tools, shopping assistants, hyper-personalised services - as Large Language Models become widely accessible, they're reshaping how we live, work, play and connect. This rapid shift sparks big questions: Whose norms and values shape this AI-driven society—and who gets left behind? What are the rules that govern the development and deployment of Generative AI different sectors of society, and towards what kind of society will they steer us? Is the risked-based approach to AI. </p>
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Exciting day ahead 🚀🚀🚀 See you tomorrow for diverse talks, frosty beers, and a great atmosphere. 🍻 Big thanks to Danish Data Science Academy and the Technical University of Denmark for sponsoring and Absalon for the incredible venue. See you there! #databeers #Copenhagen
SODAS Lecture on March 13! 📅 Join us for this fascinating lecture, where @marioluissmall.bsky.social will discuss the availability of large-scale data and the spread of computational social science 💻 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...
We are thrilled to announce our 4th speaker for the event on March 10th! 🚀🚀🚀 Christopher Cox will tell us about the effect of parental leave on mental health in men and women. Join us at #databeers #copenhagen x #Absalon1720 We are SOLD OUT❗️ Remember to cancel your ticket if you can't attend
Serving as an editor taught me the limits of academic ideals for open, accessible scholarship, which tend to get smashed into the cliffs of institutional inertia, profit motives, and extractive norms. Some orgs are better than others, but their base tendencies are varying degrees of parasitism 🔥
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5mo agoNothing radicalizes an academic more than serving on a journal or professional society and learning just how predatory and extractive the publishing industry is. They will definitely use AI to try to increase profits at the expense of quality. In practice, harder to implement open access at scale.
Excellent opportunity for a hands-on experience with a complex project, highly recommended!
Complexity 72h@complexity72h.bsky.social · 5mo agoYou've seen the projects, the tutors, the location, the program — and it's all 🔥. You have zero excuses. Apply before Feb 28th. We'll know if you didn't. 👀
You've seen the projects, the tutors, the location, the program — and it's all 🔥. You have zero excuses. Apply before Feb 28th. We'll know if you didn't. 👀
Complexity 72h@complexity72h.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe call for participants for Complexity72h is finally open! Apply by February 28 for the best collab ever! Why??? ✨ Amazing projects 👩🏫 Fantastic tutors 📍 A great location 👉 Apply now: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72... Do you REALLY need anything else to be convinced? We didn’t think so.
The call for participants for Complexity72h is finally open! Apply by February 28 for the best collab ever! Why??? ✨ Amazing projects 👩🏫 Fantastic tutors 📍 A great location 👉 Apply now: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72... Do you REALLY need anything else to be convinced? We didn’t think so.
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Menu Call for Participants – Call For Scholarships Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 Are you a curious and motivated young researcher interested in complex systems? Are
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SFI’s GWCSS program is designed for Ph.D. students pursuing thesis research in computational social science. Participants work closely with peers and faculty to advance their own research and take part in collaborative complexity-based problem solving. Apply by Feb 4, 2026 santafe.edu/gwcss
PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky
As a cognitive scientist, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realise that emotion matters a lot, not just for understanding humans, but for understanding any thinking agent. Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality. Examples:
Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 7mo agoThere's much talk these days about what's required for "real" intelligence, such as world models and the like. One thing we know about the human evolution of it: it required/requires emotion. That may have been better appreciated in 1938 than today. archive.org/details/in.e...
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the US crossed an 'unacceptable line' following attacks on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro.
Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
🏹 Job alert: Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH) at Aalborg University 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 📅 Apply by Feb 1st 🔗 https://bit.ly/4pLX1La
Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH)
The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Computer Science, Section for Copenhagen, Natural Language Processing The Department of Comput...
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🚨 Come join @ceu-dnds.bsky.social as an 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿! 🚨 We are looking for a young and coming researcher in 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 and 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. If that sounds like you (or someone you know), check out the call & apply (or share the link): careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
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Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...
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Really cool initiative appreciating the work of early career researchers... Other research groups could definitely copy! 👏
