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...
Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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
@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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New episode of my 5.0 star rated podcast Too Lazy to Read the Paper is up. This ep is called "Too Lazy to use Claude Code for Research", with awesome guest @yyahn.bsky.social We talk about agentic coding: practicalities, benefits, perils. The whole package. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jo9...
Too Lazy to Use Claude Code for Research
YouTube video by Sune Lehmann
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New on the blog: A short post on reading in the age of AI. My rule: zero AI fiction. But I'm open to using LLMs to learn (yet uneasy that every prompt is a vote against Wikipedia and the open knowledge commons ... and many other issues). sunelehmann.com/blog/reading...
What's gained and lost in reading AI text?
Sune Lehmann — networks, complexity, and the occasional blog post.
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The 2023 metaphor for an LLM was a Shoggoth with a smiley face: a Lovecraftian monster in a thin human mask. In my new blogpost, I try to figure out how to update it for 2026. sunelehmann.com/blog/shoggot...
Shoggoths and Dragons
Sune Lehmann — networks, complexity, and the occasional blog post.
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ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)
Hey people of Amsterdam! I'll be in town May 19–20 for the IAS Festival 2026 with two talks back-to-back: a Tuesday-evening public lecture (with cocktails and live music) and a Wednesday-morning academic reflecting on "laws of human behavior" is even a thing. Details
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....
Fantastic opportunity to study tipping points and social contagion 👇 using large scale data
Kristian Roed Nielsen@roednielsen.bsky.social · 4mo ago📢 3-year Postdoc at Copenhagen Business School Join our project that explores how social contagion and individual thresholds affect tipping points in sustainable behavior. You’ll work with: 🔹 Large-scale behavioral data 🔹 Experiments 🔹 Computational models of diffusion 📅 Start: Sept 2026 (flex.)
Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel. Great work by Silvia de Sojo, @sunelehmann.com and Laura Alessandretti. arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943
Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel
Our understanding of gender differences in mobility is marked by a clear tension: surveys portray women's movements as more complex than men's, while digital traces suggest less diverse travel. Here, ...
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I wrote briefly about how to do peer review for students: yyahn.com/wiki/Peer%20... Also includes some other advices from others including @jessicacalarco.com @robjhyndman.com Matt Might and so on.
How to do peer review
Reviewing papers has many benefits. We can learn about new research; the process of reviewing forces us to critically examine a paper, which is what we...
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Going to Netsci in Boston in June? Interested in access to data from the National Internet Observatory, including our RFPs on AI chatbots, browsing behavior, search, and more to come over the next few months? Sign up for our workshop at Netsci: national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...
Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory
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Chinese farmer loads pig onto drone, accidentally flies into power line, causes blackout
The map equation turned 16 a week ago. Since @carlbergstrom.com and I published Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure in PNAS: hierarchical, higher-order, temporal, overlapping variants. Our new ACM tutorial maps the landscape we created. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3779648
How does this fantastic video by the great @nachristakis.bsky.social only have 290 views www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2O... !?!! At 2m47s he talks about the amount of time he can sometimes personally spend on crafting emails. I won't spoil it here, but I felt seen! So ridiculously great.
How to Write an Email
YouTube video by For the Love of Science
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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.
Hey Danes. As part of a project on something completely different, the always brilliant @louisboucherie.com generated these maps of voting in Denmark. Maybe it’s me, but I can’t remember seeing DK voting at this resolution. IMHO the maps are neat & interesting sunelehmann.com/2025/12/18/h...
Hi-resolution voting maps of Denmark
As part of a project on something completely different, the always brilliant Louis Boucherie generated these maps of voting in Denmark during the 2022 general election [1]. Maybe it’s me, but…
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Oh no! The sadness of seeing giants fall. Heros becoming ex-heros. Now it turns out that Oliver Sachs is a fraud too 😱😭 Insanely great piece in The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202.... More links at kottke.org/25/12/the-li... (where I first saw this)
Super excited to work with great team of coauthors and play a (small) part in putting this excellent overview of higher order networks together!
Anxo Sánchez@anxo.eurosky.social · 8mo agoNew review paper on how we need to study hypergraphs to understand human behavior! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great collaboration with Fede Battiston, @onkar01.bsky.social, @valeriocapraro.bsky.social, Fariba Karimi, @sunelehmann.com, Andrea Bamberg Migliano and Matjaz Perc
This seems totally OK and not like a problem at all
Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 8mo agoGrading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
One of the time-consuming tasks in paper writing is to curate bibtex for references. So I automated bibtex curation with an Alfred app that fetches entries from dx.doi.org using DOI or title. It saves time, reduces errors, and maintains consistent LaTeX keys. github.com/skojaku/tobi...
GitHub - skojaku/tobibtex
Contribute to skojaku/tobibtex development by creating an account on GitHub.
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📌 Save the Date! The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science. Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
It was a ton of fun to play a small role in this project lead by the brilliant Marta Ewa Lech & @jonassjuul.bsky.social. A lot of drama & change in the world of music reflected in the song-dynamics of the Billboard Hot 100!
Jonas L Juul@jonassjuul.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew paper out in EPJ Data Science! We analyze 65 years of Billboard Hot 100 data to ask: 🎵Are songs moving differently up and down the chart nowadays? 📉 Are hits shorter-lived? 📈 Or do superstars dominate more than ever? Paper: epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.... 🧵 1/7
New paper out in EPJ Data Science! We analyze 65 years of Billboard Hot 100 data to ask: 🎵Are songs moving differently up and down the chart nowadays? 📉 Are hits shorter-lived? 📈 Or do superstars dominate more than ever? Paper: epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.... 🧵 1/7
🎶 If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel On your knees, boy … She's the wave, she turns the tide She sees the man inside the child … It's all right, it's all right, it's all right She moves in mysterious ways 🎶 (Unless you normalize using the pair distribution function)
Louis Boucherie@louisboucherie.com · 11mo ago* Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility * 🌍🚶 How much of our movement is about human choice and how much is constrained by geography and the spatial layout of locations? Our paper (out in Nature Human Behavior) gives you a practical way to tell: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In this article, Boucherie et al. apply physics-based models to the arrangement of locations to study how geography shapes human movement. They find an underlying pattern in how people choose to move, independent of geographical layout.
Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility - Nature Human Behaviour
Boucherie et al. apply physics-based models to the arrangement of locations to study how geography shapes human movement. They find an underlying pattern in how people choose to move, independent of geographical layout.
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