Thilo Gross
@thilogross.bsky.social
Simplifier of things. bridgewalker. Island-person. Nets and Complexity. Prof of Biodiversity Theory. Former Prof. of Computer Science, Reader in Eng. Maths. Once a Physicist. Interested in art and language and generally making the world a better place.
@thilogross.bsky.social has shared with us how to tackle this and other challenges facing transdisciplinary research. Read the full interview here: hifmb.de/the-idea-beh... The call for the Human Progress project with 5 postdoc positions is open until July 20. @awi.de
François Primeau, a UC Irvine professor, developed mathematical and computational ocean models that helped us understand the ocean's role in global climate. He was killed on his bike by someone driving a car. 🌊
Orange County bicyclist fatally struck by hit-and-run driver in Santa Ana
It happened at around 6:15 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Standard Avenue and Warner Avenue, Santa Ana Police Department officers said in a news release shared on social media.
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It's coming ... will be fun.
NetSci 2026@netsciconf.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe torch has been passed! 🔥 As our final #NetSci2026 post, we're thrilled to welcome the hosts of #NetSci2027: SynoSys, Center Synergy of Systems, and Technische Universität Dresden. 🇩🇪✨ Boston was unforgettable, now it's time to count down to Dresden. See you on the Elbe!
Periodic reminder that, contrary to widespread claims in recent years, it’s not true that graphs encode “pairwise” interactions. Graphs encode neighborhoods—sets of nodes incident to other nodes—on which multivariate interactions can be defined. skewed.de/lab/posts/hi... 1/2
Higher orders need higher standards – Inverse Complexity Lab
Research group on inverse problems in complex systems and network science.
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#3/5 of our open Postdoc positions will critically examine mathematical modelling from a human angle and seek to empower people to discuss and question mathematical models. We believe that if models can be challenged in new ways, modeling can only profit. #human_progress hifmb.de/institute/hi...
HIPP 27: HUMAN PROGRESS - HIFMB Oldenburg
The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...
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My master's thesis got published in Physical Review E🥳! Thanks to @thilogross.bsky.social for the supervision. We develop a meta-community opinion model and use a master stability function approach to find conditions where pattern formation facilitates diversity. Read here: arxiv.org/abs/2508.15377
Diffusion-driven pattern formation in an opinion dynamical network model
The spatial organization of individuals and their interactions in communities are important factors known to preserve diversity in many complex systems. Inspired by metapopulation models from ecology,...
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The second of our five new #human_progress postdoc positions will analyse maritime logbooks and other materials from the www.prizepapers.de dataset, a large collection of documents captured by pirates! Let's find out what they reveal about the oceans! hifmb.de/institute/hi...
prizepapers // Prizepapers
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#1 of 5 open PostDoc posts will study how the words we use reveal our thinking about the marine environment. Did you know that most prospective marine protected areas are named after sea-floor features? And, who has the power to name areas, species, etc? How does this affect the research agenda?
Thilo Gross@thilogross.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am so excited about this: We are doing a new kind of project with the aim of transporting knowledge and methods from the humanities into a natural science context. We'll have 5 full 3yr postdoc positions! I will post more in the coming week. But here is a preview: hifmb.de/institute/hi...
I am so excited about this: We are doing a new kind of project with the aim of transporting knowledge and methods from the humanities into a natural science context. We'll have 5 full 3yr postdoc positions! I will post more in the coming week. But here is a preview: hifmb.de/institute/hi...
HIPP 27: HUMAN PROGRESS - HIFMB Oldenburg
The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...
hifmb.de
Mind the gap! Next stop: Biodiversity Theory Our working group just digitized our research landscape using a classic London Tube map design. Every line is a team member; every station is a core topic or application we tackle. Check it out and see where our work interconnects!
Paper alert! Did you ever think that counting the many different structures you can get from the chemical composition is hard? We've got the paper that shows you how to do it. Here's the newest publication by Rana Shojaei (@ranashj.bsky.social) and Thilo Gross (@thilogross.bsky.social).
Rana Shojaei@ranashj.bsky.social · 4mo agoVery excited to share that our paper with @thilogross.bsky.social , “Counting Chemical Isomers with Multivariate Generating Functions,” has been published in Network Science. doi.org/10.1017/nws.... #network_structure #multivariate_generating_function #Pólya’s_theorem #symmetry #moleculardiversity
I always thought that dark academia was a sub-genre of fiction. Anyway, this is worth reading ... merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study
The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it
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This was a fun project. Working with some old but very cool maths... #netsci people will like.
Rana Shojaei@ranashj.bsky.social · 4mo agoVery excited to share that our paper with @thilogross.bsky.social , “Counting Chemical Isomers with Multivariate Generating Functions,” has been published in Network Science. doi.org/10.1017/nws.... #network_structure #multivariate_generating_function #Pólya’s_theorem #symmetry #moleculardiversity
Next week, my course on Networks and Complexity is starting again, which is always taught online. We have some space left for international students. Lectures will be on mondays and thursdays 16:00-18:00 CEST. Starting 9th. 24 Lectures total. More info in the reply.
We have a very attractive open position: Professorship in Coastal Paleoecology uol.de/en/job/coast...
Senior scientific director of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (A16) in conjunction with the Professorship for Coastal Palaeoecology (W3) // University of Oldenburg
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POSTDOC POSITION --- Bernd Blasius has just opened a PostDoc position to model viral evolution. The project is a collaboration with me Dirk Brockmann and famous virologist Christian Drosten, among others. uol.de/en/job/postd...
Postdoctoral Position in Modelling Epidemic Dynamics and Viral Evolution // University of Oldenburg
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Oh look, that's me :D Here's a newsletter article about my latest paper with @akfbio.bsky.social, @jdyeakel.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social about functional motifs in networks.
HIFMB@hifmb.de · 5mo ago» A new simplification in modeling enables us to predict system failures before they begin. « (@mhab.bsky.social) How? ➡️ Read in our latest newsletter: 241806.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/16915050 Also news about Red Sea coral reef protection, BBNJ, a new working group and... a special cemetery 😱
I see a bipartite network. (This is about arXiv:2602.16937 "Graphs are maximally expressive...")
Maximilian Schich@schichmax.bsky.social · 6mo agoBest served with Ballentine's Ale Beer: mathworld.wolfram.com/BorromeanRin...
This was a fun generalized modelling project with @janamassing.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @jdyeakel.bsky.social. Bacteria really need generalized models to make the maths fit properly.
Jana C. Massing@janamassing.bsky.social · 5mo agoHey math and microbiology enthusiasts! 🧮🦠 If you’re curious about bacterial cross-feeding and want to see generalized modeling in action, this paper might be right up your alley. Big thanks to @akfbio.bsky.social, @thilogross.bsky.social, @jdyeakel.bsky.social - I learned a ton from you all!
If you like matrices + microbes, have I got the paper for you. Work with @janamassing.bsky.social, @jdyeakel.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We study dynamics of cooperative bacteria without specifying a conventional model: doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
I'm so proud of this project I did two years ago with Jonathan Ashley. It's an essay and web comic about how historical archives deserve to be treated as more than just fuel for AI training. I wrote a scripting system for the web comic, and also spent nearly a full year with writing and research.
A Search for the Heart: Digital collections, machine learning and legacies of care
Machine learning models are hungry for content from libraries and cultural insitutions. How can we imagine ways these technologies might help people and communities, while also being mindful of risks ...
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What causes tipping points in complex microbial ecosystems? Check this @pnas.org paper by @thilogross.bsky.social showing that cross-feeding networks create strong interdependencies & small structural changes can trigger abrupt collapses. @akhilesh-nandan.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Very happy to be part of this project. My take on it is, hypergraph or network can describe the same systems and yield the same phenomena. The decision really comes down to if you want to work with matrices or higher-order tensors to explore these phenomena.
Leto Peel@piratepeel.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew preprint w/ @tiago.skewed.de, @manlius.bsky.social & @thilogross.bsky.social! Graph edges define the interaction domain — functional form is free Hyperedges constrain by grouping nodes into subsets: special case, not a generalisation Multilayer graphs represent any hypergraph — not vice versa
Very excited to share this new exploration of motifs and their impacts on the dynamics of the entire network in PNAS! I learned a lot working with this crew (as usual)... with @mhab.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social !
Ashkaan K. Fahimipour@akfbio.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew paper with @mhab.bsky.social @jdyeakel.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social out now in @pnas.org! We show when and why you can know something about an entire network, just by knowing the behavior of it's building blocks: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
New paper with @mhab.bsky.social @jdyeakel.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social out now in @pnas.org! We show when and why you can know something about an entire network, just by knowing the behavior of it's building blocks: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Functional motifs in food webs and networks | PNAS
When studying a complex system, it is often useful to think of the system as a network of interacting units. One can then ask if some properties of...
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Tomorrow IRL markets in Philly start, which means a bunch of squid facts shop items will sell out! We have a few Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirts (designed by @franzanth.bsky.social) left. They're comfy & colors printed great! Once they're gone that's it. Get 'em now: SquidFacts.net
Simply amazing how this is happening and US media is focusing only on absolute nonsense. Now that Ellison and Weiss will control most of media, hard denial of climate crisis will be locked in.
I know why they're doing it, but it's gross to see the logic of power being used to protect the powerful. The opposite of the ideals of a democratic society, all for a revenue stream already larger than most institutions in the history of human capitalism. Grim.
Pablo Manríquez@pabloreports.bsky.social · 10mo agoSCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
