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PhD candidate, Complex Systems/Network Science (IT:U Linz): Inverse Complexity Lab (@invcomplexity.skewed.de) Website: https://bastikusch.github.io/ Co-organizer @netplace.bsky.social Contributor @complexity-core.bsky.social
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๐Ÿš€ After a series of successful panels in previous years, NetPlace returns to @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht with: "Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression" ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ June 2, 2025 | 1:00โ€“2:00 PM ๐Ÿ”— Details: netplace.site/event/netsci...

๐Ÿšจ Just 1 week to go! Join us in London ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง on May 16 for the NetPlace Workshop on Networks & Physics! Keynotes, collabathon, ERC-style pitches & more ๐Ÿง โš›๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฅ ๐Ÿ†“ Registration is free ๐Ÿ’ธ Travel/accommodation support available for those who register by Friday May 9 ๐Ÿ‘‰ netplace.site/event/netpla...

Take a look at this, there are still spots available, registration is free and we can provide some financial support if you register by this Friday! ๐Ÿ”ฅ (Spread the word)

To anyone who is in(terested in going to) London, NetPlace is organizing a one-day workshop on "Networks and Physics" on the 16th of May! More info here: netplace.site/event/netpla...

We're looking for a new colleague to join us in Maastricht as an Assistant/Associate Professor in statistical learning in our Data Analytics and Digitalisation department. Deadline to apply: June 8th vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

This is such a cool paper! Everyone interested in aligning (multiple, possibly unlabelled) graphs, give it a read!

Join us for a dynamic 1 day in-person workshop designed for young researchers eager to explore the intersection of Network Science and Physics! Time & location: Queen Mary University of London, 16 May 2025. Register here docs.google.com/forms/d/1LuJ... More details: netplace.site/event/netpla...

Happy to see this finally out in @natcomms.nature.com! ๐ŸŽ‰ "The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Amazing collaboration with @lgajo.bsky.social, @johanneswachs.bsky.social and @fede7j.bsky.social

"And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." Looking under the graph-tool hood gives this new meaning.

๐Ÿ”ฅ Hey NetPals! This week, we're excited to welcome William Thompson from the University of Vermont, who will talk about stochastic opinion dynamic models and share insights into finding (or not finding) your niche as a researcher. ๐Ÿ“… When: 17th Apr (tomorrow), 4pm UK time Zoom: netplace.site

The #ComplexSystems for the Most Vulnerable satellite is back! Are you a #Complexity scientist studying inequalities, climate change or health emergencies, just to name a few? Then submit your abstract by June 1st and join us at @css-conference.bsky.social in Siena in September: cs4v25.weebly.com

Data Stories is back! ๐ŸŽ‰ Does your research tell a story through data? Share it with us! ๐Ÿ‘€ ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Submit your visualizations by April 30: networkdatascience.ceu.edu/data-stories Join us May 20 at CEU Vienna (or online!) to celebrate the power of data viz. #DataStories11 #DataViz #CEU

It's underrated how much of a difference it makes when researchers in their home country help their colleagues navigate adjustments and bureaucracy! Good job @olejmueller.bsky.social !

In the second half of this week's seminar, we I'll have a discussion about volunteering in academia. You can help us by 1. Joining online! 2. Filling out the short survey (1 min) ๐Ÿ™

๐Ÿšจ New paper on ArXiv: โ€œUncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstructionโ€ TL;DR; We present an efficient method to sample the entire ensemble of possible network reconstructions that are compatible with an indirect observation, e.g. a dynamics. Short thread: 1/N

Early-Career Scientists: Want to Travel for Complex Systems Research? Weโ€™ve Got You! ๐ŸŒ Bridge: ๐ŸŒ‰ To build new collaborations! SECS: ๐ŸŽ“ To attend complexity science events! New for 2025: โšก Special grants for scientists from low-income countries. yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/ Apply by April 4th!

Press release on the CSS website: cssociety.org/event/581671...

๐Ÿš€ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ถ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ Call for ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€! ๐ŸŒโœˆ๏ธ NetSci 2025 is offering a limited number of travel grants to support individuals facing financial constraints, e.g., those from low and middle-income countries. ๐ŸŒ ๐—”๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜„: netsci2025.github.io/calls/

๐Ÿ“…Save the date! Join us next Monday (Mar 10th, 11 AM ET) for our next seminar by @emmafraxanet.bsky.social from Pompeu Fabra University, who will discuss polarization in online communities. Don't miss out! โœจ

๐Ÿ”ฅ Hey Pals, we're back! This week, we are happy to have Sagar Kumar (@diesagar.bsky.social) discussing models of information spread in populations and giving us his views on interdisciplinary research. ๐Ÿ“ท Save the date: 6th Mar, 4pm UK time Zoom: netplace.site

Hey NetPals! Facing financial constraints and you might not be able to attend NetSci 2025? We're pleased to announce that we have two registration fee waivers available for early-career researchers. If you are interested, complete this forms.gle/WCdtWiCvoEcn... by 3rd Mar.

Some further great news, we are happy to announce that @netplace.bsky.social is able to offer two registration fee waivers for ECRs with financial constraints for @netsciconf.bsky.social ๐Ÿ”ฅ Find more information below!

We created an outlet for you to keep track of seminars, workshops, conferences and community activities in network/complexity science, as well as resources to help you navigate all the different offers and ways to contribute! Follow and spread the word!

We are glad to present ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฑ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ ๐‚๐Ž๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐„๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ (๐‚๐Ž๐‘๐„) ๐ŸŽ‰ complexity-core.github.io ๐‚๐Ž๐‘๐„ is a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community.

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Hey NetPals ๐Ÿ”ฅ, weโ€™re planning to organize a NetPlace workshop in London and would love your input! Which topic would you find most interesting to discuss? Fill out the form and give us more feedback. Weโ€™d love to see you all in London! ๐Ÿ‘€ forms.gle/k1gBJ9B5CHr4...

๐Ÿ”ฅ Hey NetPals! This week, we're excited to have Alessia Antelmi, who will discuss the impact of group interactions on climate-related opinion change and the transition from PhD to researcher in academia ๐Ÿ“… Save the date: 20th Feb, 4pm UK time Zoom: netplace.site

๐Ÿš€ Weโ€™re officially on Bluesky! ๐Ÿ’™ The Women in Network Science (WiNS) Society connects and supports network scientists who identify as underrepresented genders in the field. Follow us for updates on events, opportunities, and exciting research from our community! #NetworkScience #WiNS

๐Ÿ”ฅ Hey NetPals! This week, we welcome Lucio La Cava @luciolcw.bsky.social from University of Calabria, who will discuss the rise of decentralized social media and challenges for early-career researchers in the age of big tech. ๐Ÿ“… Mark your calendars: 6th Feb, 4pm UK time Zoom: netplace.site

Iโ€™m looking for a new PhD student with a curious and interdisciplinary mindset to work on integrating multimodal data to better understand trajectories of mental and brain health disorders! Deadline of applications: Feb 16! Please spread the word. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO680/f...

Reminder to submit your work on understudied networks in CSS to our satellite at Netsci! Please share widely ๐Ÿ™Œ

This week #complexitycat offers you the review of an ambitious and recent paper led by @ricardsole.bsky.social, which seeks to unify different perspectives into the logic of life. What are the conceptual and narrative gaps left by this work? Explanation here ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ› amahury.github.io/posts/review...

Announcing the 1st Satellite on Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science to be held at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht, June 2-6. We welcome contributed presentations on CSS research using understudied social network data (not X, Facebook etc.!): galeale.github.io/UNCSS/

The @netsciconf.bsky.social satellite Network Science for the Sustainable Development Goals is back! Are you working on #networkscience methods for analyzing the #SDGs, including understanding and measuring vulnerabilities? Submit your abstract by Feb 20 ๐Ÿ‘‡ sites.google.com/view/netsci4....

Happy new year NetPlacers! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿฅณ Last year has been full of events, we have grown a lot thanks to all of you! We are very grateful โค๏ธ We wish this year will be even better, we'll try our best to improve and serve our community. We have some surprises for you, stay tuned! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

๐Ÿšจ Job alert ๐Ÿšจ IT:U is hiring 5 professors (open rank) in Data Science, very broadly defined! Focuses include (among others): 1. Theoretical Foundations of Data Science 2. Data Science in Biological Systems 3. Data Science in Human Mobility it-u.at/en/careers/p... 1/2

Women in Network Science has a satellite at NetSci 2025! Weโ€™re especially eager to receive abstract submissions from students on projects in progress. Please consider submitting :) priority deadline february 17th nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

๐Ÿ”ฅ Hey NetPals! This week, we welcome Francesco Bortolotti, who will discuss modeling social systems and interactions in the age of GenAI, covering methods, challenges, and real-world examples ๐Ÿ“Š๐Ÿค–. ๐Ÿ“… Mark your calendars: 12th Dec, 5pm UK (notice the time!) ๐Ÿ”— Join us on Zoom: netplace.site

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de 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 #networkscience