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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.
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insane moment in world history right here

submitted 15 days ago • 134 comments

The dynamics of microbial cooperation... Cheap metabolites make for shaky friendships; but pricier ones can keep the peace... 🦠 Thanks @janamassing.bsky.social for leading the charge! And great working again w/ @akfbio.bsky.social & @thilogross.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

New paper led by @janamassing.bsky.social, with @jdyeakel.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social, on dynamics of cooperative bacteria: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, new paper by @cleggtom.bsky.social and me is just out in @pnas.org. This combines a lot of things that start with B: Biodiversity, Bipartite Networks, Bifurcations, Bacteria, ... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... And yes, I know, Fig 1 looks like one of 'those' papers but please read on ...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Meet our group members! Time to hear about the wonderful @laurabarthm.bsky.social: "Hi, I’m Laura! I’m a physicist by training and a PostDoc researcher working with physics-informed neural networks to enhance the interpretability of ecological models and improve forecasting.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

I finally got around to edit the second part of the video on the walk (it mostly explains the math of how it was made). youtu.be/g52Lcr3rRHc (The first part is here: youtu.be/Mnaf2Y_ydq8 )

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody should read this ...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Meet our group members! Today let's hear from the wonderful @srilenak.bsky.social: "Hi, I’m Srilena, a HIPP postdoc in the Biodiversity Theory group. I have a background in Applied Mathematics with a research focus on theoretical ecology. My research approach combines mathematical modeling, ...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

new on @NaturePhysics review: "Network renormalization" www.nature.com/artiles/s422... Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.12988 #complexnetworks #brain #connectome

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Here is a lesser know background regarding the Trump Tarifs. You might have heard that so far they wiped out 6 trillion dollars (!!). But is this money really gone or is it just elsewhere? Most of it is currently being burned, and it is importnat to understand why ... [a short tread]

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

St Pierre et Miquelon lobster shock

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

Meet our group members! More postdocs to come. Today is the great Kate P. Maia: “Hello, I am Kate. I am an ecologist with a background on applying network theory to study mainly terrestrial mutualisms, such as the interactions between plants and pollinators.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

This picture summarizes very much what Ole does in our lab...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

About a week left to apply to join the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation as a postdoc!

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Meet our group members! Here‘s our next PhD candidate @mhab.bsky.social : “Hi, I’m Melanie. I have a background in environmental science with a passion for mathematical modeling. I mostly worked with ecological models and am fascinated by system dynamics. ...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Check out the great work by @nina-kastendiek.bsky.social on stability in adaptive networks, together with @thilogross.bsky.social, @r0b1nu5.bsky.social, Frank Hellmann at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social and myself!

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Meet our group members! We continue with our PhD candidates. Today @ranashj.bsky.social: "Hi, I'm Rana! I studied physics for both my bachelor's and master's degree. My favorite subjects were statistical physics and quantum mechanics. In my thesis I studied the evolution of social networks ...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

I have just (with a heavy heart) declined an invitation to the Santa Fe institute. Politics sucks.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Ashkaan describes it very well. Really excited about this paper. I think it enables a new way of studying ecological systems.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

submitted 71 days ago • 108 comments

I couldn't put it better, so I share this wonderful post. New paper out on arXiv! It's a collaborative work of our group members @mhab.bsky.social, @thilogross.bsky.social as well as our great colleagues @akfbio.bsky.social and @jdyeakel.bsky.social:

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

"Officials from federal institutions have requested the withdrawal of articles supported by federal funds, citing concerns that they address politically sensitive topics such as transgender health." ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10....

submitted 73 days ago • 9 comments

Everything this fucking guy does benefits Putin.

submitted 72 days ago • 13 comments

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

submitted 72 days ago • 96 comments