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abovet.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Network Science at the University of Zurich - Networks, Computational Social Science, Complex Systems, Data Science He/Him
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Check out our paper on Bluesky's network, polarization, and feeds just published in @plosone.org. We also provide the code to reproduce the results and download Bluesky's data for your research: github.com/dorianquelle...

Bluesky users are "predominantly left-center" but are divided over Israel/Palestine - study by @dorianquelle.bsky.social @abovet.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

๐Ÿ“ข We've extended the deadline for early-bird registrations to 6 March 2025 (23:59 CET) to give you a bit more time to register! netsci2025.github.io/registration/

There is still time left!

Hurry up! Only 4 days left to submit your abstract! Donโ€™t leave any networks understudied -submit your contribution now!

๐Ÿšจ TIME TO VOTE ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Iโ€™m super excited to nominate myself for the yrCSS community! ๐ŸŽ‰ Iโ€™ve loved being part of bottom-up initiatives for young researchers, and Iโ€™d love to help make yrCSS even more engaging, supportive, and fun! Here is a thread on my nomination:

Weโ€™re excited to announce the next keynote speaker at TENET satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social, Farimah Poursafaei (McGill University, Canada) ๐Ÿ—ฃ Deep Learning Practices in Temporal Networks ๐Ÿ“… Submit your abstract by Feb 7 ๐Ÿ‘‰ tinyurl.com/27ntstep Stay tuned for more speakers! ๐Ÿš€ #NetSci2025 #Tenet2025

๐Ÿ“ข TENET@ @netsciconf.bsky.social (June 2) Speaker announcement: ๐ŸŽค @martonkarsai.bsky.social, Central European University, Austria "Static representations of temporal networks and what they are good for" ๐Ÿ“… Submit your abstract by Feb 7 (info here: tinyurl.com/27ntstep) #NetSci2025 #Tenet2025

Just a week left to submit your abstract to our @netsciconf.bsky.social satellite on Understudied Networks in CSS. Join us and our fantastic speaker @abovet.bsky.social for this important event aiming to diversify the social networks we study ๐Ÿ™Œ Deadline February 10th ๐Ÿ‘‡

Working on temporal networks? Donโ€™t miss this chance to present your work and hear from exceptional speakers: @martonkarsai.bsky.social Naoki Masuda, Farimah Poursafaei, & Petter Holme! ๐Ÿš€ Deadline: Feb 7 โณ #TemporalNetworks #Netsci2025

Interested in temporal networks and machine learning? Don't miss the TENET Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social! You can still submit an abstract to present your work.

๐Ÿ“ข Speaker Alert for TENET@NetSci 2025 (June 2): Naoki Masuda, Prof. @ SUNY Buffalo, USA Talk: "Node-state dynamics view of temporal networks" ๐Ÿ“… Submit your abstract by Feb 7: tinyurl.com/27ntstep More updates are coming soon! #NetSci2025 #Tenet25

Today, we had the pleasure of hearing Alessandro Galeazzi, Assistant Professor at the University of Padova, share his insights on Unveiling Echo Chambers and Usersโ€™ Opinions on Online Social Media. A fantastic talk that sparked great questionsโ€”grazie mille, @galessandro.bsky.social !

This morning, a pirate took control of the workshop! ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ Leto Peel, navigated us through The Broken Links of Network Science with sharp insights and plenty of thought-provoking ideas. Thank you, Captain Leto, for guiding us to the treasure of network science! ๐Ÿ™Œ

๐Ÿ“ขIf youโ€™re interested in Temporal Networks, consider joining the TENET satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht! ๐Ÿ”ŽWe accept one-page abstracts concerning all aspects of temporal network theory, as well as real-world applications. ๐Ÿ“…Deadline: February 7 more info here ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป tinyurl.com/27ntstep

If you could not submit your abstract on temporal network to NetSci in time, submit it to TENET, the temporal networks satellite with @martonkarsai.bsky.social , Naoki Masuda, Farimah Poursafaei and @pholme.bsky.social as invited speakers.

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Anne Roefs, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience of Abnormal Eating at Maastricht University "Chasing rainbows or finding gold: The network approach to understanding and treating psychopathology" #NetSci2025

Today is the last day to submit your abstracts. Submit before midnight (anywhere on earth). #NetSci2025

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Iza Romanowska, Postcapitalist Economic Systems Architect & Senior Researcher, Aarhus University "Can the past save our future?" #NetSci2025

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Sonia Kรฉfi, CNRS research director & Chair of the department CHANGE at ISEM & External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute "How ecological systems respond to stress" #NetSci2025

Here's a quick recap of the NetSci 2025 speakers announced so far: @lindadouw.bsky.social, @jsaramak.bsky.social, @zdeborova.bsky.social, Iza Romanowska, Sonia Kefi, Michael Macy, @manlius.bsky.social, Huijuan Wang. #NetSci2025

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Tiago Pereira, Professor of Mathematics at the Universidade de Sรฃo Paulo & Visiting Professor at Imperial College London "๐˜Œ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜บ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด" #NetSci2025

There's only one week left to submit your abstracts to #NetSci2025

Since I've been here for a whileโ€ฆ here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! ๐Ÿงต

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Jari Saramรคki, Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University "Networks in Time and Space" #NetSci2025 @jsaramak.bsky.social

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Huijuan Wang, Associate Professor at TU Delft & Co-founder of NetSci NL & Chair of NPCS & Board member of NetSci "๐˜›๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ-๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ด" #NetSci2025

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science ๐Ÿงช disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" โœ‚๏ธ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... ๐Ÿงต 1/

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Michael Macy, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology at Cornell University and Director of the Social Dynamics Lab "๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ" #NetSci2025

We don't plan to have any deadline extension this year! Don't miss the deadline ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

๐Ÿ”ฅ Hey NetPals! Just your friendly seminar recap. Last time, we welcomed Yuan Zhang from the University of Zurich, who talked about selective exposure and echo chambers on social media.

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Manlio de Domenico, Associate Professor at UniPD & Head of CoMuNe Lab & President of CSS Italy & Co-founder and Co-director of MSCX "Network science in a complex world: broken, lost and future links" #NetSci2025 @manlius.bsky.social

These deadlines are approaching soon โ€” we do not intend to extend these deadlines! Don't miss out! Satellite proposals: 2 December Abstract submissions: 9 December #NetSci2025

๐Ÿ“ข NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Lenka Zdeborovรก, Associate Professor of Physics and Computer Science at EPFL and Head of the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory Talk title: "Statistical Physics of Computation" #NetSci2025

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

๐ŸšจFunded PhD position at UCL Computer Science! ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’ป Learn how to use and develop LLMs, RL, Networks, and Agent-Based Models to forecast the impact of #AI in society and pathways towards a #net-zero economy. ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #MachineLearning #ComplexSystems #GreenTransition #PhD

Please spread the word to the PhDs/Postdocs around you! and also fill the form yourself if you are not already in the PC

Announcing our first speaker for NetSci 2025... Linda Douw, Associate Professor at Amsterdam UMC and Head of the Multiscale Network Neuroscience Lab ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ธ ๐—ง๐—ถ๐˜๐—น๐—ฒ: "๐˜”๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ: ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด"

If you have the feeling that @bsky.app is different, maybe you are right. The current migration is breaking the typical rich-get-richer effect wrt other platforms #scaling Data: Twitter: 10.9M users BlueSky (Mar 2024): 4.1M users, ๐Ÿ™ @andreajpg.bsky.social Mastodon: 3.8M users, ๐Ÿ™ @tiago.skewed.de

NetSci 2025 is happening in Maastricht, 2-6 June 2025. The deadline for submitting abstracts is: **9 December 2024** The dates are early this time so plan accordingly! More details on the website: netsci2025.github.io #NetSci2025