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Just your occasional reminder that NetSci-X will be hosted in Auckland in February 2026. Full CfP now on our conference website: netscix2026.github.io This is your chance to meet the network science community and visit Aotearoa New Zealand. 🧪 #networkscience #complexsystems

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⌛️The abstracts deadline has been extended! 🌍You have a couple of weeks for submitting your abstract proposal!

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Having a fantastic and inspiring time offering perspectives on complexity and complex systems to our emerging researcher community from @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social and getting so many thought provoking insights and questions back. Exactly what we're here for.

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Happy to see our paper "Conceptualizing the evolving nature of computational propaganda: a systematic literature review" published. Led by Hassan Mustafa, we explored the literature on computational propaganda and offer a new view to its conceptualization doi.org/10.1093/annc... 🧪 #PolSci #sociology

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Irreversible damage to science.

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Post-doc opportunity (three 2-year positions) in #NewZealand to work within our national Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems - @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social. www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2025/03/07/p... 🧪 #complexity #networkscience #AcademicSky

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PhD scholarship to work on one of the new transdisciplinary teams at @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social kicking off now. Advancing mathematical modelling to better understand early warning signals. Join us to do research in New Zealand!

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The most enduring pattern that human societies produce and reproduce is social inequality 🧵🧪

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Beyond humbled for #KindnessInScience & @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social to feature in @nature.com Careers with @climateadam.bsky.social. For more see @aisrayne.bsky.social et al. in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social here: bit.ly/3XpnD8V 🎨 @jobailey.bsky.social

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Café Complexité is back for the first session in 2025. Luke Edwards doing a whiteboard talk introducing basics of feedback. Good mix of researchers & people from practice engage on possibilities of complexity science to improve policy making, forecasting etc. 🧪 /cc @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social

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Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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In light of the Government's push to get a 'return on investment' (ROI) from research funding, perhaps it is as good a time as any to talk about just how hard it is to measure this supposed ROI for research in general. Let's take a trip into the weeds! ⬇️

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Five years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it can feel as if trust in the knowledge of experts and scientific evidence is in crisis 🧪🧵

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Led by @mind-evoculture.bsky.social, "Why We Need to Rethink Measurement Invariance: The Role of Measurement Invariance for Cross-Cultural Research", is out now. doi.org/10.1177/1069... #academicsky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #philsci /cc @jkarl.bsky.social

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In Wellington on coming Tuesday, 17th December, and interested in Complexity Science? Talk by @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social guest artist Dr Sione Faletau (www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/11/28/i...) at 1:30pm & "Pub Complexité" at Thistle Inn from 4pm. Message me if you'd like to RSVP for these.

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@tepunahamatatini.bsky.social is a Centre of Research Excellence hosted by The University of Auckland. I was allowed to write a piece for the Faculty of Science's inSCight magazine, offering a complexity science perspective to AI as it is brought into our world. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2024...

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Good people - it looks like I have a chance to strike back against those cherry picked Marsden titles in the science slot on RNZ tonight. What’s your cherry-picked example of the most amazing and successful Marsden results? Why? (Answers by 5 pm so I can prep please) 🍒

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Our (@cillaw.bsky.social and myself for @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social) perspective on the recently announced changes to the Marsden Fund and the Catalyst Fund. www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/12/05/c...

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A starter pack for researchers interested in #ComplexSystems. Complex system science investigates how interactions among multiple parts lead to collective behaviour, as well as how the system interacts and forms links with its environment - please add your name! go.bsky.app/FNYZ61y

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Really nice morning today with Prof Simon Angus from Monash, who presented about the use of LLMs to understand issue framing.

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Not sure what sort of platform Action Station use, but it has to be something reasonably robust or there would be a small river of molten copper coming out from under the door of a server closet somewhere... And you add to the load here: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...

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Here's the link for my inaugural professional lecture presented last month. Those who know me well will not be surprised that it is more about diversity and inclusion than plants. 🌿🌱 youtu.be/R7twxY5VExA?...

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📣 I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at the University of Maryland College of Information. Consider applying if you're interested in language, society/politics, and computers! Deadline Dec 3: ischool.umd.edu/academics/ph... And pls share with anyone who may be interested!

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Getting started publicising #NetSciX26 - the International School and Conference on Network Science - to be hosted in Auckland in Feb 2026. netscix2026.github.io Ever wanted to come to New Zealand? This may be your time. /cc @juniperlov.bsky.social @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social

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Last post in the @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social Complexity 101 blog series: making change in Complex Systems. www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/10/25/m... 🧪

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Amazing to have Ronald Fischer around in person for the first time in a few years. Inspiring talk this morning, touching on some of our previous work in the realm of computational text analysis to understand psychological constructs across space & time. Great discussion followed.

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Sometimes I just love leading @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social, with @mluczak.bsky.social. Hell yeah. Ake ake ake. #TeReoMaori www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/our-research...

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Earlier this week the New Zealand Economics Papers published a new paper of mine on Covid, where I was able to show that at least in one instance “the best health response was the best economic response”, to paraphrase Grant Robertson. 1/N www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The microbiome is the community of trillions of microorganisms living in, and on, the bodies of complex organisms – like people 🧪🧵

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Systems Design and Complex Systems Engineering faculty positions at U. Waterloo uwaterloo.ca/systems-desi...

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People who met me in recent weeks will know that I was quite occupied with the preparation of my inaugural lecture. It's now available to watch. I hope people like it and find something meaningful in it for themselves. youtu.be/G6AihORPHvg?... 🧪 #academicsky #Complexity #complexsystems

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New research featuring Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director @mluczak.bsky.social examines participation in the 2020 #StopHateForProfit coalition, a diverse social movement that operated online, and produced some successful outcomes 🧪 → doi.org/10.1145/3689...

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Excited to see our latest paper published. With Yevgeniya Li (lead author) & JG Bernard we studied digital traces of the #StopHateForProfit coalition social movement. doi.org/10.1145/3689... #research #science #networks #socialmedia #socialmovement #ideology

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So much techno-utopianism about AI, particularly from @InstituteGC, in recent months. Even the tiniest amount of experience of delivering digital/data/AI systems in the public sector would reveal it's a bit more complicated than that. 🧵 Ten challenges that need to be tackled...

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My inaugural lecture is coming up on 29th August in Wellington. Registration is now open.

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The correct audio to my interview with RNZ on the digital identity and trust framework is here (the article currently links to a wrong one): www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player...

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Aotearoa shifted closer towards digital credentials for access to online services last week with the launch of the Trust Framework Authority. Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director @mluczak.bsky.social explores what this means for our digital economy → bit.ly/3xYL0MN via @theconversation.bsky.social 🧪

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Some reflections on #digitalidentity, thinking about how it opens a window of opportunity to be ambitious and build a National #Data Infrastructure for Aotearoa #NewZealand. #platforms #architecture #digitalfuture theconversation.com/nz-is-moving...

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Interesting. In '16 people were oddly optimistic about augmented reality games in disaster response www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/h... We were more cautious in '17 and reflected on some issues arxiv.org/abs/1702.06610 Now players destroy maps for in-game gain arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/...

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Call for chapters: If you have done complex systems research, we are looking for case studies, reflecting on how research teams came together, developed questions, made methodological choices, undertook work, disseminated results www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/04/12/c... /cc @juniperlov.bsky.social

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We compared different ways to measure the strength of international research collaborations. Our case study is on the CANZUK group of countries. "Absolute and relative measures of CANZUK research partnerships’ strength since the 1950s" doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Read our latest 1-page research summary: Towards quantifying technical debt for veracity requirements. veracity.wgtn.ac.nz/wp-content/u...

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