𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary.
Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83
Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz

✨ Excited to announce 𝗬𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝗬𝗲𝗼𝗹 (𝗬𝗬) 𝗔𝗵𝗻 as a NetSci 2026 Plenary Speaker! A leading network and data scientist, YY explores how complex systems shape behavior, cognition, and discovery. Stay tuned for more speaker updates as we build toward an inspiring NetSci 2026! ✨
www.netsci2026.com/speakers

The School of Data Science welcomed nine new faculty in fall 2025. (From top down, left to right: YY Ahn,Hannah Bako, Peter Beling, Jordan Bryan, Tyler Cody, Lei Li, Daniel Graham, Karsten Siller, and Stephen Turner)

We recently welcomed nine new faculty members to the UVA School of Data Science. Read more about our faculty and their research: https://bit.ly/4pTHPMM

GitHub - skojaku/tobibtex Contribute to skojaku/tobibtex development by creating an account on GitHub.

One of the time-consuming tasks in paper writing is to curate bibtex for references. So I automated bibtex curation with an Alfred app that fetches entries from dx.doi.org using DOI or title. It saves time, reduces errors, and maintains consistent LaTeX keys. github.com/skojaku/tobi...

Looking forward to speak at this @embo.org Workshop event meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... to explore the origins of multicellular complexity along with great colleagues @multicellgenome.bsky.social @wcratcliff.bsky.social @viktri08.bsky.social I will be discussing synthetic multicellularity.

📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

Adventures in State Space YouTube video by 2swap

A beautiful visualization of the state space of puzzles, 11 min of joy, h/t @danlarremore.bsky.social

Happy to welcome a group of attendees from the Europe Korea Conference on Science and Technology on Campus this week. Thank you for your interest in Vienna BioCenter and the research conducted here! #viennabiocenter

@imbavienna.bsky.social @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social

Last week we had our second “Inverse Complexity Lab Retreat” at wonderful Traunkirchen!

skewed.de/lab/group.ht...

Nothing like eldritch C++ incantations by the sunny lakeside! 🏖️

Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides Migration is central in various societal problems related to socioeconomic development. While much of the existing research has focused on international migration, migration patterns within a single c...

New preprint: “Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides”, with @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, Martina Contisciani, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503

Geometry induced by network-driven processes used to find functional rich clubs in #ComplexSystems

The method also identifies non-rich nodes which are crucial for information flows btw rich nodes.

Plus? It has a clear statistical interpretation.

🧪🧠🧬🪰 #NetSky

journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks - Nature Communications Network alignment is a fundamental problem in several domains that aims at mapping nodes across networks. Here, the authors develop a probabilistic approach that assumes that observed networks are err...

📰New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com! We have developed a probabilistic approach that allows for the accurate alignment of multiple networks

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great work by Teresa Lázaro on her first article (of many to come)!

Some highlights 👇🏽🧵

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...

"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.

A couple of weeks ago we had our first “Complexity Lab Retreat” at great location in Traunkirchen!

skewed.de/lab/group.ht...

We had the opportunity to flex our methodological muscles and learn the dark secrets of the C++ internals of @graph-tool.skewed.de! 💀🤘

A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...

"The approach developed here provides a framework for linking microbial traits to Earth’s geochemical history, offering a pathway for exploring the evolution of other phenotypes in the context of Earth’s history"

#ComplexSystems #evolution 🧪🦠🌎🌐

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that” – Richard Feynman

Much like an interrogation method that extracts a confession from an innocent. What kind of decision can be made from such a confession?

Modularity maximization is perfect if you just want to clown around with your data!

Modularity maximization considered harmful – Tiago P. Peixoto Inverse Complexity Lab

Periodic reminder that you should not be doing community detection using modularity maximization, if you're a serious person.

skewed.de/lab/posts/mo...

Data Stories Promotional Poster.

Data Stories is back! 🎉

Does your research tell a story through data? Share it with us! 👀

🗓️ 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

Network Reconstruction via the Minimum Description Length Principle A new information-theoretic approach to analyzing complex systems uncovers hidden networks by minimizing data complexity, a method that improves accuracy and efficiency.

Happy that this just came out on PRX:

“Network Reconstruction via the Minimum Description Length Principle”

journals.aps.org/prx/abstract... 1/3

Open postdoc position at @ceu-dnds.bsky.social in Vienna in the Computational Human Dynamics Lab of @martonkarsai.bsky.social on inequalities in 15-minutes cities in collaboration with www.dut-coline.org. Check it out: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P...
@ic2s2.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social

“Theory-free science” is only conceivable to those that see science itself — understanding — as a nuisance; an obstacle to be overcome in the quest for productivity. Even through this corrupted prism, the concept is ill-conceived and ill-fated.

Network reconstruction from dynamics and behavior In some cases, direct measurements of the edges of a network are either impossible, or can be done only at significant experimental cost. In such situations, we need to infer the network of interactio...

As usual, our algorithms are freely available as part of the @graph-tool.skewed.de library, with documentation: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/doc/d...

Enjoy! N/N

🚨 New paper on ArXiv:

“Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction”

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

🚀 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 Call for 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀! 🌍✈️

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.
🌐 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘄: netsci2025.github.io/calls/

Ever wonder if it’s better to join a large or small research group when looking for a mentor 🔬? In our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper we show that large labs can supercharge early-career impact but come with a higher dropout risk, while smaller groups better support researcher retention.

Why does the world keep investing in fossil fuels? YouTube video by DW Planet A

Nice video from Deutsche Welle covering our recent work on why the phase-out of fossil fuel financing from the banking sector has failed, and what could be done about it.

The sector is resilient to uncoordinated phase-out, so change will only happen with new regulation.

youtu.be/TheOwOyC504?...

Why is it so hard to rewrite a genome? Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes. But the hidden complexity of biological systems continues to surprise them.

Synthetic biologists discuss with Nature why it’s so hard to write a genome. “We underestimated how complex biology is.” 🧪 🧬