And, unfortunately, most academics don't see any issues in going to these events in the US.

This is me in 2017 after the first workshop on complex systems for high school students at Allameh Helli High School in Tehran. Teenage boys and girls were sitting next to each other, curious and full of questions. I loved that school. Seeing it damaged by US and Israeli bombs is heartbreaking.

Rules for thee, but not for me.

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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It is! Though I think "math tables" is the more boring and layperson friendly term.

That is an excellent title. Adjacency matrix best thing ever

"visualization" is a generous term to use here

When you have to scroll over two pages of AI-generated "summary" drivel to reach, you know, the text abstract written by the authors, you know the Elsevier people have really lost the plot

Yeah I think we're on the same page we're just seeking the perfectly catch one-liners that's all the rage these days XD

Interesting notion, though I'm not sure I agree. Complex systems have to be more than the sum of their parts because their mechanisms are not reducible to without said parts. In your line of thought I'd say that *complexity* is the difference between the complex system and the sumenof its parts

Well I can tell you that whatever role the bottom right person plays after the top figure's death is the main contention point that caused the sunni-shia division among muslims.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

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Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Today we launch ORION: a coordinated initiative to make open research information more inclusive, accessible and democratic. Our experience with GoogleBigQuery support collaborative and community solutions for ORI infrastructures, increasing sustainability & resilience.
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We have an amazing panel ready for you at NetSciX in Auckland!

Three New Preprints Published on arXiv We are glad to share that our group’s researchers have recently published three new preprints on arXiv, showcasing advances in network analysis and population-scale social systems.Link Fraction Mixed ...

Three new preprints from our group are now live on arXiv!

We explore community mixed membership in aggregated networks, fragmentation in a population-scale social network of the Netherlands, and how social capital shapes economic mobility.

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Thank you for the great event! Can't wait to see what you have lined up next👀

On Monday I was at @internetarchive.eu in Amsterdam for @jwyg.bsky.social talk about his new book, Public Data Cultures. Instant purchase!

If they exist then I haven't met them. I say this as a person surrounded by "normies."

I fail to see the bad news... One less slop-book to saturate the medium sounds like a win

@elisecutts.bsky.social spotted!

Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

A must-read, in my opinion

That's a very big if lol
Hopefully your ETA isn't *more* than 14hr right now😂

These people are losing their thought agency to just act as envoy for LLMs... "Second AI opinion" pffft
www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread...

Eleven killed at Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese brands attack on Jewish worshippers act of antisemitism and terrorism

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

Can people organizing academic conferences in the US please get a grip?

Upcoming International Workshop on Population-Scale Social Network research We are excited to announce that our team will be hosting an international workshop on population-scale social network research in December 2025. This invitation-only event is a follow-up to a previous...

One week to go! Next week we’re hosting an international workshop in Amsterdam on Population-Scale Social Network Analysis. Leading teams from five different countries will join us to share new insights and explore future collaborations. Learn more:

Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of participating in the NetSci 2025 conference in Maastricht.
Our team shared exciting new research across topics from social network dynamics to mobility, privacy, and community structure. We even brought home two awards!

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

Proud member of this great team! Stay tuned for more updates on our work soon👀