View over the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen
Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026.
We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....
Let's say it's a feedback loop then. Because [No moderation] -> [flood of bad preprints] -> [we need peer review to call it science] is the counterfactual that could have saved us.
Now we need pre-preprints to get work out without the delays/gatekeeping of moderation. It's too easy to be cynical. 🙄
I'm pretty sure it is the biggest factor. It has removed the simple argument that a manuscript becomes science after it has passed peer review. Now I read statements (about manuscripts in CVs) like "passed moderation at a prestigious preprint archive."
That moderation has turned preprints into publication-light is the upsetting thing in all of this. When preprinting was only about timestamping your results, it was immune to fake/mad/pseudo science. (Moderating against hate, racism, etc., is good tho.)
Network of the day. From pin.it/4k3aQ9JZ0
Respectful indeed! Not like the discussion page for the colors of the Italian flag, which is a rabbit hole you will now descend into: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_ta...
Network of the day: A bunch of trees and their mycorrhizal links to illustrate (the later discredited) wood-wide-web hypothesis.
From: www.pinterest.com/pin/55415392...
Network of the day: Scottish companies from John Scott's Social Network Analysis (1991).
It's been five years since our Eurasian Summit for Models of Society. What a stellar line-up we had. 🤩
Ah, those were the days! The pandemic was on, and anything seemed possible (at least as far as Zoom conferences go).
Network of the day: Japanese educational poster about the different materials and resources produced by / deriving from the forest industry.
A humble blog post about a recent Science essay by James Evans et al. What can we say about the future collective intelligence of AI agents today? 🤖
petterhol.me/2026/03/20/s...
Wasn't there a unique time window, maybe those born between 1870 and 1970, for whom youth culture became completely incomprehensible when they became middle-aged
I was totally expecting such a moment (e.g., kids listening to humpback whales), but no, it is just the same stuff repeating.
Next up in our colloquium series: Guido Caldarelli, truly a network science pioneer, representing a European country famous, in addition to Prof. Caldarelli himself, for its exquisite cuisine and the two Nintendo brothers.
Register here: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Definitely! Monuments should be raised and streets renamed! 😉
Fun fact: It came out of a self-imposed homework in a reading group and took less than two weeks from idea to submitted paper.
Less fun fact: The distribution of triangles that it generates is different from real social networks, making HK networks more fragile than real ones.
The Holme-Kim model got a paragraph in this piece about networks and nonlinear stuff in PRE over the years 🥳 journals.aps.org/over-30-years
Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab.
🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE)
🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX)
2-y positions | Start June 2026
#epidemiology #networks #matrices
Bipartite network of the day: Metalloids and their compounds from Youmans' Chemical Atlas 1856.
Kalkonmallen
New paper out in Nature Communications: 🚨📄https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70369-4
We hope to bring some oldskool netsci vibes to the weekend, dusting off the understudied characteristic of shortest-path multiplicity.
Title page of the paper.
🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social
Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data.
Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)
one season follows another . . my mix-tape for the spring 2026. 90 minutes, to fit your BASF:
open.spotify.com/playlist/02n...
yes! I should read SAOB more, it would be cool to drop a phrase like "ymnig vedergällning i vänners tillgifvenhet" now and then :D
I only know "vedergällning" in the sense of "retaliation" . . it certainly looks like it means "compensation" here, but with the gun in the picture, I would be nervous to return the bag . .
Nice find!
Yes, that much I think we (Scandinavians) even learned in school. 😊 But I'm curious what defines the other edges (in the background)? @abbasrizi.bsky.social told me some, but not all, are bloodlines. Do you see any pattern in the selection of nodes and edges?
Network of the day:
Turkish 16th-century miniature showing the Prophet Muhammad, the Rashidun Caliphs, and people related to them in various ways.
From commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tu... Shout out to
@abbasrizi.bsky.social for clarifications
Are you a social network researcher using mixed methods?
We invite you to contribute to the "Mixed Methods for Social Network Analysis" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social
Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus...
See you in Sweden!
Network of the day: The piping of an Iraqi refinery.
From dame.exeter.ac.uk/en/home/
The Song of the Banyan Tree
@jasonsinghthing, the Mozart (or maybe Brian Eno) of Biosonfication, attaches electrodes to our banyan tree to record its biofeedback and turn into a soundtrack for Tishani Doshi to dance to @oliviafraserart's British Council show, A Journey Within, opening Thursday
