But it does still feel isolating sometimes. Still trying to figure out how it can feel less that way.

I feel very lucky to have (had) some kind, encouraging, and inspiring people around me, especially at some important times in my academic journey.

I also feel very isolated sometimes! I try to connect with other researchers but as an extremely introverted person it can take a lot of energy to build and maintain those connections. It has definitely helped a lot even when it can sometimes feel not worthwhile as connections naturally come and go.

📢Join us Thursday, March 6, at 11 AM (ET) on Zoom (link on website) for a discussion on:

🧠 Using Time-Aware Graph Neural Networks to Predict Temporal Centralities in Dynamic Graphs (NeurIPS 2024)

👥 Presented by Franziska Heeg (JMU Würzburg)

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We're organizing a NetSci'25 satellite workshop on Directed Acyclic Graphs — if you're working on, e.g., citation graphs, pedigrees, causality, temporal-network event graphs, network representations of spacetime, or any other areas where DAGs play a role, please contribute! www.dagshop.xyz

Announcing the 1st Satellite on Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science to be held at
@netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht, June 2-6.

We welcome contributed presentations on CSS research using understudied social network data (not X, Facebook etc.!): galeale.github.io/UNCSS/

NeurIPS 2024 Experiment on Improving the Paper-Reviewer Assignment – NeurIPS Blog Communications Chairs 2024 2024 Conference

Announcing the Results of the NeurIPS 2024 Experiment on Improving the Paper-Reviewer Assignment!

Physics is a point of view. Wise words from John Hopfield’s Nobel lecture. #NobelPrize

Phys. Rev. Research: Universal productivity patterns in research careers
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Phys. Rev. Research: Graph model for the clustering of dark matter halos
link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevResea...

Co-occurence network of politicians on Twitter across 9 countries.

New preprint We show that polarized social network structures align with out-group animosity, aka affective polarization, across nine different countries.

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With @baronca.bsky.social @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social and others.

Some highlights 👇

On Nov 30 & Dec 1 there will be a local meetup of the Learning on Graphs Conference at Technical University of Munich 👌
www.mdsi.tum.de/mdsi/log2023/

Organized by Ingo Scholtes, Bastian Rieck, and Stephan Günnemann.

New article out now showing how people in regions impacted by a Hurricane talk about climate change up to 200% more in the weeks following the event.

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With @baronca.bsky.social and others great researchers!