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....
Fantastic opportunity to study tipping points and social contagion ๐ using large scale data
Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel. Great work by Silvia de Sojo, @sunelehmann.com and Laura Alessandretti.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943
Also this classic Simpson's episode comes to mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rF...
I wrote briefly about how to do peer review for students: yyahn.com/wiki/Peer%20...
Also includes some other advices from others including @jessicacalarco.com @robjhyndman.com Matt Might and so on.
Going to Netsci in Boston in June? Interested in access to data from the National Internet Observatory, including our RFPs on AI chatbots, browsing behavior, search, and more to come over the next few months? Sign up for our workshop at Netsci:
national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...
Chinese farmer loads pig onto drone, accidentally flies into power line, causes blackout
Modeling and mapping flow with the map equation framework.
The map equation turned 16 a week ago. Since @carlbergstrom.com and I published Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure in PNAS: hierarchical, higher-order, temporal, overlapping variants. Our new ACM tutorial maps the landscape we created. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3779648
I'm pretty sure I've spent 4 hours thinking about how to craft an email for you specifically!! :D
PPS I also feel weird about posting a light, fun email into a 2026 feed of doom. As if it's somehow inappropriate. But I decided to go ahead anyway - we also need a bit of lightness once in a while.
PS I realize that the insane amount of time I spend on emails (and the power-law distribution of time I spend on each one) probably isn't representative of everyone one this site, so pre-apologies if you watch the video and don't feel the same ๐
How does this fantastic video by the great @nachristakis.bsky.social only have 290 views www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2O... !?!!
At 2m47s he talks about the amount of time he can sometimes personally spend on crafting emails. I won't spoil it here, but I felt seen! So ridiculously great.
I guess StackOverflow is done.
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
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The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
Parish-level voting for Venstre.
Parish-level voting for "socialdemokratiet"
Hey Danes. As part of a project on something completely different, the always brilliant @louisboucherie.com generated these maps of voting in Denmark. Maybe itโs me, but I canโt remember seeing DK voting at this resolution. IMHO the maps are neat & interesting sunelehmann.com/2025/12/18/h...
Oh no! The sadness of seeing giants fall. Heros becoming ex-heros. Now it turns out that Oliver Sachs is a fraud too ๐ฑ๐ญ Insanely great piece in The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202....
More links at kottke.org/25/12/the-li... (where I first saw this)
Super excited to work with great team of coauthors and play a (small) part in putting this excellent overview of higher order networks together!
This seems totally OK and not like a problem at all
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...
๐ Save the Date!
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ - is coming to Northeastern Universityโs Network Science Institute, ๐๐๐ป๐ฒ ๐ญ-๐ฑ, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! ๐ www.netsci2026.com
It was a ton of fun to play a small role in this project lead by the brilliant Marta Ewa Lech & @jonassjuul.bsky.social. A lot of drama & change in the world of music reflected in the song-dynamics of the Billboard Hot 100!
New paper out in EPJ Data Science!
We analyze 65 years of Billboard Hot 100 data to ask:
๐ตAre songs moving differently up and down the chart nowadays?
๐ Are hits shorter-lived?
๐ Or do superstars dominate more than ever?
Paper: epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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๐ถ If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel
On your knees, boy
โฆ She's the wave, she turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child
โฆ It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
She moves in mysterious ways ๐ถ
(Unless you normalize using the pair distribution function)
Thanks!! (Iโve been angling for nomological clout since I was a young child. )
In this article, Boucherie et al. apply physics-based models to the arrangement of locations to study how geography shapes human movement. They find an underlying pattern in how people choose to move, independent of geographical layout.
