Ready to shape the future of #ComplexSystems science? Propose a Satellite Session for #CCS2026 and put your topic in orbit!🛰️
Methods, tutorials, debates, you name it!
Apply via link or scan the QR on the flyer. Please spread the word and reshare!🔁
📝 bit.ly/3LUgTNc
We are thrilled to announce that @katymilkman.bsky.social will be a keynote speaker at IC2S2 2026.
Milkman is best known for her award-winning research on to identify and overcome barriers that prevent positive behavioral change.
Jan Eiẞfeldt will be a keynote speaker for IC2S2 2026!
Jan is an external fellow at @sfiscience.bsky.social and serves as Director, Global Head of Trust & Safety at the Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org, the non-profit hosting Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other free knowledge projects.
Only six days left! Tutorial submissions close on February 2nd.
Submit here: ic2s2-2026.org/submit-tutor...
Early bird reg approaching, NetSciX in New Zealand, Feb 2026. And you can travel down the north island for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium the week after. netscix2026.github.io www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/... @cna25.bsky.social @cssociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
Governments and regulatory systems are small structures aiming to represent a much larger population and make decisions. Can this process of governance be modeled as a network? In today's @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social seminar, @juniperlov.bsky.social introduced us to her model to answer that question!
📌 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
The interactive story is by @jstonge.bsky.social and other friends: complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn....
The paper is with friends from @vcsi.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social and @unioflimerick.bsky.social.
Excited about this paper and the interactive story to accompany it. Congrats @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @giulioburgio.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social and nice story telling @jstonge.bsky.social!
Registrations are now also open for the #netscix2026 conference. Early bird registration available until Nov 20th. netscix2026.github.io#register
So excited to welcome you to the lab @okfranco.bsky.social
We love this research profile on Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty @juniperlov.bsky.social 🐙 www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...
It might start as a joke, belief, or rumor, easy to dismiss. But then it twists, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. Why do some ideas die out while others go viral?
A new study by researchers from the University of Vermont and the Santa Fe Institute offers answers: santafe.edu/news
Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS!
Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...
✨ Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials were developed by an interdisciplinary working group of network researchers to clarify and promote open science practices in network research. buff.ly/0WxtZIt buff.ly/rWk3R3l
That’s a wrap on IC2S2’25! 🎉 Thank you for an unforgettable week of ideas and discussions. Congratulations to our award winners, and safe travels home. Mark your calendars: #ic2s2 ’ 26 heads to Burlington, Vermont, in the US. See you next year!
Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc
I had such a wonderful time @ic2s2.bsky.social thank you to the 2025 organizers for such a great IC2S2! #IC2S2
Newish work from VCSI core and external team members: @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social & @nwlandry.bsky.social 👀
just arrived to Norrköping for #IC2S2 can't wait to see everyones amazing new computational social science this week!
ChatGPT moat
(from upcoming work with @juniperlov.bsky.social)
Hear me discuss our new paper written with the inimitable Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and colleagues! @lhd.bsky.social #Complexity #Physiology #Governance www.nature.com/articles/s44...
We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓
🚨3 days remaining to submit your abstract to our Physical Networks Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social!
Working on complex networks in which physical constraints & embeddings matter? Send your abstract to physnet@ceu.edu by 17th Feb!
Details: sites.google.com/view/physnet...
#NetSci25
Extended deadline: send your abstract until February 20th! We wait for your contribution at HISTONET, #hnr satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social about historical networks!
Great blog post from @juniperlov.bsky.social, Julia Zimmerman, and Jennifer Karson about their recent study surveying artists on their opinions of the utility and threat of generative AI
Save the date!
The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2025 will take place in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, from 6-10 October 2025. The conference logo, official website launch, and more details coming soon!
Fall retreat in Vermont where the project was started. Panorama with a field and hills in the distance.
A project with friends from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @nwlandry.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social
Funded by an ambitious AUDACE project from friends and co-authors from Université de Sherbrooke.
Started in the Green Mountains two years ago.
Cartoon of a top-down central state combined with a local network of decisions units.
Cartoon of decisions as a statisfiability problem (decision network) where each decision is solved by a higher-order network (governance network) of agents with their own opinions on what decisions should be made.
Some decisions are best made quickly and locally. Governance can work better as a higher-order network, not a pyramid around a central state. How should we design these networks?
We looked at this with law and complexity scholars and found "effective governance" networks.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03421
Today is the last day to submit your abstracts. Submit before midnight (anywhere on earth).
#NetSci2025
