The Higgs mechanism was proposed in 1964 by three independent teams.
But here is the puzzle🤔: the "disruption index" says Higgs's paper is among the least disruptive ever.
So what is going on?
In our new paper, just out in #ScienceAdvances, we take up this puzzle: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 👇
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📄 paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
💻 code: github.com/yy/embedding...
📦 pip: pypi.org/project/embe...
✍️ Blog: munjungkim.github.io/embedding-di...
w/ @skojaku.bsky.social @yyahn.bsky.social
Supported by @NSF TIP APTO, @AFOSR, and @nvidiabot.bsky.social
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Our paper "Scale invariance and statistical significance in complex weighted networks" is out on PRE: If the distribution of edge weights in your null model depends on the weights' unit, you will be in trouble! @filipisilva.bsky.social @skojaku.bsky.social journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
Its very hard to type
, and hard to remember the spelling 🫣
I created a tool, snaketail, a snakemake wrapper that fixes workflow and restarts itself automatically when failed.
The idea—feeding the tail (error log) to the head (system input) to self-heal—has practical values to create robust automation system!
skojaku.github.io/snaketail.html
This is a beautiful visualization of recurrence relations and eigenvectors. (It’s Japanese so plz turn on auto translation).
I've also seen more and more figures that are apparently generated by generative AIs on preprints, with typos, broken arrows, and inconsistency with the main text body. Found yet another one today 🙃.
ppl should stop using ai-generated diagrams. you know i’m not anti-ai but they’re just not good at this yet!
the problem is that diagrams have a very specific purpose: they’re meant to compress understanding into few key bits. ai vomits out poor approximations that aren’t conceptually compressed
Come and join our Discrete Laplacian workshop in Dresden, Germany 🙌!
With Karel Devriendt, Otto Sumray, and Giulio Zucal, we are organising the workshop in MPI-CBG, 22-25 Jun 2026.
Thanks to the support from Heather Harrington's group at CSBD, MPI!
Abstract ddl: 1 Mar 2026
More details follow 🧵
My daughter isn’t Markovian but my son is (almost) 🙃
New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.
Can AI be a good task manager? I tested myself as a weekend project - skojaku.github.io/invisible-cy...
Claude code is moving from a coder to a general assistant.
Personally, sending sensitive data to someone's server isn't an option. But w/ ollama "launch" feature, I may do w/ local LLMs. Time for experiment!
(reading while me being fed with a cup of Miso soup)
www.dtlarson.com/feed-the-beast
Thanks!
Thrilled to share our new paper in Science @science.org: “Scientific Production in the era of Large Language Models.”
- LLMs boost productivity, especially for non-native speakers.
- Writing complexity is now "decoupled" from scientific quality.
- LLMs help discover more diverse literature.
Awesome🥳 Big Congrats!!!
A long-overdue interactive version finally done
(Huge thanks to Google Gemini)
Complex Systems Topic Network: Interactive Visualization
bingdev.binghamton.edu/sayama/compl...
We are looking for a PhD student to work with us on network science methods for biomedicine. The student can be enrolled in any graduate program. #NetworkMedicine #ComplexSystems.
GPT Inference (greedy, top-k, beam search, temperature control).
For a thread of community detection, Girvan Newman paper on the modularity, LFR bench, the resolution limit paper, Karrer Newman degree corrected SBMs, Peixoto’s non parametric Bayesian SBMs
word2vec: from the structural linguistic perspective. Written by me. Illustrated by Nano Banana Pro.
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A bit late to the party, but I want to introduce a pet project of mine—and my first single-author paper! 🎉
It tackles something that has quietly frustrated me for years: how we measure the similarity of two clusterings/community structures.
Nano Banana Pro unbelievably lowers the entry barrier for people interested in creating short Manga. This blog post describes the recipe (in Japanese). I get this Manga version of my lecture note on the position encoding in transformers, **in the first shot** 😮.
note.com/konho/n/na8d...
海南鶏飯を一日かけて作ったのだけど、子供は食べないばかりかぐちゃぐちゃにされて心が折れた。１０分でできるパスタ出してあげるよ。次から🫠。
I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026!
We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation?
Want to answer these questions? details below!
🚨 New paper on ArXiv:
“Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction”
TL;DR; We present an efficient method to sample the entire ensemble of possible network reconstructions that are compatible with an indirect observation, e.g. a dynamics.
Short thread: 1/N
TLDR: communities are undetectable even if they are because of the variabilities of network topology. We look further into edge weights, showing that a higher variability in edge weights makes communities harder to be detected. Our results inform when to use edge weights and better edge reweighing.
Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws?
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
When are communities detectable in weighted networks? You can find the answer in our latest preprint. Great collaboration with @filipisilva.bsky.social @skojaku.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.00214
Wanted to create an interactive *public* visualization for networks/embeddings?
I created a minimum GitHub Page template for HeliosWeb visualization. @filipisilva.bsky.social
👉 Demo: shorturl.at/m9CnR
👉 Repo: shorturl.at/HJ2gn
👉 HeliosWeb: shorturl.at/H9bJU
#dataviz #datascience #python