Scaling and quantization of large-scale foundation model enables resource-efficient predictions in network biology - Nature Computational Science The authors demonstrate that the accuracy of predictions in network biology scales with larger foundation models pretrained with larger, more diverse data and that quantization enables resource-effici...

📢 Out now! Christina Theodoris and colleagues demonstrate that the accuracy of predictions in network biology scales with larger foundation models pretrained with larger, more diverse data, and that quantization enables resource-efficient predictions. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #NetSci 🧬🔄

Contrasting Roles of Threatened and Non‐Threatened Species in European Food Webs Aim Assess the structural importance of threatened and non-threatened species within European food webs by quantifying their roles in maintaining network connectivity. Location Europe. Methods W...

Our new #research shows that threatened and non-threatened #species play contrasting but complementary roles in European #FoodWebs — #conservation strategies need to protect both to maintain #ecosystem stability.
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#NetSci #biodiversity #ecology

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University of Manchester main building from Oxford Road

University of Manchester main building quadrangle with ivy on main building

Manchester, England photographed after sunset from the Beetham Tower

Call for papers: 19th Annual Political Networks Conference, University of Manchester, 4–7 Aug 2026. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Paper and poster submissions now open (deadline: 12 April). First time in Europe. Training workshops. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience

Love a great network visualization #netsci

Congratulations to these young scientists for their hard work! Looking forward to the discussions at #NetSci.

If you wonder what this was about: Tiago Peixoto just blocked my repost of the #netsci preprint "Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions" (arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16937) by #tiago.skewed.de, @piratepeel.bsky.social, @manlius.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social ... 1/4

"A data table comparing empirical urban scaling exponents to the Information Energy Maximization (IEM) model. Using the connectivity tax constant ks = 0.22, the model predicts an infrastructure exponent of 1.22, showing a 0.00 deviation from PNAS Nexus empirical data for the 1.22 urban limit. It also aligns with Kleiber’s Law (0.75) for biological metabolic scaling."

Verification of the 1.22 Urban Scaling limit using Information Energy Maximization (IEM). Results show 0.00 deviation from PNAS Nexus data using constant \bm{k_s = 0.22}.
Urban scaling and Kleiber law complete
Full derivation and DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/9VQ8K
#NetSciX2026 #NetSci #UrbanScaling #Science

The Scales-Kleiber Unification
Finalized the 0.22 Constant:
The thermodynamic invariant for metabolic maintenance. This is the absolute bioenergetic "floor" for social systems.🧪🧠
Physics defines the geometry of life
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.I0/9VQ8K

#NetSciX2026 #NetSci #UrbanScaling #Science

From my Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Yuanyuan Shang at BlackRock. We modelled #network effects in LP and GP matching across various asset classes in the alternative assets industry (real estate, private debt, #PrivateEquity, etc) using #TERGM. #SNA #AcFinance #ERGM #CSS #CompSocSci #NetSci

CS2Italy The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cl...

📣 CS2Italy 2026 the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
⏰ Today is the last day to submit your abstract

📍 Turin, May 19–21

We welcome abstract submissions in:
#ComputerScience #NetSci #ComplexSystems #Sociology #Economics #Politics #CognitiveScience #Psychology

👉 cs2italy.org

The shading of visual intuition has to stop!

Nothing about this node-link diagram is "ridiculous":

"we can visualize and describe the distribution of corruption risk [...] find that highly centralized markets tend to have higher corruption risk [...] In all EU [...]".

#netsci #visualization

Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
to join us in Turin on May 19-21

We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more

For more: cs2italy.org

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Looking for a postdoc to collect and analyse policy network data in coastal communities in the east of England as part of the £3m ARISE project. Apply until 1 Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ781/ #sna #networkanalysis #acjobs #polisky #polisci #publicpolicy #policyanalysis #netsci #ergm #network #postdoc

2026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring. #SNA #polinetworks #polnet #polisky #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #politicalnets #policynetworks #complexsystems #netsci #polmeth #polisci

Submission link for the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is LIVE!

We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more

Deadline: Jan 15
cs2italy.org

🎉 ASH v1.0.0 (codename “Bulbasaur”) is here — a complete overhaul of the Attributed Stream Hypergraph library for Python!

Built for attributed & temporal hypergraph analysis.
Link in follow-ups 👇
#Hypergraphs #NetSci #NetworkScience #Research

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈

Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy

Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++

Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org

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Socio-cognitive networks between researchers: Investigating scientific dualities with the group-oriented relational hyperevent model Understanding why researchers cite certain works remains a key question in the study of scientific networks. Prior research has identified factors suc…

5/n Curious how social and cognitive structures shape scientific knowledge?
Read the full paper in Social Networks:
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SNA #NetSci #Bibliometrics #ScienceOfScience #SocSci

Discover network dynamics with neural symbolic regression - Nature Computational Science This study presents a neural symbolic regression approach that autonomously uncovers network dynamics from data. It was demonstrated to refine existing models of gene regulation and ecology, and ident...

📢 Yong Li and colleagues report a neural symbolic regression method that uncovers network dynamics from data, refining biological and ecological models and revealing new insights into disease transmission. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #complexity #NetSci

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Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling Aggregated relational data (ARD) provides valuable information for inferring structural features of personal social networks at scale. Following recen…

📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks

Call For Abstracts: NetSciX 2026 The NetSci-X 2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your work and join us in Auckland to explore diversity in network science.

Call For Abstracts: NetSciX 2026

Submission deadline: September 5

#NetworkScience #ComplexNetworks #ComplexSystems #NetSci #NetSciX ./6

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Network Science | Cambridge Core Network Science - Martin Everett, Matteo Magnani, Daniel Tischer, Tomas Diviák, Paolo Pin, Fernando Vega-Redondo

🚀 Presenting at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping? Extend the impact of your work!

📢 Network Science Journal invites submissions on computational, empirical & theoretical advances in network research, now fully open access!

🔗 Publish with us: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#ic2s2 #NetSci #CSS

Another piece from our study on how vehicle- #wildlife collisions ripple through #foodwebs, affecting entire #ecosystems. 🌐🌍🧪
#NetSci #biodiversity #ecology #conservation #RoadEcology

The domino effect of roads on biodiversity: How the impacts of wildlife-vehicle collisions propagate through food webs — Transport Ecology Our study reveals that roads and traffic not only cause direct wildlife mortality but also destabilise entire ecological networks by altering predator-prey interactions. By mapping high-risk areas for...

Our new piece shows how the effects of #roads on #biodiversity can extend far beyond the loss of individual #animals or populations, propagating through entire #FoodWebs. 🌐🌎🧪
#RoadEcology #NetSci #biodiversity #ecology #wildlife #conservation #ecology

transportecology.info/research/roa... 🌐🌎🧪

Art historians at Bibliotheca Hertziana dancing into the big power outage in Italy on September 27, 2003. Photo: Maximilian Schich, 2003.

Just found a 5½ hours recording of my 2003 summer party DJ set at the Max-Planck for #ArtHistory in Rome. It has lots of static and includes the big Italian power outage ending the party. Pretty epic to have this #NetSci moment on tape.

cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_It...

@bhmpi.bsky.social 🎉🇮🇹🕒🔌🔥

Mitchell Centre Summer School on social network analysis: registration deadline extended until 14 July 2025. We have both basic and advanced courses. #sna #polisky #NetworkAnalysis #SummerSchool #netsci @socialstats.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social

1/n Wrapping up the Social Networks Conference, Sunbelt 2025 ☀️!
This week we learned, taught, shared our research, organized events, and hung out with colleagues and friends! @chisocnet.bsky.social #sna #networks #netsci

Paging the Network Science community! #netsci #networkscience #appliednetsci

10 years ago, I went to my first #NetSci. I had just finished my PhD, had nothing to present, knew nobody, but I knew I was finally where I wanted to be. Fascinating science and people. I feel very lucky to have helped organize @netsciconf.bsky.social this year and to have brought my great students!

When disruption endures - Nature Computational Science A new framework disentangles the nature of disruption in science, revealing how rare but persistent breakthroughs shake the foundations of research fields while remaining central to future work.

📢Russell Funk and Xiangting Wu discuss a recent framework that characterizes innovations that both disrupt earlier works and serve as stable foundations for subsequent development. #cssky #NetSci www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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