Iacopo Iacopini

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.

Riverside pub - Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich Riverside pub, The Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich offers iconic riverside views Traditional food, drinks, and private hire spaces.

⛴️ Social event: Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich, a historic Victorian riverside pub (est. 1837) www.trafalgartavern.co.uk

More to come...

Devon House Devon House offers a perfect student experience with dining, coffee spots, and a lively hub in the heart of St Katharine Docks.

⚓ Workshop venue: New NUL Devon House, located in the historic St Katharine Docks in central London www.nulondon.ac.uk/student-life...


🛌 Accommodation: Chapter Spitalfields, a luxury residence in the middle of East London’s vibrant Shoreditch area www.chapter-living.com/properties/e...

👥 Do you want to participate? Look at the call and the scholarships available: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72...

⏱️ Deadline (for participation & scholarship): February 28, 2026


🧑‍🏫 Tutors & Projects: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72...

🔬 London 2026 🇬🇧 Complexity72h is open for applications!

Young researchers in #ComplexSystems, come to London, June 22–26, 2026 @nunetsi.bsky.social

What is Complexity72h? Participants form teams and work 72 hours on original research projects, guided by expert tutors.



More details below:

The call for participants for Complexity72h is finally open! Apply by February 28 for the best collab ever!

Why???
✨ Amazing projects
👩‍🏫 Fantastic tutors
📍 A great location

👉 Apply now: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72...

Do you REALLY need anything else to be convinced?
We didn’t think so.

Our lab is looking to fill a post-doc position to do research on human-AI interaction. More details here www.christophriedl.net/jobs.html

How complex should network models be?

🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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La matematica del sapore, si può indovinare l’origine di una ricetta dalla combinazione dei suoi ingredienti? Uno studio di migliaia di ricette da tutto il mondo mostra come diverse cucine seguano schemi ricorrenti. E come questi influenzino le nostre preferenze alimentari

🇮🇹 Un articolo di Davide Risso su Wired Italia racconta il nostro lavoro su reti di ingredienti e combinazioni per caratterizzare cucine del mondo:

www.wired.it/article/mate...

@wired.it @saumitranetsci.bsky.social @andreasantoro.bsky.social

Discovering the laws behind complex networked systems - Nature Computational Science A recent study shows that neural symbolic regression offers a route to automated discovery of governing equations for network dynamics across high-dimensional complex systems.

In a brief 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 piece, E. Valdano and I discuss recent progress in automated scientific discovery of governing laws for complex networked systems, where neural symbolic regression can extract interpretable laws from high-dimensional dynamics.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Cuisines can be broken down into simple 'culinary fingerprints,' research finds Network scientist Iacopo Iacopini looked to understand how different cuisines have congregated around certain core ingredients and flavors.

A follow-up article by NGN offers a window into the curiosity and inspiration behind Iacopo Iacopini’s food-focused research.
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/12/w...

The networks of ingredient combinations as culinary fingerprints of world cuisines - npj Science of Food npj Science of Food - The networks of ingredient combinations as culinary fingerprints of world cuisines

New study by @iaciac.bsky.social + co-authors and published on 𝘯𝘱𝘫 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 models global cuisines as networks of ingredient pairings, revealing unique culinary signatures and patterns, with AI models able to identify a cuisine from just a few recipes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do the latest fads spread like wildfire? Research explains Network scientists found that the social overlap between groups plays a major part in how fast a phenomena or contagious illness transmits.

🗞️ The latest NGN features a discussion with I. kiss on our latest paper "Disentangling the Role of Heterogeneity and Hyperedge Overlap in Explosive Contagion on Higher-Order Networks" recently published in PRL [https://doi.org/10.1103/z3d5-94zb]

news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/24/w...

We are excited to share the NetSci Conference announcement of its 1st plenary speakers! 🥁 🥁

Two pioneers—one stage: 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will reflect on the ideas that shaped their work and transformed our field in a joint keynote!

NetSci 2026: tinyurl.com/4jdxb4kv

Latest out: Fairness in infectious disease modeling. Great collaboration with Yuhan Li, @ngozzi.bsky.social @mtizzoni.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

And here's the published version: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Great teamwork with @federicomalizia.bsky.social, @andresguzmanm.bsky.social, and I. Kiss -- with special thanks to Federico for leading the effort!

𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University!
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.

@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

The threshold and quasi-stationary distribution for the SIS model on networks We study the Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible (SIS) model on arbitrary networks. The well-established pair approximation treats neighboring pairs of nodes exactly while making a mean field approxima...

We found a nice way to accurately solve the SIS model. Rather than expanding in space with ever larger moment closures (pairs, triples, ...), we expand in time. No more difficult than pair-approximations yet much more accurate.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11706

✨ Hope your summer was as cool as the news we’re about to drop…

We’ve just launched our official IG channel 👉 @complexity72h - follow us for updates!

⏳ Only ~24h left to discover the location of the next edition of Complexity72h — revealed across all our socials and live at CCS 👀

Stay tuned! 🚀

Read what is going on at NETSI. A lot of network science happened during the summer.

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

CRAB2025 Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour Satellite @ CCS 2025 - Siena, 3 September 2025 Animal groups can be considered as complex systems of interacting entities (the individuals). The collective beha...

The #CRAB2025 🦀 programme is out!

Join us in Siena on Sept 3 at #CCS25 for the 2nd edition of the Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite 🐜🐦🦋🐳🐙🐝

🧑‍🏫 Invited talks by S. Melillo & P. Bartashevich

Full programme: sites.google.com/view/crab202...

@jbbrask.bsky.social @saraneven.bsky.social

The deadline to apply for the warmup has been extended to the 27th of July (this time for real!)

Your last chance to apply: forms.gle/DxatcCQt4LBk...

See you in Siena 🇮🇹

🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520

📆 Early registration for #CCS25 closes on July 20!
One week left to secure your spot at the conference and benefit from reduced fees! Join researchers from around the world at the premier conference on complex systems.
📷 Register here: ccs25.cssociety.org/registration/

Our latest work with @martonkarsai.bsky.social, David Sánchez and José Ramasco just got published! (and open access)

Here's a short thread to give you our main results ⏬

Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout Author summary The COVID-19 vaccines rollout initially faced significant challenges. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) complemented vaccinations in addressing these issues. However, the interpla...

Latest out: Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

1/8 How do networks of social relationships evolve over time? This evolution is driven by a complex interplay of cognitive, emotional, and social factors. It’s only natural to assume that such complexity would make this dynamics highly unpredictable. But…

@lordgrilo.bsky.social also offered a valuable bird's eye view of the field of higher-order network science as a whole and where TopoNets fits in at NetSci.

Next week at @netsciconf.bsky.social -- it's time for another edition of TopoNets!
🗓️ June 3, 2025
📍 FPN Paarse Zaal

A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope

Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...