Complex Networks Winter Workshop (CNWW)

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.

WiNS seminars are back for the Spring edition! 🎉

We’ll kick things off next Monday (Jan 12, 11 am ET) with Laura Fürsich from Linköping University, discussing segregation dynamics.

Follow us to stay up to date on our biweekly seminars and more!

Are you a journalist with a deep interest in complexity?

Each year, the Santa Fe Institute invites two experienced journalists to join the Complex Systems Summer School through the CSSS Journalism Fellowship.

Application deadline: Feb. 4, 2026

Learn more: santafe.edu/journalism-f...

Abstract submission deadline for NetSci 2026 has been extended! The new deadline to submit work to is January 9, 2026 (anywhere on earth)

We’re excited to announce Moon Duchin as a #NetSci2026 Plenary Speaker! A top University of Chicago mathematician, she applies geometry and computation to democracy and voting systems. Her award-winning work bridges math, policy, and complex systems.

www.netsci2026.com/speakers

Join us this Thursday, Dec 4, for our final seminar of the fall semester! We’re thrilled to host Haily Merritt (@h-merritt.bsky.social), who will share her research on how social connections shape the brain through a complex-systems lens, as well as insights into multidisciplinary scholarship.

📢 Keynotes unlocked: 5/12. Thrilled to have Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about #networks and #dynamics!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!

Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Image showing Hobson Lab logo (with parakeets, a social network, and R code), two Monk Parakeets, and several individually-marked parakeets with the text "Now recruiting PhD students!!"

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

We are hiring a PI at Associate Professor level for our @cberaproject.bsky.social ERA Chair Project at the UCP in Portugal. Please spread to anyone excited to advance biomedical research through #ComplexNetworks & #ComplexSystems. Deadline: Oct 17. See below. #NetworkMedicine #ComputationalBiology

Registrations are now also open for the #netscix2026 conference. Early bird registration available until Nov 20th. netscix2026.github.io#register

Our Physical Review Letter looks at how to get power-law distributions of cascade size without tuning or self-organization to criticality by allowing cascades to improve in quality and jump over gaps or dead-ends

TL;DR complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn...

Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

* Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility *

🌍🚶 How much of our movement is about human choice and how much is constrained by geography and the spatial layout of locations?

Our paper (out in Nature Human Behavior) gives you a practical way to tell:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations @louisboucherie.com

Great work by CNWW alumnus Louis Boucherie!

Today is the deadline to let us know of your interest to participate in the Complex Networks Winter Workshop 2025.

Come join us for a week of science in a winter wonderland: old monastery, Québec city, the week before Christmas.

vermontcomplexsystems.org/events/cnww/

University of Vermont | Complex Networks Winter Workshop 2025

Application deadline: May 15

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@cnww.bsky.social @lhd.bsky.social

amahury.github.io/posts/vermon...

As winter ends, we dream of the next one.

Information is now live for CNWW 2025 (Dec. 13-20) in Québec City!

Come learn, teach, and play with networks and network science in beautiful QC

More info to come but logistics and application form can be found here: vermontcomplexsystems.org/events/cnww/

A snowflake decoration made from some old theoretical model

My wife made holiday decorations out of some of my old modeling predictions ❄️🧮

Overall an improvement to the original work!

Higher-order interactions Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks

Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025

We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers

sites.google.com/view/ho2025e...

Wait no further and join!

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

Nuns ice skating at the monastery.

Monastery hallway.

Monastery atrium (old and new building).

We are now aiming for CNWW to be held every other year, ODD years only. #CNWW2025 here we come! Networks, monastery life, and a vow of science!

(Random pictures from the archive of the Monastery.)