Gamal Adel | جمال عادل

Gamal Adel | جمال عادل

@gamal-adel.bsky.social

PhD candidate in complex network dynamics at Leiden U and U of Amsterdam. Open Knowledge Foundation Network member. gamaladel.com

216 Followers 366 Following 137 Posts Joined Feb 2025
6 days ago

Rules for thee, but not for me.

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6 days ago
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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

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1 week ago

It is! Though I think "math tables" is the more boring and layperson friendly term.

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1 week ago

That is an excellent title. Adjacency matrix best thing ever

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1 week ago

"visualization" is a generous term to use here

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1 week ago
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When you have to scroll over two pages of AI-generated "summary" drivel to reach, you know, the text abstract written by the authors, you know the Elsevier people have really lost the plot

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2 weeks ago

Yeah I think we're on the same page we're just seeking the perfectly catch one-liners that's all the rage these days XD

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2 weeks ago

Interesting notion, though I'm not sure I agree. Complex systems have to be more than the sum of their parts because their mechanisms are not reducible to without said parts. In your line of thought I'd say that *complexity* is the difference between the complex system and the sumenof its parts

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2 weeks ago

Well I can tell you that whatever role the bottom right person plays after the top figure's death is the main contention point that caused the sunni-shia division among muslims.

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2 weeks ago
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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3 weeks ago
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Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Today we launch ORION: a coordinated initiative to make open research information more inclusive, accessible and democratic. Our experience with GoogleBigQuery support collaborative and community solutions for ORI infrastructures, increasing sustainability & resilience.
doi.org/10.54900/2pn...

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3 weeks ago

We have an amazing panel ready for you at NetSciX in Auckland!

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1 month ago
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Three New Preprints Published on arXiv We are glad to share that our group’s researchers have recently published three new preprints on arXiv, showcasing advances in network analysis and population-scale social systems.Link Fraction Mixed ...

Three new preprints from our group are now live on arXiv!

We explore community mixed membership in aggregated networks, fragmentation in a population-scale social network of the Netherlands, and how social capital shapes economic mobility.

Read more:

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1 month ago

Thank you for the great event! Can't wait to see what you have lined up next👀

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1 month ago
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On Monday I was at @internetarchive.eu in Amsterdam for @jwyg.bsky.social talk about his new book, Public Data Cultures. Instant purchase!

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1 month ago

If they exist then I haven't met them. I say this as a person surrounded by "normies."

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1 month ago

I fail to see the bad news... One less slop-book to saturate the medium sounds like a win

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1 month ago

@elisecutts.bsky.social spotted!

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1 month ago

Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.

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1 month ago
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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

A must-read, in my opinion

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1 month ago

That's a very big if lol
Hopefully your ETA isn't *more* than 14hr right now😂

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1 month ago
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These people are losing their thought agency to just act as envoy for LLMs... "Second AI opinion" pffft
www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread...

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2 months ago
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Eleven killed at Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese brands attack on Jewish worshippers act of antisemitism and terrorism

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

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3 months ago

Can people organizing academic conferences in the US please get a grip?

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3 months ago
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Upcoming International Workshop on Population-Scale Social Network research We are excited to announce that our team will be hosting an international workshop on population-scale social network research in December 2025. This invitation-only event is a follow-up to a previous...

One week to go! Next week we’re hosting an international workshop in Amsterdam on Population-Scale Social Network Analysis. Leading teams from five different countries will join us to share new insights and explore future collaborations. Learn more:

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3 months ago
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Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of participating in the NetSci 2025 conference in Maastricht.
Our team shared exciting new research across topics from social network dynamics to mobility, privacy, and community structure. We even brought home two awards!

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4 months ago

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

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4 months ago

Proud member of this great team! Stay tuned for more updates on our work soon👀

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4 months ago
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

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4 months ago

My experience has been weirdly the opposite. Statistical variance maybe🤷‍♀️

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