Implementing “reasoning” as “just keep talking to yourself” feels so weird & hacky.
But maybe not, according to this? They show that just-predicting-the-next-word is inherently unable to learn to solve some (permutation) problems unless you “pad” with extra thought tokens. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24125
Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596
Are you studying animal sociality? Confused about the "non-independence" of social network data: what on earth are they? are they threatening your results? should you attempt to get rid of them?
A thread summarising a part of our new paper (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...).
🎓 I've joined the PhD in Complex Systems & Data Science at @vcsi.bsky.social to work w/ @lhd.bsky.social & @juniperlov.bsky.social to explore social (complex) dynamics
🔬 Huge thanks to @joanagsa.bsky.social & Lília Perfeito for helping me get ready for this chapter
🚀 Excited for this next step!
🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks?
ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps!
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All from an amazing interdisciplinary group 👥: @benkawam.bsky.social 🌟, @jgyou.bsky.social, Dan Franks, Connor Philson, Marijtje van Duijn, @jordanhart96.bsky.social, MB McElreath, @rmcelreath.bsky.social, @eapower.bsky.social, Cody Ross, @steglich.bsky.social, & @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
Leto Peel officially opens #NetSci2025, followed by Sonia Kefi's keynote
And the code is live here: github.com/DynamicaLab/...
With @allard.bsky.social and the never-online Simon Lizotte (but you can find him at siliz4.github.io)
Hear me discuss our new paper written with the inimitable Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and colleagues! @lhd.bsky.social #Complexity #Physiology #Governance www.nature.com/articles/s44...
On this day in 2023, the Vermont Complex Systems Institute (vermontcomplexsystems.org), TGIR Center (www.med.uvm.edu/tgircobre/home) & @sfiscience.bsky.social joined for an event on interacting contagions
Our work, "One pathogen does not an epidemic make," is now online: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15053
So glad to have @jgyou.bsky.social give an intriguing lecture on contagion modeling and network inference in our network science class!
I've been guest editing a focus issue for Journal of Physics: Complexity with @jgyou.bsky.social, @gcant.bsky.social, and Cate De Bacco on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks. See iopscience.iop.org/collections/..., and feel free to get in touch with any questions!
You should find that haircut again.
Hate The Game, the book, is only one month away! Pre-order yours anywhere books are sold. 📖✨
Freakonomics coauthor Steven Levitt called it “Fabulous—unlike any economics book I’ve ever read!
We're excited to share our MAR10 day discounts!
- $1 off of Mario's Time Machine
- A free wallpaper
1/ New paper @pnas.org on the structure of mutualistic #networks between individuals plants and frugivore species.
Last chapter of @elequintero.bsky.social's PhD thesis
doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ecopubs
Wastewater from airplane toilets?
We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread
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On a similar note I got spoiled by Dr Watson in Julia. Is there a good Python equivalent?
We are reaching the time of year when I start hearing from undergrads who are looking for summer internships. Obviously, they should all apply to Pew, but what other research orgs have internship programs that I can tell them about? What other opportunities can I share with them?
24h left to apply to the REU experience at UVM!
Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS)
socks.w3.uvm.edu/socks/node/65
Comparison may be a thief of joy, but it is an undoubtably interesting statistical modeling problem. In my latent chapter I go deep into the general problem of modeling comparisons between pairs of abstract items.
HTML: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt...
PDF: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt...
Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management!
Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science to study how people manage environmental challenges in the ACE Lab (timwaring.info).
Position Details: timwaring.info/wp-content/u...
I preemptively declare paper bankruptcy. Anything published on arXiv during the next 3 weeks will be permanently memory black holed.
A project with friends from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @nwlandry.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social
Funded by an ambitious AUDACE project from friends and co-authors from Université de Sherbrooke.
Started in the Green Mountains two years ago.
1/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows.
A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency.
what idiot called it async/await instead of wait/what
Gaussian approximation of a target distribution: mean-field versus full-covariance! Below shows a simple gradient descent on KL(q||p)
Having a sides-only Thanksgiving this year. No turkey, just carbs and gravy. Modern problems require modern solutions.
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