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Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a commo...

New on the arxiv:

“Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions”

arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937

We clarify central misconceptions in the recent literature on "higher-order networks".

w/ @piratepeel.bsky.social , @manlius.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social

Explainer 🧵: 1/N

CausNetS: Toward a Causal Network Science A NetSci 2026 Satellite

⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks?

We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference.

Submit your work by March 10th!

causnets.github.io

So yeah, already fourth iteration of my Data Analysis with AI course. gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/ All open source. I have an intro overview of AI and its use in data. gabors-data-analysis.com/courses/da-w...

The speaker lineup keeps getting better! ✨
Meet our next speaker, 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗝𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻. A Professor of Physics at IIT Indore, her work spans nonlinear dynamics, complex systems & network science, revealing how network structure shapes collective behavior. Welcome!
#Speakers 👉 www.netsci2026.com/speakers

This probably merits a longer conversation @manlius.bsky.social but I think your work is about other types of problems with mobility data, namely how you process it and how you account for noise in the data. We can talk offline if you want.

As I mentioned @pholme.bsky.social this is not our first work on bias in mobility data. We have dozens of pages in the Supplementary Materials of our papers from 2019-2021 on detecting and alleviating biases. Unfortunately, people don't have time to read the SMs...

(from linkedin) Thanks, @manlius.bsky.social I know your work and, relevant, but I don’t think it is similar. We have long been working on detecting and mitigating various biases in mobility data, and this paper focuses on a particular bias: the daily temporal representation of people’s behavior.

For those working on mobility data, the paper includes a table outlining our assessment of the biases present in mobility data, how to measure them, and how to mitigate them.

Fantastic collaboration led by Sarah Sanchez, with @hamishgibbs.bsky.social, Takahiro Yabe, and Dan O'Brien

Who shows up in mobility data — and when — matters. Comparing mobility data with ATUS, we find systematic time-of-day biases across demographic groups, and show how temporal post-stratification corrects them and changes downstream results.

[New paper!] Mobility data are incredibly powerful, but also come with a long list of well-known biases (sampling, coverage, demographics, behavioral, etc.). In the paper, we survey them all and then zoom in on one that has been surprisingly underexplored: temporal bias.

arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variations in the quality ...

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330

Excited to share that I’ll be giving a talk at
@nunetsi.bsky.social on Thursday, Feb 19, 2026, at 1:30 pm ET (hybrid).

If you’re around (or want to join virtually), I’d love to see you there!

#ComputationalSocialScience #CareerMobility #Skills #FutureOfWork #Migration

(3/3) Still, it’s an interesting idea and a potentially useful sandbox for studying agent interaction and emergent behavior (even when it fails). The underlying OpenClaw setup also raises nontrivial security concerns that warrant more attention.

moltbook - the front page of the agent internet A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

(2/3) Although people/researchers/coders are excited about it, most “activity” is noise: stochastic parrots talking to themselves. Have a look at this post with 1,700+ comments largely from a single bot repeating “1” or “agi yay!”: www.moltbook.com/post/f0b812b...)

moltbook - the front page of the agent internet A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

LLMs were trained heavily on Reddit data, and now someone has built Reddit for LLMs: MoltBook, a social network for AI agents.

(1/3)

Another fantastic Invited Speaker joining NetSci 2026 💫
𝗔𝘀𝘂 𝗢𝘇𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗿 (MIT), MathWorks Professor and Head of EECS. Her work spans optimization, machine learning, economics, and networks, focusing on incentives and algorithms for data-driven human-machine systems. Welcome!
tinyurl.com/4t5p46yr

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Wow. This is devastating.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Please join us in welcoming 𝗞𝗶𝗺 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁 as the next School Speaker at NetSci 2026 ✨
A data & media artist and information designer, Kim explores how data and computational systems shape visibility in contemporary culture.
Speakers 🔗 www.netsci2026.com/speakers

📣 Announcing 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗼 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶 as Invited Speaker at NetSci Conference 2026!
Professor at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca & at Leiden University’s Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, his research combines statistical physics, information theory, & random-graph modeling.

New post: learn how to use the new interactive legends and screenshot control in R's mapgl package.

These features are great for interactive demos and visualizing custom scenarios without Shiny.

The new release (v0.4.4) is on CRAN now, so go get it!

walker-data.com/posts/mapgl-...

Submit your abstracts to #NERCCS2026!
See you in Rochester NY in March

And all these was written a lot time ago by James C. Scott in his famous book "Seeing like a state". We need a more complex systems approach to systems of systems (like transportation)

AI Slop en España

En España somos los reyes de los canales de youtube de la «IA basura» (slop) caracterizada por vídeos de baja calidad, poco auténticos o imprecisos.

En el Top #100 español hay 8 canales dedicados principalmente a estas mierdas, con 20+ millones de suscriptores www.digitaltrends.com/computing/th...

Thanks for the pictures!!

Great surprise to catch @estebanmoro.bsky.social speaking in Lisbon NOVA IMS organized by Flávio Pinheiro and including @joanagsa.bsky.social .

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The Fall 2025 Speaker Series by #SUNLab wrapped up! Industry leaders from Meta, Spatial.ai, Citadel, and CARTO shared how behavioral and mobility data drive decisions across tech, retail, finance, and geospatial analytics. Thanks to all speakers and organizers!

@estebanmoro.bsky.social

No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health - Nature A meta-analysis of 168 studies reveals that economic inequality is not significantly associated with subjective well-being or mental health.

Nature research paper: No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health

go.nature.com/4psQk0a

Thrilled to have you at the 20th anniversary edition of NetSci! Can’t wait to hear your take on where we’re headed.