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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

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Open Positions & Careers at CBeRa | CBeRa Project Explore current opportunities at the CBeRa Project: PhD‑level positions in network science, complex systems, and network medicine at Católica Biomedical Research Centre in Lisbon.

We are hiring at the @cberaproject.bsky.social project! a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Data Steward. Interested in integrating #ComplexNetworks and #ComplexSystems for Advancing #Biomedical Research? Talk to me and see details at www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-team/o...

Great to see this paper out! With
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and David Soriano-Panos we demonstrate that semi-metric distortion is more characteristic than betweenness to infer edge relevance for #spreading dynamics, #sparsification and shortest paths. #NetworkScience
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@binghamtonu.bsky.social We'll host #ComplexNetworks2025! Please join us on December 9-11 in Binghamton, NY to wrap up 2025 🎅 with researchers on network science, graph machine learning, and complex systems. Submit by Sept 2 for Springer proceedings! 😉 #NetworkScience #BinghamtonUniversity

Wonderful launch of our new ERA Chair project with a kind, insightful, and stellar group of scientists. Thank you Claudi Bockting, Søren Brunak, Ana Teresa Freitas, John Krakauer, Francisca Leite, Pedro Lima, Jörg Menche, Isabel Rocha, @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social Susana Vinga, and many others!

The Machine Stops The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

We're the systems originators :) come work with us!

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

Pedro Simas opening words for the presentation of the CBeRa chair (@cberaproject.eu) lead by @lmrocha.bsky.social
Happy to see this complex systems initiative flying

Congratulations Monica. I am so proud and glad to see you take on this rile in such a rich research ecosystems as what is available in Catalonia!

Still time to register for this event in Lisbon on Friday. #NetworkMedicine
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This Friday in Lisbon at the Champalimaud conference center, See what population-wide, longitudinal electronic health data can achieve for biomedicine with the tools of network science and machine learning. Denmark has the most complete population-wide such data; Søren is at the center of it all :)

2/2 In the context of the web, I do not see a point in distinguishing traditional from social media anymore. We should not assume the former are better or worse than the latter on spreading misinformation or curbing freedom speech.

1/2 Very thorough argumentation. Highly recommend. I would just add that the necessary collective mechanisms to establish fact/veracity need to also deal with traditional media, which is most impactful in spreading disinformation.

Center, top.

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says

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Next July 4th in Lisbon come to this public event (please register in link provided). There will be a talk by Søren Brunak, discussion with @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social, Claudi Bockting, Jörg Menche, myself, and others. #ComplexSystems, #NetworkScience, #NetworkMedicine, #AI, #DigitalMedicine.

Come work with us. PhD fellowships available.

Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake There will now be a high-stakes battle to define the meaning of the New York mayoral candidate’s historic win.

Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda... @davidsirota.com and Evelyn Quartz nail it.

I can't believe how often I need to mention this paper in my reviews... "please read this before going any further on homophily and contagion"...

It was great to see you and can't wait to start it ideas!

Focused digital cohort selection from social media using the metric backbone of biomedical knowledge graphs Social media data allows researchers to construct large digital cohorts — groups of users who post health-related content — to study the interplay bet…

On this new paper we present a novel method to obtain digital cohorts from #socialmediadata which are focused on a specific #biomedical problem of interest (in our case, #epilepsy). The method uses sparsification of #knowledgegraphs to obtain relevant biomedical discourse.
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Complex Systems Science and Engineering Graduate Certificate | Complex Systems Science and Engineering (CX) | Binghamton University Explore complex systems concepts and applications by earning a graduate certificate in Complex Systems Science & Engineering from Binghamton University.

4/4 Students may also be interested in the online Complex Systems Science and Engineering (CX) graduate certificate offered by Binghamton University (www.binghamton.edu/cx/).

3/4 In addition to stipend, the program may cover tuition costs. Preference will be given to students who have completed most of their course work. The positions are open until July 2nd, 2025. If you have any additional questions about the planned research, please let me know.

2/4 Both positions are for a physical presence at the CBR campus in the Lisbon Area for most of the year---one kilometer away from clean Atlantic beaches in one of the safest World capitals. However, students can be enrolled in any PhD program worldwide.

1/4 We have two positions for PhD Students available to work in our www.cberaproject.eu CBeRa Project:
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The focus is #networkscience, #complexsystems, and applications to #networkmedicine and #computationalbiology.

The two L.R.'s finally meet. We are different people :)

We are hiring postdocs, a (postdoctoral) data steward and PhD students for our ERA CHAIR "Strategic Integration of #ComplexNetworks and #ComplexSystems for Advancing Biomedical Research". And soon, an assistant professor position. Let's talk @netsciconf.bsky.social next week!
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