Sandro Sousa

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Really cool initiative appreciating the work of early career researchers... Other research groups could definitely copy! 👏

Ouch, what an embarrassment! 🤮

Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?

Walking Through Complex Spatial Patterns of Climate and Conflict-Induced Displacements Extreme weather events are projected to intensify global migration, increase resource competition, and amplify socio-spatial phenomena, including intergroup conflicts, socioeconomic inequalities, and ...

Migration has been part of human history for ages and gets more complex and intense with rising conflict and extreme weather. Last week, we took on the challenge of making sense of displacement patterns during the #Complexity72h workshop. To know more, take a 👀
arxiv.org/abs/2506.22120

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

You will own NOTHING and be HAPPY!
At least with games, you can stop this madness of digital goods becoming inaccessible by design, by signing this petition:

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

Title slide: "What drives the productivity of scientific labor?" a talk by Aaron Clauset at the Oxford Summer School on Economic Networks 2025

Summary slide arguing that prestige is a structural variable in the scientific ecosystem, and that it is differences in working environment (not pedigree) that explains why elite researchers dominate scientific discourse. Ends with a question: how exactly does environment do this?

Summary slide arguing that working environment (specifically, institutional prestige) explains differences in scientific productivity because there's just more available academic labor at elite places, and researchers use this labor to write more papers. Ends with a question: how much does it matter who you collaborate with? That leads into part 2 of the slides

Slides from my keynote lecture "What drives the productivity of scientific labor?" at the 2025 Oxford Summer School on Economic #Networks. Part 1 of 2: why and how do elite scientists dominate scientific discourse?
aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

It's #SICSS O'clock!!!! Hundreds of students all over the world are learning about computational social science *for free* thanks to the hard work of so many brilliant young scholars who dedicated their time this summer to train the next generation-- from Colombia to Kenya! sicss.io

Silicon Valley doing what it's best at, manufacturing demand!

San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

Still, in the last 50 years it didn't change that much, regardless of having dem or rep governments.

Will it mean something, or not?
It reminds me of this:

youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs?...

Open science: share all your data

GDPR: do not even think about sharing all your data

Open science: just anonymize your data

Differential privacy experts: good luck with that

🤯

today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump Law firms and universities do not need to capitulate. Here’s how they can fight back.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

📢 Call for PhD and Postdocs: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness
nerds.itu.dk/2025/03/25/c...

We are looking for Phds and Postdocs to join @jonassjuul.bsky.social at @itu.dk in Copenhagen improving inference, forecasting, and mitigation in future pandemics. Deadline May 1st.

I was happy to sign this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI.

www.aibiasconsensus.org

Petition for a Code of Conduct at NetSci2025 March 5, 2025 Dear all, This initiative originates at NERDS (IT University of Copenhagen), and we are launching a petition to establish a Code of Conduct at NetSci2025. We are collecting signatures ...

Awesome initiative asking for a code of conduct at the International School and Conference on Network Science (#NetSci), if you support the idea, consider signing & sharing with peers
forms.gle/fV6XrYyTZ1Fz...

@netplace.bsky.social

Reform and cultural change in academic publishing are overdue. This is a fantastic initiative, particularly by steering away from the prestige signalling of high-impact journals and bringing affordability back to the open-access agenda. The next step: having funders and hiring departments onboard!

Complexity & Networks CORE A hub for the Complexity and Network Science community to gather and share resources.

We are glad to present 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐎𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄) 🎉

complexity-core.github.io

𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 is a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community.

Can't wait to be back at @complexity72h.bsky.social, let the sleepless nights come :D #Complexity72h

Someone should write this black on white the day after H-index and impact factors started to drive decision-making processes in many scientific fields.

Now the community behind the Complex Systems Society writes it and calls for similar initiatives.

How to choose a research question? Choosing which problems to work on is perhaps the hardest and most crucial part of science. It is also an invisible and underrated part.

How to choose a research question?

"Try to first see the forest from the trees, and then focus on those trees that you find important. If you feel that some trees or entire forests are missing, you have a research question!

Great advice to early career researchers

jarisaramaki.fi/2025/01/29/h...

This is amazing! A wonderfully interactive way of demonstrating how you can be manipulated using visualizations! Will definitely share this with my students!

🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Abstract deadline is just around the corner—Feb 24, 2025
Submit your abstract now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-abstr... and join us in Norrköping, Sweden.
Tutorials announcement coming soon!

Two pictures of monk parakeets, each then zoomed it. In the first picture, parakeet “Blue-Purple-Orange” is using its beak to unscrew a roofing screw from the side of its flight pen. In picture two, a different parakeet can be seen running along a stick perch carrying one of the roofing screws in its beak

Moment of levity away from the news, in case anyone needs it…

I joke that the parakeets I study sometimes plot how to ruin my research: I now have photographic proof!

My evil birds are actively disassembling their flight cage - unscrewing screws & then flying around showing off their souvenirs 🧪🪶

A poster advertising a fully funded PhD position. A QR code that leads to the application page is in the top center.

Have #computational modeling skills & an interest in understanding how ecosystems respond to climate stress? #FundedPhD for you at IceLab with @grocherros.bsky.social, Ryan Sponseller and @mrosvall.bsky.social

Apply by Feb 16 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

#climate #complex #phdsky #carbon #ecosky

I've seen some analytical solutions, though, it might not be the most intuitive approach. I was thinking of this work:
www.pnas.orgcgidoi10.1073pnas.0609371103

Perhaps Schelling's Model of Segregation? Originally an ABM, but widely studied in a network framework. Schelling, Thomas C. (1971)