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Alex Gates

@complexgates.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Data Science @UVA. Network Science, human behavior and the emergent constraints of the organizations and ecosystems we build.

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A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper β€œThe entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

04.08.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 251    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 36
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Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge An academic position as a Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

01.08.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.

Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

28.07.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Details GESIS Leibniz Institut fΓΌr Sozialwissenschaften

πŸš€ New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
πŸ’Ό TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
πŸ“Œ Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

29.07.2025 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Two new labs at the Network Science Institute!

NET Lab in #Boston explores team networks advance the frontier of science.
BRAN Lab in #London studies behavior & mental health through brain, social, and environmental dynamics.

πŸ”— Learn more:
#NetLab bit.ly/46SqOv6
#BranLab bit.ly/4f13hu9

21.07.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell your librarians...!

18.07.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025.

More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

17.07.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our new paper mapping job titles, sector specialization, and promotions across 24 sectors now published in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data

in collaboration w/ Shehryar Subhani and Bedoor Alshebli

@ischool.uw.edu @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social

#LaborEconomics #CareerData #CareerMobility

14.07.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Diffusion of complex contagions is shaped by a trade-off between reach and reinforcement | PNAS How does social network structure amplify or stifle behavior diffusion? Existing theory suggests that when social reinforcement makes the adoption ...

Very pleased our paper looking at the diffusion of complex contagions is out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

10.07.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Job: Full professor in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. Deadline for applications is 17th September 2025. Contact Max Fochler or Sarah Davies (head and deputy head of the department) with enquiries about the role. #STS #HPS
berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

07.07.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...

AI & Society faculty opportunity posted just this month with a start date of Fall 2025 and beyond: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734 β€ΌοΈπŸ‚

For "interdisciplinary scholars whose research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social scientific line(s) of study"

07.07.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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25 new scholarships for US researchers Fonds Zukunft Γ–sterreich (FZΓ–) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: β€œThe right signal in these turbulent times”

Are you a #postdoc in the US looking to next steps?

The Austrian Academy of Sciences is opening up 25 fellowships: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...

A great reason to use our visitor program at #Complexity #Science Hub @csh.ac.at and see how you would fit in: csh.ac.at/engage/resea... πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‹

29.06.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

I had a lot of fun at #issi2025! So many fantastic young scientists trying to quantify how political, cultural, and personal forces shape science.

25.06.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you’re at #Sunbelt2025, come join our session tomorrow afternoon on Networks, Philanthropy, and Social Impact!!

Looking forward to a great lineup of presentations

25.06.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CALL FOR A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP CBeRa 06_2025 | CBR CALL FOR A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (BI-M)

1/4 We have two positions for PhD Students available to work in our www.cberaproject.eu CBeRa Project:
cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/call-rese...
cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/open-call...
The focus is #networkscience, #complexsystems, and applications to #networkmedicine and #computationalbiology.

17.06.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What’s the return on government support for R&D?

To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.

17.06.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 12

Welcome to UVA! Let’s grab a coffee and you arrive and I’ll be happy to show you around the School of Data Science.

13.06.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Job announcement!

Full Professor of Applied AI and Data Analysis in Social Sciences at Vienna University of Economics and Business

Dream(y) job for the right person

www.wu.ac.at/en/careers/c...

10.06.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations @dakotamurray.bsky.social !!!! U Albany is lucky to have you!

02.06.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*Last two information sessions of the season* for our MS in Complex Network Analysis! Sign up: www.networkscienceinstitute.org/academics/ms...

Join us to hear about @nunetsi.bsky.social's new MS degree program:
- today (Tuesday, May 27) at 3:00pm ET, and
- tomorrow (Wednesday, May 28) at 9:00am ET

27.05.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My ongoing request:

If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

14.05.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 444    πŸ” 405    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 16
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New paper alert. "More is different" & the LLMs.
LLMs are usually studied in isolation. But what happens when they start interacting? We explored this by looking at their collective behaviour.
Work with @ariel-flint.bsky.social and @lajello.bsky.social
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15.05.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...

13.05.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 405    πŸ” 317    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 39
Assistant/Associate Professor in Statistical Learning Assistant/Associate Professor in Statistical Learning

We're looking for a new colleague to join us in Maastricht as an Assistant/Associate Professor in statistical learning in our Data Analytics and Digitalisation department.

Deadline to apply: June 8th

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

06.05.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. β…“

30.04.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
A person dressed in black, with red hair and wearing glasses holds a book with a blue cover that says: Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach US about Data, Policy and Our Cities, Jess Reia. The University of Virginia historical lawn is in the background. It is daytime.

A person dressed in black, with red hair and wearing glasses holds a book with a blue cover that says: Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach US about Data, Policy and Our Cities, Jess Reia. The University of Virginia historical lawn is in the background. It is daytime.

My book is out and thanks to the generous support from SDS + DTD Lab, it is open access! πŸ’™ You can download it for free here: doi.org/10.18130/px2...
Physical copies can be bought wherever you buy books or at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Support local bookstores/non-tech giants if you can :)

24.04.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ›οΈ Funding #EquityInitiatives = funding academic careers

New #Socius study by Drs. Gates, @lauraknelson.bsky.social, Grudt & @kzippel.bsky.social finds #NSF #ADVANCE awards help faculty doing #OrganizationalChange work maintainβ€”or boostβ€”#ResearchProductivity.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

23.04.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸš€ Now accepting applications for the new MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern!

Study real-world systemsβ€”social, financial, biological, public healthβ€”using cutting-edge network science tools.

🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV
πŸ“… Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory

22.04.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Northwestern University to self-fund research despite Trump administration freeze While university officials said they’ve still not received official word of such action, they acknowledged receiving about 100 stop-work orders from the federal government on roughly 100 fede…

Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky

wgntv.com/evanston/nor...

19.04.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2155    πŸ” 620    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 50

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