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Antoine Allard

@allard.bsky.social

Associate professor at Université Laval (Québec). Sentinelle Nord research chair holder. He/him. Network theory, nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics. antoineallard.info

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In just about a week, the season's first NetSci Colloquium will happen. And we're starting with a bang . . . with none other than Iain Couzin talking about Collective Behavior in Animal Groups. September 24, 10 AM ET. Register here to get a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

18.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 10    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1
CCS 2026 | Binghamton, N.Y., USA
YouTube video by Watson College at Binghamton University CCS 2026 | Binghamton, N.Y., USA

Done! It was a super fun week of complexity. Huge thanks to the organizers! And see you all next year in Binghamton!!
#CCS2025 #CCS2026
youtu.be/kIK3DleA-Us

05.09.2025 14:23 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Okay, here are a few more from the #CCS2025 closing ceremony

Gerardo Iniguez announcing the new Complex Systems Society journal (open-access, APC-free) -- ToCSS!!

05.09.2025 20:50 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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We start with the 2nd day of #LANET25 with the talk by
@jmbuldu.bsky.social and a fantastic talk about Football, Networks & Complexity (all in one!!)

29.07.2025 13:04 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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New paper is out!🚨 We present a new method to sample random hypergraphs. For many datasets, we show that we can identify based on the hypergraph degrees whether our method will be (much) faster⚡ than standard Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods shorturl.at/tEzBF

17.07.2025 14:12 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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🌐 Excited to welcome Dr. Eugenio Valdano as an #Invited speaker at #CCS25.
🔗Researcher at INSERM and member of the Sorbonne Outbreaks Modeling Center (SUMOC) in Paris, he develops mathematical models to study how infectious diseases spread in human and animal populations.

16.06.2025 14:11 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
NetSci-branded toilet paper

NetSci-branded toilet paper

Wow, @netsciconf.bsky.social --- I'm impressed.

05.06.2025 12:39 — 👍 29    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Ironic that transit from #NetSci2025 @netsciconf.bsky.social is disrupted due to failure of a high-betweenness node.

04.06.2025 14:05 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Mario Chávez, CNRS Research Fellow, París, France, is an invited speaker @lanetconference.bsky.social from Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière @institutducerveau.bsky.social . He will discuss higher-dimensional geometries and their applications in brain networks. lanet2025.uy.

30.04.2025 12:17 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Complex Networks Winter Workshop

As winter ends, we dream of the next one.

Information is now live for CNWW 2025 (Dec. 13-20) in Québec City!

Come learn, teach, and play with networks and network science in beautiful QC

More info to come but logistics and application form can be found here: vermontcomplexsystems.org/events/cnww/

26.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
SFI Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu. (image: Katherine Mast/SFI)

SFI Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu. (image: Katherine Mast/SFI)

SFI welcomes C. Brandon Ogbunu as a part-time Resident Professor! 🎉

Throughout his career, Ogbunu has defied categorization. As a professor at Yale, he uses modeling tools from computational biology to study the socio-political in concert with the molecular, ecological and epidemiological.

02.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 60    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 3
Registration Register for NetSci 2025

📢 We've extended the deadline for early-bird registrations to 6 March 2025 (23:59 CET) to give you a bit more time to register!

netsci2025.github.io/registration/

21.02.2025 16:14 — 👍 12    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1
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Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks - Nature Medicine By simulating the implementation of airport-based wastewater surveillance sites at the global level, a modeling study shows how this early warning system would perform in identifying sources of pandem...

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
Short 🧵

12.02.2025 11:56 — 👍 177    🔁 77    💬 5    📌 4
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🚀 CCS2025 Travel Grants! 🌍

Grants available for researchers from low & middle-income countries! Covers fees, travel & more.

Must:
✅ Present research (talk, poster, or satellite)
✅ Reside in an eligible country
✅ No previous Open Arms grant

🔗 More info: ccs25.cssociety.org/open-arms-gr...

17.02.2025 14:15 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Extended deadline: send your abstract until February 20th! We wait for your contribution at HISTONET, #hnr satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social about historical networks!

14.02.2025 15:44 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨3 days remaining to submit your abstract to our Physical Networks Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social!

Working on complex networks in which physical constraints & embeddings matter? Send your abstract to physnet@ceu.edu by 17th Feb!

Details: sites.google.com/view/physnet...

#NetSci25

14.02.2025 16:30 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀: 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀

⏳ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗻: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟳&𝟭𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

Visit the respective satellite web pages for further details
netsci2025.github.io/satellites/

12.02.2025 18:27 — 👍 3    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
Complex Networks and their Applications 2025 | CNA 2025

OMG this is coming to Binghamton:
complexnetworks.org

05.02.2025 12:21 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Bumping this again!

IT:U is a great place to work. Groups are very well equipped, the culture is perfect for interdisciplinary research!

You also get the opportunity help shape a brand new university.

Deadline is Feb 28, 2025.

Get in touch if you want to learn more.

05.02.2025 12:33 — 👍 22    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨Happy to announce that EpiMob is back for a 4th edition @netsciconf.bsky.social 🙌
🏃‍♂️🦠Interested in behavioral data and public health? Join us in Maastricht in June 2025 🦠🏃‍♀️

The call for abstracts is open! Deadline is February 15
👉 epimob.weebly.com/call-for-abs...

20.01.2025 15:10 — 👍 26    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 3
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Interested in #NetworkMedicine, #SystemsBiology or #BiomedicalResearch in general? Join us at #NetBioMed2025 🧬🩺🔬! A @netsciconf.bsky.social satellite to be held in Maastricht. Submit your contribution by February 10th. For more information visit our website: netbiomed2025.github.io

17.01.2025 13:52 — 👍 4    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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NetSci 2025 - Mapping Complexity Lab Network Geometry Sattelite at NetSci 2025 conference.

Second edition of the Network geometry satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social Last year's edition was a blast and this year the satellite got promoted to a full day event! Please repost and consider submitting an abstract by February 10th.
mappingcomplexity.net/mainpage/net...

04.02.2025 21:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🏅Ready to coach their #Complexity72h team, meet Javier M. Buldú from Rey Juan Carlos University, Brennan Klein (@jkbren.bsky.social) and Maddalena Torricelli from @nunetsi.bsky.social.

⚽️Their project: "Leveraging Complexity Sciences to Analyze Soccer Performance Evolution Over the Last Decade"

04.02.2025 11:03 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Historical Network Research (HNR) is organizing HISTONET, a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social to connect with the community of network scientists! #hnr
The call for papers is open until February 15th!
Details can be found here:
historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/netsci-maast...

04.02.2025 09:58 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Last week I co-organized the Winter Workshop on Complex Systems, in the snowy mountains. Even though I was only physically present for a part of it, the atmosphere was amazing from the first moment. Huge thanks to my co-organizers, the speakers and all the participants! Until next time! #WWCS2025

04.02.2025 12:08 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

TopoNets Reminder! 👇

04.02.2025 11:26 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Missed the NetSci deadline? No problem! Submit your work to the SINM Satellite at NetSci 2025! We have an amazing lineup of speakers so far, including Michael Schaub, Vince Lyzinski, and @gcant.bsky.social. Revised deadline is Feb 20. See sinm.network for details.

04.02.2025 09:13 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Casser la baraque

Chronique | Frappons fort, bazardons tout, on verra ensuite qui sont les forts et les faibles.

02.02.2025 23:31 — 👍 45    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1
Faire un doctorat en science politique à Québec 💯
YouTube video by Science politique - Université Laval Faire un doctorat en science politique à Québec 💯

Faire un doctorat en science politique à Québec 💯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqr...

30.01.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Looking forward to our network analysis software & data satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social and seeing all your great contributions!

29.01.2025 18:46 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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