NetSci 2026

We’re excited to announce Moon Duchin as a #NetSci2026 Plenary Speaker! A top University of Chicago mathematician, she applies geometry and computation to democracy and voting systems. Her award-winning work bridges math, policy, and complex systems.

www.netsci2026.com/speakers

⏰ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵!

NetSci 2026 abstract submissions close Dec 19 — just around the corner.
If you’re doing exciting work in network science (theory, computation, or applications), this is your chance to share it with a global community.

📅 Submit by Dec 19
🔗 www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs...

✨ Excited to announce 𝗬𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝗬𝗲𝗼𝗹 (𝗬𝗬) 𝗔𝗵𝗻 as a NetSci 2026 Plenary Speaker! A leading network and data scientist, YY explores how complex systems shape behavior, cognition, and discovery. Stay tuned for more speaker updates as we build toward an inspiring NetSci 2026! ✨
www.netsci2026.com/speakers

⏰ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟴!
Submit your Satellite proposal for NetSci 2026.
Details on how to apply, the review process, and organizer responsibilities are at the link below.
Don’t miss your chance to contribute to the program!
👉 tinyurl.com/42sru6kz

𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary.
Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83
Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz

What happens when a network is neither perfectly ordered nor completely random? Watts & Strogatz’s 1998 “small-world” insight: add a few random shortcuts to a local network, you keep the clustering but gain short paths.
𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙙, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡-𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙎𝙘𝙞 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣…

Next up: two classic sociological networks!
Mohr & Duquenne (1997) map how NYC’s social welfare system evolved from strict moral categorizations of “the poor” in 1888 to a professionalized structure by 1917.
A Galois lattice reveals how culture shaped the very logic of relief.
🔗 tinyurl.com/a35dr9cv

Another striking network visualization: the Network of Political Blogs during the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
Red = Republican, Blue = Democratic.
The analysis revealed dense within-party links and few cross-party ties—an early snapshot of online polarization.
Study 🔗 tinyurl.com/4mfxpr9b

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻!
Secure your spot at the flagship conference of the Network Science Society and take advantage of the early bird registration special - www.netsci2026.com/registration
📅 June 1–5, 2026 | Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA
Join us as we celebrate 20 years of NetSci!

Another great visualization—The Network of the Conclave maps the social structure of the papal conclave, where each node represents a cardinal, colored by doctrinal orientation. Few modern decision-making processes combine secrecy, ritual, and influence as vividly as this one.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2rz3as5w

Next up! ✈️ A look at the worldwide airport network (2013). Researchers tested 12 attack strategies and found that degree-based and Bonacich-based attacks most disrupt passenger flow—laying the groundwork for smarter, more resilient air transport systems.

Continuing our network visualization series.
Research has long focused on a few related disorders—but genetics now reveals links across nearly all diseases. The HDN, developed by @barabasi.bsky.social maps genetic connections between disorders, offering a genome-wide roadmap for future discoveries.

Let’s warm up your appetite for the beauty of networks! 🌐
Leading up to #NetSci2026, we’ll share iconic visualizations that reveal just how interconnected our world is. Consider this your visual warm-up before the conference! 👀

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Follow us for speaker news, deadline reminders, event highlights & community updates.
Don’t miss a moment—join the conversation! 👇

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📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

Wow, I trully didn’t expect this one!!
I have been awarded a Best Student Talk price at NetSci2025🤩

Thanks to all the organisers (@netsciconf.bsky.social) for this very exciting event.

#netsci2025 awards! Congrats to all winners!

Omid V. Ebrahimi, Riet van Bork, Anne Roefs at the Netsci focus session on network psychometrics

This turned out great, thanks to three amazing speakers and an engaged audience. Great job everyone!
Let's maybe turn this into a regular NetSci satellite?
@netsciconf.bsky.social

Can a network be physically be a graph but effectively be a hypergraph? Tiago Pereira is speaking about emergent hypernetworks in the focus session “Network Dynamical Systems” at @netsciconf.bsky.social.

Had an awesome time this week at @netbiomed2025.bsky.social and @netsciconf.bsky.social.

Very interesting talks and posters and nice people, I couldn’t be more excited to get back to working on this topic to study biological processes.

Final shift at @netsciconf.bsky.social presenting my poster on nonequilibrium brain network dynamics.

Also got to see our fearless leader, Renaud Lambiotte, collect his well-deserved Fellowship.

#NetSci2025

Our last #NetSci2025 keynote speaker is Michael Macy, who discussed polarization not from the opinion perspective but from the people point of view. His work was very insightful when showing the importance of 'early movers' when generating polarization cascades. @netsciconf.bsky.social

The Network and Data Science Department @ceu-dnds.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

Earlier this week, @lmrocha.bsky.social , Chair of CBeRa, was an invited speaker at the @netbiomed2025.bsky.social Satellite of @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht.

He spoke about making digital twins more interpretable, a key move for biomedical AI! Great chance to show CBeRa to the community

Best official merchandise for @netsciconf.bsky.social!

@lindadouw.bsky.social keynoting at @netsciconf.bsky.social on multiscale network neuroscience!

@netsciconf.bsky.social #NetSci25 poster session: cool discussions with @elisalvai.bsky.social from @nerdsitu.bsky.social 🥳

People of #netsci2025!
Come hear from experts of a field that has had so far little interaction with our community, but holds great potential for us physicists who think we can solve any other field 😂, at our focus session on network psychometrics on Friday!
netsci2025.github.io/focus_sessio...

science = happiness @netsciconf.bsky.social

NetSci-branded toilet paper

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