We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching.
We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
10.10.2025 16:12 β π 23 π 7 π¬ 1 π 2
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
01.10.2025 18:14 β π 693 π 314 π¬ 53 π 146
(new paper)
π A large-scale study of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder in online settings: looking at reported symptoms, treatments, and comorbidities on Reddit.
Collaboration with @sreblet.bsky.social , @petrakn.bsky.social and Julie Riddell
π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PMDD #MentalHealth
01.10.2025 13:00 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Veritasium
Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium.bsky.social video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?... @stevenstrogatz.com Duncan Watts @barabasi.bsky.social
01.10.2025 06:58 β π 21 π 13 π¬ 0 π 1
π Welcome to our new PhD cohort in Network Science!
(top row, LβR) Nathalia, Miguel @msanchezc.bsky.social, Zhina
(bottom row, LβR) Jiachen, Dima and Laura
Wishing you an inspiring start to your journeyβlooking forward to all the ideas and discoveries ahead! π‘π
25.09.2025 15:15 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
A world map showing the locations of cities that hosted/will host international scientific conferences in 2025 and 2026. NetSci 2025 Maastricht, IC2S2 2025 NorkkΓΆping, and CCS 2025 Siena are on the left-hand side, while NetSci 2026 Boston, IC2S2 2026 Burlington, and CCS 2026 Binghamton are close together on the right-hand side.
06.09.2025 15:13 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Ladies and Gentlemen, @ceu-dnds.bsky.social at @ccs2025.bsky.social #CCS2025
04.09.2025 19:52 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
π’Take a breath, you have extra days to finish!
Due to technical issues with @openreviewnet this week, weβve extended all deadlines by 2 weeks.
ποΈNew deadline for abstracts: Sept 19, 23:59 AoE
π· More info: netscix2026.github.io
@MLuczak @ProfMSmall @droneale @danielapaolotti
04.09.2025 23:53 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Proc. R. Soc. B: Dispersed female networks: female gorillasβ inter-group relationships influence dispersal decisions
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2025.0223?af=R
14.08.2025 14:47 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Nominate a speaker for WiNS Seminar
The Women in Network Science (WiNS) seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar with the aim to promote and showcase research by women and nonbinary researchers in network science. Attendance is open to e...
We are seeking speaker nominations for the Women in Network Science (WiNS) seminar series.
Letβs amplify diverse voices and break out of our usual bubbles.
Nominate someone inspiring today!
#WiNS #NetworkScience #WomenInScience
31.07.2025 14:29 β π 11 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships
If youβve 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 π 66 π 69 π¬ 0 π 3
Ethics in Complex Systems
Ethics in Complex Systems: A one-day workshop at the University of Zurich
ethics.dsi.uzh.ch/project/ethi...
26.07.2025 23:18 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
π₯ All keynote talks from ICΒ²SΒ² β25 are now available on our YouTube channel!
#ic2s2 #css
25.07.2025 19:13 β π 22 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
DNDS at #IC2S2 2025 in Sweden
A strong presence at the top conference in computational social science!
10+ talks and posters by current & former members on networks, behavior, inequality and digital society.
#WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #SeeUatCEU
24.07.2025 10:56 β π 29 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Seeing talk titles at #ic2s2 I can't be the only one, when reading LLM or AI, having to react with "oh, yet another one π"? No disrespect to colleague's work, but the topic feels overhyped.. Not *everything* needs an LLM angle. #grinchmoment
23.07.2025 15:11 β π 18 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1
Interested in the relationships between team dynamics, leadership dynamics, and success?
Iβll be presenting my poster today at #ic2s2 (poster #82).
22.07.2025 10:13 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Attending #ic2s2? My poster is up today!
22.07.2025 09:53 β π 15 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
π Iβll be presenting this work this week at @ic2s2.bsky.social (Thu, 11:00 AM Β· Social Media & Networks). If youβre there & interested, letβs connect! #IC2S2 N/N
21.07.2025 06:09 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
OSF
𧡠New preprint!
Do online mental health communities form patterns of association that mirror diagnostic systems or challenge them?
βNetwork Analysis of Reddit Mental Health Communities: Mapping the Interconnectedness of Psychopathologyβ
π osf.io/7dfcw_v1
@ceu-dnds.bsky.social
Short thread: 1/N
21.07.2025 06:09 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
π¨π¨ New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and PrzemysΕaw Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
17.07.2025 13:35 β π 25 π 13 π¬ 2 π 2
Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond
Opinion dynamics, the study of how individual beliefs and collective public opinion evolve, is a fertile domain for applying statistical physics to complex social phenomena. Like physical systems, soc...
Review "Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond"
arxiv.org/abs/2507.11521
Lab experiments, data, models, analytical/computational tools. 93 pages, >1k references.
With Fabian Baumann, David Garcia, Gerardo IΓ±iguez, MΓ‘rton Karsai, Jan Lorenz, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron. Led by Michele Starnini
16.07.2025 05:57 β π 24 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
How Do Socioeconomic Factors Influence Epidemic Outcomes? | Central European University
Research illuminating the characteristics driving behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic was carried out by PhD candidate Adrianna Manna.
How do social inequalities shape epidemic outcomes?
Our PhD alum Adriana Manna shares insights from her award-winning dissertation on contact patterns, vaccination gaps & a novel modeling framework.
π Interview: bit.ly/44uT6KF
#NetworkScience #EpidemicModeling
15.07.2025 08:45 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Communications Physics
Communications PhysicsΒ is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the physical ...
Our article βEvidence of equilibrium dynamics in human social networks evolving in timeβ, published in Communications Physics, is now featured on theirΒ homepageΒ as part of their monthly selection of highlights! If you didn't read it yet, take a look!
www.nature.com/commsphys/
15.07.2025 09:55 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
A meme of different kinds of generic network science papers
types of network science papers
19.11.2024 23:51 β π 90 π 26 π¬ 6 π 5
PNAS special feature on Collective Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Dynamics
Contributions from scientists in machine learning, evolutionary game theory, and their growing intersection.
www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122...
01.07.2025 03:44 β π 33 π 6 π¬ 0 π 2
Cultural evolution researcher at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus), UK.
President of the Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Website: alexmesoudi.com
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α΄’α΄Κα΄Ι’α΄α΄’α΄, κ±α΄α΄ΙͺΙ΄
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Ph.D. student at the Network Science Institute || complex systems, network science, statistical inference, and policy interventions
Physics of cancer.
Coordinator @fishersfishes
MS Thesis@Northeastern University | Undergrad @IISER Pune | KVPY fellow
I am interested in modelling biological system complexity relevant to ecology and evolution. Post doc at UC San Diego.
Website: djhelam.github.io
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RRxVJ6YAAAAJ&hl=en
Assistant Professor in Sociology at @rug.nl | Interdisciplinary researcher interested in social networks, cooperation, and social and economic inequality | Assistant director of the ENDOW project: endowproject.github.io π³οΈβπ
Networks, Epidemics & Social Behavior
Postdoc Researcher at DTU Compute & SODAS
Editor-in-chief & Science Writer at sitpor.org
abbas.sitpor.org
Complex networks and computational social science.
Postdoc at @invcomplexity.skewed.de (IT:U Austria) - formerly at @cams.ehess.fr (CNRS & EHESS).
Once data scientist at UK Labour & Datasketch (Bogota).
https://lenafm.github.io/
doctoral researcher
experiments on cooperation
Opinions expressed are my own.
Website: https://adileyasar.github.io
(soon-to-be) PhD student in Mathematics
| UNITN & CHuB (@chub-fbk.bsky.social) |
Intested in applying maths and ML to disinformation and CIO detection
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Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
Postdoc in CSS @univie.ac.at⬠researching representation. Interested in legislator & voter behaviour, technology & politics. Comms Officer @techpolicy.bsky.social
I occasionally do sportives ππ΅π
PhD student at University of Zurich with the Primate Social Evolution group
Ambizione Research Fellow and PI of the Primate Social Evolution Group | Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology, Uni of Zurich | Affiliate Scientist at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund | Studying the fitness consequences of sociality and early life environment
Doctoral Researcher @MPI-EvolBio @MPI-MiS --> @MPI-EvA
Theoretical modelling | Cultural evolution | Population dynamics | Game theory | ABM
Dancing with numbers γ°οΈπ±
Postdoc at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, LiU
Social networks and collective behavior
AS β© CSS
Postdoc @nunetsi.bsky.social (Northeastern Uni) π Computational Social Science πΎ β¨ work on stability of belief in LLMs & Human-AI Collaboration πΏ he/him π±π» πΊπ¦ | www.savcisens.com
Enjoying playing with the data. Scientific collaborator at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
https://gi-ux.github.io/
Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI and Chair for Societal Computing at Saarland University. Co-Director at https://i2sc.net.
