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Basti Kusch

@bastikusch.bsky.social

PhD candidate, Complex Systems/Network Science, IT:U Linz Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de Website: https://bastikusch.github.io/ Co-organizer @netplace.bsky.social Contributor @complexity-core.bsky.social

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πŸ“’ The WiNS Seminar Series is back! πŸ₯³
Join us today at 11:00 a.m. ET (5pm CET) for the first talk of the season with Yanna Kraakman (Univ. of Twente):

Sampling random hypergraphs with fixed degrees

πŸ’¬ DM for the Zoom link
@wins-society.bsky.social
@gulsahakcakir.bsky.social
@h-merritt.bsky.social

06.10.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our fall seminar series begins this Thursday, Oct. 2 (4pm UTC+1/11am EDT) with a talk by Elena Candellone. She’ll be speaking about β€œMapping extreme users through negative ties in online social interactions”, followed by a discussion on β€œthe joy of planning scientific events”.

29.09.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Last week we had our second β€œInverse Complexity Lab Retreat” at wonderful Traunkirchen!

skewed.de/lab/group.ht...

Nothing like eldritch C++ incantations by the sunny lakeside! πŸ–οΈ

08.08.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Let’s amplify diverse voices and break out of our usual bubbles.
Nominate someone inspiring today!

#WiNS #NetworkScience #WomenInScience

31.07.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

shout out to the organizers of these seminars for a great semester, thank you @gulsahakcakir.bsky.social @elenacandellone.bsky.social and Echo Liu!

if you or someone you know would be a good fit for a future seminar, you can nominate them here docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/... we’d love to have you!

19.05.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Can LLMs be used to persuade people to disfavor authoritarian strategies? If you are at #ic2s2, stop by JΓΊlia SzΓ‘mely's poster today to learn about our work in progress with @tomcostello.bsky.social & @dgrand.bsky.social

23.07.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization Poster for the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (NorrkΓΆping, Sweden | July 21-24, 2025)

I'll have a poster on Thursday, come say hi! zenodo.org/records/1626...

#ic2s2

22.07.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tomorrow 1.30-2.30pm, poster ID 82

22.07.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interested in the relationships between team dynamics, leadership dynamics, and success?

I’ll be presenting my poster today at #ic2s2 (poster #82).

22.07.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Attending #ic2s2? My poster is up today!

22.07.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides Migration is central in various societal problems related to socioeconomic development. While much of the existing research has focused on international migration, migration patterns within a single c...

New preprint: β€œMultiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides”, with @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, Martina Contisciani, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503

22.07.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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 from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...

If you are interested; get in touch!

29.06.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Awesome! Good job!

07.06.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

06.06.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NetSci2025 closing ceremony
NetPlace announcements

06.06.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A delightfully nerdy photo of @arash.network receiving a small karate club trophy from @nwlandry.bsky.social

A delightfully nerdy photo of @arash.network receiving a small karate club trophy from @nwlandry.bsky.social

An "action shot" of @arash.network during his award winning talk, with a TV in the background showing the famous karate club network

An "action shot" of @arash.network during his award winning talk, with a TV in the background showing the famous karate club network

Hurray! πŸŽ‰ @arash.network (left) is the 24th recipient of the Zachary's Karate Club CLUB prize. For his talk @netsciconf.bsky.social NetSci 2025, he was entrusted with the illustrious trophy πŸ† from @nwlandry.bsky.social #networkscience networkkarate.tumblr.com

04.06.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me very happy!

04.06.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@invcomplexity.skewed.de bike train to @netsciconf.bsky.social

@ituaustria.bsky.social

04.06.2025 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, I'm sorry but unfortunately there is no recording of the panel discussion πŸ˜•

02.06.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're already at @netsciconf.bsky.social and you're wondering what that graph is doing on your badge, here's the reason! We will have a lightning talk on wednesday to explain the rules before the first coffee break, don't miss it!

02.06.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Flyer of panel on science as a craft at NetSci25

Flyer of panel on science as a craft at NetSci25

If you are at #NetSci25, join us at 1pm for our @netplace.bsky.social panel on the topic of "Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression", with panelists @asteixeira.bsky.social, @maximelca.bsky.social and @captainkirk1041.bsky.social

02.06.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸ”” NEW at ⁠netsci2025! Ready to Gotta Match Them All? NetPlace’s Poster Matching Game turns the poster hall into a live graph huntβ€”perfect for meeting fellow researchers. πŸ‘€

01.06.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸŽ‰ Rounding out our panel, please welcome Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social! Alec is an Assistant Professor at HKU, interested in complex networks and statistical physics. He works on developing new methods, drawing on ideas from information theory, Bayesian inference and machine learning.

31.05.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰ Very happy to announce Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social as our next panelist! Maxime is an FNRS Postdoc at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems & UCLouvain in Belgium. He is interested in dynamical systems, complex systems, networks, and their applications to life sciences.

29.05.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰ We welcome Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social, Associate Professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London, as our first @netsciconf.bsky.social panelist! She bridges network science and machine learning to explore complex systems and collective behavior.

27.05.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Panel @ NetSci25 | NetPlace Panel discussion on "Science as a craft, Balancing career and skill progression" at NetSci25.

πŸš€ After a series of successful panels in previous years, NetPlace returns to @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht with:
"Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression"

πŸ—“οΈ June 2, 2025 | 1:00–2:00 PM
πŸ”— Details: netplace.site/event/netsci...

23.05.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
NetPlace workshop 2025 on Networks & Physics | NetPlace NetPlace is organizing an in-person workshop on **Networks & Physic**, with a focus on a collabothon. Registration deadline: **9th May 2025**

🚨 Just 1 week to go!

Join us in London πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ on May 16 for the NetPlace Workshop on Networks & Physics!

Keynotes, collabathon, ERC-style pitches & more πŸ§ βš›οΈπŸ’₯

πŸ†“ Registration is free

πŸ’Έ Travel/accommodation support available for those who register by Friday May 9

πŸ‘‰ netplace.site/event/netpla...

07.05.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Take a look at this, there are still spots available, registration is free and we can provide some financial support if you register by this Friday! πŸ”₯ (Spread the word)

07.05.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To anyone who is in(terested in going to) London, NetPlace is organizing a one-day workshop on "Networks and Physics" on the 16th of May!

More info here: netplace.site/event/netpla...

07.05.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome! Will add to my train reading list!

07.05.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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