Gabriele Di Bona

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 “Mapping extreme users through negative ties in online social interactions”, followed by a discussion on “the joy of planning scientific events”.

At NetPlace, we try to build spaces for junior researchers to come together to learn from each other and develop their craft. Our seminar series does just this, integrating the sharing of scientific knowledge and discussion about the process of science. We hope Ph.D. students from complex systems, network science, and interdisciplinary research in general will join us for a monthly talk and discussion. Elena Candellone (Thursday, Oct. 2) Louis Boucherie (Thursday, Nov. 6) Haily Merritt (Thursday, Dec. 4)

We’re excited to announce the line-up for our fall seminar series! We have three awesome speakers who will share their research and perspectives on the craft of science.

🔔 NEW at ⁠netsci2025! Ready to Gotta Match Them All? NetPlace’s Poster Matching Game turns the poster hall into a live graph hunt—perfect for meeting fellow researchers. 👀

🔥🔥What a day at our Networks & Physics workshop at QMUL! From thought-provoking talks to a hands-on Collabathon, we wrapped up with amazing projects presented by our participants. Huge thanks to the speakers and participants for the energy and insight!

Don’t miss our panel, “Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression”
🗓️ June 2, 2025 | 1:00–2:00 PM in Maastricht
🔗 netplace.site/event/netsci...

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

As early-career researchers, we often face the challenge of deciding how to allocate our limited time and energy, whether it is developing new skills, building our networks, or setting a research direction, all under the pressure to publish.

🚀 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"

🗓️ June 2, 2025 | 1:00–2:00 PM
🔗 Details: netplace.site/event/netsci...

🚨 Reminder! Our Networks & Physics workshop is happening this Friday at QMUL (London). It’s free to attend, and there’s still room for more people!
Come join us for a day of great talks and collaboration...

@yrcss.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social @complexity-core.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social @asteixeira.bsky.social @netscience.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social

Register by tomorrow for financial support to come to London next week for our workshop and collabathon! Hurry up :)

First ever workshop and collabathon directly organised by NetPlace and sponsored by @NewtonInstitute, this May 16th in London! Join for the event! Spots will be assigned on a first come first serve basis, so hurry up and spread the word! Thanks!!! 🔥🔥

The Complex Systems Society has taken a stance! Read about the Manifesto on the Publishing and Evaluation Systems at:
cssociety.org/about/manife...
#CSSManifesto

Hey NetPals!

Facing financial constraints and you might not be able to attend NetSci 2025? We're pleased to announce that we have two registration fee waivers available for early-career researchers.

If you are interested, complete this forms.gle/WCdtWiCvoEcn... by 3rd Mar.

I'm glad to be contributor for 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐎𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄), a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community. 👇🧵1/6

Complexity & Networks CORE A hub for the Complexity and Network Science community to gather and share resources.

We are glad to present 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐎𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄) 🎉

complexity-core.github.io

𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 is a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community.

@complexity-core.bsky.social @yrcss.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

Young network scientists, this is for you! We are very enthusiast to organize our first ever workshop, completely tailored to our needs. But to do it, we need your help, so help reshare and fill the form to give us your opinion!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NetPlace Workshop Hey NetPals, we’re planning to organise an in-person NetPlace workshop in London this May and would love your input!

Hey NetPals 🔥, we’re planning to organize a NetPlace workshop in London and would love your input! Which topic would you find most interesting to discuss?

Fill out the form and give us more feedback. We’d love to see you all in London! 👀

forms.gle/k1gBJ9B5CHr4...

🔥 Hey NetPals!

This week, we welcome Lucio La Cava @luciolcw.bsky.social from University of Calabria, who will discuss the rise of decentralized social media and challenges for early-career researchers in the age of big tech.

📅 Mark your calendars: 6th Feb, 4pm UK time

Zoom: netplace.site

We’re thrilled to announce our first speaker @barabasi.bsky.social from Northeastern University!

Join us at NetPlace@NetSciX 2025, 15 Jan 2025, starting from 18:00.

NetPlace is coming to NetSciX 2025!

Join us for a special NetPlace session on Challenges and Opportunities in Network Science and discuss with our speakers on Jan 15.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

More info ➡️

netplace.site/event/netsci...

The dynamics of higher-order novelties - Nature Communications We explore the world in search of novelties, which are traditionally defined as the first appearance of a new element in a sequence of exploration. The authors show that novelty can also arise from co...

New one out! We look at higher-order novelties: first-time combinations of known elements in empirical sequences of exploration processes. Similar standard discovery rates can diverge at higher (Heaps') orders and a dynamic RW network model can capture these patterns.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy new year NetPlacers! 🔥🥳 Last year has been full of events, we have grown a lot thanks to all of you! We are very grateful ❤️
We wish this year will be even better, we'll try our best to improve and serve our community. We have some surprises for you, stay tuned! 🔥

Shiny brand new website ✨

We didn’t know we would come this far when we started, but here we are, growing more and more. And a bigger organization needs a better website!

It took us a lot of hard work, but we have made it: netplace.site

We are thrilled to announce the merger of two key organizations supporting early-career researchers in network science: SYNS (Society of Young Network Scientists) and NetPLACE (Networks, PhD Life, and Complexity). Together, we are now NetPlace!

🔥 Hey hey! Exciting seminar announcement! This week we are very happy to have Amahury JL Diaz @amahury0 discussing chemical automata as energy-efficient approaches for unconventional computing.

📅 Mark your calendars: 28th Nov, 4pm UK (GMT)
📷 Zoom: netplace.site

@netplace.bsky.social

Hello world!

We have created a starter pack to showcase the work of early career researchers in complex systems.

The list is still under development! If you feel like you might fit in this category, let us know in the comments and we will add you :)

go.bsky.app/95gzSqM

Has anyone else done other starter packs similar to this that we could be interested in advertising to follow the trend?