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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل

@gamal-adel.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in complex network dynamics at Leiden U and U of Amsterdam. Open Knowledge Foundation Network member. gamaladel.com

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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I think our notion of understanding a system is going more and more in the direction of being able to predict an outcome or hidden value of the system. Of course, with AI, we'll have to decide on whether we can accept that AI "understands" concepts and whether we can delegate this understanding.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Seeing all the things people are doing with AI for fun (making/modding games, visualizations, websites, etc.) is making me very overwhelmed. I held these kinds of crafts in high regard and to see it become so trivially feasible is both exciting and terrifying. Not sure where things go from here.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just finished @jsaramak.bsky.social's book How to Write a Scientific Paper and I have to say it's the single most resourceful thing I've ever read as a PhD. You can tell the recommended style works cause the book is an absolute joy to read.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Amazing Ama! Very well deserved!!🔥🔥
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Since I imagine I'm not the only one who wanted to follow all the great speakers at #dwebcamp, I've put together a starter pack of all the atproto accounts I could find. lmk if you were there and you'd like to add/remove your account :D Let's stay in touch!
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just came back from #dwebcamp. By far the best community event I've been to! So many in-depth talks about everything from decentralized communication to open knowledge. Thanks to @getdweb.net, @dod.ngo, and the volunteers for the amazing effort! Much love to everyone there and hope to see you soon!
Gamal at his talk at DWeb CampPublic gathering of all attendeesKids parade
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
So much energy in this place!! My group are doing great work 🔥🔥
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NetSci 2027 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Before the conference begins, join us for 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗨𝗻𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱: an informal evening on the stories behind research. Professor 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗻 will share the journey behind her landmark 2002 PNAS paper on community structure in networks. 📅 May 31 | 6 PM ✏️ Register: tinyurl.com/2e73wt46 🍕 Snacks included
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Yeah it was a bit grim seeing them present these tools to offload your deliberation and agency as something to celebrate. Concerning times ahead :/
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Can't wait to meet more of the community! Discount tickets running out though so get them while you still can.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
📢We're organzing a 2-hour hybrid event on May 20 at @iasamsterdam.bsky.social titled Network Science for the Society of the Future, with a keynote speech by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social! Go to our website to sign up:
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Really great oppportunity for a Postdoc in my research group. If you have any questions hit me up!
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
And, unfortunately, most academics don't see any issues in going to these events in the US.
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Abbas K. Rizi @abbasrizi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is me in 2017 after the first workshop on complex systems for high school students at Allameh Helli High School in Tehran. Teenage boys and girls were sitting next to each other, curious and full of questions. I loved that school. Seeing it damaged by US and Israeli bombs is heartbreaking.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Rules for thee, but not for me.
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 07/03/2026
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles. 13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger. The law didn't change. torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak
In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It is! Though I think "math tables" is the more boring and layperson friendly term.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
That is an excellent title. Adjacency matrix best thing ever
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"visualization" is a generous term to use here
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
When you have to scroll over two pages of AI-generated "summary" drivel to reach, you know, the text abstract written by the authors, you know the Elsevier people have really lost the plot
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yeah I think we're on the same page we're just seeking the perfectly catch one-liners that's all the rage these days XD
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Interesting notion, though I'm not sure I agree. Complex systems have to be more than the sum of their parts because their mechanisms are not reducible to without said parts. In your line of thought I'd say that *complexity* is the difference between the complex system and the sumenof its parts
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Well I can tell you that whatever role the bottom right person plays after the top figure's death is the main contention point that caused the sunni-shia division among muslims.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Rodrigo Costas @rodrigocostas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Today we launch ORION: a coordinated initiative to make open research information more inclusive, accessible and democratic. Our experience with GoogleBigQuery support collaborative and community solutions for ORI infrastructures, increasing sustainability & resilience. doi.org/10.54900/2pn...
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Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online
Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
We have an amazing panel ready for you at NetSciX in Auckland!
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Platform for Large-scale Analysis of Networks @planet-nl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Three new preprints from our group are now live on arXiv! We explore community mixed membership in aggregated networks, fragmentation in a population-scale social network of the Netherlands, and how social capital shapes economic mobility. Read more:
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Three New Preprints Published on arXiv
We are glad to share that our group’s researchers have recently published three new preprints on arXiv, showcasing advances in network analysis and population-scale social systems.Link Fraction Mixed ...
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Thank you for the great event! Can't wait to see what you have lined up next👀
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
On Monday I was at @internetarchive.eu in Amsterdam for @jwyg.bsky.social talk about his new book, Public Data Cultures. Instant purchase!
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If they exist then I haven't met them. I say this as a person surrounded by "normies."
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I fail to see the bad news... One less slop-book to saturate the medium sounds like a win
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@elisecutts.bsky.social spotted!
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beccadownes @beccadownes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A must-read, in my opinion
globalnews.ca
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
That's a very big if lol Hopefully your ETA isn't *more* than 14hr right now😂
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
These people are losing their thought agency to just act as envoy for LLMs... "Second AI opinion" pffft www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread...
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 14/12/2025
Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.
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Eleven killed at Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese brands attack on Jewish worshippers act of antisemitism and terrorism
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 12/12/2025
Can people organizing academic conferences in the US please get a grip?
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Platform for Large-scale Analysis of Networks @planet-nl.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
One week to go! Next week we’re hosting an international workshop in Amsterdam on Population-Scale Social Network Analysis. Leading teams from five different countries will join us to share new insights and explore future collaborations. Learn more:
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Upcoming International Workshop on Population-Scale Social Network research
We are excited to announce that our team will be hosting an international workshop on population-scale social network research in December 2025. This invitation-only event is a follow-up to a previous...
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Platform for Large-scale Analysis of Networks @planet-nl.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of participating in the NetSci 2025 conference in Maastricht. Our team shared exciting new research across topics from social network dynamics to mobility, privacy, and community structure. We even brought home two awards!
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Proud member of this great team! Stay tuned for more updates on our work soon👀
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
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Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
My experience has been weirdly the opposite. Statistical variance maybe🤷‍♀️
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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems. I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years. Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Trust is not limited to familiar contacts. Depending on the setting, it can be purely cultural/societal. The social contract is as good as it gets in how it's codified
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Gamal Adel | جمال عادل @gamal-adel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Great for us Egyptians to be an inspiration for world leaders again! Who knew well-oiled dictatorships were in such high demand?
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Omar won! He won! 🤩 So wonderful! From Palestinian refugee to Nobel glory: Omar Yaghi’s incredible journey Born in Amman to refugee parents, Yaghi rose from humble roots to reshape modern chemistry gulfnews.com/world/americ...
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From refugee roots in Amman to Nobel triumph — Omar Yaghi’s inspiring journey of science and grit
Born in Amman to refugee parents, Yaghi rose from humble roots to reshape modern chemistry
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Signal @signal.org · 03/10/2025
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🤩 Fantastic new network plotting package available in Python by Fabio Zanini. The package supports both networkx and igraph networks, and has a wide variety of styling options. iplotx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Gallery of various network visualisations.
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