Reposted by jgyouNetwork Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It is our great pleasure to announce this year's Erdős-Rényi Prize winner! Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social 0339
Reposted by jgyouTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/09/2025Implementing “reasoning” as “just keep talking to yourself” feels so weird & hacky. But maybe not, according to this? They show that just-predicting-the-next-word is inherently unable to learn to solve some (permutation) problems unless you “pad” with extra thought tokens. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24125 9613
Reposted by jgyouarxiv cs.SI @arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596 065
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Had missed this paper! It's great arxiv.org/abs/2502.01177arxiv.orgInsights from Network Science can advance Deep Graph LearningDeep graph learning and network science both analyze graphs but approach similar problems from different perspectives. Whereas network science focuses on models and measures that reveal the organizati... 0164
Reposted by jgyouBen Kawam @benkawam.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Are you studying animal sociality? Confused about the "non-independence" of social network data: what on earth are they? are they threatening your results? should you attempt to get rid of them? A thread summarising a part of our new paper (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...).ecoevorxiv.orgFive misunderstandings in animal social network analysis 12012
Reposted by jgyouJoão Franco @okfranco.bsky.social · 01/09/2025🎓 I've joined the PhD in Complex Systems & Data Science at @vcsi.bsky.social to work w/ @lhd.bsky.social & @juniperlov.bsky.social to explore social (complex) dynamics 🔬 Huge thanks to @joanagsa.bsky.social & Lília Perfeito for helping me get ready for this chapter 🚀 Excited for this next step! 1183
Reposted by jgyouDaniel Redhead @danielredhead.bsky.social · 04/08/2025🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks? ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps! A 🧵ecoevorxiv.orgFive misunderstandings in animal social network analysis 25223
Reposted by jgyouDaniel Redhead @danielredhead.bsky.social · 04/08/2025All from an amazing interdisciplinary group 👥: @benkawam.bsky.social 🌟, @jgyou.bsky.social, Dan Franks, Connor Philson, Marijtje van Duijn, @jordanhart96.bsky.social, MB McElreath, @rmcelreath.bsky.social, @eapower.bsky.social, Cody Ross, @steglich.bsky.social, & @ljnbrent.bsky.social! 041
Reposted by jgyouHiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Leto Peel officially opens #NetSci2025, followed by Sonia Kefi's keynote 0112
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 20/05/2025And the code is live here: github.com/DynamicaLab/... With @allard.bsky.social and the never-online Simon Lizotte (but you can find him at siliz4.github.io)github.comGitHub - DynamicaLab/bigue: Bayesian inference of the hyperbolic plane embedding of complex networks.Bayesian inference of the hyperbolic plane embedding of complex networks. - DynamicaLab/bigue 0132
Reposted by jgyouScience of Health at Columbia University @cusciofhealth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Hear me discuss our new paper written with the inimitable Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and colleagues! @lhd.bsky.social #Complexity #Physiology #Governance www.nature.com/articles/s44... 0115
Reposted by jgyouLaurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025On this day in 2023, the Vermont Complex Systems Institute (vermontcomplexsystems.org), TGIR Center (www.med.uvm.edu/tgircobre/home) & @sfiscience.bsky.social joined for an event on interacting contagions Our work, "One pathogen does not an epidemic make," is now online: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15053 1163
Reposted by jgyouSen Pei @senpei.bsky.social · 17/04/2025So glad to have @jgyou.bsky.social give an intriguing lecture on contagion modeling and network inference in our network science class! 0231
Reposted by jgyouAlec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I've been guest editing a focus issue for Journal of Physics: Complexity with @jgyou.bsky.social, @gcant.bsky.social, and Cate De Bacco on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks. See iopscience.iop.org/collections/..., and feel free to get in touch with any questions!iopscience.iop.orgFocus Issue on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks - IOPscienceSearch 144
Reposted by jgyouThe Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 13/03/2025You should find that haircut again. 041
Reposted by jgyouDaryl Fairweather ⛅ @fairweatherphd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Hate The Game, the book, is only one month away! Pre-order yours anywhere books are sold. 📖✨ Freakonomics coauthor Steven Levitt called it “Fabulous—unlike any economics book I’ve ever read! 5322
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 11/03/2025We're excited to share our MAR10 day discounts! - $1 off of Mario's Time Machine - A free wallpaper 020
Reposted by jgyouFrancisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 19/02/20251/ New paper @pnas.org on the structure of mutualistic #networks between individuals plants and frugivore species. Last chapter of @elequintero.bsky.social's PhD thesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ecopubs 24412
Reposted by jgyouAlessandro Vespignani @alexvespi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Wastewater from airplane toilets? We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread Short 🧵doi.orgPandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks - Nature MedicineBy simulating the implementation of airport-based wastewater surveillance sites at the global level, a modeling study shows how this early warning system would perform in identifying sources of pandem... 517776
Reposted by jgyouWill Thompson @willthompson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024On a similar note I got spoiled by Dr Watson in Julia. Is there a good Python equivalent? 041
Reposted by jgyouAndrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025We are reaching the time of year when I start hearing from undergrads who are looking for summer internships. Obviously, they should all apply to Pew, but what other research orgs have internship programs that I can tell them about? What other opportunities can I share with them? 67219
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 14/01/202524h left to apply to the REU experience at UVM! Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) socks.w3.uvm.edu/socks/node/65socks.w3.uvm.eduSOCKS Undergraduate Internships | SOCKS 001
Reposted by jgyouMichael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Comparison may be a thief of joy, but it is an undoubtably interesting statistical modeling problem. In my latent chapter I go deep into the general problem of modeling comparisons between pairs of abstract items. HTML: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt... PDF: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt...betanalpha.github.ioPairwise Comparison Modeling 2316
Reposted by jgyouTim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management! Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science to study how people manage environmental challenges in the ACE Lab (timwaring.info). Position Details: timwaring.info/wp-content/u...timwaring.infoACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratoryculture, evolution, cooperation, and sustainability 01210
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I preemptively declare paper bankruptcy. Anything published on arXiv during the next 3 weeks will be permanently memory black holed. 0101
Reposted by jgyouLaurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A project with friends from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @nwlandry.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social Funded by an ambitious AUDACE project from friends and co-authors from Université de Sherbrooke. Started in the Green Mountains two years ago. 0163
Reposted by jgyouSam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · 26/11/20241/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows. A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency. 27620231
Reposted by jgyouRicky @ricky.fm · 21/11/2024what idiot called it async/await instead of wait/what 1142569
Reposted by jgyouAlex Thiery @alexxthiery.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Gaussian approximation of a target distribution: mean-field versus full-covariance! Below shows a simple gradient descent on KL(q||p) 3625
Reposted by jgyouJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Having a sides-only Thanksgiving this year. No turkey, just carbs and gravy. Modern problems require modern solutions. 47012734724
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Wasn't the Kalshi case well on its way *before* the end of Chevron, though? 000
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Ah! Completely misunderstood. Interesting. I would love to see it. Seems pretty easy too. Don't know of any. 110
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The DOGE should get rid of the NSF COA template and then fold 141
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 19/11/2024wdym? Whether the controlling organization has a content creator program like Perplexity's? Or a benchmark of the quality of source attribution at generation? 110
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 19/11/2024"yeah but you can calculate probabilities as pnorm(1) instead of like pnorm(20, 10, 10)" 050
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I'm teaching Applied Probability and my cold take is that the standard normal is basically useless for practitioners in an age of R. 220
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 18/11/2024corpus.ulaval.ca/server/api/c... gives the equilibrium solution + AME evolution equation in finite size. Gaps: * the process doesn't account for directions on edges. * Like @tiago.skewed.de pointed out, I think sub-sampling effects are probably needed to fully explain the structure too.corpus.ulaval.ca 000
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Structural preferential attachment has two parameters that can control the scaling exponents + pre-tail behavior 100
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The inference should be pretty straightforward with temporal data. All of these models are simple Markov processes. It is a much more difficult problem if using only structural data---though I guess one can run simple statistical tests using the degree distributions as test statistics. 100
Reposted by jgyouMichael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Greetings recent followers. ┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲ house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ don't just talk about data generating processes; we actually model them and then critique our assumptions. ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔ 0222
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 17/11/2024@lhd.bsky.social wrote a model back in 2011 that I think applies here journals.aps.org/prl/abstract.... Growth is currently driven by cliques (starter packs) and this leads to different scaling relationships.journals.aps.orgStructural Preferential Attachment: Network Organization beyond the LinkWe introduce a mechanism which models the emergence of the universal properties of complex networks, such as scale independence, modularity and self-similarity, and unifies them under a scale-free org... 1354
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Pictured: Sea of Stars by @sabotagestudio.com, Tape to Tape by @excellentrectangle.bsky.social and Ship of Fools by Fika Production. 000
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Québec indie game studios are killing it lately. Just in the past year or so, I've played three amazing games that *happened* to be from my hometown. Way to go! 160
Reposted by jgyou deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 15/11/2024Reminder that if you put stuff on Bluesky can be accessed by basically anybody in the world, and it's totally legal for other people to train on your data Even if the Bluesky team says they won't. Also AI is good actually 810914
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Submission by May 2025. Co-edited with Alec Kirkley, Cate De Bacco and @gcant.bsky.social 010
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I am reposting this here! I'm co-editing a focus Issue on "Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks" At the Journal of Physics Complexity. iopscience.iop.org/collections/... Feel free to get in touch if you have questions: jyoung22@uvm.edu.iopscience.iop.orgIOPscience - Focus Issue on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex NetworksSearch 13311
Reposted by jgyouWhy @why.bsky.world · 14/11/2024Features users want: - group DMs - custom notification filters - something about gifs Features we are prepared to deliver: - servers not going down under the load of most of twitter joining - some cute animations when you expand a picture in your feed 45910085852
jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Born too late for LinkedIn. Too early to explore the stars. But just in time for bsky. 020
Reposted by jgyouNetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Want to contribute and help lead our community? NetSci 2025 is soliciting applications to its program committee! We especially encourage early career researchers to apply. forms.gle/98rhcJeoVVZG...forms.gleNetSci2025 Programme Committee formThank you for your interest in joining the NetSci 2025 Programme Committee. We are happy to welcome new members in our programme committee from a variety of fields and from different career stages. ... 01017