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@kaiserdaniel.bsky.social
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Post-doctoral research at UVA Biology with Dr. Nicholas Landry. Ask me about my cats 🐈‍⬛️🐈

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
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NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network
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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New information theory results: Tl;dr - here are two generalizations. The first is that TC/DTC/S-info/O-info are special cases of a common form. The second allows us to move beyond Shannon info. theory for more general theory of synergy. 1/N arxiv.org/abs/2601.08030
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The many faces of multivariate information
Extracting higher-order structures from multivariate data has become an area of intensive study in complex systems science, as these multipartite interactions can reveal insights into fundamental feat...
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Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New preprint out! As the UK plans to ban social media for under 16s, we show how the tone of awareness regarding mental health varies across topics and years during the Mental Health Awareness Month on Tik Tok. arxiv.org/abs/2606.13581
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The Tone of Awareness: Topic, Sentiment, and Toxicity Maps During Mental Health Month on TikTok
Despite raising concerns about the mental health effects associated with the usage of TikTok, little is known about how related content is framed by creators and received by audiences. We collect the ...
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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New paper with @doctorjosh.bsky.social, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, and co-first author Vaibhav Pai. This one is a doozy - in it we show that we can modulate the degree of emergent, multicellular organization in a Xenobot with an exogenous compound (ATP). 1/N www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Purinergic signaling disrupts emergent patterns of multicellular coordination in basal Xenobots.
The ability of self-organizing systems to display emergent, adaptive capabilities is a fundamental feature of biological life. Understanding the mechanisms by which cells co-ordinate at the micro-scal...
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The 2026 Erdos-Renyi prize goes to Laurent Hebert-Dufresne!! #NetSci2026 @netscisociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
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Elena Candellone @elenacandellone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New preprint out! When people debate controversial topics online, two forces compete: personal convictions and peer influence. But how much does each one actually matter, and does it vary by topic?
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The lab (@kaiserdaniel.bsky.social and @abhay-gupta.bsky.social) is on its way to @netsciconf.bsky.social! You can listen to what we've been up to at the following sessions:
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
SFI's Laurent Hébert-Dufresne has received the 2026 Erdős-Rényi Prize, the top honor for early-career researchers in network science. “This recognition reflects the deeply collaborative nature of complex systems research,” says Hébert-Dufresne.
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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne receives Erdős-Rényi Prize
SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) is the 2026 recipient of the Erdős-Rényi Prize, the top honor for early-career researchers working in network science.
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 12/05/2026
Early Christmas... The @frame.work laptops for our group members @invcomplexity.skewed.de arrived last week!
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Bayesian hypergraph inference from scarce and noisy dynamical observations arxiv.org/abs/2605.04218
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Bayesian hypergraph inference from scarce and noisy dynamical observations
Inferring higher-order interaction structure from observations of dynamics is a central challenge in complex systems, particularly when data are scarce, noisy, or concentrated in lower-dimensional reg...
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Munjung Kim @mj-kim.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The Higgs mechanism was proposed in 1964 by three independent teams. But here is the puzzle🤔: the "disruption index" says Higgs's paper is among the least disruptive ever. So what is going on? In our new paper, just out in #ScienceAdvances, we take up this puzzle: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 👇 1/7
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Uncovering simultaneous breakthroughs with a robust measure of disruptiveness
An embedding-based disruption measure not only robustly captures disruptive works but also reveals simultaneous discoveries.
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 18/03/2026
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨🚨🚨 NetSci Hackathon PSA!!! Are you at NetSci this year? Wanna come a day early and hack on a cool new dataset? Join our hackathon which will take place on May 31. We have limited space, so please indicate your interest through our application form by Mar 13: www.philchodrow.prof/higher-order...
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Join the Hackathon! – A Blue Start at Netsci 2026
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Revision now posted on the ArXiv! We collated and cleaned EVEN MORE DATA. 39M accounts, 365K starter packs, and 2.4B following relationships. All accounts, follows, and starter packs now have timestamps! Check it out at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608.
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A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset
Large-scale networks have been instrumental in shaping how we think about social systems, and have undergirded many foundational results in mathematical epidemiology, computational social science, and...
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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New preprint on unifying the zoo of multivariate higher-order information measures into a common form. May be of interest to anyone interested in higher-order interactions, complex systems, emergence, or complexity. 1/N arxiv.org/abs/2601.08030
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The many faces of multivariate information
Extracting higher-order structures from multivariate data has become an area of intensive study in complex systems science, as these multipartite interactions can reveal insights into fundamental feat...
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🚨🚨 New paper out! With @colltoaction.bsky.social, @fralotito.bsky.social, and a bunch of offline co-authors 🙂 we published "HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks" doi.org/10.1017/nws....
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HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks | Network Science | Cambridge Core
HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks - Volume 13
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Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
@felipexc.bsky.social presents @cna25.bsky.social our work on two new sparsification methods based on the distance backbone and triangular topology of networks. Relevant papers (some work not out yet): doi.org/10.1088/2632... doi.org/10.1088/2632... doi.org/10.1371/jour... doi.org/10.1093/comn...
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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I’m excited to speak at the 20th edition of @netsciconf.bsky.social! Honored to join speakers whose work I studied with fascination 20 years ago when I was just beginning. I’ll look forward to learning how the field has evolved, discovering new directions in network science, and meeting everyone!
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Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Our team just released a comprehensive and accessible review of Signed Networks — two years in the making! Theory, methods, applications, all in one place. Feedback welcome. arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247
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Signed Networks: theory, methods, and applications
Signed networks provide a principled framework for representing systems in which interactions are not merely present or absent but qualitatively distinct: friendly or antagonistic, supportive or confl...
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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨New paper! 🚨 "The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems" 1/N journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems
Author summary The problem of understanding when a set of interacting components of a complex systems produce behavior that is “greater than the sum of their parts" is foundational in many areas of mo...
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Santo Fortunato @santof.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
When you randomize a weighted network, be careful! Results may depend on the unit used for the weights, particularly when you want to know if they are statistically significant. Check our paper, just out on the arXiv. @skojaku.bsky.social @filipisilva.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2510.23964
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Scale invariance and statistical significance in complex weighted networks
Most networks encountered in nature, society, and technology have weighted edges, representing the strength of the interaction/association between their vertices. Randomizing the structure of a networ...
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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It is finally out! Have you ever wanted to get into information theory, complexity, and networks? If so, this is the paper for you: a comprehensive tutorial review on information theory for complexity scientists specifically. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Information theory for complex systems scientists: What, why, and how
In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, …
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Elena Candellone @elenacandellone.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This paper is now published on Network Science! 🎊 Open-access published version: doi.org/10.1017/nws.... (and the dataset is freely available!) Menéame.net user interaction dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @javiergbe.bsky.social @abovet.bsky.social
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Negative ties highlight hidden extremes in social media polarization | Network Science | Cambridge Core
Negative ties highlight hidden extremes in social media polarization - Volume 13
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Minsuk Kim @danielhankim.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Q: How are resources consumed in transportation networks, and how does this shape the overall functioning of the system? We introduce the minimum-cost percolation framework and apply it to the U.S. air transportation system using publicly available data. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Modeling resource consumption in the US air transportation system via minimum-cost percolation - Nature Communications
Percolation frameworks have been used to characterize the robustness of infrastructural networks. Here, authors introduce a percolation-based framework to study resource consumption and network effect...
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Daniel Kaiser @kaiserdaniel.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🚨New(ish) paper alert!🚨We developed and implemented an efficient iterative ranking algorithm for multi-body competitions. This is the first paper from my former student Jack Yeung (LinkedIn: jackcyeung), I am immensely proud of the work he has put into this project! journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
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HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks
Many empirical systems contain complex interactions of arbitrary size, representing, for example, chemical reactions, social groups, co-authorship relationships, and ecological dependencies. These int...
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Christoph Riedl @criedl.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
How does social network structure amplify or stifle behavior diffusion? Turns out, complex contagions are more complicated than we thought … (1/7)
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Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
It’s happening. BRAN Lab is here, my first research group. We explore how and why we connect (and disconnect), using network science, signed networks, ML, and cognitive modeling: from minds to systems, humans to AI, mental health to epidemic prevention. andreiasofiateixeira.com/branlab/
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BRAN Lab
Bridging Minds, Behavior, and Society through Network Science
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 22/06/2025
Here's another paper by Shalizi showing how inferring *latent* homophily allows for disentangling from contagion. Bizarre how this gets overlooked, since it's obvious that homophily leaves huge traces in the network structure, while contagion changes nothing. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Estimating Causal Peer Influence in Homophilous Social Networks by Inferring Latent Locations
Social influence cannot be identified from purely observational data on social networks, because such influence is generically confounded with latent homophily, that is, with a node’s network partn...
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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Introducing: NVim-Lab. If you don't think you've achieved your maximum nerd-potential, NVim-Lab is a curated set of Neovim plugins and configurations designed to be a general scientific programming IDE. It has Python, Julia, R, and LaTeX support, REPLs, and notebooks. github.com/thosvarley/n...
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GitHub - thosvarley/nvim-lab: Neovim: for scientists
Neovim: for scientists. Contribute to thosvarley/nvim-lab development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Daniel Kaiser @kaiserdaniel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation! 🥳 Thank you Dr. Filippo Radicchi for your guidance as my advisor over the years, your mentorship has been invaluable! Next stop, University of Virginia with Dr. Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social!
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Ozgur Can Seckin @ozgurcanseckin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate Bluesky’s journey from an invitation only platform with a few thousands of users to reaching 30 million users in terms of user activity and network growth. 📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902 💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris... 💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...
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Minsuk Kim @danielhankim.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
New Pre-print out 📝 We propose a minimum-cost percolation (MCP) framework to model resource consumption in transportation networks, applied to the US air system. Encouraging cooperation among air carriers can boost the system’s robustness to disruptions! arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.04245
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Modeling resource consumption in the US air transportation system via minimum-cost percolation
We introduce a dynamic percolation model aimed at describing the consumption, and eventual exhaustion, of resources in transportation networks. In the model, rational agents progressively consume the ...
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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'm joining Binghamton University School of Computing as an assistant professor this Sep. I'm recruiting two PhD students to work on topics related to AI and information ecosystem. If you are interested in joining me, send your CV and a short statement of purpose to my email yang3kc@gmail.com
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XGI @xgi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
New release! Version 0.9.5 adds support for hyperedge line width. We also fixed an error in our random generative models and made some methods up to 4x faster (!!!) in the process. @kaiserdaniel.bsky.social also made his first contribution, fixing an error in the hypergraph Laplacian. Thanks Daniel!
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Daniel Kaiser @kaiserdaniel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New Year, New Job (in a few months) 🎉 I'm thrilled to share that I will be joining @nwlandry.bsky.social and The Landry Lab landry-lab.github.io at the University of Virginia as a post-doc this Summer! I'm looking forward to joining the lab and tackling many interesting problems together!
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