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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you ready for a new season of NetSci colloquia? First out, Elizabeth Bruch, in just a few days! Register for a Zoom link here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

9/10 The larger picture: sperm whales pair persistent search with flexible, moment-to-moment hunting decisions. A testable question follows: could noise disrupt high-investment pursuits more than lower-investment captures?

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

8/10 The contrast reappeared independently: Azorean echograms linked tactics to prey depth, while 2024 Project CETI tags in Dominica recovered the core kinematics. The validation samples are modest, but the convergence is encouraging.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

7/10 The tactics also formed sequences. Whales often repeated one, but switched roughly every 2–3 capture attempts. Type B was about twice as likely to end a dive, consistent with tactical reassessment as encounter conditions and energetic demands change.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

6/10 The contrast was substantial. Our energy model estimated that Type B attempts required ~7× more energy than Type A. This is a comparative model estimate—not a direct metabolic measurement—but the ranking held in every whale.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

5/10 Zoom in on 3,686 capture attempts and two recurrent tactics emerge: A: slower, more oscillatory, with short acoustic ramp-ups. B: faster, more vertically persistent, with greater roll and longer ramp-ups. Every sampled whale used both.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

4/10 We call this search pattern “Lévy-like.” That wording matters: the data reveal a robust movement structure, but do not prove that whales follow a single, fixed—or optimal—Lévy search rule. Similar patterns can emerge from behaviour interacting with a patchy environment.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

3/10 At the broad scale, the whales did not simply wander. Across 209 foraging dives, their paths showed heavy-tailed step lengths and strongly superdiffusive movement: persistent search, with many short displacements and rarer long ones.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

2/10 We combined 268 hours of sensor data from 34 tag deployments on 20 whales off Dominica. This let us reconstruct 3D paths and match movement to echolocation “buzzes”—the acoustic signatures of individual prey-capture attempts.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1/10 How does a sperm whale hunt in darkness, hundreds of metres beneath the surface? Our new preprint reveals a two-level strategy: persistent search across whole dives, paired with rapid switching between distinct prey-capture tactics. Link in🧵

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Elisabetta Salvai @elisalvai.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What an exciting week at @netsciconf.bsky.social ! If you still have some curiosity left, stop by this afternoon. I'll be presenting, “Toward Fairness in Network Algorithms: Rankings by Biased Random Walks.” 📍 Where: Algorithms, Inference & Reconstruction 3 (Kendall Square) 🕰️ When: 5PM

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Later today (3.45pm) I’ll be talking at the NSIA (network-science-ai.github.io/schedule.html) workshop of @netsciconf.bsky.social about (exciting!) work on the interplay between generalization and working memory limits. Come through!

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Come join us!! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

There seems to be a broad perception across psychology and neuroscience that work shouldn't be "too technical" in order to reach the broadest possible audience. While I think we should strive for accessibility, I feel that this attitude can also be self-defeating: why are we dumbing down?

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Very good article what it would take for AI to have "agency" and self-preservation goals (w/ a few quotes from me). & I appreciate the reiterated debunking of the "GPT-4 on its own lied to a TaskRabbit worker to solve a captcha" story. www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-te...

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Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models.

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

As Giovanni Petri shared with #NGN, sperm whales and humans have more in common than we think. Their coordinated support during a calf’s birth shows survival has driven strong social ties, even beyond kin. news.northeastern.edu/2026/03/26/s... @lordgrilo.bsky.social @projectceti.bsky.social

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Whales display behavior typically seen in humans, new research shows

Scientists captured the first detailed footage of a sperm whale birth and found it was not just a family affair.

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Project CETI @projectceti.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

By: Alaa Maalouf, Joseph DelPreto, @maximelca.bsky.social, @poetz.bsky.social, Jacob Andreas, Antonio Torralba, Shane Gero, @lordgrilo.bsky.social, Daniela Rus, David F. Gruber. @csail.mit.edu, @northeasternu.bsky.social, @carleton.ca, @baruch.cuny.edu

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨 study dives into the acoustic side of a sperm whale birth 🐋, analyzing clicks and codas to reveal distinct vocal shifts during labor, birth, and early interactions, offering rare evidence of coordinated, non-kin birth assistance in the wild. tinyurl.com/m3pshz8y

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Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Interesting piece — raises important questions about what higher-order formalisms actually buy us. Half-jokingly, it would make great panel material @netsciconf.bsky.social à la Leipzig dispute :) (Also, first commentaries are already coming out: lnkd.in/d8_nunck)

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Renormalization in the brain? With @andreasantoro.bsky.social and @jesseba.bsky.social we're organizing a workshop at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social (Lisbon, March 16) on how coarse-graining principles from physics can explain neural computation across scales. nplresearch.github.io/neurorenorm2...

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

‪🎉 Big news! Giovanni Petri has been selected for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the Museum of Science. He’ll join 40+ fellows to advance the impact of science through digital storytelling. 👏 tinyurl.com/68skdhdy @lordgrilo.bsky.social, @museumofscience.bsky.social

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 04/12/2025

I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected. This is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods. skewed.de/lab/posts/co...

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The perplexing “connected cluster axiom” – Inverse Complexity Lab

Research group on inverse problems in complex systems and network science.

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Adam J. Eisen @adamjeisen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

How do brain areas control each other? 🧠🎛️ ✨In our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper, we introduce a data-driven framework to answer this question using deep learning, nonlinear control, and differential geometry.🧵⬇️

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Jean Golding Institute @jgibristol.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Another fantastic Turing Seminar last week! 👨‍🏫 Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social from @northeasternu.bsky.social and @nunetsi.bsky.social delivered a very captivating talk, Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.

View from the audience of Giovanni Petri delivering their Turing Seminar

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It finally happened. I found a place in London that gives you your espresso within 30secs of ordering it. 🤯🤯

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻! Secure your spot at the flagship conference of the Network Science Society and take advantage of the early bird registration special - www.netsci2026.com/registration 📅 June 1–5, 2026 | Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA Join us as we celebrate 20 years of NetSci!

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Jean Golding Institute @jgibristol.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @lordgrilo.bsky.social, who will deliver a seminar entitled 'Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.' 📆 5 November ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 📍Biomedical Building, C42 at the University of Bristol Find out more here: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Lots of higher-order interactions at the joint @beyondtheedge.network and RUNES workshop at AMU in Marseille this week. Thanks to @alainbarrat.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social!

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Exciting things in Topological Neuroscience! #NetSI_London @lordgrilo.bsky.social co-organized the “Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds” workshop at King’s College London, launching a new collaboration to advance this field. #KIHSM 🔗 tinyurl.com/4zhs2m83 #NetSI_London 🔗 tinyurl.com/25ts6as4

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Federico Turkheimer introducing the King’s institute for Human and Synthetic minds and opening the workshop

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Topological signal processing works! :P Check out out latest one out!

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Andrea Santoro @andreasantoro.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Latest work at #EUSIPCO25!🚀 We bring Topological Signal Processing to the brain 🧠 — showing that edge-based approaches outperform classical GSP in task decoding. Great collab with M.Nurisso & @lordgrilo.bsky.social 🙌 Paper 👉 eusipco2025.org/wp-content/u... #Neuroimaging #SignalProcessing #TSP

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Next week (on the 15th and 16th), with @yasserroudi.bsky.social and Federico Turkheimer we will organize a workshop on the "The Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds" Please do join us! (Registration is free but required for access/catering!) lordgrilo.github.io/topology-nat...

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The Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds - Workshop

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BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · 08/09/2025

BeyondTheEdge at the School of Complexity on "Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks" by our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social and @gin-bianconi.bsky.social with @aliceschwarze.bsky.social, @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social. Great perspectives! www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bey...

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BeyondTheEdge goes to Sicily

BeyondTheEdge researchers participated in the School of Complexity on

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Matteo Neri addressing one of the differences/links /implications between higher order effects and non gaussianity.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

And lorenzo Zaffina showing that high temporal resolution scaffolds do distinguish between emotional profiles evoked by movies better than lower-order and other hoi signatures.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

@martasolves.bsky.social discussing differences in global integration patterns in under different brain similarity measures 🧠

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Interesting take on what’s intelligence (for). @jesseba.bsky.social showing differences between how biological vs artificial systems learn and linking behavioural performance to spectral properties of neural populations. Early results but very exciting !

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