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Maxime Lucas

@maximelca.bsky.social
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Physicist. Complex systems, networks, and data. 🍄🐋 @UNamur @UCLouvain @FNRS @ProjectCETI

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 12/08/2026
Latest crazy story from the frontiers of math and AI -- a neurosurgery resident, with no training in advanced math, uses ChatGPT 5.6 to solve a major open problem in numerical linear algebra. alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMN...
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Which coupling functions should you use in your higher-order Kuramoto model? Symmetries will tell you! "Symmetry-based selection rules for higher-order interactions in coupled oscillators" preprint now out. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2606.04904 Code: tiny.cc/60l4101 w/ I. Léon, R. Muolo, Y. Zhang 🧵1/
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Jun Yamamoto @jymmt.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🚨One week remaining🚨 Call for contributions to Physical Networks, IV Edition @netsciconf.bsky.social, Boston is still open. 🗓️ June 2, 2026, 14:30~ Confirmed speakers: Mason A. Porter, Jörn Dunkel, Katia Bertoldi, Xiangyi Meng, Ivan Bonamassa Submit by 30 April 2026: physnet@ceu.edu
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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Come join us!! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Lorenzo Lucchini @lorenzolucchini.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Amazing! Congrats to @lordgrilo.bsky.social @maximelca.bsky.social Alaa Maalouf, Joseph DelPreto, and all the authors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cooperation by non-kin during birth underpins sperm whale social complexity
We quantitatively document a sperm whale birth event, revealing collective support behaviors across kinship lines. Using high-resolution drone footage, computer vision, and multiscale network analysis...
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Project CETI @projectceti.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Explore moment-by-moment of the most in-depth documentation of any cetacean birth in the new CETI paper, “Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events,” published in @natureportfolio.nature.com’s Scientific Reports: bit.ly/4bIVZKc
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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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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A sperm whale was born, and we were lucky enough to witness it with @projectceti.bsky.social. Read about it below, and go watch the videos! 🐳 @science.org: bit.ly/4bIKkeo
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Looks like a fundamental study and approach ... Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature. Insects at high elevations utilize plasticity to cope with rising temperatures, whereas lowland species have limited plastic abilities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌐
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Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature - Nature
A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limite...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 05/03/2026
A study in Nature shows that the single-celled form of a tiny, aquatic organism can turn into a multicellular version by three different routes. The discovery adds insight to the possible origins of multicellular life, suggesting a previously unrecognized degree of flexibility. 🧪
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Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate - Nature
The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on environmental conditions.
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Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros @aguilart.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Filamentous growth everywhere! It is really fascinating that no matter if you are the fungus that grows as a "mold" in bread or on decomposing wood, in very unrelated lineages; the trademark is filamentous network growth!
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New papers in Network Science @networkspapers.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Nat. Rev. Phys.: Collective dynamics on higher-order networks www.nature.com/articles/s42254-025-…
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
When should we favour a model with higher-order interactions over classical pairwise ones? "Reducibility of higher-order networks from dynamics" is now out in @natcomms.nature.com Paper: rdcu.be/e3tH4 Code: t.ly/pdELP w/ @lgajo.bsky.social A. Ghavasieh @fede7j.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social 🧵1/
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The final version of "Reducibility of higher-order networks from dynamics" is finally out in Nature Communications! 👇👇👇
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We wrote a little something! @nwlandry.bsky.social and I talk about how new software to study networks with groups (like @xgi.bsky.social !) can help interdisciplinary collaborations tackle old questions from social ontology and the science of groups. www.siam.org/publications...
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Group Science: The Open Source Study of Higher-order Networks With XGI | SIAM
The CompleX Group Interactions (XGI) software package offers analytical tools, tutorials, and documentation for higher-order network science research.
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CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems @centuri-ls.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th! Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply. #PHD #CENTURI
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Careers - Centuri Living Systems
Open positions available CENTURI Funded PhD Positions PHD2026_01 | Identifying evolutionary divergent functional gene modules in the human cerebellum development Supervisors: Baptiste LIBÉ-PHILIPPOT |...
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
One week left to apply to the UVA Biology PhD program! If you or someone you know are interested in contagion from a complex systems perspective, please reach out! I'm looking for a grad student! bio.as.virginia.edu/how-apply-gr...
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How to Apply to the Graduate Program
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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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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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Andrea Brovelli @brovelli.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
⚠️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️ Postdoctoral Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Marseille) in collaboration with @alainbarrat.bsky.social. Join us to study higher-order brain interactions in causal learning using information theory and network science. More info www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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Postdoc in computational cognitive neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Come be my colleague! Happy to answer any questions about what it's like living in Charlottesville and being in the department.
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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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Simone Poetto @poetz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thrilled to finally share a huge piece of my PhD project! Our paper “The Topological Architecture of Brain Identity” is now out on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n
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Andrea Santoro @andreasantoro.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🧠 Want to understand how different higher-order methods compare in brain connectivity analysis? Check out our new preprint — a fantastic collab with past & present NPL members @lordgrilo.bsky.social : 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread🧵
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@nwlandry.bsky.social fighting against vibes-based estimations of the convergence when sampling from the configuration model. Good content. Bonus: @xgi.bsky.social viz
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Our first keynote @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening TopoNets @netsciconf.bsky.social with higher-order interactions for neuroscience
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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Learning from @maximelca.bsky.social how to be nice to people in science 🤣🤣 @netplace.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
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Basti Kusch @bastikusch.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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
Flyer of panel on science as a craft at NetSci25
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Tomorrow at lunch 👇👇👇
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NetPlace @netplace.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🎉 Very happy to announce Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social as our next panelist! Maxime is an FNRS Postdoc at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems & UCLouvain in Belgium. He is interested in dynamical systems, complex systems, networks, and their applications to life sciences.
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Iacopo Iacopini @iaciac.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Next week at @netsciconf.bsky.social -- it's time for another edition of TopoNets! 🗓️ June 3, 2025 📍 FPN Paarse Zaal A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Tomorrow after lunch I'll talk about fungi 👇👇👇
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Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
PhD fellowship to work with me and Benedetta Franceschiello on the analysis and modelling of fast sampled fMRI data! www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
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Doctoral fellow
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
📣 Commentary by @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social (thanks!) on our latest led by @thomrobiglio.bsky.social now out in PRL. Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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Synergistic Signatures of Group Mechanisms in Higher-Order Systems
A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system's collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.
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Giulia Cencetti @giuliacencetti.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Would you like to engage in scientific communication for the general public? In Siena during @css-conference.bsky.social it will be your occasion! 4 scientists will be chosen and coached by Scienza Coatta to step into the spotlight of a big event-show-scientific quiz. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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A (fun) night with Complex Systems!
This event should be a celebration of science, designed to bring complex systems research to life for a broader audience. With the support of La Scienza Coatta, a collective of Italian science communi...
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GOTHAM lab @gotham-lab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
1/6 New work in PRE selected as editor's suggestion! With a new hyperedge overlap matrix we characterize its impact on synchronizability in systems with HO interactions go.aps.org/3FfNGJ6 @santiagolaot.bsky.social, @federicomalizia.bsky.social, V. Latora, M. Frasca & @gomezgardenes.bsky.social
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Hyperedge overlap drives synchronizability of systems with higher-order interactions
This study explores the nuanced interplay between the structural organization of complex systems and their synchronization stability, specifically focusing on the effects of higher-order interactions ...
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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our newest research in @nature.com We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is result of several efforts from the Complex Systems Society to strive for fairer publishing and evaluating systems in academia. cssociety.org/about/manife...
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Complex Systems Society
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Higher-order Laplacian renormalization www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Higher-order Laplacian renormalization - Nature Physics
The renormalization group is a powerful tool to study the universal properties of physical systems. A diffusion-based renormalization scheme now enables the study of scale invariance and universality ...
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Nature Physics @natphys.nature.com · 24/02/2025
New online today: ($) A diffusion-based RG scheme enables the study of scale invariance and universality in higher-order complex networks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Higher-order Laplacian renormalization - Nature Physics
The renormalization group is a powerful tool to study the universal properties of physical systems. A diffusion-based renormalization scheme now enables the study of scale invariance and universality ...
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Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📣 "Higher-order Laplacian renormalization" finally out in Nat. Phys.! Well done Marco and @martasolves.bsky.social for leading this one! 👏 Thanks to the great team with Francesco, Tommaso, and @lordgrilo.bsky.social rdcu.be/ea16y
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Higher-order Laplacian renormalization
Nature Physics - The renormalization group is a powerful tool to study the universal properties of physical systems. A diffusion-based renormalization scheme now enables the study of scale...
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Pierre de Buyl @pierre-epsilon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#ClimateJob for a scientist (postdoctoral) contract at the Belgian Climate Centre @meteobe.bsky.social on the topic "Societal tipping points and social-ecological inequalities". 2 year, SW2 salary scale, Uccle (&collaboration with ULB - Ixelles), deadline 16 march 2025. www.meteo.be/fr/infos/act...
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Jun Yamamoto @jymmt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🚨3 days remaining to submit your abstract to our Physical Networks Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social! Working on complex networks in which physical constraints & embeddings matter? Send your abstract to physnet@ceu.edu by 17th Feb! Details: sites.google.com/view/physnet... #NetSci25
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