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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 30/07/2026

Too Lazy to Read the Paper just passed 10,000 downloads (17,873 if we count YouTube). Not bad for unedited, hour-long conversations with my favorite scientists. The whole story, including both season trailers – one features me on a ukulele: sunelehmann.com/blog/too-laz...

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 08/07/2026

Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 09/06/2026

@icelabumu.bsky.social in Umeå is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science (ML focus). Start your own group in a genuinely interdisciplinary lab. Awesome science, fantastic people. Deadline Aug 10, 2026. www.umu.se/en/work-with...

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Assistant Professor in Computing Science with a focus on machine learning - linked to IceLab’s Center for modeling adaptive mechanisms in living systems under stress

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 03/06/2026

New episode of my 5.0 star rated podcast Too Lazy to Read the Paper is up. This ep is called "Too Lazy to use Claude Code for Research", with awesome guest @yyahn.bsky.social We talk about agentic coding: practicalities, benefits, perils. The whole package. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jo9...

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Too Lazy to Use Claude Code for Research

YouTube video by Sune Lehmann

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 01/06/2026

New on the blog: A short post on reading in the age of AI. My rule: zero AI fiction. But I'm open to using LLMs to learn (yet uneasy that every prompt is a vote against Wikipedia and the open knowledge commons ... and many other issues). sunelehmann.com/blog/reading...

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What's gained and lost in reading AI text?

Sune Lehmann — networks, complexity, and the occasional blog post.

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 26/05/2026

The 2023 metaphor for an LLM was a Shoggoth with a smiley face: a Lovecraftian monster in a thin human mask. In my new blogpost, I try to figure out how to update it for 2026. sunelehmann.com/blog/shoggot...

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Shoggoths and Dragons

Sune Lehmann — networks, complexity, and the occasional blog post.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/

We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/

The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/

Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 12/05/2026

Hey people of Amsterdam! I'll be in town May 19–20 for the IAS Festival 2026 with two talks back-to-back: a Tuesday-evening public lecture (with cocktails and live music) and a Wednesday-morning academic reflecting on "laws of human behavior" is even a thing. Details

ChatGPT illustration of life-paths for talk 1, with a mini Denmark on the left and a network on the right.

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

View over the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen

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Vedran Sekara @vedransekara.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Fantastic opportunity to study tipping points and social contagion 👇 using large scale data

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I wrote briefly about how to do peer review for students: yyahn.com/wiki/Peer%20... Also includes some other advices from others including @jessicacalarco.com @robjhyndman.com Matt Might and so on.

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How to do peer review

Reviewing papers has many benefits. We can learn about new research; the process of reviewing forces us to critically examine a paper, which is what we...

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Going to Netsci in Boston in June? Interested in access to data from the National Internet Observatory, including our RFPs on AI chatbots, browsing behavior, search, and more to come over the next few months? Sign up for our workshop at Netsci: national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...

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Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Chinese farmer loads pig onto drone, accidentally flies into power line, causes blackout

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Martin Rosvall @mrosvall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The map equation turned 16 a week ago. Since @carlbergstrom.com and I published Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure in PNAS: hierarchical, higher-order, temporal, overlapping variants. Our new ACM tutorial maps the landscape we created. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3779648

Modeling and mapping flow with the map equation framework.

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 02/02/2026

How does this fantastic video by the great @nachristakis.bsky.social only have 290 views www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2O... !?!! At 2m47s he talks about the amount of time he can sometimes personally spend on crafting emails. I won't spoil it here, but I felt seen! So ridiculously great.

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How to Write an Email

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I guess StackOverflow is done.

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 18/12/2025

Hey Danes. As part of a project on something completely different, the always brilliant @louisboucherie.com generated these maps of voting in Denmark. Maybe it’s me, but I can’t remember seeing DK voting at this resolution. IMHO the maps are neat & interesting sunelehmann.com/2025/12/18/h...

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Hi-resolution voting maps of Denmark

As part of a project on something completely different, the always brilliant Louis Boucherie generated these maps of voting in Denmark during the 2022 general election [1]. Maybe it’s me, but…

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 18/12/2025

Oh no! The sadness of seeing giants fall. Heros becoming ex-heros. Now it turns out that Oliver Sachs is a fraud too 😱😭 Insanely great piece in The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202.... More links at kottke.org/25/12/the-li... (where I first saw this)

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 17/12/2025

Super excited to work with great team of coauthors and play a (small) part in putting this excellent overview of higher order networks together!

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 16/12/2025

This seems totally OK and not like a problem at all

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Sadamori Kojaku @skojaku.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

One of the time-consuming tasks in paper writing is to curate bibtex for references. So I automated bibtex curation with an Alfred app that fetches entries from dx.doi.org using DOI or title. It saves time, reduces errors, and maintains consistent LaTeX keys. github.com/skojaku/tobi...

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GitHub - skojaku/tobibtex

Contribute to skojaku/tobibtex development by creating an account on GitHub.

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

📌 Save the Date! The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science. Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 22/09/2025

It was a ton of fun to play a small role in this project lead by the brilliant Marta Ewa Lech & @jonassjuul.bsky.social. A lot of drama & change in the world of music reflected in the song-dynamics of the Billboard Hot 100!

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Jonas L Juul @jonassjuul.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New paper out in EPJ Data Science! We analyze 65 years of Billboard Hot 100 data to ask: 🎵Are songs moving differently up and down the chart nowadays? 📉 Are hits shorter-lived? 📈 Or do superstars dominate more than ever? Paper: epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.... 🧵 1/7

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 08/09/2025

🎶 If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel On your knees, boy … She's the wave, she turns the tide She sees the man inside the child … It's all right, it's all right, it's all right She moves in mysterious ways 🎶 (Unless you normalize using the pair distribution function)

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 01/09/2025

In this article, Boucherie et al. apply physics-based models to the arrangement of locations to study how geography shapes human movement. They find an underlying pattern in how people choose to move, independent of geographical layout.

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Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility - Nature Human Behaviour

Boucherie et al. apply physics-based models to the arrangement of locations to study how geography shapes human movement. They find an underlying pattern in how people choose to move, independent of geographical layout.

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 04/09/2025

Super excited about our new paper on mobility that's out in Nature Human Behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41... I love this paper for many reasons, but one is that we find beautiful 1/x power-law that spans 6 orders of magnitude hidden within the "ugly" distribution raw mobility data.

A very straight line on a loglog plot. So straight that even Aaron Clauset would call this a power-law

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

New NERDS publication on hitting the music charts nerds.itu.dk/2025/09/04/n...

Changes in songs’ lifetimes. A The average (blue), median (orange), and the 20th percentile (green) of the lifespans of all songs over time. The dashed lines indicate some of music history’s most important technology launches. All three summary statistics increased until the 2000s and then started to drop. The median and the 20th percentile have fallen below 5, achieving the lowest values in the chart’s history. The drop in the last 2 years can be partially affected by the songs that have just entered the chart since their lifetimes are yet to be established.

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Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · 03/09/2025

🔊 More from our recent @nathumbehav.nature.com article from the Technical University of Denmark: Our study shows that behind the apparent complexity of human mobility lies a simple rule shaped by geography and distance. 🔗 www.dtu.dk/english/news... DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02282-7

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There is a hidden simplicity behind how people move

DTU scientists show that once you account for geographical restraints, there are consistent patterns behind human mobility.

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Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · 01/09/2025

* Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility * 🌍🚶 How much of our movement is about human choice and how much is constrained by geography and the spatial layout of locations? Our paper (out in Nature Human Behavior) gives you a practical way to tell: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

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Martin Rosvall @mrosvall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Registration is now open for IceLab Camp – a four-day off-site PhD course designed to train participants in asking research questions, laying the foundation for new multidisciplinary collaborations. www.umu.se/en/icelab/ca...

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IceLab Camp

Part of the Stress Response Modeling Research School, IceLab Camp is a four-day off-site PhD course that prepares its participants to create new inter- or multidisciplinary research by first teaching ...

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Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com · 01/04/2025

People of Copenhagen: On Tuesday April 8th, we have awesome privacy researcher @yvesalexandre.bsky.social visiting the group. Yves is a bold and creative scientist, and also former advisor to Marianne Vestager. Yves will give a talk at SODAS at 3pm that's open to the public (details below)

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Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Today is the (hard) deadline for the postdoctoral call listed below! Join us #postdoc #scienceofscience #AI #networkscience

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New Politiken op-ed (in 🇩🇰) by @adler-nissen.bsky.social, @sunelehmann.com, Morten Axel Pedersen and other colleagues. They talk about how AI can be used democratically, innovatively, justly and with the interests of Danish citizens in mind. Read on: politiken.dk/debat/kronik...

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Forskere: Vi står over for en teknologisk revolution, og Danmark kan vise vejen

Med sine stærke traditioner for fællesskab og tillid kan Danmark vise, at ai både kan skabe værdi og gøre samfundet bedre.

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 25/03/2025

🇩🇰 🤖 🌎 In yesterday's @politiken.dk we shared an op-ed outlining our vision for CAISA - Denmark's National Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society, led by @adler-nissen.bsky.social and deputy director Professor Thomas Moeslund (1/10)

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Jonas L Juul @jonassjuul.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs to join me in beautiful Copenhagen. Together, we will develop data science methods to improve epidemic preparedness. Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community. Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Ph.D. and postdoc positions in Data Science for epidemic preparedness at the NERDS research group

The NERDS (NEtwoRks, Data, and Society) team at the IT University of Copenhagen welcomes applications from aspiring PhD students and postdocs in the areas of Da

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Vedran Sekara @vedransekara.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚨 Cool job alert in #DataScience If you're looking for a PhD or postdoc position then take a look here 👇 Jonas is a fantastic researcher, you will be embedded in a fantastic research group, and work on highly relevant and applicable research

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Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 27/02/2025

A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

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A pro-Russia content aggregation network, Pravda, appears to be set up to flood large-language models with pro-Kremlin content, The American Sunlight Project has found.

Over the past several months, ASP researchers have investigated 108 new domains and subdomains belonging to the Pravda network, a previously-established ecosystem of largely identical, automated web pages that previously targeted many countries in Europe as well as Africa and Asia with pro-Russia narratives about the war in Ukraine. ASP’s research, in combination with that of other organizations, brings the total number of associated domains and subdomains to 182. The network’s older targets largely consisted of states belonging to or aligned with the West.

Notably, this latest expansion includes many countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America. It also includes entities other than countries as targets, specifically non-sovereign nations, international organizations, audiences for specific languages, and prominent heads of state. The top objective of the network appears to be duplicating as much pro-Russia content as widely as possible. With one click, a single article could be autotranslated and autoshared with dozens of other sites that appear to target hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

ASP researchers also believe the network may have been custom-built to flood large language models (LLMs) with pro-Russia content. The network is unfriendly to human users; sites within the network boast no search function, poor formatting, and unreliable scrolling, among other usability issues. This final finding poses foundational implications for the intersection of disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI), which threaten to turbocharge highly automated, global information operations in the future.

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · 27/01/2025

Visiting @mpidr.bsky.social this week—super excited to see what’s happening in Demographic Studies (don’t miss my talk!). Also, I’ll be in Berlin on Feb 2, Helsinki from Feb 3-6, and Copenhagen from Feb 10-12. Let me know if you’re around and up for a coffee 🧪🔬☕️

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/12/2024

I disagree with perplexity.ai CEO Aravind Srinivas about the importance of sourcing in search results, but boy does he have Google's number here. Search for something they can't sell, you get an AI summary. Something they can, you don't. Try it yourself. From: www.fastcompany.com/91125423/per...

“I’m pretty sure that if you type something like ‘shoes’ or ‘handbags,’ you’re going to get the Shopping UI with hundreds of ads screaming at you to buy [their product],” he said. “So there’s no incentive to . . . give you an aggregated summary with exactly what people are saying about different shoes so you know exactly what you [should] buy.”

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Dear academics We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists. This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by… *checks notes* …every other industry on earth.

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