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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

9/ Learn more about academic integrity, AI ethics, and his work in string theory in his full InterDialogue: buff.ly/WNrw4Wc #academicintegrity #researchethics #science #theinterplex

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

8/ Sunil Mukhi is an honorary emeritus professor and the Raja Ramanna Chair at IISER Pune. He also chairs the first ethics committee of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). His other affiliations have included @tifr.res.in, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

7/ In the end, Mukhi sees leadership as decisive: “When the leader states ethical ground rules explicitly and often, it can work wonders.”

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

6/ “In our society, ‘loyalty’ is considered very important and—illogical as it may be—calling out an unethical friend or colleague is seen as disloyal,” he explains.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

5/ “It is not clear how an internal ethical conflict between an LLM and itself ends,” Mukhi writes. Others are cultural. Students in his ethics training sessions readily grasped why integrity serves their own interests, yet hesitated to report a peer.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

4/ Some of these pressures are also technological. When institutions ask AI tools to flag AI-generated manuscripts, the same technology ends up both enabling misconduct and policing it.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

3/ Drawing on more than two decades of service on ethics committees in India and internationally, he covers everything from publish-or-perish pressures and unintentional plagiarism to university rankings gamed through publications vacant of any new knowledge.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

2/ According to Mukhi, its most powerful driver is “the desire to be seen as successful and, through that success, to attain promotions, awards, and leadership positions.”

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 15h

1/ Why is academic misconduct so prevalent, in India and globally? In a new article for The InterPlex, Indian theoretical physicist Sunil Mukhi surveys the state of academic integrity today. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/OrgehRe

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An Overview of Academic Integrity and AI Ethics: Indian and Global Contexts - The InterPlex

The issue of academic integrity has gained considerable prominence in the last couple of decades. In this article I will attempt to summarize what I see as

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

9/ He is also President of @isi.it in Turin and co-leads the CDC-funded EPISTORM initiative. He is a Fellow of the @apsphysics.bsky.social and won the European Physical Society's 2025 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division Prize. #networkscience #complexsystems #science #complexity #theinterplex

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

8/ Alessandro Vespignani is the Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Sciences, and Health Sciences at @northeasternu.bsky.social, where he directs @nunetsi.bsky.social.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

7/ Funders took notice, and so did the tech industry, whose platforms now run on the social-network science the community helped pioneer. Looking ahead, Vespignani feels the stakes rising: "Society and the public are asking us to solve those problems," he says.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

6/ "It's a scientific community that is truly interdisciplinary," says Vespignani, describing physicists, mathematicians, political scientists, engineers, psychologists, and many more experts, working in a shared language.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

5/ The growth wasn't just about data; it was also about the community that formed around it and the complex, interconnected challenges that they work to address.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

4/ That changed once "network science immediately brought us in contact with data," he says, citing supply chains, power grids, and disease spread as examples. He traces that momentum to the "data deluge" of the 2010s, as digitization made nearly everything machine-readable.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

3/ "Network science is a way to approach complex systems," he says, pointing to the nonlinear feedback loops that simpler models miss. Vespignani recalls training in statistical physics decades ago, when much of the work could feel abstracted from reality.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2/ In this InterDialogue clip, Italian American physicist @alexvespi.bsky.social traces how a field once confined to theoretical statistical physics and mathematics grew into an interdisciplinary toolkit built for the real world. Learn more in the full InterDialogue: buff.ly/ye19RUC

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Alessandro Vespignani: Complex Networks, Computational Epidemiology, and Interdisciplinarity - The InterPlex

In this wide-ranging InterDialogue, Vespignani traces network science's shift from foundational theory toward urgent, data-driven application, and discusses

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/ Network science has quietly become the methodological backbone behind many of society's most pressing challenges, from climate change to global health, mobility and supply systems, ecological systems, inequality, and disinformation.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

9/ Other contributors include Javier Buldú (CSG-URJC), Chris Danforth (@vcsi.bsky.social), @ccattuto.bsky.social (@isi.it), Enver Oruro (U. Andina del Cusco), and K. Brandon Barker (Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University). #complexsystems #publichealth #science #theinterplex

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

8/ "The many lessons, challenges, and advances revealed through the impactful convergence of complexity and health can therefore potentially inform and be applied to the evidence-based preservation and recovery of the 'health' of other complex systems, at all scales."

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

7/ Rasolt closes by extrapolating outward from human health to other complex systems. "Nonlinear dynamics, scale-free networks, and adaptive systems are seemingly universal phenomena found throughout nature," he writes.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

6/ Spanish physicist @gomezgardenes.bsky.social of @gotham-lab.bsky.social, who has modeled outbreaks in Colombia, adds: "A lot of social science ingredients have to be incorporated; it's not only mobility, demography, containers, and vital information like mutation rates and intrahost dynamics."

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

5/ In public health, mobility data and modeling are reshaping epidemic tracking. "COVID-19 was an important transition point," says Venezuelan American urban scientist Marta González of UC Berkeley's HuMNet Lab, on how the pandemic transformed access to mobility data.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

4/ Neurophysicist Jordi Soriano is testing this in practice, growing live neuronal cultures toward therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, to "insert the healthy cells into the patients to see if they can integrate with the damaged area to recover their lost functions."

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

3/ "All that goes through networks and through a vision that has complex systems at the core," Vespignani adds. As Brazilian physicist Constantino Tsallis, whose entropy framework now informs heart rate and cancer diagnostics, puts it, "a living person is a complex system."

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2/ "Our methodological approach goes on and on down to the level of microbiology and finally finding cures for many diseases," says Italian American physicist @alexvespi.bsky.social, director of Northeastern's @nunetsi.bsky.social.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

9/ He has also worked with medical teams on neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's, genetic Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Sanfilippo disease. #neuroscience #criticality #science #physics #interdialogue

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

8/ Jordi Soriano is an associate professor of physics at the University of Barcelona (@ub.edu), where he leads @ubneuro.bsky.social and serves as vice-director of the Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS).

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

7/ "You cannot play with neurons as in a Lego toy set," he says, "because you can put neurons in a particular location, but they will wire with others in a random way sometimes. You cannot control the wiring easily."

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

6/ He's also chasing a harder question: whether such a network could one day be trained to compute the way silicon chips do, at a fraction of AI's energy cost. Progress has been slow.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

5/ To study it, his team engineers cultures to wire themselves into brain-like, hierarchical patterns, rather than the random connections that form when neurons are left to grow on a flat surface.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

4/ "The brain is neither activating randomly nor all neurons firing together," he explains, calling the search for this critical point one of his field's most fascinating problems.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

3/ He's just as drawn to the opposite question: how a network decides to activate at all. Healthy neuronal networks, like the brain, sit at a delicate threshold rather than firing randomly or all at once.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

1/ A network of neurons, cut off from part of its own wiring, often finds its way back to full working order on its own. In this InterDialogue clip, Spanish neurophysicist Jordi Soriano discusses his research on neuronal cultures—networks of neurons grown in a dish.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

8/ Stay tuned for more content, projects, and events stemming from these collaborations over the past months! #complexsystems #complexity #science #theinterplex

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

7/ Daniel Henryk Rasolt also spoke to a sociophysics class at the physics department of UNAL Colombia—a course Rafael Hurtado developed and now co-teaches with Alejandro Pérez Riascos, which Henryk first attended 14 years ago.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

6/ August closed with a trip to Colombia to meet InterPlex team members and contributors Rafael Hurtado, Jose Ernesto Mancera, and Omar Prias, plus other colleagues, to advance the next phase of our mangroves, wetlands, and biocomplexity InterGroup.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

5/ There we met established and new friends and collaborators from @uvmvermont.bsky.social, including @lhd.bsky.social, @juniperlov.bsky.social, @alexawoodward.bsky.social, Peter Dodds, and Chris Danforth, among many more.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

4/ In late July we attended the @ic2s2.bsky.social conference, hosted by @vcsi.bsky.social in Burlington, VT, to learn about cutting-edge computational social science research.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

3/ We attended workshops and networking events hosted by @mit.edu, @harvard.edu, and @bostonu.bsky.social, plus multiple startup and incubation hubs, to present our interdisciplinary and intercultural vision and explore new partnerships.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

2/ Following @netsciconf.bsky.social in June, we met with several members of @nunetsi.bsky.social at both their old and new location, including @alexvespi.bsky.social, @jkbren.bsky.social, Lydia Klenova, and @barabasi.bsky.social.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/ It's been an eventful summer for The InterPlex since returning to our Boston headquarters in early June: conferences, collaborative meetings, networking events, grant proposals, content creation, and work with our pilot InterGroup on mangroves and wetlands.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

7/ "We need to then move beyond that into understanding and learning from Indigenous peoples and others who have always lived with and within nature," he says. "And that's why we call it earthy governance." #rightsofnature #science

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

6/ RoN has real value within a legal framework, Kothari argues, but that framework is itself limiting—bound by who has the best lawyers and the most money to fight cases in court. 11/ Full InterDialogue: buff.ly/ABTAhwY

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

5/ In his recent InterDialogue, Indian environmentalist and @rontribunal.bsky.social judge Ashish Kothari addresses that same tension between formal legal rights and a lived relationship with the rest of nature.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

4/ "This movement is firmly grounded in holistic Indigenous worldviews," he adds, "where the rivers, forests and all species are interconnected 'persons' of a healthy Mother Earth, not resources to be exploited."

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

3/ "Free-flowing rivers often connect distinct ecosystems and transport sediments that are critical for the health of natural habitats and riverine communities over long ranges," Rasolt writes, pointing to rivers born in the Andes that carry nutrients into the Amazon.

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The InterPlex @theinterplex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

2/ In an article originally published by The Solutions Journal in 2020 and republished by The InterPlex, Rasolt traces the movement's roots in the physical interconnectedness of rivers as well as the region's Indigenous worldviews.

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