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@juniperlov.bsky.social presents “A Taste of Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences” in the Social Good & Ethics parallel session at #IC2S2

Today Aviral Chawla and I presented a poster at ICML on our new paper MetaOthello: A Controlled Study of Multiple World Models in Transformers (work with Galen Hall). Thank you to everyone who came by this was a blast. See our paper here metaothello.github.io #ICML2026 #MechanisticInterpretability

Excited to be here at my first ICML, friends if you're here too hit me up.

Congratulations Prithaj Nath for successfully defending his Master's thesis today!! So so proud! His work on quantifying stress (allostatic load) with wearables is a really thoughtful contribution.

Congratulations @lhd.bsky.social for winning the Erdős-Rényi award and giving a kickass acceptance talk at the netsci @netsciconf.bsky.social conference!!

Ready to shape the future of #ComplexSystems science? Propose a Satellite Session for #CCS2026 and put your topic in orbit!🛰️ Methods, tutorials, debates, you name it! Apply via link or scan the QR on the flyer. Please spread the word and reshare!🔁 📝 bit.ly/3LUgTNc

We are thrilled to announce that @katymilkman.bsky.social will be a keynote speaker at IC2S2 2026. Milkman is best known for her award-winning research on to identify and overcome barriers that prevent positive behavioral change.

Jan Eiẞfeldt will be a keynote speaker for IC2S2 2026! Jan is an external fellow at @sfiscience.bsky.social and serves as Director, Global Head of Trust & Safety at the Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org, the non-profit hosting Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other free knowledge projects.

Only six days left! Tutorial submissions close on February 2nd. Submit here: ic2s2-2026.org/submit-tutor...

Early bird reg approaching, NetSciX in New Zealand, Feb 2026. And you can travel down the north island for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium the week after. netscix2026.github.io www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/... @cna25.bsky.social @cssociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

Governments and regulatory systems are small structures aiming to represent a much larger population and make decisions. Can this process of governance be modeled as a network? In today's @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social seminar, @juniperlov.bsky.social introduced us to her model to answer that question!

📌 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

The interactive story is by @jstonge.bsky.social and other friends: complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn.... The paper is with friends from @vcsi.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social and @unioflimerick.bsky.social.

Excited about this paper and the interactive story to accompany it. Congrats @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @giulioburgio.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social and nice story telling @jstonge.bsky.social!

Registrations are now also open for the #netscix2026 conference. Early bird registration available until Nov 20th. netscix2026.github.io#register

So excited to welcome you to the lab @okfranco.bsky.social

We love this research profile on Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty @juniperlov.bsky.social 🐙 www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...

It might start as a joke, belief, or rumor, easy to dismiss. But then it twists, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. Why do some ideas die out while others go viral? A new study by researchers from the University of Vermont and the Santa Fe Institute offers answers: santafe.edu/news

Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS! Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

✨ Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials were developed by an interdisciplinary working group of network researchers to clarify and promote open science practices in network research. buff.ly/0WxtZIt buff.ly/rWk3R3l

That’s a wrap on IC2S2’25! 🎉 Thank you for an unforgettable week of ideas and discussions. Congratulations to our award winners, and safe travels home. Mark your calendars: #ic2s2 ’ 26 heads to Burlington, Vermont, in the US. See you next year!

Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc

I had such a wonderful time @ic2s2.bsky.social thank you to the 2025 organizers for such a great IC2S2! #IC2S2

Newish work from VCSI core and external team members: @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social & @nwlandry.bsky.social 👀

just arrived to Norrköping for #IC2S2 can't wait to see everyones amazing new computational social science this week!

ChatGPT moat (from upcoming work with @juniperlov.bsky.social)

Hear me discuss our new paper written with the inimitable Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and colleagues! @lhd.bsky.social #Complexity #Physiology #Governance www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓

🚨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

Extended deadline: send your abstract until February 20th! We wait for your contribution at HISTONET, #hnr satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social about historical networks!

Great blog post from @juniperlov.bsky.social, Julia Zimmerman, and Jennifer Karson about their recent study surveying artists on their opinions of the utility and threat of generative AI

Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2025 will take place in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, from 6-10 October 2025. The conference logo, official website launch, and more details coming soon!

A project with friends from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @nwlandry.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social Funded by an ambitious AUDACE project from friends and co-authors from Université de Sherbrooke. Started in the Green Mountains two years ago.

Some decisions are best made quickly and locally. Governance can work better as a higher-order network, not a pyramid around a central state. How should we design these networks? We looked at this with law and complexity scholars and found "effective governance" networks. arxiv.org/abs/2412.03421

Today is the last day to submit your abstracts. Submit before midnight (anywhere on earth). #NetSci2025

We are now aiming for CNWW to be held every other year, ODD years only. #CNWW2025 here we come! Networks, monastery life, and a vow of science! (Random pictures from the archive of the Monastery.)

A polycomputational material. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Since #AcademicBluesky seems to be a bigger thing now, I wanted to share my PhD admissions advice YouTube resources. Please pass this on to anyone you think it might help! Probably most useful for STEM and especially CS adjacent fields, but broadly applicable. cfiesler.medium.com/phd-admissio...

Sharing the Vermont Complex Systems Institute starter pack! A list of core members, alumni, and external faculty 🤝 go.bsky.app/D46bnkS

Reminder that we've got a 3-year post-doc position open at the @invcomplexity.bsky.social lab at IT:U, Linz, Austria! The deadline is Nov 30. Please get in contact if you have any questions about the position. More information at: skewed.de/lab/call.html #complexsystems #networkscience

Here is one. go.bsky.app/QzMwdrL You can search for others here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Come and work with us!!! My department is hiring a new tenure track position in computer science at the University of Vermont. Areas of interest include but are not limited to cybersecurity, data privacy, trustworthy AI, and adversarial machine learning. more info at www.uvmjobs.com/postings/77162