Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

"Because manuscripts reflected real progress towards our field’s goals, our assessment systems began relying on them as primary metrics...which is obviously flawed...Generative AI has broken this already-flawed proxy completely" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Loved this short note from @giulioburgio.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2610.08712 This makes a point I had not yet seen. Beyond overselling or the reinvention of old models, some like the language of hypergraphs because: Directed hypergraphs capture the structure of dynamical models in a unique way.

We're excited to announce 6 newly funded PhD positions at the intersection of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science through the National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Graduate Research Fellows Program. vermontcomplexsystems.org/engage/jobs/

Join us next Tuesday to discuss the impact of #AI on #ComplexSystems science! If you have registered for @css-conference.bsky.social, you will soon receive all the information needed to attend online. We are keen to hear your thoughts, so let us know any questions you would like us to address! 👇❓

I am recruiting new parakeet postbacs to join my research team! If you are (or know of) someone who recently graduated undergrad & is looking to build research experience prior to applying to grad school or a career path (and you like animal sociality and cognition) apply here! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

We are very happy to announce the launch of Systems Ecology @systems-ecology.bsky.social, a new independent, diamond open-access journal dedicated to advancing systems-level understanding in ecology. systems-ecology.org/index.php/se Check the Founding editorial! systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...

💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net

We are pleased to share that the 2026 keynote presentations will be available at the @vcsi.bsky.social youtube channel, and will be shared here for anyone who missed them. Here are Jennifer Gradecki and Derek Curry sharing their creative approaches to reconstruction as method: youtu.be/J85Ti0y3bgY

Join us at @css-conference.bsky.social for our "Practical and Ethical Insights on Using AI in Complex Systems" panel! 🤖⚖️ 🗓️ Oct 13 | ⏰ 6 PM EST 🎤: @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, @juniperlov.bsky.social, @scilearn.bsky.social & @skojaku.bsky.social See you there! #CCS2026 #ComplexSystems #AI #Ethics

@lhd.bsky.social talks witches at @ic2s2.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...

#IC2S22026 main conference officially starting with opening remarks by Peter Dodds and Brooke Foucault Welles @ic2s2.bsky.social

Young researchers, apply for our post-docs! The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester invites applications positions in theoretical and computational approaches to complex systems, information theory, and the emergence of autonomous agency. apply.interfolio.com/189157

😍 🐙 👀 www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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

Dream team! And what a great project!

Going to #NetSci2026 (@netsciconf.bsky.social)? Attend our contagions in networks satellite! Talks from: @nwlandry.bsky.social @lhd.bsky.social @leahkeating.bsky.social @julianataube.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social and Jacob Liam Curran-Sebastian joelmiller.github.io/ContagionOnN...

SFI's Laurent Hébert-Dufresne has received the 2026 Erdős-Rényi Prize, the top honor for early-career researchers in network science. “This recognition reflects the deeply collaborative nature of complex systems research,” says Hébert-Dufresne.

It is our great pleasure to announce this year's Erdős-Rényi Prize winner! Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social

🚨 🚨 How do group dynamics shape contagion onsets and multistable active phases under collective reinforcement? 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2603.28566 @santiagolaot.bsky.social @federicomalizia.bsky.social @leahkeating.bsky.social @gstonge.bsky.social V. Latora @gomezgardenes.bsky.social & @lhd.bsky.social

Interested in the weirdness that is humanity? Ever suspect human evolution itself may be changing? Join my colloquium at the KLI in Austria to learn about: The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... (3pm CET, 9am US Eastern, on zoom and live)

SFI's Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (@lhd.bsky.social) is the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG). Honoring “outstanding original contributions that use physical methods to develop a better understanding of socio-economic problems.”

Congratulations to Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social, UVM Professor of Computer Science and core faculty member of the Vermont Complex Systems Institute, on receiving the 2026 Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics from the German Physical Society! www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/news...

New on the arxiv: “Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions” arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937 We clarify central misconceptions in the recent literature on "higher-order networks". w/ @piratepeel.bsky.social , @manlius.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social Explainer 🧵: 1/N

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... Check out new work with @willthompson.bsky.social, @chrisdanforth.bsky.social, J-G Young, & @lhd.bsky.social in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface!

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

npj Complexity special collection: Variational, Nonequilibrium, and Optimization Principles of the Coevolution of Structure and Dynamics in Complex Systems www.nature.com/collections/...

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

CCS 2026 Call for Satellites is now up on the conference website! ccs2026.github.io#call-for-sat...

We’re grateful for the incredible response to the call for contributions! Due to many requests, we have decided to extend the deadline until November 30, 2025 (AoE). 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com 🚨 Extended deadline: Submit by Nov 30, 2025!

"What James Watson got wrong about DNA" By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...

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...

📢 Keynotes unlocked: 5/12. Thrilled to have Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about #networks and #dynamics! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!

Next CoCo seminar on October 1st by Juniper Lovato from the University of Vermont!

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs. He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade. Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k. Why?

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

Very cool interactive story, @jstonge.bsky.social! "[...] real social cascades aren't simply branching processes with fixed rules." A self-reinforcing mechanism is what we propose in a recent piece led by the one and only @lhd.bsky.social.

📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference! 🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com

🚨 Excited to share a new paper 📃, years in the making, with Zach Wood. We propose that human evolution is characterized as an Evolutionary Transition in Inheritance and Individuality (ETII). Explainer and OA paper below:

Done! It was a super fun week of complexity. Huge thanks to the organizers! And see you all next year in Binghamton!! #CCS2025 #CCS2026 youtu.be/kIK3DleA-Us

Excited to announce the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱! 📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social & @krivitsky.net @insna.bsky.social & @netscisociety.bsky.social Apply by Oct 5 👉 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

🎓 I've joined the PhD in Complex Systems & Data Science at @vcsi.bsky.social to work w/ @lhd.bsky.social & @juniperlov.bsky.social to explore social (complex) dynamics 🔬 Huge thanks to @joanagsa.bsky.social & Lília Perfeito for helping me get ready for this chapter 🚀 Excited for this next step!

Happy to be in beautiful Siena for the Conference on Complex Systems. We are partnering with the organizers for a Collection in npj Complexity on "The Evolving Landscape of Complex Systems." #ccs2025 I'm excited to meet everyone to talk complexity! Submit your work: www.nature.com/collections/...

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