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We are hiring a postdoc in Dublin's DII! Can explicit topology/higher-order structure make LLMs reason better about sci/tech innovation? join us for TOPO-LLM: TDA + higher-order networks + transformers, with access to MareNostrum 5. Apply by 9 Sept: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS062

Latest one out by @projectceti.bsky.social Network Science team and yours truly👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

1/10 How does a sperm whale hunt in darkness, hundreds of metres beneath the surface? Our new preprint reveals a two-level strategy: persistent search across whole dives, paired with rapid switching between distinct prey-capture tactics. Link in🧵

New PhD position open in the lab. Details here: t.co/HZ1BvpSuAB

Excited to share that our paper is out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🚀 🔗 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... Joining forces between two fantastic laboratories @nplab.bsky.social @connectomelab.bsky.social 🔥

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Renormalization in the brain? With @andreasantoro.bsky.social and @jesseba.bsky.social we're organizing a workshop at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social (Lisbon, March 16) on how coarse-graining principles from physics can explain neural computation across scales. nplresearch.github.io/neurorenorm2...

My mom, @bettyscarpino.bsky.social, has a piece going on display at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery!!! The @washingtonpost.com mentioned her in their great review of the show. She’s many of our biggest social media booster, so let’s show her lots of love ❤️ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Packed room at our satellite!!

Cobrain starting in room 18 @css-conference.bsky.social Program here: kgatica.github.io/CCS2025-CoBr... @jesseba.bsky.social @nicopedre.bsky.social @marilyngatica.bsky.social

“This is about modelling emergence, multiscale causality, collective behaviour.. this is not a side quest, it’s the core challenge of complex systems”.

Our first keynote @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening TopoNets @netsciconf.bsky.social with higher-order interactions for neuroscience

Our own @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening Toponets @netsciconf.bsky.social.

Really great overview of evidence for higher-order effects in the brain.

@xgi.bsky.social in the wild 👀

"Some say science is about truth, some say science is about curiosity, but it's really about the glory" - @lordgrilo.bsky.social starting off TopoNets at @netsciconf.bsky.social 😂

New PhD position open 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

@jesseba.bsky.social from @nunetsi.bsky.social discussing joint work with @scarpino.bsky.social on network reps in a learn-relearning in mice vs artificial neural networks (while herself surviving music interference of a nearby Indian wedding :)). Literally context adaption live #netsci2025x

Another year, another edition!💥 Join #TopoNets25 at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht and send us your work on higher-order networks: structure, dynamics, methods, inference, software, topology, #TDA, etc. 📅 Submit by Feb 7th to give a contributed talk: sites.google.com/view/toponet...

What do the predictability limits of epidemics have to do with limits on our us of AI study biology? Tomorrow at 9am in Indore (1030pm today in Boston), I'm going to try and connect these dots during my #netscix2025 keynote lecture. Tune into the live feed here: www.youtube.com/live/frY8luh...

#NetSciX2025 Day 2 keynote speaker Sam Scarpino discusses fundamental epistemic challenges and prediction limit in complex systems modeling

Our ability to identify mechanisms in higher-order systems is dependent on the observation scale (which depends on the network and dynamical model). Prof @lordgrilo.bsky.social presenting at #NetSciX2025 on reconstructing higher order mechanisms.

CS2Italy in Trento is off to a great start with @mtizzoni.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social and a a packed room of computational social scientists! cs2italy.org Università di Trento, @isi.it , CNR ISIC, FBK

Narayan Sabhahit from @nunetsi.bsky.social introduces a formal definition of network typicality by derandomisation (work with Krioukov lab and @scarpino.bsky.social) #netscix2025

Eigenvectors capture the principal structures shaping the dynamics of interconnected systems. @plos.org computational biology we now demonstrate how they can be used to improve accuracy in network controllability bit.ly/40osgBK Led by #PhD @MessaoudRemy

Look no further for your summer plans.

Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025 We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/ho2025e... Wait no further and join!

New school incoming in higher order systems!! 👇👇👇👇👇👇 (in Sicily, in summer #machealtrovedevodi’😜)

- "Higher-order connectomics of human brain function reveals local topological signatures of task decoding, individual identification, and behavior" www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @lordgrilo.bsky.social et al.

New publications with NetSI authors November 2024: - "City mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of a global natural experiment" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... by @estebanmoro.bsky.social et al. thread 👇

Here you find what has kept us busy at the @nunetsi.bsky.social in the last few weeks mailchi.mp/neu/news-fro...

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Let me take this opportunity to thank all of my collaborators throughout the years, my lab @nplab.bsky.social, as well as the mentors that inspired, pushed, and --very useful!-- criticized me along the way! Stay tuned for hiring announcements in the next few months!

I am extremely honoured to receive the @ERC_Research #ERCCoG award for #RUNES. For the next five years, I will be working on the mathematical, computational, and experimental (!!) sides to understand how higher-order interactions change how we think and coordinate.

Congratulations to Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social on being awarded the prestigious #ERCCoG for the project "Reconstruction and Unification of Neural and Ecological Systems" #RUNES! This nearly €2M grant will support in the next 5 yrs. his groundbreaking research on higher-order interactions.