Petter Holme

Network of the day. From Krannich and Krannich (1989). "Network your way to job and career success" One of at least a dozen books from the late 1980s / early 90s about how to boost your career through social network analysis.

Network of the day. From: JL Moreno's Psychodrama (1946).

Are you ready for a new season of NetSci colloquia? First out, Elizabeth Bruch, in just a few days! Register for a Zoom link here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

For anyone wondering which version of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's floor filler Ali Ali Ali Maula Ali Ali Haq to pick (after all, it takes a few hours to figure out) . . It's this one open.spotify.com/track/3TYj2t...

My debut in educational science, and also the longest project I've ever had (for a number of reasons), finally reached the finish line. How does one's reasoning about big, ill-defined estimation problems depend on one's educational background? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please play! GSN are our greedy navigators from the mid 2010s . . a model of human navigation gently based on reality

I’m excited to share our new preprint about network fairness and its ethical challenges. We spent many years thinking about this topic and shaping our arguments. /w @lespin.bsky.social @eliassi.bsky.social Ricardo Baeza-Yates , Pak Wong , Erich Prem , Meike Zehlike ,Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Network of the day: TIL None other than Guy Debord made this networky collage, a decade before La société du spectacle.

Network of the day. Administrative information flows in a factory. From Brinton's 1923 "Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts."

Join us on Thursday, 10 September, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Jennifer Watling Neal @jennawneal.bsky.social 🔹 Using Networks to Improve Interventions 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

arXiv alert! 📃🚨 Everything you want to know about Finnish parliamentary debates, answered by means of network science: arxiv.org/abs/2609.01497

A C90 mixtape for the best of seasons 🎶 Just what you didn't know you needed as mocktails and vacation give way to mist and contemplation open.spotify.com/playlist/3rg...

A C90 mixtape for the best of seasons 🎶 Just what you didn't know you needed as mocktails and vacation give way to mist and contemplation open.spotify.com/playlist/3rg...

Finally published! journals.aps.org/pre/abstract... one of the few contributions to small network science and my first collaboration with several illustrious network scientists, including @aliceschwarze.bsky.social

2-year postdoc to work on Autotelic Creative AI (ACAI): an opportunity for theoretical research on the foundations of creativity in AI and living beings (e.g. agency, autonomy, value grounding) + time to work on your own ideas fitting with the group's interests. DL: 11.9. bit.ly/4hEpIZz

Maybe I'm late to the party but: Desrosiéres' "The Politics of Large Numbers" . . BOOM! What a book 😵🥇

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...

Visualization is a balance between letting the data speak for itself and making it look nice and attractive. This is, for sure, the textbook out there that best captures these forces, so whether you're into visualization or not, treat yourself to a copy!

A blog post raising a glass for slow science 😊 petterhol.me/2026/07/21/i...

This was a nice collaboration, exploring the use of MARL to model network evolution 📄 🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A blog post raising a glass for slow science 😊 petterhol.me/2026/07/21/i...

Network (or, perhaps, systems diagram) of the day: From Ragnar Frisch's 1933 chart-topper "Propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics"

Networks of the day: Hilz & Turoff, The Network Nation (1978)

Network of the day, from: Ros, Wevers (2024) "Epistemic Capture Through Specialization in Post-World War II Parliamentary Debate"

hmmm I wonder if there are any fields of study that focus on people as they go about their lives... 🤔https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01957-z

The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...

LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@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...

💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.

What's your favorite temporal network generation models? Yasaman Asgari and I are preparing a review and would like to be sure to cover the extensive literature on this topic. Let us know here: forms.gle/xrLBfAcWZVyR... or you can also just reply below.

News, rumors, opinions, misinformation, polarization, collective attention: can we understand their dynamics using the tools of statistical physics? Our new Physics Reports review brings together theory, models, and empirical evidence from across the field: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Chapter 13: @jsaramak.bsky.social & @pholme.bsky.social on temporal networks of social interactions. A fascinating chapter showing why static network snapshots often miss the most important thing: the timing and order of interactions. Social networks are dynamic processes, not just fixed structures.

Summer is around the corner. Here's a new mixtape for your never-ending summer nights 💽♫ open.spotify.com/playlist/0zm...

I'm currently at #ICWSM / @icwsm.bsky.social Ping me if you're on the job market as we are/will be hiring for SOUNDS - Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (www.sounds-observatory.org).

I want an app to quickly check what level of meaninglessness “ontology” has now descended to.

Don't miss the first NoSoccs conference! Abstract deadline in about a month nosocss.org/conference.h...

ArXiv alert 📣 arxiv.org/abs/2605.22587

Network of the day. From: Knoke, Political Networks, 1990.

Replication: 60% of the time, it works all the time.

Network of the day: From Knowles, Economic and social geography made simple, 1976.

Join us Monday @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with #CarlaScaletti of @symbolicsound.com on #AuditoryAnalytics 🎶🔬 Data Sonification and Analytical Listening for Exploration and Discovery. 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 Zoom & details: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-... #synthsky

Network of the day: The 26 sporadic groups and their subquotient relations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadi...

Interdisciplinary PhD offer in Marseille, starting Oct. 2026, on "Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics" Project description and application website: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... DM for more info on the position

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....

Network of the day. From pin.it/4k3aQ9JZ0