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Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Institute! 🍁

We’re grateful for our community of researchers, collaborators, and students who push the boundaries of science every day.
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Don’t miss the next 𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 talk by 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝘀! Discover how honeybee swarms balance exploration and social signals to reach decentralized decisions, inspiring models for robotics and artificial swarms.
Join in person at One Portsoken 802 or online: tinyurl.com/48paxt7p
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We are excited to share the NetSci Conference announcement of its 1st plenary speakers! 🥁 🥁

Two pioneers—one stage: 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will reflect on the ideas that shaped their work and transformed our field in a joint keynote!

NetSci 2026: tinyurl.com/4jdxb4kv
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We’re proud to share that NetSI faculty David Lazer and
@alexvespi.bsky.social
have been named to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, recognizing scientists whose work ranks among the top 0.1% most cited globally for exceptional impact and influence.

𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 🔗 bit.ly/449idlv
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
⚽📊 Dive into two days of data, sports & network(ing)s at the 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 & 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 + 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 at #NetSI!
Hackathon kicks off Feb 27, followed by industry talks, panels & awards.
🗓️ Register by Dec 31 — open to all (under)grad students in Boston!
🔗 tinyurl.com/bdf5et9f
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Join us for an insightful NetSI talk by Elizabeth Bruch, titled “Making Social Structure Visible: How Knowledge Changes the Rules.” The event will take place on Thursday, October 30 at 10:30 AM on the 11th Floor or via Zoom.

www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/elizab...
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Join us at 11:30 AM for an 11th Floor talk by Arianna Salazar-Miranda on “Urban Mobility, City Structure, and Segregation.” She will discuss how city design and dynamics influence movement and inequality with urban systems and spatial justice. www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/ariann...
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Join us today at 1:30 PM on the 11th floor of NetSI or over zoom for a talk by Lin Chen, a new postdoctoral researcher in SunLAB. Don’t miss “Inequality and Resilience in Urban Social Dynamics” and the chance to connect with fellow researchers!

www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/lin-chen
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Don’t miss a fantastic talk by Prof. Yonina Eldar. She’ll explore model-based learning, a hybrid approach that enables efficient, explainable, and data-efficient solutions for tasks such as medical imaging & diagnostics, radar & communication systems, and more.
tinyurl.com/3mtpzn46
October 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#NetSI_Sport duo, Brennan Klein & Maddalena Torricelli, joined SOURCE—Northeastern’s 2025 Showcase for Undergraduate Research—sharing a new project at the crossroads of sports, networks, and data science, soon launching as a Master’s course in Spring '26! 🔗 tinyurl.com/bddkc8vf

@jkbren.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Next week's lineup of talks will take you from diagnosing change and polarization in neighborhoods with Jordan Kemp, to temporal graph neural networks with Ingo Scholtes, & to the limits of network science with Carlos Gershenson.

Join the talks tinyurl.com/mpr87m6t
or watch on tinyurl.com/4n9uarhu
October 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 (𝗪𝗪𝗖𝗦𝟮𝟲) has extended its hashtag#deadline for applications to 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵!
For more information 🔗 wwcs2026.github.io
Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu3a8ydd
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Exciting things in Topological Neuroscience! #NetSI_London @lordgrilo.bsky.social co-organized the “Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds” workshop at King’s College London, launching a new collaboration to advance this field.

#KIHSM 🔗 tinyurl.com/4zhs2m83
#NetSI_London 🔗 tinyurl.com/25ts6as4
October 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#NetSI is proud to be well represented in Stanford’s list of the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists (single-year impact), based on Elsevier Scopus data 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc4d4yv3

@barabasi.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social @lordgrilo.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Thrilled to announce a new collaboration between Marilyn Gatica & Giovanni Petri at #NetSI_London and #ReDLat, uniting global partners to advance dementia research through complex systems, clinical & computational neuroscience.

🔗 tinyurl.com/wwhfhu2f
October 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Join Ariel Procaccia for his talk on "Thinking Outside the Ballot Box" today, Sept 30 at 3:30 PM on the 11th Floor of our Network Science Institute or via Zoom - www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/ariel-...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Exciting week at #NetSI! Ariel Procaccia (Harvard) on generative social choice, Simon David Lindner (Vienna/CSH) on cancer care stratification, and Eszter Hargittai (Zurich) launching the Misinformation Series.
Details & links 🔗 www.networkscienceinstitute.org/events
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Join us at 11:00 AM (4:00 PM London) for Andrew Renninger’s talk on “Human Mobility, Regularity, and Variability.” Attend via Zoom.

To join from NetSI's website: www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/andrew...
September 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We’re excited to launch the 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗟𝗮𝗯 at @nunetsi.bsky.social London, led by Prof. István Kiss . The team studies how contagion spreads through networks—biological, social, and technological, with projects spanning epidemics, inference, and healthcare.

Span Lab 🔗 tinyurl.com/j4bve9n
September 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Join Jason Radford (@jsradford.bsky.social)on Thursday, Sep. 25th, for a virtual session on how to translate your research into a new venture and find the right path to address real-world problems through your work.

Register here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mfn9bpcd
September 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Andrew Renninger (UCL) studies cities under mobility, inequality & climate pressures. At #NetSI London Seminar Series, he’ll share his insights on mobility patterns.
Join us!
🌍 in person in 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝟰𝗽𝗺, or
🌎 virtually from the 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺
📆 on September 24th
🔗 tinyurl.com/4zefp6x9
September 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Join us for a talk today at 2 PM – Boston Hub (11th Floor)!

Don't miss Andrea Baronchili’s talk on “Emergent Social Conventions and Collective Bias in Human and LLM Populations” which is also available over zoom - northeastern.zoom.us/j/93421052481
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
At #NetSI, @brionyswire.bsky.social studies health misinformation, focusing on 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. In a new study with UF & Utah colleagues, she uses the ECTM survey to assess patients’ exposure, sources, forms of CTM, and whether it’s discussed with oncologists.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mpwsj5hh
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A new study co-authored by @riccardodiclemente.com reveals daily dynamics of urban segregation, moving beyond static views of residence and work.

@pnasnexus.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vysejx5
September 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Join us for a Talk Today @ 2:30 PM
📍 Boston Campus, 11th Floor – 177 Huntington Ave or over zoom- northeastern.zoom.us/j/93421052481

Join us for a guest talk by Bridget Smart on:
"Untangling Memory and Influence in Complex Systems:
Separable Markov Models for Sequence Generation"

All are welcome!
September 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM