Alec Kirkley
@captainkirk1041.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Interested in statistical physics, networks, complex systems, and cities. Webpage: https://aleckirkley.com/
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Statistical Inference for Network Models
A NetSci 2026 Satellite Symposium
sinm.network
February 16, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Interested in giving a talk at @netsciconf.bsky.social but missed the main conference deadline? Submit your work to the Statistical Inference for Network Models (SINM) satellite! Send your one page abstract by March 15 and check out sinm.network for more details!
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How complex should network models be?
🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
How complex should network models be?
🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reposted by Alec Kirkley
Double feature, just out on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction"
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction"
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Double feature, just out on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction"
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction"
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Just out on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Scalable network reconstruction in subquadratic time"
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
"Scalable network reconstruction in subquadratic time"
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Just out on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Scalable network reconstruction in subquadratic time"
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
"Scalable network reconstruction in subquadratic time"
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...
Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
Reposted by Alec Kirkley
🚀 The University of Rochester is hiring in Complex Systems (Physics)!
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
Apply - Interfolio
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apply.interfolio.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🚀 The University of Rochester is hiring in Complex Systems (Physics)!
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
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I believe science is much more like art than many scientists are willing to consider. I have a feeling that it would free us to do better science if we embraced this view. I may be mistaken but that's where I am mentally.
October 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I believe science is much more like art than many scientists are willing to consider. I have a feeling that it would free us to do better science if we embraced this view. I may be mistaken but that's where I am mentally.
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Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596
September 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596
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The Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference group at the University of Cambridge is seeking applicants for funded PhD positions.
Anyone who wants to study networks/complex systems/statistical physics/inference can email me at gtc31@cam.ac.uk
Anyone who wants to study networks/complex systems/statistical physics/inference can email me at gtc31@cam.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference group at the University of Cambridge is seeking applicants for funded PhD positions.
Anyone who wants to study networks/complex systems/statistical physics/inference can email me at gtc31@cam.ac.uk
Anyone who wants to study networks/complex systems/statistical physics/inference can email me at gtc31@cam.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. X: Fast Nonparametric Inference of Network Backbones for Weighted Graph Sparsification
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/4pg6-mtmt
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/4pg6-mtmt
July 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Phys. Rev. X: Fast Nonparametric Inference of Network Backbones for Weighted Graph Sparsification
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/4pg6-mtmt
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/4pg6-mtmt
Excited to see this out! If you need to identify a network backbone but don’t know how to choose the number of edges to keep, here’s a Bayesian solution.
Fast Nonparametric Inference of Network Backbones for Weighted Graph Sparsification link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
Fast Nonparametric Inference of Network Backbones for Weighted Graph Sparsification
Network backboning simplifies networks by retaining only essential links. A new method for doing so relies on Bayesian inference and information theory to accomplish this automatically, without the ne...
link.aps.org
July 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Excited to see this out! If you need to identify a network backbone but don’t know how to choose the number of edges to keep, here’s a Bayesian solution.
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types of network science papers
November 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
types of network science papers
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Are you a #postdoc in the US looking to next steps?
The Austrian Academy of Sciences is opening up 25 fellowships: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...
A great reason to use our visitor program at #Complexity #Science Hub @csh.ac.at and see how you would fit in: csh.ac.at/engage/resea... 🧪🦋
The Austrian Academy of Sciences is opening up 25 fellowships: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...
A great reason to use our visitor program at #Complexity #Science Hub @csh.ac.at and see how you would fit in: csh.ac.at/engage/resea... 🧪🦋
25 new scholarships for US researchers
Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: “The right signal in these turbulent times”
www.oeaw.ac.at
June 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Are you a #postdoc in the US looking to next steps?
The Austrian Academy of Sciences is opening up 25 fellowships: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...
A great reason to use our visitor program at #Complexity #Science Hub @csh.ac.at and see how you would fit in: csh.ac.at/engage/resea... 🧪🦋
The Austrian Academy of Sciences is opening up 25 fellowships: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...
A great reason to use our visitor program at #Complexity #Science Hub @csh.ac.at and see how you would fit in: csh.ac.at/engage/resea... 🧪🦋
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Are you from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...
If you are interested; get in touch!
If you are interested; get in touch!
25 new scholarships for US researchers
Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: “The right signal in these turbulent times”
www.oeaw.ac.at
June 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Are you from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...
If you are interested; get in touch!
If you are interested; get in touch!
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Nowadays, saying your lab is not doing AI (for something, or applied to something) is a revolutionary act.
#ComplexSystems
#ComplexSystems
June 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Nowadays, saying your lab is not doing AI (for something, or applied to something) is a revolutionary act.
#ComplexSystems
#ComplexSystems
Starting the SINM satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social with an exciting talk by Daichi Kuroda!
June 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Starting the SINM satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social with an exciting talk by Daichi Kuroda!
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And the code is live here: github.com/DynamicaLab/...
With @allard.bsky.social and the never-online Simon Lizotte (but you can find him at siliz4.github.io)
With @allard.bsky.social and the never-online Simon Lizotte (but you can find him at siliz4.github.io)
May 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
And the code is live here: github.com/DynamicaLab/...
With @allard.bsky.social and the never-online Simon Lizotte (but you can find him at siliz4.github.io)
With @allard.bsky.social and the never-online Simon Lizotte (but you can find him at siliz4.github.io)
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The Network Science Society has a new class of Fellows! Congratulations to the 2025 awardees:
Francesco Bullo
Guanrong Chen
Hawoong Jeong
János Kertész
Renaud Lambiotte
Philippa E. Pattison
Mason A. Porter
Eckehard Schöll
Sara A. Solla
Francesco Bullo
Guanrong Chen
Hawoong Jeong
János Kertész
Renaud Lambiotte
Philippa E. Pattison
Mason A. Porter
Eckehard Schöll
Sara A. Solla
May 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Network Science Society has a new class of Fellows! Congratulations to the 2025 awardees:
Francesco Bullo
Guanrong Chen
Hawoong Jeong
János Kertész
Renaud Lambiotte
Philippa E. Pattison
Mason A. Porter
Eckehard Schöll
Sara A. Solla
Francesco Bullo
Guanrong Chen
Hawoong Jeong
János Kertész
Renaud Lambiotte
Philippa E. Pattison
Mason A. Porter
Eckehard Schöll
Sara A. Solla
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The 2025 Euler Award in Network Science goes to Ginestra Bianconi! @gin-bianconi.bsky.social 👏
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The 2025 Euler Award in Network Science goes to Ginestra Bianconi! @gin-bianconi.bsky.social 👏
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The Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science is awarded to Federico Battiston! ⭐
May 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science is awarded to Federico Battiston! ⭐
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a thing I’ve noticed in my time in research: many people really want to believe that Data™ is some sort of magical object that contains objective truth
but the thing is, just like everything else, data is _produced_ via processes and mechanisms that profoundly affect the shape of the data
but the thing is, just like everything else, data is _produced_ via processes and mechanisms that profoundly affect the shape of the data
True story: Sometimes when people talk to me about “synthetic data” i just scream “WHERE DO THE BITS OF INFORMATION COME FROM” at them
May 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
a thing I’ve noticed in my time in research: many people really want to believe that Data™ is some sort of magical object that contains objective truth
but the thing is, just like everything else, data is _produced_ via processes and mechanisms that profoundly affect the shape of the data
but the thing is, just like everything else, data is _produced_ via processes and mechanisms that profoundly affect the shape of the data
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Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks - Nature Communications
Network alignment is a fundamental problem in several domains that aims at mapping nodes across networks. Here, the authors develop a probabilistic approach that assumes that observed networks are err...
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Finally, the preprint+Python package "neatnet" is out: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet
If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]
[Original post on datasci.social]
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet
If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]
[Original post on datasci.social]
April 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Finally, the preprint+Python package "neatnet" is out: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet
If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]
[Original post on datasci.social]
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet
If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]
[Original post on datasci.social]
I've been guest editing a focus issue for Journal of Physics: Complexity with @jgyou.bsky.social, @gcant.bsky.social, and Cate De Bacco on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks. See iopscience.iop.org/collections/..., and feel free to get in touch with any questions!
Focus Issue on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks - IOPscienceSearch
iopscience.iop.org
April 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I've been guest editing a focus issue for Journal of Physics: Complexity with @jgyou.bsky.social, @gcant.bsky.social, and Cate De Bacco on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks. See iopscience.iop.org/collections/..., and feel free to get in touch with any questions!
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Finished reviewing my pile of papers for a premier data mining CS conference today and then read their other reviews. Wow. They are utter garbage: largely superficial, thoughtless, and vague. We should be ashamed to call this #peerreview and inflict this misery on each other and on our trainees 1/2
March 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Finished reviewing my pile of papers for a premier data mining CS conference today and then read their other reviews. Wow. They are utter garbage: largely superficial, thoughtless, and vague. We should be ashamed to call this #peerreview and inflict this misery on each other and on our trainees 1/2
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🎉 Congrats to Federico Battiston!
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆
Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆
Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...
Professor Federico Battiston Receives the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- and Econophysics
YouTube video by Central European University
youtu.be
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎉 Congrats to Federico Battiston!
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆
Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆
Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...