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George G. Vega Yon
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Chilean, Assistant Prof. of Res. at @utah.edu Trained at @usc.edu, @caltech.edu, and UAI School of Government. #sna #complexsystems #rstats #netsci (he/him/él). 👨‍💻🕸️🎸

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In Utah, we have been working intensively on Measles modeling. We have created advanced ABMs for public health in C++, R, shiny, and Python. You can learn more about the available tools we have deployed here: github.com/EpiForeSITE/... and reach out if you need help #measles #publichealth #rstats
GitHub - EpiForeSITE/measles: Repository listing all the measles resources and tools developed by ForeSITE
Repository listing all the measles resources and tools developed by ForeSITE - EpiForeSITE/measles
github.com
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🎙️ New episode of Knitting Networks!
Tom A. B. Snijders, emeritus at Oxford & Groningen, and a key figure in statistical models for networks. A journey from math to sociology, theory to method.
🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/2mrB...
@aespinosarada.bsky.social @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social
84.Tom A.B. Snijders
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November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻!
Secure your spot at the flagship conference of the Network Science Society and take advantage of the early bird registration special - www.netsci2026.com/registration
📅 June 1–5, 2026 | Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA
Join us as we celebrate 20 years of NetSci!
November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🚨 Final reminder — Applications close Nov 5!
The ChiSocNet Summer School on Social Network Research offers an introduction to network analysis with a focus on statistical models and hands-on work in R.
📍 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
📅 November 5 deadline
🔗 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In Utah, we have been working intensively on Measles modeling. We have created advanced ABMs for public health in C++, R, shiny, and Python. You can learn more about the available tools we have deployed here: github.com/EpiForeSITE/... and reach out if you need help #measles #publichealth #rstats
GitHub - EpiForeSITE/measles: Repository listing all the measles resources and tools developed by ForeSITE
Repository listing all the measles resources and tools developed by ForeSITE - EpiForeSITE/measles
github.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Join us today, Oct 29, at 11 AM MST for Dr Anna Fariha's #datascience + #ai lecture titled "Understanding Data through Change Summarization and Causal Disparity Explanations" 🕸️🎥🗣️🔬
calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...!
calendar.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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R^4 post #054: Faster r-ci Contimuous Integration via r2u Container
Accelerating Continous Integration at GitHub Actions
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10...
#rstats
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Thrilled to be a part of the 2025 Utah AI Summit! Join me for the Academic Research Experts panel: Shaping Humanity-Centric AI Through Academic Collaboration. We will explore how pioneering academic research is aligning technology with human values. aisummit.utah.gov
#UtahAISummit #ResponsibleAI
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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duckdb-mlpack 0.0.2: mlpack is now a duckdb community extension
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10...
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Learn, code, and connect 🌎
The Social Network Summer School 2026 (Jan 12–16, Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱) brings together keynotes speakers & ChiSocNet scholars for a hands-on week in R + network modeling.
Apply before Nov 5 ➡️ snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
@insna.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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🚨 Deadline extended! Apply by Nov 5
Join the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱
📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile
Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social @krivitsky.net
@franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, Diego Palacios, @gvegayon.bsky.social
💻 Group projects · Network models
snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Have you made a package on top of Stan? Do you have a cool trick to make Stan faster or create a fancy model? Would you like to make a guest post at Stan blog blog.mc-stan.org?

Send me a private message if you are interested (and note that with our current blog plan we don't have MathJax support)
The Stan Blog
blog.mc-stan.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🚀 New preprint alert!

“Advancing coupled behavioural-epidemic models: An interdisciplinary framework for the collection of empirical data”

🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Advancing coupled behavioural-epidemic models: An interdisciplinary framework for the collection of empirical data
Infection control requires integrating behavioural dynamics into epidemic models. However, models often overlook behavioural complexity due to limited empirical data. We adopted an interdisciplinary a...
www.medrxiv.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843
Job Market - Bocconi University
Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts
jobmarket.unibocconi.eu
October 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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📢 Last call! Applications for the 2nd Summer School on Social Network Research (ChiSocNet) close on October 6.
Meet our instructors - leading experts in social network analysis 🌐
👉 Apply now: snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
#SocialNetworkAnalysis #ChiSocNet
October 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is coming to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University!
We are honored to host a conference that brings together the world’s leading ideas, discoveries, and challenges in network science.

@nunetsi.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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My department @cuboulder.info is hiring a TT assistant professor in the area of environmental justice!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Please share and encourage candidates to apply!
Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice and Information/Technology
jobs.colorado.edu
September 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Join us today, Sep 24, at 11 AM MST for Dr Blake Vernon's #datascience + #ai lecture titled "Indirect dating with mixture density networks" 🕸️🎥🗣️🔬 @ucdsai.bsky.social calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...!
Kenneth Blake Vernon -- Indirect dating with mixture density networks @ UCDS+AI Lecture Series
calendar.google.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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
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#rstats 📦 {latentnet} 2.12.0 is now on #CRAN. It implements a long-requested feature for fitting count networks (interactions, co-occurrences, etc.) using a binomial model. Different pairs of actors can now have different binomial "trials". Full news at cran.r-project.org/package=late... .
cran.r-project.org
September 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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UK government* trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

* Department for Business and Trade

Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot: DBT evaluation report www.gov.uk/government/p...

#govtech #AIpolicy #techpolicy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
September 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Ever joined a Summer School in January? 🌞
Join us in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱 (Jan 12–16, 2026) for the Social Network Summer School!

Lecturers: @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, Diego Palacios, @gvegayon.bsky.social @chisocnet.bsky.social

Apply by Oct 5 👉 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
September 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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This is Manchis. She's the dog of Alberto Mesías Zárate, a journalist in Peru. When her human was targeted this week by criminals who threw an explosive device at their home, she barked at the perpetrators and successfully extinguished the dynamite before it detonated. 14/10 good girl, Manchis
August 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM