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Giovanni Petri
@lordgrilo.bsky.social
Physicist. Topology, complex networks, neuroscience. Angoleiro and wine-drinker by passion. He. Professor NetSI @ Northeastern University London. PI @ Project CETI.
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REMINDER: big school on higher-order systems coming up!!!
Details down here!!!
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!
Higher-order interactions
Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks
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Another fantastic Turing Seminar last week! 👨‍🏫

Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social from @northeasternu.bsky.social and @nunetsi.bsky.social delivered a very captivating talk, Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It finally happened. I found a place in London that gives you your espresso within 30secs of ordering it. 🤯🤯
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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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The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @lordgrilo.bsky.social, who will deliver a seminar entitled 'Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.'

📆 5 November
⏰ 13:00 - 14:00
📍Biomedical Building, C42 at the University of Bristol

Find out more here: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Lots of higher-order interactions at the joint @beyondtheedge.network and RUNES workshop at AMU in Marseille this week. Thanks to @alainbarrat.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social!
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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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
Federico Turkheimer introducing the King’s institute for Human and Synthetic minds and opening the workshop
September 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Topological signal processing works! :P
Check out out latest one out!
Latest work at #EUSIPCO25!🚀
We bring Topological Signal Processing to the brain 🧠 — showing that edge-based approaches outperform classical GSP in task decoding.

Great collab with M.Nurisso & @lordgrilo.bsky.social 🙌
Paper 👉 eusipco2025.org/wp-content/u...

#Neuroimaging #SignalProcessing #TSP
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Latest work at #EUSIPCO25!🚀
We bring Topological Signal Processing to the brain 🧠 — showing that edge-based approaches outperform classical GSP in task decoding.

Great collab with M.Nurisso & @lordgrilo.bsky.social 🙌
Paper 👉 eusipco2025.org/wp-content/u...

#Neuroimaging #SignalProcessing #TSP
September 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Next week (on the 15th and 16th), with @yasserroudi.bsky.social and Federico Turkheimer we will organize a workshop on the "The Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds"

Please do join us!
(Registration is free but required for access/catering!)

lordgrilo.github.io/topology-nat...
The Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds - Workshop
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September 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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BeyondTheEdge at the School of Complexity on "Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks" by our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social and @gin-bianconi.bsky.social with @aliceschwarze.bsky.social, @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social. Great perspectives! www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bey...
BeyondTheEdge goes to Sicily
BeyondTheEdge researchers participated in the School of Complexity on
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September 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Rosemary Braun introducing organization in time of complex systems, with a really good slide. Love it.
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Lots of NPL at @ConfCompSys 2025. Thread below!
September 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Lots of NPL at @ConfCompSys 2025. Thread below!
September 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The #CRAB2025 🦀 programme is out!

Join us in Siena on Sept 3 at #CCS25 for the 2nd edition of the Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite 🐜🐦🦋🐳🐙🐝

🧑‍🏫 Invited talks by S. Melillo & P. Bartashevich

Full programme: sites.google.com/view/crab202...

@jbbrask.bsky.social @saraneven.bsky.social
CRAB2025
Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour Satellite @ CCS 2025 - Siena, 3 September 2025 Animal groups can be considered as complex systems of interacting entities (the individuals). The collective beha...
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July 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Two new labs at the Network Science Institute!

NET Lab in #Boston explores team networks advance the frontier of science.
BRAN Lab in #London studies behavior & mental health through brain, social, and environmental dynamics.

🔗 Learn more:
#NetLab bit.ly/46SqOv6
#BranLab bit.ly/4f13hu9
July 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
So it begins. Late and with screen problems but it does 🤓🤓 😂😂#cns2025
July 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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If you’re curious about how the shape of brain networks encodes identity and information, take a look at the full paper here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 10/n
The Topological Architecture of Brain Identity
Accurately identifying individuals from brain activity—functional fingerprinting—is a powerful tool for understanding individual variability and detecting brain disorders. Most current approaches rely...
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June 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This balance between redundancy and synergy, woven into each person’s unique topological scaffold, may offer a new lens on individual variability, and a powerful pathway for identifying cognitive or clinical biomarkers. 9/n
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Third: most intriguingly, we found that the scaffold's structure dictates its information flow. The borders of loops handle redundant information, while the connections spanning these loops exhibit high synergy. It's a beautiful metaphor: integration happens within the voids. 8/n
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Second, while FC fingerprints often draw from features confined to particular brain networks, scaffolds gain their power from inter-network connections. In other words, identity seems to live in how different large-scale brain systems interact 7/n
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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First, scaffold-based fingerprints achieved near-perfect identification accuracy (~100%), outperforming FC-based methods (~90%). Even more 🤯, they remained robust across different preprocessing strategies, brain atlases, and dramatically shortened scan times. 6/n
June 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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We tested this approach on resting-state fMRI data from 100 unrelated individuals in the Human Connectome Project. The results were striking. 5/n
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June 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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To better capture this richer structure, we use homological scaffolds. Picture incrementally building a brain network by adding connections in order of strength. As we do this, loops begin to form. The scaffold is made of all edges that participate in these mesoscale loops 4/n
June 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM