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Maxime Lucas
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Physicist. Complex systems, networks, and data. 🍄🐋
@UNamur @UCLouvain @FNRS @ProjectCETI
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📣 "Higher-order Laplacian renormalization" finally out in Nat. Phys.!

Well done Marco and @martasolves.bsky.social for leading this one! 👏 Thanks to the great team with Francesco, Tommaso, and @lordgrilo.bsky.social

rdcu.be/ea16y
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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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Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
September 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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⚠️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
Postdoctoral Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Marseille) in collaboration with @alainbarrat.bsky.social. Join us to study higher-order brain interactions in causal learning using information theory and network science. More info
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Postdoc in computational cognitive neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
www.fens.org
September 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Come be my colleague! Happy to answer any questions about what it's like living in Charlottesville and being in the department.
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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September 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
July 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Thrilled to finally share a huge piece of my PhD project!
Our paper “The Topological Architecture of Brain Identity” is now out on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n
June 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🧠 Want to understand how different higher-order methods compare in brain connectivity analysis?

Check out our new preprint — a fantastic collab with past & present NPL members @lordgrilo.bsky.social :
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A thread🧵
June 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
@nwlandry.bsky.social fighting against vibes-based estimations of the convergence when sampling from the configuration model. Good content.

Bonus: @xgi.bsky.social viz
June 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our first keynote @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening TopoNets @netsciconf.bsky.social with higher-order interactions for neuroscience
June 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Learning from @maximelca.bsky.social how to be nice to people in science 🤣🤣 @netplace.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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If you are at #NetSci25, join us at 1pm for our @netplace.bsky.social panel on the topic of "Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression", with panelists @asteixeira.bsky.social, @maximelca.bsky.social and @captainkirk1041.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Tomorrow at lunch 👇👇👇
🚀 After a series of successful panels in previous years, NetPlace returns to @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht with:
"Science as a craft: Balancing career and skill progression"

🗓️ June 2, 2025 | 1:00–2:00 PM
🔗 Details: netplace.site/event/netsci...
Panel @ NetSci25 | NetPlace
Panel discussion on "Science as a craft, Balancing career and skill progression" at NetSci25.
netplace.site
June 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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🎉 Very happy to announce Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social as our next panelist! Maxime is an FNRS Postdoc at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems & UCLouvain in Belgium. He is interested in dynamical systems, complex systems, networks, and their applications to life sciences.
May 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Next week at @netsciconf.bsky.social -- it's time for another edition of TopoNets!
🗓️ June 3, 2025
📍 FPN Paarse Zaal

A great lineup, including keynote talks by @marilyngatica.bsky.social , Kwang-Il Goh, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social & Maria Pope

Full programme: sites.google.com/view/toponet...
May 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Tomorrow after lunch I'll talk about fungi 👇👇👇
🍄How do fungi balance efficiency, exploration & resilience?

Maxime Lucas will present underground fungal networks at Physical Network Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social !

Learn more:
🔗 sites.google.com/view/physnet...
June 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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PhD fellowship to work with me and Benedetta Franceschiello on the analysis and modelling of fast sampled fMRI data!

www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Doctoral fellow
www.ugent.be
May 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
📣 Commentary by @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social (thanks!) on our latest led by @thomrobiglio.bsky.social now out in PRL.

Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
April 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Would you like to engage in scientific communication for the general public? In Siena during @css-conference.bsky.social it will be your occasion! 4 scientists will be chosen and coached by Scienza Coatta to step into the spotlight of a big event-show-scientific quiz.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A (fun) night with Complex Systems!
This event should be a celebration of science, designed to bring complex systems research to life for a broader audience. With the support of La Scienza Coatta, a collective of Italian science communi...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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1/6 New work in PRE selected as editor's suggestion!

With a new hyperedge overlap matrix we characterize its impact on synchronizability in systems with HO interactions go.aps.org/3FfNGJ6

@santiagolaot.bsky.social, @federicomalizia.bsky.social, V. Latora, M. Frasca & @gomezgardenes.bsky.social
Hyperedge overlap drives synchronizability of systems with higher-order interactions
This study explores the nuanced interplay between the structural organization of complex systems and their synchronization stability, specifically focusing on the effects of higher-order interactions ...
journals.aps.org
March 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Our newest research in @nature.com

We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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This is result of several efforts from the Complex Systems Society to strive for fairer publishing and evaluating systems in academia.
cssociety.org/about/manife...
Complex Systems Society
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February 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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New online today: ($)

A diffusion-based RG scheme enables the study of scale invariance and universality in higher-order complex networks.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Higher-order Laplacian renormalization - Nature Physics
The renormalization group is a powerful tool to study the universal properties of physical systems. A diffusion-based renormalization scheme now enables the study of scale invariance and universality ...
www.nature.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📣 "Higher-order Laplacian renormalization" finally out in Nat. Phys.!

Well done Marco and @martasolves.bsky.social for leading this one! 👏 Thanks to the great team with Francesco, Tommaso, and @lordgrilo.bsky.social

rdcu.be/ea16y
February 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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#ClimateJob for a scientist (postdoctoral) contract at the Belgian Climate Centre @meteobe.bsky.social on the topic "Societal tipping points and social-ecological inequalities".

2 year, SW2 salary scale, Uccle (&collaboration with ULB - Ixelles), deadline 16 march 2025.
www.meteo.be/fr/infos/act...
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February 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM