Richard G Clegg
@richardclegg.bsky.social
Academic studying complex networks at Queen Mary University of London and amateur scuba instructor. I do a lot of research using the Raphtory software for temporal networks, a fast efficient way to analyse network data:
https://www.raphtory.com/
He/Him
https://www.raphtory.com/
He/Him
Well, I'm in the office in plenty of time for this morning's staff meeting: a whole one week and ten minutes early.
February 18, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Well, I'm in the office in plenty of time for this morning's staff meeting: a whole one week and ten minutes early.
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I'd lead a crack team of highly skilled agents in to Poole Museum, from where we'd spirit away Bethan's Rock. After the international outcry, we'd return it unharmed, amid a series of high-profile, spectacular distractions featuring dummy rocks & Bethan herself.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/betha...
www.atlasobscura.com/places/betha...
February 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I'd lead a crack team of highly skilled agents in to Poole Museum, from where we'd spirit away Bethan's Rock. After the international outcry, we'd return it unharmed, amid a series of high-profile, spectacular distractions featuring dummy rocks & Bethan herself.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/betha...
www.atlasobscura.com/places/betha...
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🚨Deadline extension🚨
If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the TENET satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston!
📅 New deadline: 2 March
📝 Submit two page abstract
More info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft
If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the TENET satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston!
📅 New deadline: 2 March
📝 Submit two page abstract
More info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft
TENET@NetSci2026
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February 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
🚨Deadline extension🚨
If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the TENET satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston!
📅 New deadline: 2 March
📝 Submit two page abstract
More info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft
If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the TENET satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston!
📅 New deadline: 2 March
📝 Submit two page abstract
More info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft
I always enjoy making videos for @computerphile.bsky.social. Here I'm doing a continuing series about the network stack. Today User Datagram Protocol:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvb...
February 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I always enjoy making videos for @computerphile.bsky.social. Here I'm doing a continuing series about the network stack. Today User Datagram Protocol:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvb...
Lovely little write up on "the law of the unconscious statistician" about expectation values - in particular how we calculate say E[f(X)]. Honestly, I have been doing this for decades and not even known I was unconscious.
anastasiasosnovskikh.substack.com/p/lotus-the-...
anastasiasosnovskikh.substack.com/p/lotus-the-...
February 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Lovely little write up on "the law of the unconscious statistician" about expectation values - in particular how we calculate say E[f(X)]. Honestly, I have been doing this for decades and not even known I was unconscious.
anastasiasosnovskikh.substack.com/p/lotus-the-...
anastasiasosnovskikh.substack.com/p/lotus-the-...
The Women in Higher Education Network is one of the good innovations in my school at Queen Mary recently:
equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2026/01/26/w...
equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2026/01/26/w...
Women in Higher Eductation Network (WHEN) – Equalities @ EECS
equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Women in Higher Education Network is one of the good innovations in my school at Queen Mary recently:
equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2026/01/26/w...
equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2026/01/26/w...
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📣 Join us for the TENET satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston!
Following the enthusiasm for last year’s editions, we're bringing together researchers working on Temporal Networks!
✏️2 pages abstracts
📆 Submit by Feb 20, 2026
🔗 more info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft
Following the enthusiasm for last year’s editions, we're bringing together researchers working on Temporal Networks!
✏️2 pages abstracts
📆 Submit by Feb 20, 2026
🔗 more info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft
TENET@NetSci2025
tinyurl.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
📣 Join us for the TENET satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston!
Following the enthusiasm for last year’s editions, we're bringing together researchers working on Temporal Networks!
✏️2 pages abstracts
📆 Submit by Feb 20, 2026
🔗 more info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft
Following the enthusiasm for last year’s editions, we're bringing together researchers working on Temporal Networks!
✏️2 pages abstracts
📆 Submit by Feb 20, 2026
🔗 more info here: tinyurl.com/4zevnyft
I enjoy it when I find something properly crazy in tech that is a bit buried. In windows installed programs can put icons over files to show status in file Explorer. E.g. OneDrive has an icon it uses to show file is updating to network. Over the years more and more programs do this.
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I enjoy it when I find something properly crazy in tech that is a bit buried. In windows installed programs can put icons over files to show status in file Explorer. E.g. OneDrive has an icon it uses to show file is updating to network. Over the years more and more programs do this.
This week I learned that the German word for puffin is Papageitaucher which means parrot diver. Delightful.
January 18, 2026 at 4:53 PM
This week I learned that the German word for puffin is Papageitaucher which means parrot diver. Delightful.
A weird side effect of translation software becoming OKish: foreign language students rarely read a paper in the original language. Classic standby viva question "expand the acronym" leaves them stumped. "What does LSTM stand for?" They don't know as they never read that phrase in English.
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
A weird side effect of translation software becoming OKish: foreign language students rarely read a paper in the original language. Classic standby viva question "expand the acronym" leaves them stumped. "What does LSTM stand for?" They don't know as they never read that phrase in English.
It is good to see a political party engaging with voters by doing a cross over with The Traitors.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories for 'plotting to defect'.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories for 'plotting to defect'.
January 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
It is good to see a political party engaging with voters by doing a cross over with The Traitors.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories for 'plotting to defect'.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories for 'plotting to defect'.
The eternal UI dilemma:
"Are you sure you would like to cancel?"
"Continue or Cancel"
It's always a guess whether Cancel cancels the cancel and you continue and don't cancel or whether Continue continues to cancel and you cancel and don't continue. Today I rolled unlucky.
"Are you sure you would like to cancel?"
"Continue or Cancel"
It's always a guess whether Cancel cancels the cancel and you continue and don't cancel or whether Continue continues to cancel and you cancel and don't continue. Today I rolled unlucky.
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
The eternal UI dilemma:
"Are you sure you would like to cancel?"
"Continue or Cancel"
It's always a guess whether Cancel cancels the cancel and you continue and don't cancel or whether Continue continues to cancel and you cancel and don't continue. Today I rolled unlucky.
"Are you sure you would like to cancel?"
"Continue or Cancel"
It's always a guess whether Cancel cancels the cancel and you continue and don't cancel or whether Continue continues to cancel and you cancel and don't continue. Today I rolled unlucky.
Reposted by Richard G Clegg
the very, very old etymology of two computery terms...
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
the very, very old etymology of two computery terms...
@bridgecommand.bsky.social remains an amazing experience. Here's me at my science station worrying about morally grey areas in space. Not pictured, minefield, explosions, futuristic night club and space Lord Flashheart. If you're in London and sci fi is your thing this game is absolutely amazing.
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
@bridgecommand.bsky.social remains an amazing experience. Here's me at my science station worrying about morally grey areas in space. Not pictured, minefield, explosions, futuristic night club and space Lord Flashheart. If you're in London and sci fi is your thing this game is absolutely amazing.
Thanks for this @iaciac.bsky.social -- it's great to get short-form, easily digestible discussion of important trends in complex networks.
In a brief 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 piece, E. Valdano and I discuss recent progress in automated scientific discovery of governing laws for complex networked systems, where neural symbolic regression can extract interpretable laws from high-dimensional dynamics.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Discovering the laws behind complex networked systems - Nature Computational Science
A recent study shows that neural symbolic regression offers a route to automated discovery of governing equations for network dynamics across high-dimensional complex systems.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Thanks for this @iaciac.bsky.social -- it's great to get short-form, easily digestible discussion of important trends in complex networks.
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WiNS seminars are back for the Spring edition! 🎉
We’ll kick things off next Monday (Jan 12, 11 am ET) with Laura Fürsich from Linköping University, discussing segregation dynamics.
Follow us to stay up to date on our biweekly seminars and more!
We’ll kick things off next Monday (Jan 12, 11 am ET) with Laura Fürsich from Linköping University, discussing segregation dynamics.
Follow us to stay up to date on our biweekly seminars and more!
January 5, 2026 at 7:06 PM
WiNS seminars are back for the Spring edition! 🎉
We’ll kick things off next Monday (Jan 12, 11 am ET) with Laura Fürsich from Linköping University, discussing segregation dynamics.
Follow us to stay up to date on our biweekly seminars and more!
We’ll kick things off next Monday (Jan 12, 11 am ET) with Laura Fürsich from Linköping University, discussing segregation dynamics.
Follow us to stay up to date on our biweekly seminars and more!
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Curse the idea of a "Dead cat on the table" spreading, it means now every bit of stupid shit becomes in people's minds part of a bigger tactic, and not just some more stupid shit.
I've seen no less than FIVE takes now suggesting this is "just a distraction from the Epstein Files" and, seriously, stfu. Please.
January 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Curse the idea of a "Dead cat on the table" spreading, it means now every bit of stupid shit becomes in people's minds part of a bigger tactic, and not just some more stupid shit.
Completely nerd sniped. A friend was sucked in by McDonald's trap for neurodiverse. They give you two socks (4 possible colours crucially never a pair) with a meal. He continued buying meals until he had no odd socks. [He genuinely did it and now has 13 pairs of socks.]
January 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Completely nerd sniped. A friend was sucked in by McDonald's trap for neurodiverse. They give you two socks (4 possible colours crucially never a pair) with a meal. He continued buying meals until he had no odd socks. [He genuinely did it and now has 13 pairs of socks.]
Christmas board games. This is the most elaborate possible way to roll dice.
December 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Christmas board games. This is the most elaborate possible way to roll dice.
Completing the last of my Techmas family duties by finishing upgrades that were interrupted by people who helpfully "turned off the computer you left on".
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Completing the last of my Techmas family duties by finishing upgrades that were interrupted by people who helpfully "turned off the computer you left on".
Nothing says festive like Who villains in Christmas lights on a Yorkshire petrol station roof.
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Nothing says festive like Who villains in Christmas lights on a Yorkshire petrol station roof.
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Happy family-tech-support-mas to my fellow geeks who observe this fascinating holiday tradition. Scholars believe that today’s festive new phone transfers, Bluetooth hearing aid pairings and wifi extender setups date back to the 1980s teenager fixing the 12:00 VCR, and possibly even further.
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy family-tech-support-mas to my fellow geeks who observe this fascinating holiday tradition. Scholars believe that today’s festive new phone transfers, Bluetooth hearing aid pairings and wifi extender setups date back to the 1980s teenager fixing the 12:00 VCR, and possibly even further.
Meeting my PhD supervisors. Although my PhD was more than two decades ago I am still feeling an obligation to show I did reasonable work since our last meeting.
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Meeting my PhD supervisors. Although my PhD was more than two decades ago I am still feeling an obligation to show I did reasonable work since our last meeting.
There is a particular "I don't want to be trouble" thing some people do which I am genuinely at limits with right now. "Caf or decaf coffee?" "Whichever you are making." (It is instant coffee, it causes no inconvenience to pick one.)
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
There is a particular "I don't want to be trouble" thing some people do which I am genuinely at limits with right now. "Caf or decaf coffee?" "Whichever you are making." (It is instant coffee, it causes no inconvenience to pick one.)
Christmas and the annual sorting of family IT issues. Dad's computer has "become old fashioned looking" (monitor is set to a low resolution). Auntie's neighbour "put a fish stick in my TV" (it's a fire stick).
December 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Christmas and the annual sorting of family IT issues. Dad's computer has "become old fashioned looking" (monitor is set to a low resolution). Auntie's neighbour "put a fish stick in my TV" (it's a fire stick).