Minsuk Kim
@danielhankim.bsky.social
Informatics PhD Candidate at Indiana University
Network Science, Complex systems, Infrastructure, and Human mobility
https://sites.google.com/view/danielhankim/home
Network Science, Complex systems, Infrastructure, and Human mobility
https://sites.google.com/view/danielhankim/home
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Two variants of the friendship paradox: The condition for inequality between them arxiv.org/abs/2511.06176 a small experimental scientific communication project, encouraged by @socph.bsky.social
Two variants of the friendship paradox: The condition for inequality between them
The friendship paradox -- the observation that, on average, one's friends have more friends than oneself -- admits two common formulations depending on whether averaging is performed over edges or ove...
arxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Two variants of the friendship paradox: The condition for inequality between them arxiv.org/abs/2511.06176 a small experimental scientific communication project, encouraged by @socph.bsky.social
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I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026!
We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation?
Want to answer these questions? details below!
We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation?
Want to answer these questions? details below!
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026!
We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation?
Want to answer these questions? details below!
We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation?
Want to answer these questions? details below!
Reposted by Minsuk Kim
Interested in how LLM tools are being creatively used for good?
Check out this map of LLM Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion.
Bonus: link to a public dataset of 70+ tools is included in the first page of the report.
Check out this map of LLM Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion.
Bonus: link to a public dataset of 70+ tools is included in the first page of the report.
Report: Mapping LLM Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion
Announcing a map produced by participants in the LLMs for Public Discourse convening
www.prosocialdesign.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Interested in how LLM tools are being creatively used for good?
Check out this map of LLM Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion.
Bonus: link to a public dataset of 70+ tools is included in the first page of the report.
Check out this map of LLM Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion.
Bonus: link to a public dataset of 70+ tools is included in the first page of the report.
Reposted by Minsuk Kim
When you randomize a weighted network, be careful! Results may depend on the unit used for the weights, particularly when you want to know if they are statistically significant. Check our paper, just out on the arXiv. @skojaku.bsky.social @filipisilva.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23964
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23964
Scale invariance and statistical significance in complex weighted networks
Most networks encountered in nature, society, and technology have weighted edges, representing the strength of the interaction/association between their vertices. Randomizing the structure of a networ...
arxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
When you randomize a weighted network, be careful! Results may depend on the unit used for the weights, particularly when you want to know if they are statistically significant. Check our paper, just out on the arXiv. @skojaku.bsky.social @filipisilva.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23964
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23964
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The Physics of News, Rumors, and Opinions arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053
The Physics of News, Rumors, and Opinions
The boundaries between physical and social networks have narrowed with the advent of the Internet and its pervasive platforms. This has given rise to a complex adaptive information ecosystem where ind...
arxiv.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The Physics of News, Rumors, and Opinions arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053
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Dynamical Phase Transitions in Nonequilibrium Networks link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
Dynamical Phase Transitions in Nonequilibrium Networks
Dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) characterize critical changes in system behavior occurring at finite times, providing a lens to study nonequilibrium phenomena beyond conventional equilibrium physic...
link.aps.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Dynamical Phase Transitions in Nonequilibrium Networks link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
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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
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...
Reposted by Minsuk Kim
New preprint! 🚀 We ask: What happens when you bring human team science into the design of multi-agent LLM systems? In particular, how do team structure, diversity, and interaction dynamics influence how AI agents collaborate?
📄Full Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07488
👩💻Code: github.com/Rasikamurali...
📄Full Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07488
👩💻Code: github.com/Rasikamurali...
October 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New preprint! 🚀 We ask: What happens when you bring human team science into the design of multi-agent LLM systems? In particular, how do team structure, diversity, and interaction dynamics influence how AI agents collaborate?
📄Full Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07488
👩💻Code: github.com/Rasikamurali...
📄Full Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07488
👩💻Code: github.com/Rasikamurali...
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Modeling the spatial growth of cities arxiv.org/abs/2510.03045
Modeling the spatial growth of cities
The growth of cities has traditionally been studied from a population perspective, while urban sprawl - its spatial growth - has often been approached qualitatively. However, characterizing and modeli...
arxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Modeling the spatial growth of cities arxiv.org/abs/2510.03045
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One of the time-consuming tasks in paper writing is to curate bibtex for references. So I automated bibtex curation with an Alfred app that fetches entries from dx.doi.org using DOI or title. It saves time, reduces errors, and maintains consistent LaTeX keys. github.com/skojaku/tobi...
GitHub - skojaku/tobibtex
Contribute to skojaku/tobibtex development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
One of the time-consuming tasks in paper writing is to curate bibtex for references. So I automated bibtex curation with an Alfred app that fetches entries from dx.doi.org using DOI or title. It saves time, reduces errors, and maintains consistent LaTeX keys. github.com/skojaku/tobi...
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Network connectivity analysis via shortest paths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03230
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03230
September 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Network connectivity analysis via shortest paths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03230
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03230
Strikingly, the shortest-path percolation homogenizes scale-free networks before the phase transition, resulting in the same universality class as the Erdős–Rényi Networks!
Check out our new preprint on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.09142
Check out our new preprint on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.09142
Shortest-path percolation on scale-free networks
The shortest-path percolation (SPP) model aims at describing the consumption, and eventual exhaustion, of a network's resources. Starting from a graph containing a macroscopic connected component, ran...
arxiv.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Strikingly, the shortest-path percolation homogenizes scale-free networks before the phase transition, resulting in the same universality class as the Erdős–Rényi Networks!
Check out our new preprint on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.09142
Check out our new preprint on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.09142
Q: How are resources consumed in transportation networks, and how does this shape the overall functioning of the system?
We introduce the minimum-cost percolation framework and apply it to the U.S. air transportation system using publicly available data.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We introduce the minimum-cost percolation framework and apply it to the U.S. air transportation system using publicly available data.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Modeling resource consumption in the US air transportation system via minimum-cost percolation - Nature Communications
Percolation frameworks have been used to characterize the robustness of infrastructural networks. Here, authors introduce a percolation-based framework to study resource consumption and network effect...
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Q: How are resources consumed in transportation networks, and how does this shape the overall functioning of the system?
We introduce the minimum-cost percolation framework and apply it to the U.S. air transportation system using publicly available data.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We introduce the minimum-cost percolation framework and apply it to the U.S. air transportation system using publicly available data.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy to share this long-overdue project! We found that many real-world event sequences follow a surprisingly similar hierarchically structured pattern, and that multi-timescale memory mechanisms can explain this pattern. Feedback welcome!
arxiv.org/abs/2508.18281
arxiv.org/abs/2508.18281
Hierarchical organization of bursty trains in event sequences
Temporal sequences of discrete events that describe natural and social processes are often driven by non-Poisson dynamics. In addition to a heavy-tailed interevent time distribution, which primarily c...
arxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Happy to share this long-overdue project! We found that many real-world event sequences follow a surprisingly similar hierarchically structured pattern, and that multi-timescale memory mechanisms can explain this pattern. Feedback welcome!
arxiv.org/abs/2508.18281
arxiv.org/abs/2508.18281
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🧮 ~8M nodes, 330M relationships across family, household, school & work.
🇸🇪 We constructed a multilayer population-scale network for Sweden, capturing distinct features of the country.
📝 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
cc: @ingakwoh.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social ++
🇸🇪 We constructed a multilayer population-scale network for Sweden, capturing distinct features of the country.
📝 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
cc: @ingakwoh.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social ++
Anatomy of a Swedish population-scale network - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Anatomy of a Swedish population-scale network
doi.org
August 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🧮 ~8M nodes, 330M relationships across family, household, school & work.
🇸🇪 We constructed a multilayer population-scale network for Sweden, capturing distinct features of the country.
📝 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
cc: @ingakwoh.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social ++
🇸🇪 We constructed a multilayer population-scale network for Sweden, capturing distinct features of the country.
📝 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
cc: @ingakwoh.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social ++
Reposted by Minsuk Kim
The psychophysics of style www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The psychophysics of style - Nature Human Behaviour
Drawing on methods from psychophysics across ten experiments, Boger and Firestone examine the cognitive and computational foundations of style perception. Their findings suggest that this capacity is ...
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The psychophysics of style www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Trade-Off between Directness and Coverage in Transport Network Growth arxiv.org/abs/2507.13005
The Trade-Off between Directness and Coverage in Transport Network Growth
Designing spatial networks, such as transport networks, commonly deals with the problem of how to best connect a set of locations through a set of links. In practice, it can be crucial to order the im...
arxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The Trade-Off between Directness and Coverage in Transport Network Growth arxiv.org/abs/2507.13005
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New paper in PNAS!🎉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Is herd immunity to infectious diseases effective when induced by natural infection? Earlier studies have suggested that population heterogeneity makes disease-induced herd immunity more effective than previously thought. Our work challenges this notion.
Is herd immunity to infectious diseases effective when induced by natural infection? Earlier studies have suggested that population heterogeneity makes disease-induced herd immunity more effective than previously thought. Our work challenges this notion.
Strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity in networks | PNAS
When a fraction of a population becomes immune to an infectious disease, the population-wide
infection risk decreases nonlinearly due to collective...
doi.org
July 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New paper in PNAS!🎉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Is herd immunity to infectious diseases effective when induced by natural infection? Earlier studies have suggested that population heterogeneity makes disease-induced herd immunity more effective than previously thought. Our work challenges this notion.
Is herd immunity to infectious diseases effective when induced by natural infection? Earlier studies have suggested that population heterogeneity makes disease-induced herd immunity more effective than previously thought. Our work challenges this notion.
Reposted by Minsuk Kim
🚀Ready to shape the future of #NetworkScience?
Submit to #ComplexNetworks2025!
📅Dec 9–11, Binghamton, NY 🇺🇸
📄 Full Papers & Extended Abstracts
⏳ Deadline: Sept 2, 2025
👉 complexnetworks.org/submission/
#ComplexSystems #CallForPapers #ComplexNetworks
Submit to #ComplexNetworks2025!
📅Dec 9–11, Binghamton, NY 🇺🇸
📄 Full Papers & Extended Abstracts
⏳ Deadline: Sept 2, 2025
👉 complexnetworks.org/submission/
#ComplexSystems #CallForPapers #ComplexNetworks
July 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚀Ready to shape the future of #NetworkScience?
Submit to #ComplexNetworks2025!
📅Dec 9–11, Binghamton, NY 🇺🇸
📄 Full Papers & Extended Abstracts
⏳ Deadline: Sept 2, 2025
👉 complexnetworks.org/submission/
#ComplexSystems #CallForPapers #ComplexNetworks
Submit to #ComplexNetworks2025!
📅Dec 9–11, Binghamton, NY 🇺🇸
📄 Full Papers & Extended Abstracts
⏳ Deadline: Sept 2, 2025
👉 complexnetworks.org/submission/
#ComplexSystems #CallForPapers #ComplexNetworks
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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
🚨🚨 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
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Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility arxiv.org/abs/2405.08746
Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility
Driven by access to large volumes of movement data, the study of human mobility has grown rapidly over the past decades. The field has shown that human mobility is scale-free, proposed models to gener...
arxiv.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility arxiv.org/abs/2405.08746
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Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization arxiv.org/abs/2501.05590
Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization
Human interactions in the online world comprise a combination of positive and negative exchanges. These diverse interactions can be captured using signed network representations, where edges take posi...
arxiv.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization arxiv.org/abs/2501.05590
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Geometric Criticality in Scale-Invariant Networks arxiv.org/abs/2507.11348
Geometric Criticality in Scale-Invariant Networks
Dimension in physical systems determines universal properties at criticality. Yet, the impact of structural perturbations on dimensionality remains largely unexplored. Here, we characterize the attrac...
arxiv.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Geometric Criticality in Scale-Invariant Networks arxiv.org/abs/2507.11348
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Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503
Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides
Migration is central in various societal problems related to socioeconomic development. While much of the existing research has focused on international migration, migration patterns within a single c...
arxiv.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503
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Deterministic simplicial complexes arxiv.org/abs/2507.07402
Deterministic simplicial complexes
We investigate simplicial complexes deterministically growing from a single vertex. In the first step, a vertex and an edge connecting it to the primordial vertex are added. The resulting simplicial c...
arxiv.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Deterministic simplicial complexes arxiv.org/abs/2507.07402