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Dion O’Neale
@droneale.bsky.social
Complex systems & network science; infectious disease & spreading processes on networks; bipartite networks; people, places, things.
I like a run in a mountain and a beer.
Auckland, New Zealand
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📢 We’ve heard your requests! The deadline is extended to: *Sep 26 (AoE)*

✅ Registration is open & we're exploring a support fund for attendees.

🔗 netscix2026.github.io

@mluczak.bsky.social @ProfMSmall @droneale.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @gabridibo.bsky.social @netplace.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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📢 The NetSci-X 2026 Call for Abstracts is now open!
Submit your work and join us in #Auckland to explore diversity in network science.

📅 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 AoE
🌐 More info: netscix2026.github.io

@mluczak.bsky.social‬ Michael Small @droneale.bsky.social‬ Daniela Paolotti
June 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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In 2025, our new transdisciplinary journal, npj Complexity, invites you to explore, study, and play with life as it *could be*

Unnatural Histories is a curated collection for works on Experimental Evolution, Synthetic Biology, & Artificial Life.

Open for submissions: www.nature.com/collections/...
Unnatural Histories: Investigating the Improbable with Experimental Evolution and Artificial Life
This collection invite submissions that employ experimental and theoretical approaches to investigate life's alternative possibilities. Through this ...
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January 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Finally, finally
Here is the updated version of the Complex Systems Topic Network. I have also posted all the data and codes here: github.com/hsayama/comp...

High-resolution PDF versions are also available on GitHub. Enjoy exploration!
December 26, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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The story of the R number: how an obscure epidemiological figure took over our lives

Where did the data behind the Covid-19 R Number come from? What went well? What... didn't? What can we learn?

Final part free to read in @royalstatsoc.bsky.social's Significance

academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...
The story of the R number: How an obscure epidemiological figure took over our lives. Part 5: So what did we learn?
The Times “waved goodbye” to R on 8 March 2021. “You won’t be missed”, wrote science editor, Tom Whipple. He quoted John Edmunds of the London School of Hy
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December 2, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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🌟 Come work with us in wonderful Copenhagen on an exciting project on social networks!🌟

1 PhD and 1 postdoc position available.
Deadline 6th October.
More info:
PhD: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Postdoc: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
October 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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Have whānau heading to uni/polytech soon? Make sure they know they can get free meningococcal B and (if it's their first time in halls/flatting) ACWY vaccines. But only til 28 Feb so get in now! Let's boot this awful and potentially fatal disease off our campuses this year
January 24, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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Come learn and share with the best at NetSci2024!

Announcing Mark Newman for a special hands-on school session on probability generating functions and message passing in network science.

4 days left to submit a contributed presentation to NetSci 2024: netsci2024.com/en/participa...
January 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Come discuss new developments in network science at NetSci 2024 in Québec!

featuring Rediet Abebe as keynote speaker with incredible work on theory, fairness & inequality in social predictions, decision making, and machine learning

4 days to submit your abstract: netsci2024.com/en/participa...
January 19, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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Meet new people and join a great community this June in Québec at netsci2024.com

Science is a social effort and our networks shape our science.

NetSci 2024 will host long time collaborators Cassidy Sugimoto & Vincent Larivière who study social determinants of science!

Submit your own work today!
January 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Inhaled COVID vaccines stop infection in its tracks in monkey trials

New results hint at how to perfect ‘mucosal’ vaccines, which are delivered up the nose or down the throat.

www.nature.com/artic...
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Inhaled COVID vaccines stop infection in its tracks in monkey trials
Nature - New results hint at how to perfect ‘mucosal’ vaccines, which are delivered up the nose or down the throat.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2023 at 5:21 PM
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This is the real inequity in med school admissions that people should be concerned about:

“… socioeconomic privilege is strongly associated with medical school enrolment in NZ.”

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/1...
Socio-demographic profile of medical students in Aotearoa, New Zealand (2016–2020): a nationwide c...
Objective To determine the socio-demographic profile of all students enrolled to study medicine in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). Design and setting Observational, cross-sectional study. Data were sought...
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December 17, 2023 at 1:14 AM
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Apply now to work in Vermont this summer with me and the SOCKS team for a summer undergraduate fellowship in the science of online corpora, knowledge, and stories www.uvm.edu/socks/node/65
December 4, 2023 at 3:30 PM
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More good news! We are hiring a postdoc on the topic of detecting signals of belief and belief propagation in large-scale corpora for the Fall of 2024. Located in the lovely Vermont Complex Systems Center with our SOCKS team. More info can be seen here www.uvm.edu/socks/node/6...
December 8, 2023 at 3:07 PM
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I am very excited to be recruiting a Ph.D. student in Complex Systems and Data Science for Fall 2024 to work with me at the University of Vermont. I am looking for students interested in data ethics and computational social science. Please help spread the word! www.uvm.edu/socks/node/6...
December 8, 2023 at 3:00 PM
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i for one think we need to normalise saying "mostly done, just got two more issues to address" then coming back the next day with "almost finished, just three more issues to address"
November 20, 2023 at 5:12 AM
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Kia ora new Bluesky friends 👋 Join us in sunny Te Whanganui-a-Tara for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium in February → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/
November 20, 2023 at 7:26 PM
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Come do a postdoc with me! We're hiring a network science scholar determinants and consequences of gender inequalities in scientific collaboration. Learn more here and please spread the word.
Gender Differences& Co-authorship - Work with us!
We are currently soliciting applications for a one-year full-time post-doctoral fellowship with expertise in computational and network social science on the topic related to gender and collaboration. ...
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November 10, 2023 at 9:05 PM
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I have arrived 😆
Where is Emma Vitz when you need her?!! (Not on Bluesky yet…)
October 19, 2023 at 1:36 AM
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October 10, 2023 at 11:20 AM
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🗣️We are hiring a postdoc/researcher for my group (SUN) at Network Science Institute (Northeastern). Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? 👇

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
October 12, 2023 at 9:16 PM
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As good a time as any to announce our Translational Global Infectious disease Research (TGIR) Center has been renewed!

I'm still Director of our Modeling Core, but we have a brand new wave of junior faculty and even more faculty positions coming! TGIR AMBUSH!

Deets: www.med.uvm.edu/medcommunica...
October 12, 2023 at 11:49 PM
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This looks great!
Really nice resource for anyone teaching/learning mathematical biology
Thank you for making it freely available!
sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingm...
October 5, 2023 at 9:47 PM
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We're hiring a tenure-track (asst. or assoc.) professor studying AI and drug discovery/development!

The position will be jointly appointment in Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering, and the Institute for Experiential AI.

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant or Associate Professor in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Drug Disc...
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: The Bouvé College of Health Sciences has over 250 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading nati...
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October 6, 2023 at 2:13 PM