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G. Zamora-López
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scientist: complex networks. brain connectivity. dynamical systems.
@ics-cas.bsky.social – Department of Complex Systems
https://www.zamora-lopez.xyz
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G. Zamora-López @gzamora-lopez.bsky.social · Jan 27
I open a new thread for the series "Proverb of the day" that I used to post in another platform. For completeness, I will repeat in Bluesky many of the past ones. Apologies if they sound repetitive to some of you.
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morenobote.bsky.social
Postdoc & PhD positions
How intrinsic motivation underlies intelligent, open-ended and embodied behavior in natural and artificial agents
Apply if interested
sites.google.com/view/morenob...
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
gzamora-lopez.bsky.social
📜 "Advancing the science of consciousness …"

Very happy to see this one out. Philosophers, clinicians, caregivers, experimental scientists, data analysts and modellers cross-talking to build some practical consensus.
One of the most enriching projects I have participated:

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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chriskrupenye.bsky.social
🚨Job Alert plz RT!

Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!

We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals

Open-rank

apply.interfolio.com/178146
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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alexfornito.bsky.social
🔥🔥The Program for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now Available!!! 🔥🔥

We have an incredible line up of confirmed speakers!

Commuter registrations are still available, but places are limited.

Check the website for details:
www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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vinkozlatic.bsky.social
🚨 Hiring! The second Postdoc position @RuđerBošković Institute, Zagreb is open euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/387807 our project on complex networks, tensor & neural networks, & ML. Python, C++, MATLAB skills are a plus. DM or email vinko.zlatic@gmail.com to express interest! 📷📷🔬🌐
Contest point 9 – Postdoctoral Fellow
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group, Division of Theoretical Physics at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute is looking for a postdoctoral fellow for work on the project "Stochastic processes on n...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
gzamora-lopez.bsky.social
📣 pyGAlib 2.0 and PathLims 2.0 are out. So far, a much needed cleanup and updates.

- Dropped support for Python 2 😪
- New Python Packaging rules compliant ✅
- Compatibility with recent changes to NumPy ✅

Paving the way for upgrades, more functionalities and new packages joining the family soon.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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yyahn.bsky.social
Work with us at UVA School of Data Science!

@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)

datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
Join Our Team — School of Data Science
We are hiring faculty and staff to build a forward-thinking community with a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas centered around data science.
datascience.virginia.edu
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
Work!! 🚨

We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social

Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥

Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci

🗓️ DL November 1

Spread the word 📣

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab
Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.
werkenbij.uva.nl
October 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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gierschner.bsky.social
👉Also Sorbonne bsky.app/profile/sorb... pulled out of 'THE' University Ranking 👇

Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science!

#researchintegrity, #Chemsky, #CompChemSky
Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
sciencebusiness.net
October 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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enricocaprioglio.bsky.social
🚨 How do collective behaviours (high-order interdependencies) *emerge*❓

Can systems with low-order interactions do it?
What do these minimal synergistic systems look like?

In arxiv.org/abs/2505.246... we show when and how synergies emerge when no high-order mechanisms are involved.

Short 🧵: 1/N
Synergistic Motifs in Gaussian Systems
High-order interdependencies are central features of complex systems, yet a mechanistic explanation for their emergence remains elusive. Currently, it is unknown under what conditions high-order inter...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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complenet.bsky.social
📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference!

🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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drlaschowski.bsky.social
Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
jobs.utoronto.ca
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
gzamora-lopez.bsky.social
📢 I am delighted to announce that from Oct. 1st I will join the Institute of Computer Science (@ics-cas.bsky.social), of The Czech Academy of Sciences (@czechacademy.bsky.social).

I am very much looking forward to this new chapter in my career and life, and to work with my new colleagues.
September 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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maguilera.net
Our paper just out in Nature Communications!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We introduce curved neural networks naturally introducing high-order interactions showing:
• explosive phase transitions
• enhanced memory retrieval via self-annealing
• increased memory capacity through geometric curvature
Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds - Nature Communications
Higher-order interactions shape complex neural dynamics but are hard to model. Here, authors use a generalization of the maximum entropy principle to introduce a family of curved neural networks, reve...
www.nature.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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anna-beyeler.bsky.social
👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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wilhelmbraun.bsky.social
Reminder: our workshop at CNS*2025 next week about structure, dynamics and function in neuronal networks- please come along when you are in Florence.

sites.google.com/view/cns2025...
CNS*2025 workshop
Workshop description The advent of large-scale recordings and detailed connectivity maps, including the recent complete connectome of the fruit fly Drosophila, has provided an unprecedented wealth of ...
sites.google.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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yonicouderc.bsky.social
New group leader position in computational neuroscience @ Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, Bordeaux! More info here: www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/group-leader...

⚠️ Application deadline: end of September 2025

@neurobordeaux.bsky.social @neuromagendie.bsky.social
Group leader tenured-track position in Computational Neuroscience - Bordeaux Neurocampus
Neurocentre Magendie
www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr
July 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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kayson.bsky.social
Good morning folks. If you’re around #OCNS2025, maybe come by today for a chat about optimal communication in brain networks? ✨
July 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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torcini.bsky.social
‪ @gzamora-lopez.bsky.social @raphaelbergoin.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #compneurosky @mgiugliano.bsky.social #cns2025

CNS*2025 in Florence
Join us to the workshop "Population activity : the influence of cell-class identity, ...." organized with S, Olmi and M. GIUGLIANO on 8/9 July

doocn.org
DOOCN-XVI: Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks
Official website of the Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks workshop series
doocn.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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raphaelbergoin.bsky.social
Tomorrow at 11:30, I will present my current project: "Coherent and rich neuronal dynamics supported by different inhibition mechanisms" during the minisymposia MS4C Part III of the Dynamics Days Europe #DDays2025 in Thessaloniki
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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svalver.bsky.social
A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by
@rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.
June 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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imagingneurosci.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alicja Monaghan, Danyal Akarca, and Duncan E. Astle:

Brain wiring economics, network organisation and population-level genomics

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
June 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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svalver.bsky.social
Can the structure of knowledge evolve like life itself?

In our new MBE paper, we show that the Gene Ontology evolves through mechanisms shared with cultural and technological systems—reuse, modularity, and curator-driven restructuring.

Here’s what we found: 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM