Simplifier of things. bridgewalker. Island-person. Nets and Complexity. Prof of Biodiversity Theory. Former Prof. of Computer Science, Reader in Eng. Maths. Once a Physicist. Interested in art and language and generally making the world a better place.
It's coming ... will be fun.
NetSci 2026The torch has been passed! 🔥 As our final #NetSci2026 post, we're thrilled to welcome the hosts of #NetSci2027: SynoSys, Center Synergy of Systems, and Technische Universität Dresden. 🇩🇪✨ Boston was unforgettable, now it's time to count down to Dresden. See you on the Elbe!
#3/5 of our open Postdoc positions will critically examine mathematical modelling from a human angle and seek to empower people to discuss and question mathematical models. We believe that if models can be challenged in new ways, modeling can only profit. #human_progress hifmb.de/institute/hi...
HIPP 27: HUMAN PROGRESS - HIFMB OldenburgThe HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...hifmb.deThe second of our five new #human_progress postdoc positions will analyse maritime logbooks and other materials from the www.prizepapers.de dataset, a large collection of documents captured by pirates! Let's find out what they reveal about the oceans! hifmb.de/institute/hi...
prizepapers // Prizepaperswww.prizepapers.de#1 of 5 open PostDoc posts will study how the words we use reveal our thinking about the marine environment. Did you know that most prospective marine protected areas are named after sea-floor features? And, who has the power to name areas, species, etc? How does this affect the research agenda?
Thilo GrossI am so excited about this: We are doing a new kind of project with the aim of transporting knowledge and methods from the humanities into a natural science context. We'll have 5 full 3yr postdoc positions! I will post more in the coming week. But here is a preview: hifmb.de/institute/hi...
I am so excited about this: We are doing a new kind of project with the aim of transporting knowledge and methods from the humanities into a natural science context. We'll have 5 full 3yr postdoc positions! I will post more in the coming week. But here is a preview: hifmb.de/institute/hi...
HIPP 27: HUMAN PROGRESS - HIFMB OldenburgThe HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...hifmb.deI always thought that dark academia was a sub-genre of fiction. Anyway, this is worth reading ... merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism StudyThe myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in itmerenlab.orgThis was a fun project. Working with some old but very cool maths... #netsci people will like.
Rana ShojaeiVery excited to share that our paper with @thilogross.bsky.social , “Counting Chemical Isomers with Multivariate Generating Functions,” has been published in Network Science. doi.org/10.1017/nws.... #network_structure #multivariate_generating_function #Pólya’s_theorem #symmetry #moleculardiversity
We have a very attractive open position: Professorship in Coastal Paleoecology uol.de/en/job/coast...
Senior scientific director of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (A16) in conjunction with the Professorship for Coastal Palaeoecology (W3) // University of Oldenburguol.dePOSTDOC POSITION --- Bernd Blasius has just opened a PostDoc position to model viral evolution. The project is a collaboration with me Dirk Brockmann and famous virologist Christian Drosten, among others. uol.de/en/job/postd...
Postdoctoral Position in Modelling Epidemic Dynamics and Viral Evolution // University of Oldenburguol.deI see a bipartite network. (This is about arXiv:2602.16937 "Graphs are maximally expressive...")
Maximilian SchichBest served with Ballentine's Ale Beer: mathworld.wolfram.com/BorromeanRin...
This was a fun generalized modelling project with @janamassing.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @jdyeakel.bsky.social. Bacteria really need generalized models to make the maths fit properly.
Jana C. MassingHey math and microbiology enthusiasts! 🧮🦠 If you’re curious about bacterial cross-feeding and want to see generalized modeling in action, this paper might be right up your alley. Big thanks to @akfbio.bsky.social, @thilogross.bsky.social, @jdyeakel.bsky.social - I learned a ton from you all!
Very happy to be part of this project. My take on it is, hypergraph or network can describe the same systems and yield the same phenomena. The decision really comes down to if you want to work with matrices or higher-order tensors to explore these phenomena.
Leto PeelNew preprint w/ @tiago.skewed.de, @manlius.bsky.social & @thilogross.bsky.social! Graph edges define the interaction domain — functional form is free Hyperedges constrain by grouping nodes into subsets: special case, not a generalisation Multilayer graphs represent any hypergraph — not vice versa
→ Are you interested in multiscale phenomena such as the complex dynamics that arise in biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics when multiple spatial or temporal scales interact? 🧪 Then join us this summer in Groningen for the summer school: lnkd.in/gViS3cCZ
LinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedInlnkd.inThe rot is spreading ...
Christopher DornanJust a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.
Hey, new paper by @cleggtom.bsky.social and me is just out in @pnas.org. This combines a lot of things that start with B: Biodiversity, Bipartite Networks, Bifurcations, Bacteria, ... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... And yes, I know, Fig 1 looks like one of 'those' papers but please read on ...
Cross-feeding creates tipping points in microbiome diversity | PNASA key unresolved question in microbial ecology is how the extraordinary diversity
of microbiomes emerges from the interactions among their many fun...www.pnas.org