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🚨The Landry Lab (@nwlandry) at the UVA is recruiting a postdoc and graduate students🚨 The ideal candidates will be interested in network science, contagion processes, Bayesian inference, and software (see "research areas" on landry-lab.github.io). See below for more ⤵️

University of Vermont leaders believe that building the school's research muscle — winning more grants, attracting more high-profile scientists, finding synergies — is essential to securing the future of the university and its place in Vermont buff.ly/3Mqvr43

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06705 We are recruiting two postdocs for a new interdisciplinary NSF-funded project in collective behavior, working w/ me (UC Davis), Nori Jacoby (Cornell University), Dalton Conley (Princeton University), and Ofer Tchernichovski (The City University of New York). We look forward to your application!

Network compression with configuration models and the minimum description length, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Jean-Gabriel Young, Alexander Daniels, Alec Kirkley, and Antoine Allard #Networks @UVMcomplexity Laurent Hébert-Dufresne Jean-Gabriel Young Alec Kirkley Antoine Allard go.aps.org/3MAd6St

"Mental health IS health" PhD student Bryn Loftness delivers an impassioned TEDx talk on her research University of Vermont w/Nick Cheney, Ryan McGinnis & team youtube.com/watch?v=lvCoGD…

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congratulations to Jean-Gabriel Young on his new NSF grant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 "Altruistic stress, economic networks, and endogenous organizational change" nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

Our just-published review article about "robots that evolve on demand". With colleagues Frank Fish, Robert Baines, and TheFaboratory's director Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio. drive.google.com/file/d/1TszQY9…

Join us on 10/22 for a ground-breaking webinar: "GPTs are GPTs: How Large Language Models are Reshaping the Labor Market." with me and Daniel Rock Register: cwru.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail go.nature.com/4dx4qY7

Hard to overstate how pleased I am that the #flywire consortium converted our FAFB ("Full Adult Fly Brain") EM volume into a connectome, and that the resulting science has been (and will be) so impactful. Thanks to everyone involved.

General wisdom is that college gives students skills for good careers but what are those skills? In a new study led by Alireza Javadian Sabet in Scientific Data, we offer skills data based on millions of college course syllabi from US educational institutions. nature.com/articles/s4159…

A team, co-led by UVM researcher & UVM Larner Med Prof. Davi Bock, Ph.D., has successfully mapped the entire brain of the fruit fly! This groundbreaking advancement opens up new possibilities for understanding complexities of human cognition & behavior.⬇️ uvm.edu/news/larnermed…

Reconstructing networks from simple and complex contagions, Nicholas W. Landry, William Thompson, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and Jean-Gabriel Young #NetworkInference @nwlandry Will Thompson Laurent Hébert-Dufresne Jean-Gabriel Young go.aps.org/4ev0BUv

New PNAS paper led by faculty member Meredith Niles w/others from UVM including Laurent Hébert-Dufresne & Gillian Galford "Innovations through crop switching happen on the diverse margins of US agriculture" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Huge shout-out to Matthew Kling (Matthew Kling) for leading this part of a gigantic effort by Team Barracuda to understand diffusion of adaptations to climate change, especially in rural areas. Paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… More info on Barracuda here: biobarracuda.org

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New job posting: Please apply and/or share with your networks! I'm on the committee and happy to answer questions. Associate Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth apply.interfolio.com/157039 (11/15 deadline)

What if robots that clean rivers could be designed in moments, not years? AI2050 Fellow Sam Kriegman is advancing fully-biological, AI-designed “xenobots” that could one day do complex real-world tasks, imagined instantly. Read our Q&A: ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/sam-kri…

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"Self-reinforcing cascades: A spreading model for beliefs or products of varying intensity or quality" New preprint from the team arxiv.org/abs/2411.00714