When we think about gravity as a concept, we tend to go with our thoughts to Isaac Newton and his apple, but an idea of gravity as attractive force, was first suggested by Indian astronomer Brahmagupta in the year 628 CE. He called it "gurutvākarṣaṇ".

Important announcement 📢📢📢 ! Congratulations to @bastikusch and Francesco Lotito on becoming NetPLACE organizers! 🥳 We thank them for their help and friendly support over the past months. If NetPLACE has improved even a bit during this time, it is also thanks to these two Pals 🔥

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It can be incredibly difficult to find official sub-national shapefiles. Luckily, there are a number of sources that make the job easier:

Visualizing Science! I'm holding a series of free, online workshops, thanks to Johns Hopkins University. All are welcome! I plan to have fun with Danielle VanBrabant, Damond Kyllo, and Amey Zhang to introduce visualization topics and challenges. No art experience is necessary.

Great to finally see this published: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23… ! Lots more work to be done on this, but this is a first step to study public transport and its affordability in the UK. The associated Python package is openly available here: github.com/FedericoBotta/…

The networks of ingredient combination in cuisines around the world arxiv.org/abs/2408.15162

CRAB🦀 is almost there! Join us next Tuesday at #CCS2024 in Exeter (room: Lab 1) for the first edition of the satellite on Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour 🐜🐦🐒🦋🐳🐭🐙🐝 👇Look at the program ft invited talks by Nathalie Stroeymeyt and Sam Ellis sites.google.com/view/crab2024/…

"The overlooked need for Ethics in Complexity Science: Why it matters": new arxiv out with an amazing group of people from the whole world. I fully dedicated myself on this call for action, but we need you! Please share! More info on this thread 👇👇👇 arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02002

Great day yesterday at #PiFORUM24 🌈 So glad to see so many friendly people talking about math, research and life in academia! First time for me attending this event organised by The Piscopia Initiative - and already looking forward to the next one!

Here's a proof that Tolkien's Middle-Earth is not flat

Guys if you haven't been to 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼, don't take my word for it. Ask someone who's been. It's plenary only, smaller, focused. We're going to the 16th edition! Fortaleza. Check out videos on YouTube! If you go, spend more time there. Take a vacation! youtube.com/watch?v=sP6Zrx…

Our paper on inclusive 15-minute cities is now out in Nature Cities! I want to express my deep gratitude to Vittorio Vittorio Loreto, Matteo Matteo Bruno, and Bruno for an incredible journey. It was a long ride, but a very fun one, and we’re just getting started!

We are back 😍

🔥 Hello NetPals! This new seminars' season has started great, and it's already time to announce next week's speaker! We are excited to have Ariadna Fosch discussing the relationship between Oil palm and sustainability🌱. See you on 17th Oct at 4pm UK Zoom: netplace.site

It’s official. 👀 No more student discounts from tomorrow on.

Hey NetPals🔥, save the date for the seminar of this week!

A simulation of the dielectric breakdown model described in Fractal Dimension of Dielectric Breakdown L. Niemeyer, L. Pietronero, and H. J. Wiesmann Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1033 – Published 19 March 1984 Made with #python, #numpy and #matplotlib.

The most enigmatic structure in cell biology: the Vault. Often missing from science text books due to the mysterious nature of their existence, it has been 40 years since the discovery of these giant, half-empty structures, produced within nearly every cell, of every animals, on

Urban highways are barriers to social ties 🚧 In a recent PNAS publication, ANETI Lab member Sándor Juhász and co-authors Bokányi Eszter, Luca Maria Aiello (lajello.bsky.social) & M. Szell look at the 50 largest US cities and show that highways significantly hinder social connections ⤵️ pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…