#Postdoc research position on network epidemiology - livestock infections

We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in network epidemiology to study the spread of livestock infections in France and in Europe. This work is part of an international collaboration.
https://iddjobs.org/jobs/post-doctoral-research-position-on-network-epidemiology-livestock-infections

Complex systems in the spotlight: next steps after the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized the fundamental role of complex systems in the natural sciences. In order to celebrate this milestone, this editorial presents the point of view of the editorial board of JPhys Complexity on the achievements, challenges, and future prospects of the field. To distinguish the voice and the opinion of each editor, this editorial consists of a series of editor perspectives and reflections on few selected themes. A comprehensive and multi-faceted view of the field of complexity science emerges. We hope and trust that this open discussion will be of inspiration for future research on complex systems.

📎 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ac7f75

Thoughts on complex systems: an interview with Giorgio Parisi

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded 'for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems', with half going to Giorgio Parisi 'for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales'. (The other half was jointly awarded to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann).

As part of this journal's wider celebration of the 2021 prize, JPhys Complexity Editor-in-Chief, Ginestra Bianconi, met with Nobel Laureate Giorgio Parisi to discuss his work on complex systems, his perspective on the wider field and advice for young researchers joining the community.

📎 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ac9171

Science in the age of selfies

A paper from PNAS describes what it takes to be a scientist today:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1609793113

Open #PhD position in #DataScience, #NetworkScience on clean, sustainable soils UTwente The Netherlands. Discover and validate links between species living in the soil with fresh data!
https://t.co/Ne7rEd731X

Deadline Mar 26

Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-the-way-to-bring-computational-knowledge-superpowers-to-chatgpt/

DAAD Funding for Iranian PhD students/postdocs
It funds a research stay in Germany between 3-9 months. Please circulate with people who might want to apply.

Deadline: 28/02

https://www2.daad.de/deutschland/stipendium/datenbank/en/21148-scholarship-database/?detail=57684919

#PhD in Network Science in Vienna, Austria! 🇦🇹

Application deadline is February 1st, 2023. (Next Wednesday!)
https://networkdatascience.ceu.edu/phd-program-network-science

#Postdoc in computational social science joint between Brown Pop Center and Data Science Institute. Application review beings soon: https://apply.interfolio.com/118922

When Does the Brain Operate at Peak Performance?
The critical brain hypothesis suggests that neural networks do their best work when connections are not too weak or too strong.

Video: The phenomenon of criticality can explain the sudden emergence of new properties in a wide range of complex systems, from avalanches to flocks of birds to stock market crashes. Neuroscientists are now seeking evidence that criticality is at work in the brain’s networks of neurons.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-physical-theory-for-when-the-brain-performs-best-20230131/

#postdoc Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity

The call for applications for 4 postdoctoral fellowships in Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity (MERC) at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples, Italy is now available at:
http://www.ssm.unina.it/en/postdoctoral-fellowships-calls-and-procedures/

Further details on the MERC research program are available at:
http://www.ssm.unina.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/MERC_scheda-bando-assegni2022_ENG.pdf

SFI Complexity #Postdoc

Requirements include:
- a Ph.D. in any scientific discipline within the past 6 years or completed prior to September 2023
- an exemplary academic record
- a proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- strong quantitative and computational skills
- a demonstrated interest in multidisciplinary research
- evidence of the ability to think beyond traditional paradigms

To apply: http://www.santafe.edu/sfifellowship

For additional information or assistance please email Melanie Mitchell mm@santafe.edu or Hilary Skolnik: hilary@santafe.edu

The program of the 2023 Beg Rohu summer school is out! https://ipht.fr/begrohu

The Probabilistic AI summer school is back, this year in Trondheim, Norway. Go ahead and apply!

June 12-16 in Trondheim 🇳🇴. → https://probabilistic.ai

(DL March 1st, but may close earlier if overwhelmed by applications)

"A tutorial on networks in social systems: A mathematical modeling perspective" (by Heather Z. Brooks):

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00801

در مورد این که همه دارن برنامه‌‌نویس میشن!

این روزها که خبر میاد که شرکت‌های بزرگ فناوری مشغول به تعدیل/اخراج تعداد زیادی از کارمندهای خودشون هستن، باز در شبکه‌های اجتماعی همه با فخرفروشی خاصی مشغول به اشتراک گذاشتن گواهی‌نامه‌های تموم کردن دوره حلقه‌های تکرار و تابع در پایتون و هم‌رسان کردن دفترچه‌های ژوپیتر خوشگلشون هستن. این بد نیست لزوما! بله بنده هم درک می‌کنم که مهارت برنامه‌نویسی چقدر مهمه. اگر اجازه بدین باید بگم که کارم اینه! بد اینه که با همون ولع قبلی که برای عمران، مکانیک و برق تبلیغ میشد حالا داره تبلیغ میشه که همه دانشمند داده بشن. چه خبره واقعا؟!

ادامه نوشته در ...
📎 sitpor.org/2023/01/coding/

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#سیتپـــــور به خاطر روایتگری در علم

#PhD opportunity project with Sam Moore and I to investigate vaccine distribution strategies in spatially-heterogeneous populations, using transmission models fitted to regional-scale infection data. Application deadline: 27 Feb 2023!

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/using-realistic-vaccination-models-to-study-spatially-reactive-or-proactive-immunisation-strategies/?p154673

9th February, 2023 (4pm UK time)
Arash Badie-Modiri
Aalto University, Finland

"Reticula: A temporal network and hypergraph analysis software package"

https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85666603994

Abstract
In the last decade, temporal networks and static and temporal hypergraphs have enabled modelling connectivity and spreading processes in a wide array of real-world complex systems such as economic transactions, information spreading, brain activity and disease spreading. Here, we present the Reticula C++ library and Python package: A comprehensive suite of tools for working with real-world and synthetic static and temporal networks and hypergraphs. This includes various methods of creating synthetic networks and randomised null models based on real-world data, calculating reachability and simulating compartmental models on networks. The library is designed principally on an extensible, cache-friendly representation of networks, with an aim of easing multi-thread use in the high-performance computing environment.

In terms of challenges, I will talk more generally about the good and bad parts of writing and distributing software by scientists for scientists. What kind of skills would be useful? How can a PhD candidate reconcile scientific software development with the classic expectation of publishing papers and getting citations?

If you want to come to Lisbon and collaborate, soon we’ll have a #postdoc position open at LASIGE.

More about LASIGE — http://lasige.pt
More about the research — http://andreiasofiateixeira.com