Where postdoctoral journeys lead?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03938

The prestige of a PhD-granting institution is well known for influencing faculty hiring and career progression in American academia. But what about the postdoc stage—what impact does it have on shaping academic careers globally?

Based on the data*, high-impact publications and mobility with a little twist over the research topic during the postdoc are key to enhancing your academic career. Surprisingly, the prestige of the institution you move to is less influential than expected. So, regardless of your success in PhD, your odds improve by making moderate shifts in research focus and location with significant shifts in publication quality.

*: The authors used a comprehensive dataset by combining publication records from the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) with career data from a major online professional network. Spanning 25 years and encompassing 45,572 careers from various disciplines, the dataset specifically examines the influence of postdoctoral experiences on early academic success—considering factors like relocation, topic change, and early high-impact publications.

Science Writing Fellow, Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine is looking for an early-career science journalist for its spring 2025 writing fellowship. This six-month program will give the successful applicant extensive experience writing news and features about one or more areas that Quanta covers: physics, mathematics, biology and computer science.

https://simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simonsfoundationcareers/job/Science-Writing-Fellow_R0001723

Two fully funded #PhD students and #postdoc at Trinity College Dublin

https://tahayasseri.com/join/

On the foundations of statistical mechanics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08709

The Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University invites applicants for a two-year #postdoc fellowship in simulation-based inference. The fellow will work with Prof. Cosma Shalizi of the department on developing theory, algorithms and applications of random feature methods in simulation-based inference, with a particular emphasis on social-scientific problems connected to the work of CMU's Institute for Complex Social Dynamics. Apart from by the supervisor, the fellow will also be mentored by other faculty in the department and the ICSD, depending on their interests and secondary projects, and will get individualized training in both technical and non-technical professional skills.

Successful applicants will have completed a Ph.D. in Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline, by September 2025, and ideally have a strong background in non-convex and stochastic optimization and/or Monte Carlo methods, and good programming and communication skills. Prior familiarity with simulation-based inference, social network models and agent-based modeling will be helpful, but not necessary.

https://apply.interfolio.com/159056

The Department of Statistics and Data Science and the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics at Carnegie Mellon University invite applicants for a two-year #postdoc fellowship in social network dynamics. The fellow will work with Prof. Nynke Niezink of the department on developing theory, statistical methodology and applications of models for longitudinal network data, with a particular emphasis on social-scientific problems connected to the work of the Institute. Apart from by the supervisor, the fellow will also be mentored by other faculty in the department and the ICSD, depending on their interests and secondary projects, and will get individualized training in both technical and non-technical professional skills.

https://apply.interfolio.com/159058

در جستجوی شادی!

یک بازی درست کردم، باید در میان چهره‌های غیر شاد، چهره خندان را پیدا کنید.
اول باید عضو گروه زیر بشوید:
https://groups.google.com/g/happyfacetime/

و بازی را از این لینک نسب کنید:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.HappyFaceTime

و من را در جریان نظرتان بگذارید.

🔸سمینار هفتگی دانشکده فیزیک دانشگاه شهید بهشتی

🔹جایزه نوبل ۲۰۲۴
فیزیک یا غیر فیزیک؟

👨🏻‍💻 سامان مقیمی عراقی
دانشگاه صنعتی شریف

📆زمان و مکان: شنبه، ۳ آذر ۱۴۰۳، ساعت ۱۵:۱۵ تالار ابن هیثم دانشکده فیزیک
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@sbu_physics

Zoom talk in the NetSci colloquium seriers

https://bsky.app/profile/netscisociety.bsky.social/post/3ladqlbpvpp2z

پیشنهادهایی برای دانشجویان تحصیلات تکمیلی
به‌ویژه برای سیستم‌های پیچیده و علم شبکه

تجربه من از دوران کارشناسی ارشد سیستم‌های پیچیده در دانشگاه شهید بهشتی و دکتری علوم کامپیوتر در دانشگاه آلتو چیزهای مختلفی بهم یاد داد. شاید بعضی از این تجربه‌ها به کار شما هم بیاد اگر که به تازگی دوران کارشناسی ارشد یا دکتری خودتون رو در زمینه سیستم‌های پیچیده شروع کرده باشید.

🔗 sitpor.org/2019/09/complex-gradschool

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The school “Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications” offers a succinct education in network science. It is open to all aspiring scholars in any area of science or engineering who wish to study networks of any kind (whether theoretical or applied), and it is especially addressed to doctoral students and young postdoctoral scholars. The aim of the school is to deepen into both theoretical developments and applications in targeted fields.

9th edition
May 12-16, 2025
Villa del Grumello,
Como, Italy

https://ntmi.lakecomoschool.org/

Spring College on the
Physics of Complex Systems

Deadline: 10 December 2024

https://indico.ictp.it/event/10821

"𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦"

Professor Jari Saramäki studies the dynamics of complex systems through temporal networks. His research combines theory and data to examine dynamic phenomena from social interaction patterns to the spread of information and diseases.

https://netsci2025.github.io/

Generating surrogate temporal networks from mesoscale building blocks
Giulia Cencetti, CNRS

https://socialdatascience.network/fall2024/sess3.html

Homophily Within and Across Groups

If you are looking for a network model that distinguishes between [local] homophily within small groups and [global] homophily across larger, more diverse communities, you shall not miss our new pre-print:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07901

How do similarities shape our connections—and what does that mean for spreading ideas, trends, or diseases?

Traditional models assume a simple rule: people connect with others like them. But our research goes further. We’ve created a model that separates local homophily—strong bonds within close-knit groups—from global homophily, the weaker links across broader communities. This distinction helps explain complex social behaviors and how they impact network dynamics.

Using a maximum entropy approach, our model quantifies these layers of homophily and their influence on networks. One key finding is that different levels of homophily lead to unique percolation behaviors—shifts in how networks stay connected or fragment under certain conditions. We also discovered that these interactions affect critical thresholds for spreading phenomena, from viral outbreaks to information diffusion.

By applying our model to diverse real-world datasets, we demonstrated its ability to capture fine-grained patterns in networks. The insights go beyond theory—they have real implications for designing better public health interventions, optimizing information campaigns, and understanding the role of community structures in amplifying or limiting spread.

So, if you are looking for a network model that distinguishes between [local] homophily within small groups and [global] homophily across larger, more diverse communities, you shall not miss our new pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07901

Open #postdoc position on spatial analysis and epidemic modeling in the framework of an interdisciplinary Horizon project.

https://www.isi.it/news/open-position-postdoc-siesta/

The Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a #Postdoc Scholar position in the research group of Prof. Ayesha Mahmud. This position is part of a new NIH-funded project titled “Novel Data and Approaches for Dynamic Modeling of Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Ecology.” The successful candidate will work on several studies focused on understanding how human behavior and demographic dynamics interact with climate change to influence the spread and evolution of infectious diseases.

https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04716

UCLA's Department of Mathematics is advertising for a new faculty member as part of the university's Hispanic-Serving Institution initiative: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10045

A cluster hire in the departments of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy

Deadline: 20 January 2025

a 3-year #Postdoc to join us at NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976