📢 The NetSci-X 2026 Call for Abstracts is now open!
Submit your work and join us in #Auckland to explore diversity in network science.

📅 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 AoE
🌐 More info: https://netscix2026.github.io

@mluczak @ProfMSmall @droneale @danielapaolotti

New research featuring Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director @mluczak examines participation in the 2020 #StopHateForProfit coalition, a diverse social movement that operated online, and produced some successful outcomes → https://doi.org/10.1145/3689368

People who met me in recent weeks will know that I was quite occupied with the preparation of my inaugural lecture titled "Complexity beyond pure reason: On a quest to understand universal laws of change". It's now available to watch. I hope people like it and find something meaningful in it for themselves. https://youtu.be/G6AihORPHvg?feature=shared

Sometimes we have the ability to anticipate change, and sometimes change surprises us, because the events causing it were not statistically likely to occur.

In his inaugural lecture, Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director @mluczak will explore the complexity that gets revealed when we assume that everything is information → https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2024/08/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-markus-luczak-roesch

We're very excited to announce our first international keynote for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium! @jlovato is an educator and researcher in complex systems and data science from the Vermont Complex Systems Center → https://www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/

Excited that with Juniper Lovato and Joel Miller our first speakers for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2024 are confirmed. https://www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/ #cccss24 #cccss2024 #complexwellington

In case anyone is also over there: https://bsky.app/profile/mluczak.bsky.social #bsky #bluesky #twittermigration #twitter #ScienceMastodon #complexity #complexsystems

Registrations now open for the 2nd Capital City Complex Systems Symposium in Wellington next February.

After chairing the inaugural event this year I'm incredibly proud that we'll have a second even larger one next year. If you're interested in the science of complex systems, be it for your own research or for your work in practice (such as policy or intervention planning), please consider attending.

#complexsystems #Complexity #science

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/capital-city-complex-systems-symposium-tickets-714990254097

Ardern, #Trump, #Biden, #Bolsonaro, Costa, how did these leaders communicate during the #covid19 pandemic? We investigated if evidence-inclusive communication style of leadership tends to yield more successful outcomes in #crisis management. #values #psychology #nlproc #politicalscience #research #science #PublicAdministration #language https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2023.2246738

Just read "unsustainably low unemployment rate" and it makes me think we deserve to die out. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2023/08/24/New-Zealand-2023-Article-IV-Consultation-Press-Release-Staff-Report-and-Statement-by-the-538455

Our latest working paper "Conceptualizing the Evolving Nature of Computational Propaganda: A Systematic Literature Review" is now available as a #preprint at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4544686 #research #propaganda #socialmedia

"Aotearoa’s desperation for cheap, easy & temp. labour has turned us into the Dubai of the South Pacific, constantly churning out renting residents to live in Australia, & replacing them with migrants on barely-policed work visas" https://thekaka.substack.com/p/welcome-to-our-churn-and-burn-economy

At uni #research showcase presenting @c2Lab and some of our #network analysis demos, such as a dynamic network visualization tool for character recurrences in Charles Dickens' novels & a phylodynamics dashboard we developed during the early days of covid. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/itit-2017-0023/html https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021139v2 #NetworkScience #ComplexSystems #Complexity #NewZealand #Science #fediscientists #NZTwits #NZToots #NZtech

#GovHack in Wellington coming up Aug 18-20. Registration: https://hackerspace.govhack.org/events/wellington_aotearoa_new_zealand #GovTech

We have a PhD scholarship opening (fully funded) here in Wellington, New Zealand, in the area of veracity metrics over decentralised knowledge graphs using Solid (https://solidproject.org/). Please reach out if you're interested and please share widely with people who might be interested. #phdPosition #scholarship #phdchat #phdlife #knowledgegraph #computerscience #newzealand #research #science

Adding provenance to systems is costly & often ignored. Components & services provide functionality, but details on how this is achieved are hidden. Let's change that! "On Retrofitting Provenance for Transparent and Fair Software - Drivers and Challenges" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10189308

@neumarcx yeah that's true in a way. I'm just compensating my ambivalence about it all, because I can't decide whether it's better just to leave or not.

Just in case: https://bsky.app/profile/mluczak.bsky.social #bluesky #bsky #bskysocial #bsky_social

@neumarcx coincidence?

He puka arataki whakawhitinga tika | A guide to just transitions. Important document. Couldn't be more timely in the light of the changes in university sector. I am unsure, if people in charge of that change in various capacities a) understand that this is not a short-term funding issue, but will systemically change how independent science & research is enabled or not in this country, and b) are capable of the empathetic partnership approach outlined in this document. https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/economic-development/just-transition/just-transitions-guide/