Together with C. Edling, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and @Lunduni_LUSEM, I am organizing a Nobel Symposium on Social Networks. Join the round table discussions👇(August 24, 2pm CET). Panelists include Matthew Jackson, A-L. Barbasi, K. Carley, Vittoria Colizza, 🇺🇦 [email protected] youtube.com/watch?v=p1P42n…

JMP🧵 Social networks help us deal with -ve economic & health shocks. But what if people worry about norms & do not ask for help? My JMP combines a RCT+ survey experiments+ structural model to show how incorrect beliefs about peers lead to silent networks bit.ly/475VrdX

The ninth conference on Network Science in Economics will be held April 19-21 at the U of Minnesota. Submit by January 24 via sites.google.com/umn.edu/nse2024 It's a great conference, especially for young researchers to get feedback on research and form new connections.

The Santa Fe Institute is hiring an Applied Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow to join a study of the interplay of social and economic inequalities, deadline January 16 santafe.edu/about/jobs/ap-…

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval. For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of

having been lucky to have Jon as a colleague, it's great to know that Stanford has such a smart, even-keeled, and forward-looking president as a new leader

What an amazing and unique path Gary's life took, with wide-ranging curiosity and energy. His constant humor and creativity stood out. Just as excited about research projects this year as when he was a grad student.

Congratulations to three scholars who provided new substance, structure and insights into the investigations of how institutions and governments affect their populations’ trajectories and welfare!

We're honoured to host Matthew Jackson at our ECORES PhD lecture series Université libre de Bruxelles this year. I'm even more thrilled to meet up with Matt again! There is still room to register for these lectures!

West Point cadets from slave states were more likely to join the Union Army if they had more classmates from low-slave states, from Yuchen Guo, Matthew Jackson, and Ruixue Jia nber.org/papers/w33093

An incredible opportunity for the right person: The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels For me, this has been the best possible job ever. More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/res…

I'm organizing a two-day summer school on networks (10-11 September) at Monash University where Matt Jackson (Matthew Jackson ), Sanjeev Goyal, and myself will teach a 12 hours course. It is free and anybody interested can apply here: monash.edu/business/event…