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Research from Professor Daniel Abrams highlights the different ways that in-person events foster community building and collaboration compared to virtual conferences, which still have value. spr.ly/6016aEWR4

Northwestern tgsatnu Northwestern University Physics and Astronomy Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine A reminder, NICO can be found on other social media platforms as well. Please follow us on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/nicoat… Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/nicoat… YouTube: youtube.com/@nicoatnu and Facebook: bit.ly/nico-facebook

Super cool opportunity to work with two brilliant scientists and fantastic mentors Matt Groh Dashun Wang 🌟🌟 Come work with us NICO Kellogg School ! Feel free to reach out!

This week, we are kicking off our spring speaker series with Sourav Medya from UIC CS Department, exploring how #AI can be harnessed to enhance the patent process. Join us in Chambers Hall or online via Zoom. 🗓️ Wed 4/9 at 12pm US Central 🔗 Full speaker schedule: bit.ly/WedatNICO

In many ways, learning involves building layers upon layers of knowledge and expertise. It turns out that the depth of these layers and their interdependencies are crucial. In our paper in Nature Human Behaviour, we first identify these skill layers, then analyze how their structural...

This Wednesday, NICO is thrilled to host 🇺🇦 [email protected] from Northeastern U. to discuss the emergent and sometimes paradoxical logic of the internet news ecosystem. Join us in person in Chambers Hall or online via Zoom. 🗓️ Wed 4/23 at 12pm US Central 🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO

David Lazer’s in the house. #DavidLazer

🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science! We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science. Four years in the making. Led by Zander Furnas 1/n

This Wednesday! NICO is excited to host Nicole Woitowich from NUCATS Institute to explore the biomedical research enterprise from a science of science perspective. Join us in person in Chambers Hall or online via Zoom. 🗓️Wed 4/30 at 12pm US Central 🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO

Brian Uzzi Among Nine Northwestern Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations, Brian Uzzi! mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/…

Today! NICO is thrilled to host Diego Gómez Zará from University of Notre Dame (and a SONIC Research Group and CSSI alumnus), to discuss how female-led teams drive breakthrough ideas in science. Join us in the Kellogg Global Hub or online via Zoom. 🗓️Wed 5/7 at 12pm US Central 🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO

This Wednesday, NICO is thrilled to once again host Lightning Talks! This term we are lucky to have three amazing researchers from NICO, Kellogg, and McCormick Engineering. Join us in Chambers Hall or online via Zoom. 🗓️ Wed 5/14 at 12pm US Central 🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO

Living systems exhibit surprising and beautiful self-organization at all scales. This Wed, Rosemary Braun joins us to discuss research that bridges the scales, presenting challenges and opportunities for the future. 🗓️ Wed 5/21 at 12pm US Central 🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO

🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share our latest on nature today: The PIVOT PENALTY in research. nature.com/articles/s4158… More than five years in the making. Key finding: The impact of new research steeply declines the further a researcher moves from their previous work.

This Thursday! Join us at NICO for the final Data Science Night of the spring term. This month, we are hosting Reese Richardson of the Amaral Lab to discuss how #DataScience can help us understand the academic black market. bit.ly/nico-dsn

Here’s to you, #NU2025! 🎓 A sea of purple filled the United Center at Commencement to celebrate the Northwestern Class of 2025. We’re so proud of you, ‘Cats—you’re officially Northwestern Alumni! 💜

"AI identifies key gene sets that cause complex disease" news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/0… Nice news article on our new approach to identify gene sets involved in polygenic traits & how it can serve as a tool to for the development of new multi-target treatments for complex diseases.

How do we reliably judge if AI companions are performing well on subjective, context-dependent, and deeply human tasks? 🤖 Excited to share the first paper from my postdoc (!!) investigating when LLMs are reliable judges - with empathic communication as a case study 🧐 🧵👇