Excited to share that our paper is out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🚀
🔗 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Joining forces between two fantastic laboratories @nplab.bsky.social @connectomelab.bsky.social 🔥
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Renormalization in the brain?
With @andreasantoro.bsky.social and @jesseba.bsky.social we're organizing a workshop at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social (Lisbon, March 16) on how coarse-graining principles from physics can explain neural computation across scales. nplresearch.github.io/neurorenorm2...
A screenshot of text from the WaPo article that highlights Betty Scarpino’s name and has a red arrow pointing towards her. There’s a picture of quilts from the show below the text. The text reads, “A rich display of ceramics by Katherine Po-yu Choy, woodworking by Betty J. Scarpino and a tapestry by Consuelo Jimenez Underwood — each one a state fair entry — gathers these works as evidence of the formative influence of craft fairs on artists, and vice versa. “
My mom, @bettyscarpino.bsky.social, has a piece going on display at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery!!!
The @washingtonpost.com mentioned her in their great review of the show.
She’s many of our biggest social media booster, so let’s show her lots of love ❤️
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Packed room at our satellite!!
Cobrain starting in room 18 @css-conference.bsky.social
Program here: kgatica.github.io/CCS2025-CoBr...
@jesseba.bsky.social @nicopedre.bsky.social @marilyngatica.bsky.social
And honorable mentions, Cosimo Agostinelli from @beyondtheedge.network will talk about higher-order dissimilarities, and @maximelca.bsky.social about higher-order dynamics and basins (paper here: www.science.org/doi/full/10....)
In the meantime, @poetz.bsky.social will talk at CRAB satellite (sites.google.com/view/crab202...) about recent work by Project CETI (www.projectceti.org) on understanding social dynamics during a sperm whale calf birth.
and Matteo Neri (again!) on charting the higher-order landscape (big lab output, preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)
Where Lorenzo Zaffina will speak about topological approaches to emotion in brain data in naturalistic stimuli (work with @andreasantoro.bsky.social), Marta Morandini on directional interactions in aging (with @brovelli.bsky.social),
On wednesday, @jesseba.bsky.social @marilyngatica.bsky.social with @nicopedre.bsky.social organize Cobrains kgatica.github.io/CCS2025-CoBr....
and then we double down with @jesseba.bsky.social talking about adaptive networks in a learn-relearning generalization task in rodents vs artificial networks (Biological networks #2, 2/9, with @scarpino.bsky.social).
We continue with Giulia Lorenzini speaking about evolution and integration of the hippocampus representation in freely roaming rodents (Biological Networks #1, 2/9, with @nicopedre.bsky.social and Giuseppe Gava)
We start with Matteo Neri (@matte_blacks on X) about Ok-information, an order-specific measure of higher-order information (work with @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social @brovelli.bsky.social, Human Behaviour session, 1/9)
Lots of NPL at @ConfCompSys 2025. Thread below!
“This is about modelling emergence, multiscale causality, collective behaviour..
this is not a side quest, it’s the core challenge of complex systems”.
Our first keynote @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening TopoNets @netsciconf.bsky.social with higher-order interactions for neuroscience
Our own @marilyngatica.bsky.social opening Toponets @netsciconf.bsky.social.
Really great overview of evidence for higher-order effects in the brain.
@xgi.bsky.social in the wild 👀
"Some say science is about truth, some say science is about curiosity, but it's really about the glory" - @lordgrilo.bsky.social starting off TopoNets at @netsciconf.bsky.social 😂
New PhD position open
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@jesseba.bsky.social from @nunetsi.bsky.social discussing joint work with @scarpino.bsky.social on network reps in a learn-relearning in mice vs artificial neural networks (while herself surviving music interference of a nearby Indian wedding :)). Literally context adaption live #netsci2025x
Another year, another edition!💥
Join #TopoNets25 at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht and send us your work on higher-order networks: structure, dynamics, methods, inference, software, topology, #TDA, etc.
📅 Submit by Feb 7th to give a contributed talk: sites.google.com/view/toponet...
Screenshot shows three papers connecting into a paper on the low-rank hypothesis of complex systems connecting to a neural network and collage of pictures of plants and animals
What do the predictability limits of epidemics have to do with limits on our us of AI study biology?
Tomorrow at 9am in Indore (1030pm today in Boston), I'm going to try and connect these dots during my #netscix2025 keynote lecture.
Tune into the live feed here: www.youtube.com/live/frY8luh...
#NetSciX2025 Day 2 keynote speaker Sam Scarpino discusses fundamental epistemic challenges and prediction limit in complex systems modeling
Prof Petri speaking with raised hand.
Our ability to identify mechanisms in higher-order systems is dependent on the observation scale (which depends on the network and dynamical model).
Prof @lordgrilo.bsky.social presenting at #NetSciX2025 on reconstructing higher order mechanisms.
CS2Italy in Trento is off to a great start with @mtizzoni.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social and a a packed room of computational social scientists! cs2italy.org
Università di Trento, @isi.it , CNR ISIC, FBK
Narayan Sabhahit from @nunetsi.bsky.social introduces a formal definition of network typicality by derandomisation (work with Krioukov lab and @scarpino.bsky.social) #netscix2025
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x630604a5a7dd18c93f90b8f44eff8dabf31ce02f/3/
Eigenvectors capture the principal structures shaping the dynamics of interconnected systems.
@plos.org computational biology we now demonstrate how they can be used to improve accuracy in network controllability bit.ly/40osgBK
Led by #PhD @MessaoudRemy
