These are a few of my favourite papers

My previous post on about potentially catastrophic cascading failures in multilayer networks was strongly based on the 2010 Nature paper by Buldyrev and colleagues. While writing the post, I realized that I do have some sort of thing about that paper: it doesn’t really connect to my work, and still this was the third time …

Waiting for the miracle IV: So long, Marianne and cascading failures

This is the fourth part of ourThe complexity view on Leonard Cohen series, written together with Milja Heikkinen. Well, you know that I love to live with you But you make me forget so very much I forget to pray for the angels And then the angels forget to pray for us So long, Marianne …

Waiting for the miracle III: It’s torn and network fragmentation

This is the third part of our The complexity view on Leonard Cohen series, written together with Milja Heikkinen. We’re back on our Waiting for the miracle series. Feels weird to write on complexity under this title right now! But well, in the piece, after which our series is named, Cohen sings Let's be alone …

Twitter conference time: #OHBMx plans

It’s Twitter conference time again! After three glorious years of #BrainTC, the brain Twitter conference is this year organized under the umbrella of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). As the conference will take place on March 20th, the equinox, it is know as the OHBMequinoX or #OHBMx. Similarly as last year, I’m part …

Waiting for the miracle II: Darkness and spreading phenomena

This is the second part of our series on The complexity view on Leonard Cohen, written together with Milja Heikkinen. I caught the darkness drinking from your cup. I said: Is this contagious? You said: Just drink it up. This time, let’s talk about something topical: diseases. Leaving alone the worrying news about the corona …

Waiting for a miracle: The complexity view on Leonard Cohen (part 1)

I have written this post together with Milja Heikkinen. It’s already end of January – but never mind, we still want to wish you all the best for the new year 2020! One evening last year, we were sitting in a French commuter train and listening Leonard Cohen’s The Future. After following the lyrics (that …

One more time: Complex Networks 2019!

Last week's Complex Networks conference in Lisbon was exactly as cool as I expected. Three days full* of outstanding talks, inspiring discussions, and meeting new people and old acquaintances. During the conference, I did quite a bit of live tweeting. So, this post is essentially a collection of my Twitter threads from Complex Networks. Check …

Complex Networks plans

Next week, it’s time for one of my favourite conferences: Complex Networks that this year takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. Complex Networks is a relatively small conference, meaning less difficult decisions between interesting talks given at the same time (although this year there seem to be three sessions in parallel instead of the two of …

To smooth or not to smooth?

I’ve written this post together with Ana Triana, and it’s based the our brand-new preprint “Effects of spatial smoothing on group-level differences in functional brain networks” by Ana, Enrico Glerean, Jari Saramäki and me, now available at arXiv. I’ve written quite a bit about how to construct a functional brain network from fMRI data. From …

What’s a scientific source?

Scientific innovations don’t come about in isolation. Isaac Newton, no less, stated that if he has seen further it has been by standing on the shoulders of giants – and he definitely saw pretty far. Familiarizing with research by others is an essential part of every researcher’s work. Scientific publications cite tons of sources: a …