foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
GW241011 and GW241110 - Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-spin #BlackHole Coalescences: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0d54 -> Colliding black holes might have formed from earlier cosmic smashups: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/colliding-black-holes-might-have-formed-from-earlier-cosmic-smashups and https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20251028 and https://www.ozgrav.org/news/twin-black-hole-mergers-reveal-secrets-of-cosmic-evolution/ - two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution -> Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before: https://aasnova.org/2025/10/28/not-their-first-rodeo-gravitational-wave-detectors-spot-merging-black-holes-that-have-merged-before/
Despite a federal hiring freeze,
the Trump administration just appointed Kyle Walsh, who calls Vance one of his “closest friends”
to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm
There was no job announcement,
no search committee to identify top candidates,
no interviews or reference checks.
The position to lead the nation’s premier environmental health research institute wasn’t even open.
Yet Jay Bhattacharya,
a political appointee …
"Insect-Friendly Agriculture Helps UK Watercress Farm Thrive"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Farming
Was @… über die Bücher der Boomer schreibt, echot in meinem Erfahrungsraum.
https://www.buddenbohm-und-soehne.de/2025/10/28/fremd-geworde…
Tackling visual impairment: emerging avenues in ophthalmology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2025.1567159/full
»Trends That Defined JavaScript in 2025:
Despite AI and the push for simplification in web development, JavaScript frameworks aren’t quite ready to yield their hold on the frontend.«
Personally, I'm not a JavaScript fanboy, but you can't avoid it for web frontend. I prefer TypeScript in this regard because in my opinion it is more precise.
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facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Advantages of human opsins in optogenetic visual restoration #optogenetics
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted