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
Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-far-behind-the-fronti…
And here is the video and short summary for those wanting the TL;DR
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/article-hubs/polar-geoengineering-risks-realities/explainer
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116769474882730548
Ruth_Mottram - We also wrote a version for kids:
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1633572
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116769466126905589
Ruth_Mottram - Flurry of articles, including in the Guardian on the very well funded but seriously misguided efforts to geoengineer the Arctic by growing sea ice, reminds me that it is probably time to report our critical article on the subject..
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full
I've been liking Proton Sheets (from @… ) but the date formatting choices are not great.
I do (currently) live in the US but prefer ISO 8601/RFC 3339 formatting of YYYY-MM-DD and that's what I use in my spreadsheet.
I can type in that format but occasionally the date picker (which automagically shows up) changes it to the wrong for…
Acoustic stimulation in pain management: neurobiological mechanisms and clinical applications—a narrative review https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1861265/full
From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1928223/full
dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 234 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…
dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…