Mariano Beguerisse

Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson review – a challenge to the gatekeepers of classical music This clever and compelling collection of essays sings the praises of 10 thrilling artists whose work has been excluded from the classical canon

Also Kate Molleson's amazing book Sound Within Sound has a chapter on her www.theguardian.com/books/2022/j...

Acoustic Hits is such a fantastic album. Its versions of High and Cut Here are probably my favourite recordings by The Cure ever

🧪My team at Spotify is looking for PhD students for a summer internship in our London office. Potential topics include multimodal content understanding, computer vision, NLP, graph ml, Gen AI content detection, entity resolution and linking, knowledge graphs, etc. jobs.lever.co/spotify/5d94...

You have a background in math/physics/computer science/ML and are looking for an interdisciplinary postdoc fellowship in life sciences with free choice of host groups? Then join us at the CSBD as an ELBE postdoc! The application deadline is the 13 of March

What are the dynamic effects of fact-checking on the behavior of those who circulate misinformation and on the spread of false news? In this paper, we provide causal evidence on these questions, building on a unique partnership with the Agence France Presse (AFP), the world's largest fact-checking organization and a partner of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checking Program. Over an 18-month period (December 2021-June 2023), we collected information on the stories proposed by fact-checkers during the daily editorial meetings, some of which were ultimately fact-checked while others, despite being ex ante "similar", were left aside. Using two complementary Difference-inDifferences approaches, one at the story level and the other at the post level (within fact-checked stories), we show that fact-checking reduces the circulation of misinformation on Facebook by approximately 8%, an effect driven entirely by stories rated as "False." Furthermore, we provide evidence of behavioral responses: the publication of a fact-check more than doubles the deletion of posts in the fact-checked stories, and users whose posts appear in fact-checked stories become less likely to share misinformation in the future. While our results clearly confirm the effectiveness of fact-checking, we provide policy recommendations to further strengthen its impact.

When FB introduced its fact-checking program, it claimed (w/out evidence, despite our asking) that it reduced exposure to debunked content by 80%. When Meta killed fact-checking in the US, Zuck claimed (without evidence) that it didn't work. Both lies. The truth? ~8%:
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

That album is a joy. Especially Slonimsky’s Earbox. I remember when I first heard it live... 🤯

My applied math colleague Chris Earls is looking to hire a postdoc. The area — interpretability of emergent behaviors exhibited by AI systems — is fascinating and important. Info below:

Job posting on LinkedIn for a Research Scientist position in YY Ahn's group at UVA.

The incredible @yyahn.bsky.social is building something special at UVA.

🚨 If you're a fit for this job, I highly recommend applying!

Find more details via the link below.

www.linkedin.com/posts/yyahn_...

Cosmic Sea is my jam

We’re launching the Earth Rover Program - trying to make geophysics actually usable for farmers. That means tackling the ridiculous price of equipment and opening up a global, easy-to-use dataset so anyone, anywhere around the globe, can understand what’s happening under their feet.

Science is supposed to know no borders, until every major conference in my field picks the most hostile country to travel to as its venue 💆🏼

#Epidemics10 #NetSci2026 #CCS2026 #IC2S2 🇺🇸

Signed Networks: theory, methods, and applications Signed networks provide a principled framework for representing systems in which interactions are not merely present or absent but qualitatively distinct: friendly or antagonistic, supportive or confl...

Signed Networks: theory, methods, and applications arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247

This week's post is a blast from the past: my now year-ish-old sci am feature about the discovery of new 3D shapes that fill space without corners and which appear in art and nature.

Thanks to my contract terms I was able to break it out of paywall jail and share it for free:

Our inaugural Regius Professor of Mathematics, Andrew Wiles, retires in 2026 (not that mathematicians ever truly retire) and we are looking for his successor, starting in October of that year.

Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74751

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We're looking for a postdoc for our new project on forecasting technological change - more details below

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social

Our call for ELBE Visiting Faculty at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden is live with deadline 30 November: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a... Please visit us during your sabbatical!
@mpi-cbg.de @math-mpicbg.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social

I had to do a triple check in the title. Awesome stuff @lordgrilo.bsky.social

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thursday in Lima, Perú! classic.joinnus.com/events/conce...

Modeling Artist Influence for Music Selection and Recommendation: A Purely Network-Based Approach Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.

Super happy that my paper on modeling artist networks is out on Harvard Data Science Review. Writing it was such a fun journey (and still so much to be done, which is the best part!) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/t4txmd81...

We just advertised the Hooke Fellowships for exceptional researchers (typically after their first post-doc).

You are completely free to set up your own research agenda for three years.

RT please

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Research fellowships Are you considering Imperial’s Department of Physics as your host institution for a research fellowship? We’re delighted you\'re explorin...

🚀 EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Fellowships

Looking to launch or strengthen your independent research career in mathematical sciences? Imperial Physics welcomes nominations from all backgrounds.

📌 Submit your EOI & CV: see our fellowships page www.imperial.ac.uk/physics/oppo...

#ResearchFellowships

Come fly with us, let's fly, let's fly away.

Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169

Probability can be counterintuitive. Or, to put it another way, plain baffling. But there's always an explanation. Becky Crossley picks her favourite example. And tries to draw a goat.

Watch the full video (with extra maths): youtu.be/zf17UgsFYCw

Network representations reveal structured uncertainty in music Music, as a structured yet perceptually rich experience, can be modeled as a network to uncover how humans encode and process auditory information. While network-based representations of music are inc...

Network representations reveal structured uncertainty in music arxiv.org/abs/2509.14053

New preprint: We study Lotka-Volterra ecological dynamics through computational algebraic geometry. By encoding feasibility & stability on the real Grassmannian, we prove certain ecological networks are mathematically impossible 🧮🌿 arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165

Cigarette filters do nothing for smokers’ health and just create plastic pollution – they should be banned Cigarette filters are one of the biggest sources of plastic pollution and they serve no purpose.

'Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded – making them the most littered item on the planet.'

Dr Jonathan Livingstone-Banks and Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on why cigarette filters should be banned ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...