sunelehmann.com — intermittent updates

Back on August 21st of this year, the inimitable [Carl Bergstrom](https://ctbergstrom.com/) visited [SODAS](https://sodas.ku.dk/) to talk about his course on AI.

**Update September 8th.** Wrong building, sorry.

I'm excited to be heading to Billund on September 29th for a panel debate at [AFTRYK Festival](https://www.aftrykfestival.dk), billed as Denmark's first cross-disciplinary festival for students and apprentices across the building trades.

Earlier this week, Buzzsprout sent me one of those cheerful automated emails that platforms send when they want you to feel good about yourself.

I'm excited to be part of the *AI in Life Science* PhD summer school at the University of Copenhagen on 10 August 2026 with a keynote on life trajectories.

I'm excited to be heading to Middelfart on August 17th to give the opening keynote at the [ITEASc Workshop 2026](https://event.au.dk/events/iteasc-workshop-2026/program), a two-day workshop run by Aarhus University that gathers BSc, MSc, PhD students, and…

**Update August 18th.** The room has changed.

New paper alert, just out in *Nature Communications*, and it's a genuinely fascinating one [1].

The podcast is back!

I keep reading takes on the ever-increasing amounts of AI slop online.

Metaphors can be a support system for thinking.

I'm excited to be heading to *Eigtveds Pakhus* on May 28 to give a keynote at Rigsarkivet's release conference for the Multi-Generational Registry (MGR).

On May 21st I'm joining a public panel debate at [TECHTONIC](https://algoritmer.org/aktiviteter/techtonic-kan-teknologien-forudsige-vores-doed/) — the event series run by Algoritmer (the ADD Project: Algorithms, Data, and Democracy) — under the somewhat o…

I'm excited to be heading to Amsterdam on May 20th to give an invited lecture at the [Institute for Advanced Study](https://ias.uva.nl/content/events/2026/05/emergence-searching-for-laws-of-human-behavior.html) at the University of Amsterdam, organized by…

I'm excited to be heading to Amsterdam on May 19th to give a public lecture at [Science and Cocktails](https://www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/amsterdam/predicting-human-life), at Tolhuistuin.

I have to admit that I've had a ton of fun redesigning my site in collaboration with AI systems of various kinds.

I hate to admit it, but I've been missing Twitter a little bit.

In the Social Complexity Lab at DTU/SODAS, we're lucky to have legendary network scientist Professor Martin Rosvall visiting soon.

As part of a project on something completely different, the always brilliant [Louis Boucherie](https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-boucherie/) generated these maps of voting in Denmark during the 2022 general election [1].

With the awesome [Anders Søgaard](https://anderssoegaard.github.io), I recently wrote an Op-ed in the Danish newspaper Politiken.

[Jonas L Juul](https://jonassjuul.github.io) and I are organizing a series of talks this year on the topic of *The Predicted Human.* Our first speaker is the amazing Cesar Hidalgo.

It's tough not to check Twitter, so I'm posting my random tweet ideas here: - So many clustering algorithms create division wherever they're applied. - Since stopping Twitter, I’m using RSS feeds instead.

**The setup**.

We are very excited to be joined by Christoph Stadtfeld on April 28th, where he'll discuss *The emergence of social networks and how they matter for individuals*.

So, recently, I won a Danish research award.

## Experiencing a Twitter take-down A few days ago, I was scrolling on Twitter when I came across a Twitter thread by Dr.

On May 20th, 2014, I gave a talk at [Christiania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania) in Copenhagen.

Hey Copenhageners, I'm happy to announce the first talk in a long, long while.

Our Episode 4 guest, Leidy Klotz, is a Professor at the University of Virginia.

This episode’s guest is Dirk Brockmann.

Today is Roberta Sinatra day on [#TooLazyPod](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TooLazyPod?

The first episode of my podcast *Too Lazy to Read the Paper* is out now!

Along with a superb group of coauthors ([Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen](https://abjer.github.io/), [Valentin Kassarnig](https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentin-kassarnig-5330a3124/), and [David Dreyer Lassen](https://daviddlassen.github.io/)), I recently published…

I've made a silly teaser trailer for the first season of my science podcast project "Too Lazy to Read the Paper".

A couple of days ago I gave a talk at University of Exeter.

**Conference fatigue**.

**Update May 23rd**.

Starting march 1st this year, I was promoted to full professor at DTU!

We're lucky to have Lab Alum Arkadiusz 'Arek' Stopczynski visiting the lab on January 9th and 10th.

I had an absolutely wonderful time at the [Complex Networks 2018](https://www.complexnetworks.org) conference last week in Cambridge, UK.

In the beginning of October, I headed to Aarhus to participate in TEDx Aarhus.

On October 9th, we are lucky to have Pantelis Pipergias Analytis visiting the group.

Our old friend Piotr, current postdoc at Northeastern, and graduate from the group is visiting from his new home beyond the Atlantic.

Later this month we will have legendary researcher Bernardo Huberman visiting.

We're lucky to have Max Schich visiting DTU tomorrow.

Sometime last year I became an adjunct professor at University of Copenhagen's Department of Sociology.

The amazing Villum Foundation (who first funded the SensibleDTU project back in 2012) wanted to showcase some of the work coming out of their Young Investigator Program.

This Wednesday we will have [Benjamin Maier](http://benmaier.org/about/), a PhD student (physics) from Dirk Brockmann's group speaking at DTU.

Next week, I'll be giving a talk about SensibleDTU at DTU.

For the concluding speaker in our September-talks series, I am happy to announce that [Hartmut Lentz](https://www.fli.de/de/institute/institut-fuer-epidemiologie-ife/wissenschaftler/dr-h-h-k-lentz/) will talk about his work on spread of infectious disease…