Merge pull request #1 from NGMLGroup/blog

Add blog

Author: RobertoNeglia

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 _site/
+Gemfile.lock
 **.DS_Store

Gemfile

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ gem "minima", "~> 2.5"
 # If you have any plugins, put them here!
 group :jekyll_plugins do
   gem "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.12"
+  gem "jekyll-paginate", "~> 1.1"
 end
 
 # Windows and JRuby does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem

Gemfile.lock

@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ description: >
 theme: minima
 
 plugins:
-#   - jekyll-feed
+  - jekyll-feed
   - jekyll-seo-tag
+  - jekyll-paginate
 
 # Theme-specific settings
 
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ minima:
 header_pages:
   - people.html
   - publications.html
+  - blog.html
   - theses.md
   - news.md
 
@@ -67,4 +69,8 @@ collections:
 show_excerpts: true
 
 # display posts with dates in the future
-future: true
+future: true
+
+# Pagination settings
+paginate: 5
+paginate_path: "/blog/page:num/"

_config.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ <h3>
             {{ post.title | escape }}
           </a>
         </h3>
-        {%- if site.show_excerpts -%}
+        {%- if site.minima.show_excerpts -%}
           {{ post.excerpt }}
         {%- endif -%}
       </li>
@@ -42,20 +42,26 @@ <h3>
       <div class="pager">
         <ul class="pagination">
         {%- if paginator.previous_page %}
-          <li><a href="{{ paginator.previous_page_path | relative_url }}" class="previous-page">{{ paginator.previous_page }}</a></li>
+          <li>
+            <a href="{{ paginator.previous_page_path | relative_url }}" class="previous-page" title="Go to Page {{ paginator.previous_page }}">
+              {{ paginator.previous_page }}
+            </a>
+          </li>
         {%- else %}
           <li><div class="pager-edge">•</div></li>
         {%- endif %}
           <li><div class="current-page">{{ paginator.page }}</div></li>
         {%- if paginator.next_page %}
-          <li><a href="{{ paginator.next_page_path | relative_url }}" class="next-page">{{ paginator.next_page }}</a></li>
+          <li>
+            <a href="{{ paginator.next_page_path | relative_url }}" class="next-page" title="Go to Page {{ paginator.next_page }}">
+              {{ paginator.next_page }}
+            </a>
+          </li>
         {%- else %}
           <li><div class="pager-edge">•</div></li>
         {%- endif %}
         </ul>
       </div>
     {%- endif %}
-
   {%- endif -%}
-
-</div>
+</div>

_layouts/home.html

@@ -5,34 +5,46 @@
 
   <header class="post-header">
     <h1 class="post-title p-name" itemprop="name headline">{{ page.title | escape }}</h1>
-    <p class="post-meta">
+    <div class="post-meta">
       {%- assign date_format = site.minima.date_format | default: "%b %-d, %Y" -%}
-      <time class="dt-published" datetime="{{ page.date | date_to_xmlschema }}" itemprop="datePublished">
-        {{ page.date | date: date_format }}
+      {% assign pdate = page.date | date_to_xmlschema %}
+      {%- if page.modified_date %}<span class="meta-label">Published:</span>{% endif %}
+      <time class="dt-published" datetime="{{ pdate }}" itemprop="datePublished">
+        {{ pdate | date: date_format }}
       </time>
       {%- if page.modified_date -%}
-        ~ 
-        {%- assign mdate = page.modified_date | date_to_xmlschema -%}
+        <span class="bullet-divider">•</span>
+        <span class="meta-label">Updated:</span>
+        {%- assign mdate = page.modified_date | date_to_xmlschema %}
         <time class="dt-modified" datetime="{{ mdate }}" itemprop="dateModified">
           {{ mdate | date: date_format }}
         </time>
       {%- endif -%}
-      {%- if page.author -%}
-        • {% for author in page.author %}
+      {%- if page.author %}
+      <div class="{% unless page.modified_date %}force-inline {% endunless %}post-authors">
+        {%- for author in page.author %}
           <span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
             <span class="p-author h-card" itemprop="name">{{ author }}</span></span>
-            {%- if forloop.last == false %}, {% endif -%}
+          {%- if forloop.last == false %}, {% endif -%}
         {% endfor %}
-      {%- endif -%}</p>
+      </div>
+      {%- endif %}
+    </div>
   </header>
 
   <div class="post-content e-content" itemprop="articleBody">
     {{ content }}
   </div>
 
-  {%- if site.disqus.shortname -%}
-    {%- include disqus_comments.html -%}
-  {%- endif -%}
+  {% if jekyll.environment == 'production' -%}
+    {% if page.comments == false -%}
+    <div class="comments-disabled-message">
+      Comments have been disabled for this post.
+    </div>
+    {% else -%}
+      {%- include comments.html -%}
+    {% endif -%}
+  {% endif -%}
 
   <a class="u-url" href="{{ page.url | relative_url }}" hidden></a>
-</article>
+</article>

_layouts/post.html

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: "Welcome to Our Research Blog"
+date: 2025-10-03 10:00:00 +0100
+author: NGMLGroup
+excerpt: "Welcome to the Northernmost Graph Machine Learning Group's research blog! Here we share insights, breakthroughs, and stories behind our cutting-edge research in graph neural networks and machine learning."
+---
+
+Welcome to the **Northernmost Graph Machine Learning Group**'s research blog!
+
+Based at the [UiT the Arctic University of Norway](https://en.uit.no/) in Tromsø, our group activity is dedicated to basic research in machine learning. 
+We also apply our research to a variety of domains, including energy analytics and climate science.
+
+We're excited to launch this blog as a platform to share our journey, insights, and breakthroughs with the broader community.
+Alongside the formal presentation in our papers, we aim to complement it here with a format that’s more relaxed, visual, and hands-on. In addition, we plan to publish tutorials that guide readers through key methods and concepts that we use in our work, making it more approachable to both researchers and practitioners.
+
+## Our Research Focus
+
+Our work spans several exciting areas:
+
+- 🎱 **Graph Pooling**: Techniques for down-sampling graph structures while preserving important information ([library](https://torch-geometric-pool.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), [AB25](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.05100?), [CB25](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09821), [GZB+22](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.05292));
+- 📊 **Spatiotemporal modeling**: Using graphs to model complex temporal dependencies ([HCB25](https://openreview.net/forum?id=MHQXfiXsr3), [MAB24](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.10634), [CMB+23](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/25880));
+- 🎯 **Uncertainty Quantification**: Assessing and mitigating uncertainty in forecasting in both structured and unstructured data domains ([NCB+25](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05060), [CJM+25](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09443), [GSB23](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10360823));
+- 🔬 **Interpretability**: Making spatiotemporal models more transparent and trustworthy ([GSB24](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13469), [GSS+23](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07926));
+- ⚡ **Scalability**: Breaking barriers to handle massive real-world datasets ([NCB+25](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05060), [CMB+23](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/25880)).
+
+## What You'll Find Here
+
+In this blog, we'll be sharing:
+
+- **Research insights** from our latest publications;
+- **Educational content** to make complex concepts accessible;
+- **Practical applications** of graph neural networks;
+- **Updates** on our group activities, collaborations and events.
+- **Behind the scenes** looks at our research process and team dynamics.
+
+---
+
+*Stay tuned for our upcoming posts, where we'll dive deep into our latest research.*
+
+**The NGMLGroup Team**  
+*Northernmost Graph Machine Learning Group*  
+*UiT the Arctic University of Norway*