Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Our Focus Collection on Statistical Physics of Artificial and Biological Neural Networks is open for submissions Guest Editors: Federica Gerace, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna and Francesca Mignacco, Princeton University & CUNY Graduate Center iopscience.iop.org/collections/...

Is there an ecology of languages? Can physics help to understand their universal properties? Yes. As species, they rise and fall, become extinct, evolve & compete. Here's our paper @royalsocietypublishing.org @brigan.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/1004.4528 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Timely to re-read Asimov’s robot stories: despite the Three Laws seemingly making everything predictable, things go wrong in unexpected ways. The source is context: environment, human behaviour, and the collective dynamics that emerge when robots interact. Sounds familiar?

Registration for our Avian Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting is open. Join us Oct 1 - 2 in Bochum for talks, posters and plenty of discussion. This is the lineup of speakers: www.ngl.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ngl/mam/cont... Stay tuned for the full program or just register here: eveeno.com/239532040

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation with @damianblasi.bsky.social about linguistic diversity and what it can tell us. Linguistic diversity is a precious part of our species' heritage. It also offers a wellspring of clues about history, culture, and the human mind. Listen: disi.org/the-natural-...

"At this very moment, we have an emerging alien—and uncontrollable—intelligence that bears scrutiny" Why do pple keep saying the models are "uncontrollable"? Any of them could be put in an unhackable sandbox--these exist! Any of these companies could shut any of these models off at any time.

Steven Levy@stevenlevy.bsky.social · last wk.

Advanced AI is a boon for philosophers who study consciousness. But by the time they define that elusive quality--if they ever do--AI might have its own views on the subject, conscious or not. The big challenge is controlling those models. www.wired.com/story/who-ca...

New paper! Are universal models of human behavior really universal? Universal mobility models can work remarkably well on average while systematically failing for some socioeconomic groups. Accurate for whom? academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Led by Ludovico Napoli with @martonkarsai.bsky.social

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Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · last wk.

Hm. Not sure I've reposted an Internet cat before 😉 Congratulations!

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Happy to share my new paper with Pedro Rivera, Gerardo Febres & @cgershen.bsky.social, now published in npj Systems Biology and Applications ( @natureportfolio.nature.com )! 🔓 Our question is quite concise: can structured novelty be measured and engineered?/1 🤔👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Submit to #ComplexNetworks2026! 📍Granada, Spain, Dec 2–4 📝 Proceedings of full papers (Springer) & abstracts (Book of Abstracts) 🎤 Keynotes: Brintrup, Chawla, Kaski, Lepri, Scholl 🎓 Tutorials: Karimi, Wang 📅 Extended Submission Deadline: Sept 13 👉 complexnetworks.org/submission/

We continue revealing our keynote speakers for CompleNet 2027! We are delighted to announce that Sarah Feldt Muldoon will be joining us as a keynote speaker in Rochester, NY, USA. complenet.github.io

At CompleNet, the Best Talk Prize comes with an invitation to return as a keynote the next year. So we're thrilled to welcome back Fernando Diaz-Diaz (UC3M), who works on signed networks, polarization and structural balance. U. of Rochester, Mar 9–12 Submit by Sept 20 complenet.github.io

Delighted to be a Keynote Speaker at this fabulous conf in Palermo Sicily next year in June ! Call for papers now open - come join us : Palermo is one of my favourite cities in the world 😎🌟 Thank you for having me 🙏 waves-conference.com

The complete #connectome of the adult Drosophila male CNS has allowed researchers, inc @jefferis.bsky.social’s group, to compare male & female brains at synaptic-resolution for the first time. Read more here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBResearch 1/2

Join us next Tuesday, 5PM CET for our first ProSE after the summer! Betül Kaçar @kacarlab.bsky.social will talk about the origin and early evolution of ancient proteins! 📜🧬 tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

Santa Fe Institute | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on Network Thermodynamics of Distributed Computation Applications open on a rolling basis #Postdoc #Job #SFI #NetworkScience #Thermodynamics #Computation ./15 www.complexitycat.org/posts/postdo...

University College Dublin | Assistant Professorship in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Application deadline: September 4 #Job #Lecturer #Philosophy #CogSci #Cognition #interdisciplinary #research ./14 www.complexitycat.org/posts/assist...

Aalto University | Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Autotelic Artificial Intelligence Application deadline: September 11 #Postdoc #AI #Creativity #OpenEndedness #Cognition #Agency ./13 www.complexitycat.org/posts/postdo...

Guggenheim Fellowship 2027 Application deadline: September 15 #Funding #Award #Grant #Lecturer #Research ./12 www.complexitycat.org/posts/guggen...

Trivia #13: Niagara Falls began generating power in 1895 and sent it 26 miles to Buffalo in 1896. That was the first long-distance transmission at scale, and it ended the AC/DC argument by Edison and Nichola Tesla. @complenet.bsky.social complenet.github.io/cfp.html

Call for Contributions — CompleNet 2027

Call for contributions at CompleNet 2027, the 18th International Conference on Complex Networks.

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Sadamori Kojaku@skojaku.bsky.social · last mo.

CompleNet 2027 is coming! 🚀 We’ll gather Mar 9–12, 2027 in Rochester, NY 🗺️ Submission deadline: Sept 20th ( complenet.github.io) 📅 More keynote speakers to ne announced. Follow us to stay tuned👇 @complenet.bsky.social

Curious about optimizing complex systems? ⚙️ Join our next Professional Town Hall, where Craig Reynolds will discuss "Evolving Parameter Sets for Complex Models." 🧬 Intrigued? Join us on Discord to learn more! 🗓️ September 10th, 1:00 PM UTC 🔗 discord.com/invite/m3qvu...

New 📃🚨! @rosetrappes.bsky.social & I explore how #environment & #niche concepts are understood & mobilized across the life sciences & beyond, highlighting similarities & differences through a rich range of examples! 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30940/ #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evobio #envhum #HPS

📣 Call for Abstracts! Share your research at "Womplexity Meets Northeast" during #CCS2026, featuring invited speakers Sarah Muldoon and Anastasia Bizyaeva! ⏰ Deadline: Sept 11 📍 Binghamton, NY & Online Submit your talk here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ComplexSystems #CSS

Are AI agents really building “civilisations,” or are we turning a security incident into science fiction? Here, @manlius.bsky.social examines how anthropomorphic language transforms unexpected machine behaviour into stories of agency, conspiracy, and rebellion manlius.substack.com/p/propaigand...

PropAIganda: from AI incident to AI mythology

How a remarkable cybersecurity experiment became a story about civilizations, conspiracies and secret swarms

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Good news if this workshop sounds like your kind of thing: we’ve extended the deadline to Sept 14 (AoE)! 🌱 At #SAB2026, “Wanting What Is Needed” asks how homeostasis shape value, motivation & adaptive behaviour. Come join us in Berlin on Oct 19!! 😊 wwin-workshop.github.io/sab2026/

We are looking forward for today's presentation of Chapter 7 by Farid Zahnoun on September 2nd, 2026 at 16h CET. The topic is anticipation in neuroscience and living beings. Join us! @r3rt0.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t...

Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

Register now for Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on July 22, 2026, 04:00 PM GMT+2.

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Complexity Science Hub | Postdoc Position on Wearable Data Analysis for ME/CFS and Post-COVID Applications open on a rolling basis #ComplexSystems #Postdoc #DataAnalysis #DataScience #COVID ./11 www.complexitycat.org/posts/postdo...

ETHOART 2026 | Ethology, Literature and the Arts: The Science of Animal Behaviour and Its Influence on Creativiness Submission deadline: September 10 #Workshop #Ethology #Literature #Art #Science #Behavior #Creativity #Culture ./10 www.complexitycat.org/posts/ethoar...