Google Maps's "Lake America" inherited 4.6 Start testified by 1632 reviews from #LakeOntario. #/r/place
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Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last wk.Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
Luís M. Rocha
@lmrocha.bsky.social
Post-identity earthling working on complex systems, networks, biomedicine, AI, evolution. Music, politics, DJ as E-Trash. E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara. https://casci.binghamton.edu/ https://linktr.ee/LMRocha (LinkTree)
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last wk.
NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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#ALIFE2026 award ceremony -- Binghamton University's Systems Science members also receive multiple awards!! We are particularly glad to see the late Howard Pattee and his work recognized by the ALife community
Now at the Teaching (with) Artificial Life workshop Jason Yoder introduces the ALife-Edu initiative #ALIFE2026
The legendary Craig Reynolds presenting the evolutionary design of Boids using multiobjective optimization #ALIFE2026
Averages can make measles risk look safer than it is. In our new @NatureMedicine paper, we found that school-level transmission potential crossed the epidemic threshold in 2022 to 2023. A blog post about it communities.springernature.com/posts/the-hi... #Measles #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Vaccines
Ana Bento@anaisabelbento.bsky.social · 3w agoThe committee reviewing US measles elimination status met this month. PAHO decides in November. Our new paper in @NatureMedicine shows this wasn’t sudden. It was visible years ago, in data nobody was looking at. 🧵
Some words about Howard Pattee, expanding a bit my comments last night @alifeconf.bsky.social . heycityzen.substack.com/p/howard-h-p... #ComplexSystems #TheoreticalBiology #ArtificalLife
Howard H. Pattee (1926-2026)
It is with a lot of emotion that I applaud the International Society for Artificial Life for honoring the lifetime achievement of Howard Pattee to the field.
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So wonderful and moving that @alifeconf.bsky.social bestowed the lifetime achievement award to Howard Pattee, whose contributions to understanding life's complexity are profound and remain relevant.
Congratulations @amahury.bsky.social for the Inman Harvey reviewer award at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! Work hard, party hard;)
Congratulations @hirokisayama.bsky.social for the award for outstanding publication of the decade at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! So well deservedn
1/3 Excelente lembrança e aviso. Há muito que digo que a descolonização portuguesa foi tão racista quanto a colonização, no sentido em que manteve os mesmos preceitos identitários: raça branca para Portugal, raça negra em África. www.publico.pt/2026/08/12/o...
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A slide from a 2018 talk of mine on tipping points. That year, a climate report warned that we might be approaching critical turning points within 12 years. Everything suggests we are getting closer. Action is needed across science, engineering and policy. edition.cnn.com/2018/10/07/w...
such xenophobia in Europe... Dixit Magnus Brunner: "I do understand that Spain did it because it’s mainly about Latin Americans speaking the same language, having *the same culture*, but the signal for the rest of Europe is not a good one, definitely not." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting
Migration commissioner says scheme regularising undocumented people ‘not a good signal’ for Europe
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Summer vibes ETrash playlist on Spotify. bit.ly/ETrashSky
Don't miss this satellite at CCS!
Dennis P Waters@dpwaters.bsky.social · 2mo agoHoward Pattee will celebrate his 100th birthday in October, and a group of his collaborators and former students will mark the occasion with a one-day symposium at Binghamton University on October 15th. Attend in person or virtually.
Outra tentativa de ter Ciência na política de ciência: discussão de 3 relatórios recentes q mostram PT a piorar Precisamos de tutelas q percebam q a sua principal tarefa é garantir q temos condições p/ fazer o nosso trabalho. É p/ isso que servem e não nos têm servido www.publico.pt/2026/07/17/c...
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@joanagsa.bsky.social, obrigado por este estado da situação. Andamos a discutir problemas come exames nacionais anacrónicos, em vez do futuro da ciencia e verdadeira inovação em Portugal. Obrigado por este "big picture", que é tão raro ver na discussão nacional. www.publico.pt/2026/07/17/c...
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Very honored to speak at Alife later this summer. So excited about it and will likely recontextualize some classical systems science work from Pattee, Rosen, Klir, and Conrad with current-day advances in #networkmedicine, #AI, #complexsystems, and #systemsbiology.
ALIFE Conference@alifeconf.bsky.social · 2mo ago🎤 Meet our #ALIFE2026 keynote speaker: Luis M. Rocha (Binghamton University)! "Canalizing Dynamics as a Network Mechanism for Collective Decision, Control, Modularity, and Abstraction in Living Systems." 📅 Regular registration ends July 15. Register now and save a few Canadian dollars!
Interesting take on Heinz von Foerster as a "jailbroken" scholar. #Cybernetics books.juandavidcampolargo.com/jailbroken/a...
Heinz von Foerster | Jailbroken People | The Jailbroken Guide to the University | Juan David Campolargo
Heinz von Foerster in Jailbroken People, Appendix B of The Jailbroken Guide to the University: From Heinz von Foerster, I learned this: to live fully is...
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Recent interview I gave about digital medicine and complex systems, in Portuguese. #NetworkMedicine sapo.pt/artigo/a-med...
A medicina conta com mais dados do que nunca: como os vai usar?
A inteligência artificial promete transformar a medicina, mas o verdadeiro desafio já não está em gerar mais dados, e sim em convertê-los em conhecimento útil para cada doente. Em entrevista, Luís Roc...
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Safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines: a mechanistic and public health perspective - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines: a mechanistic and public health perspective
mRNA vaccines represent a transformative advance in vaccinology, combining rapid development timelines, scalable manufacturing, and strong immunogenicity with a favourable safety profile. Global deplo...
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1/2 Honored and excited to give a keynote lecture at ICCS tomorrow (June 30). The title is"Towards Digital Twins for Precision Medicine from a #ComplexSystems Perspective." www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2026/
The International Conference on Computational Science – The International Conference on Computational Science
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Last week our @cberaproject.bsky.social forum was an amazing mix fest of high quality science and art, but most of all, friendship, family, collegiality and respect! @ccattuto.bsky.social @danielapaolotti.bsky.social @amarallab.bsky.social @clbockting.bsky.social @joanagsa.bsky.social
Awesome program for our @cberaproject.bsky.social forum this week. Amazing roster of speakers in #complexsystems, #complexnetworks, biomedicine and art! At the Champalimaud foundation exhibition hall in Lisbon. Open to all.