It’s official. The EPIC Lab’s new headquarters are at #Seoul National University’s Department of Physics & Astronomy as of this week. We’re recruiting graduate students! physics.snu.ac.kr/en/research-...

Hell yeah!

Complexity Science Hub@csh.ac.at · last wk.

Curious about #Complexity? Then the @csh.ac.at starter pack is for you. Follow our resident scientists, associate faculty, and people from our wider network to stay in the loop. 🧪 go.bsky.app/LvjrjC1 Kudos to @spintheory.bsky.social for contributing to the list!

To #migrate is a decision that depends on others. This has overlooked dynamical consequences. New #preprint with @kushwaha.bsky.social and Woi Sok Oh Collaboration between @csh.ac.at @uwaterloo.ca #NonlinearDynamics #Physics #Complex arxiv.org/abs/2606.30604 (1/5) 🧪🦋

Pulses, waves, and cascades in collective migration dynamics

Decisions to migrate depend on others' decisions. Dependence can produce nontrivial dynamics. We propose a minimal migration model that accounts for social influence alongside individual heterogeneity...

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Thanks for the call out!

Complexity Science Hub@csh.ac.at · last mo.

(5/8) That's the impact of studying the Foundations of Complex Systems. And these are the amazing people doing exactly that at the CSH: Stefan Thurner, Jan Korbel, Vito D.P. Servidio, Rudolf Hanel, @spintheory.bsky.social, Markus Hofer, Jan Fialkowski, Gordana Vujović, and Juan José Ochoa Duque.

NYT writes “Testing Truce.” Wouldn’t it be planner to write that the truce has been broken?

Get ready for something EPIC! Starting this fall at #Seoul National University, a new research group will be coalescing. *** For prospective int'l graduate students, apps for the PhD program are open July 6–9; rec letters due July 10. *** #physics #complex #complexity #phd #graduate

In Cordwainer Smith’s Rediscovery of Man, the future is taken back to the past, technology revoked, disease embraced, making civilization “great” again. “I myself was the first man to put a postage stamp on a letter…We watched at the eye -dash machine when cholera was released in Tasmania…”

Had a great time teaching and meeting the folks at @igfae.gal at the summer school and #datascience and #complexsystems

ConIII v4.0 is out 🎉 The Convenient Interface to Inverse Ising — a Python package for pairwise maxent / inverse-Ising inference. New: NumPy 2 + Python 3.13, modern build, reorganized API, docs, and a faster solver. pip install coniii 📖 coniii.readthedocs.io #Python #maxent #compneuro 🧪🦋

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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#Turin! This week we’re discussing Computational Social Science in #Italy #complex #physics 🧪🦋 @cs2italy.bsky.social

A preview of "a planet where life has been reduced to absolute simplicity." Karol Jałowchowski, filmmaker of the scientific world, was at @csh.ac.at last year. Here's a preview of his work, a tour through the mind of Complexity Science Hub through an outrageous hypothesis. youtu.be/NhwKDoRUs0c?...

In Places Like This One | Teaser

YouTube video by Karol Jałochowski

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Levi-Strauss on the natural environment as a conceptual apparatus that allows “savage” societies to order the world around them. The maps are many but he raises the question of if the logical structures are universal.

Love this attitude: "In 1963 Wilson joined the Cornell physics department and was soon given tenure even though he had hardly published." news.cornell.edu/stories/2013... 1/2

I would like to say I’m shocked about this but this is only the latest in a sequence of actions against common sense and scientific evidence that are beyond the pale.

Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · last yr.

It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall. If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines. www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u... 🧵👇

#Peace is fragile. And #conflict is much more #complex than a few world leaders deciding where to shoot missiles or send troops. A little thread coming from our years of work on the #physics of #conflict... 🧪🦋

Everyone complains that #GPTs make up references, but that makes me wonder. When do they *not* #cite things? Presumably, this "enhances" the #novelty or #innovativeness of ideas that it has.

Two papers so far this year that have crossed my desk for review that are more or less AI applications of previous work with slight modifications. In principle, little problem with new tool use...

When an American thinks about the problem of #government-building, he directs himself not to the creation of #authority and the accumulation of #power but rather the limitation of authority and the division of power. - Huntington

Are you looking for a #postdoc to start in 2027? Do you have a #physics background and are you interested in #ecology #forests #ecosystems #learning #plasticity? I'm looking for candidates to nominate for the Human Frontier Science Program in the Physics Department at Seoul National University. 🧪🦋

A fantastic experience (I've heard)

Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Advance your research and expand your network at SFI's 2026 CSSS program with lectures, application-focused seminars, and team projects. Participants gain experience in transdisciplinary collaboration and explore real-world questions through complexity science. Apply by Feb 4, 2026 santafe.edu/csss

Are you looking for a postdoctoral position? I'm looking for candidates to nominate for the Human Frontier Science Program in the Physics Department at Seoul National University. Thread continues below 🧪

New study examines 20+ years of armed conflict data across Africa. Researchers @kushwaha.bsky.social and @spintheory.bsky.social identify three conflict archetypes, but also show that classification does not necessarily help to predict the severity of conflicts. Learn more: shorturl.at/81pkf

Data-Driven Analysis Reveals Three Archetypes Of Armed Conflicts

New CSH study identifies systematic patterns in armed conflicts across Africa – and the limits of forecasting conflict intensity, duration, or fatalities.

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A wintry day for complex systems!

People are often using AI to increase the seeming complexity of minimal ideas, where I find I spend most of my time taking highly complex ideas and compressing them as much as possible into minimal descriptions. Can AI do that? I would say not.

It’s times like these that remind me of Asimov’s Mule. And an interesting question about how far we can go beyond probabilities in looking ahead with social behavior.

Your daily reminder that in complex conflict scenarios, long-term strategy is important: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13213

AI sustains higher strategic tension than humans in chess

Strategic decision-making involves managing the tension between immediate opportunities and long-term objectives. We study this trade-off in chess by characterizing and comparing dynamics between huma...

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„ Die Empfindung sagt mir, dass etwas ist; das Denken, was etwas ist; das fühlen, was etwas für mich bedeutet; die Intuition, was etwas werden kann.“ - Jung The four basic mental functions: sensation, thought, feeling, and intuition.

“Unreason darkens that gap of time bridged by our lightspeed ships, and in the darkness uncertainty and disproportion grow like weeds.” - Ursula Le Guin

2026년 가을부터 서울대학교 물리학과에 조교수로 합류하게 되어 매우 기쁘게 알립니다! 저에게는 새로운 장이 될 것이며, 학과에서 이미 진행되고 있는 놀라운 연구에 새롭고 복합적이며 다양한 기여를 더하게 될 것입니다. 마지막으로, 이러한 혼란스러운 시기에 민주주의와 법치주의를 수호하는 젊지만 활기찬 문화를 포용하는 곳으로 가게 된다는 것을 말할 수 있어 안도감을 느낍니다. 새해를 앞두고 미리 건배합니다! 🥂