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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 17d

We are hosting the second IC2SMA2 again in Pune/Lavasa next year! Check out the amazing venue and the keynote speakers:
ic2sma2.christuniversity.in

Paper submission deadline: October 30th, 2025

IC2SMA2-2026

ic2sma2.christuniversity.in

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

Simons Foundation | Simons Collaborations Grant in Ecology and Evolution

Application deadline: October 16

#Grant #Funding #Sponsor #Ecology #Evolution #Collaboration ./18

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Simons Foundation Simons Collaborations Grant in Ecology and Evolution

Our goal is to bring together groups of outstanding scientists to address topics of fundamental scientific importance, with a focus on fields in which significant new developments have created novel o...

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

International Conference on Complex Systems Modeling, Analysis & Applications 2026

Submission deadline: October 30

#Conference #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Modeling #Analysis #Applications ./17

amahury.github.io/posts/IC2SMA...

International Conference on Complex Systems Modeling, Analysis & Applications 2026

By integrating insights from systems science, mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, social sciences, psychology, healthcare, education, and many others, we seek to advance understandi...

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

4th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Complex Systems

Submission deadline: October 30

#CSS #Conference #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience ./16

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4th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Complex Systems

We are pleased to announce the upcoming meeting of the Spanish Society of Complex Systems, January 21-23 (2026) at Doñana Biological Station and University of Seville.

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

Binghamton University | Assistant Professor of Discrete Mathematics

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

#Faculty #Math #AI #ML #QuantumInformation #Job ./15

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Binghamton University Assistant Professor of Discrete Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Binghamton University invites applications for a tenure-track position as a Simons Empire Faculty Fellow to begin in Fall 2026 at the rank of Assistant ...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 19h

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 19h

It is finally out! Have you ever wanted to get into information theory, complexity, and networks? If so, this is the paper for you: a comprehensive tutorial review on information theory for complexity scientists specifically.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Information theory for complex systems scientists: What, why, and how

In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social · 21h

Reminder: Sidi's CoCo talk tomorrow!

Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social · 12d

Next CoCo seminar by Sidi Deng on October 15th!

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

Simons Foundation | Simons Collaborations Grant in Ecology and Evolution

Application deadline: October 16

#Grant #Funding #Sponsor #Ecology #Evolution #Collaboration ./18

amahury.github.io/posts/simons...

Simons Foundation Simons Collaborations Grant in Ecology and Evolution

Our goal is to bring together groups of outstanding scientists to address topics of fundamental scientific importance, with a focus on fields in which significant new developments have created novel o...

amahury.github.io

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

International Conference on Complex Systems Modeling, Analysis & Applications 2026

Submission deadline: October 30

#Conference #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Modeling #Analysis #Applications ./17

amahury.github.io/posts/IC2SMA...

International Conference on Complex Systems Modeling, Analysis & Applications 2026

By integrating insights from systems science, mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, social sciences, psychology, healthcare, education, and many others, we seek to advance understandi...

amahury.github.io

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

4th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Complex Systems

Submission deadline: October 30

#CSS #Conference #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience ./16

amahury.github.io/posts/4th-me...

4th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Complex Systems

We are pleased to announce the upcoming meeting of the Spanish Society of Complex Systems, January 21-23 (2026) at Doñana Biological Station and University of Seville.

amahury.github.io

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

Binghamton University | Assistant Professor of Discrete Mathematics

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

#Faculty #Math #AI #ML #QuantumInformation #Job ./15

amahury.github.io/posts/assist...

Binghamton University Assistant Professor of Discrete Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Binghamton University invites applications for a tenure-track position as a Simons Empire Faculty Fellow to begin in Fall 2026 at the rank of Assistant ...

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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine you are an ant. You are close to the ground, have pretty poor eyesight, and can’t see all that far ahead of you. How are you going to find your way back home?

Turns out ants and other insects navigate by a property of light humans can’t even see.

1/7 ⚛️🧪

A close-up image of an ant, eyes prominent, mandibles open and ready for action.

Image credit Egor Kamelev via Pexels, public domain

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent opportunity at a fantastic institute with one of our best PIs.

Ⓙⓐⓥⓘⓔⓡ🇵🇸 Ⓑⓤⓒⓔⓣⓐ🇺🇦🇪🇺 @javierbuceta.bsky.social · 1d

🚨JOB ALERT

Dr. Buceta at @i2sysbio.es welcome applications for 36-month postdocs on:

👉 Mechanical markers of tissue dysfunction due to ageing – digital twins & machine learning

Details here: fgcsic.es/convocatoria...
📩 Contact [email protected] to shape your proposal!

@epimechfc.bsky.social

ComFuturo Fourth Edition: ComFuturo iAGE Call - FGCSIC

The Fundación General CSIC (FGCSIC) launches the fourth edition of its ComFuturo programme: ComFuturo iAGE, a postdoctoral initiative co-financed by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme of...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 11d

But wait, hasn’t physics shown the world really IS deterministic? Well, no, not at all – not at quantum levels and not at classical levels either. arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672

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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 1d

This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑‍🔬

- Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social
- Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social
- Alexander Mordvintsev
- Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social
- Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social
- Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social
- Susan Stepney

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COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025 @cna25.bsky.social · 3d

We are a week away from our early bird registration deadline.⌛️

What are you waiting for? Register today and join us in Binghamton (NY🇺🇸) for the best event in #NetworkScience and #ComplexSystems!

This is a perfect opportunity to ‘connect’ with experts on the subject.😉

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 3d

Moreover, AGI might also require social interactions to become a reality, where cultural evolution (and extended mind) play a major role. It is not by chance that brain and culture evolved together, allowing complex minds to emerge @anilseth.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 3d

An evolutionary perspective is much required to truly understand consciousness, how it originates and what clases we might find. We proposed a space of possible cognitions and did a comparative analysis

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 3d

Can general artificial intelligence emerge by not following the evolution of complex brains? In this 2022 paper with @brigan.bsky.social we argued that embodiment, mind reading (mirror systems), mental time traveling... are necessary conditions
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24... @anilseth.bsky.social

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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 4d

Swipe up to try a new variant on Conway's Game of Life. And another. And another. This is how artificial-life researchers spread the joy after the #ALIFE2025 conference! They say it's like TikTok, but I wouldn't know.... ⚙️🧫 rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=7... #cellularautomata #gameoflife

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Every time you say your chatbot
"thinks, reasons, means, understands, creates"
a little kitten dies.

And every time you say
"AI agent"
a whole species of cute furry animals goes extinct.

SO. JUST. DON'T!

Algorithms have no agency,
don't think, don't […]

[Original post on spore.social]

Page 1 of Spotlight 1.1 of the UNDP Report 2025.

Title: Humans have agency, algorithms do not
Author: Johannes Jaeger

Page 2 of Spotlight 1.1 of the UNDP Report 2025.

Title: Humans have agency, algorithms do not
Author: Johannes Jaeger

Page 3 of Spotlight 1.1 of the UNDP Report 2025.

Title: Humans have agency, algorithms do not
Author: Johannes Jaeger

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Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.bsky.social · May 2

Why cellular computations challenge our design principles.

We write about computational theory, information, living cells, complexity, computers, evolution... I really enjoyed writing this piece on #biocomputation. Kudos to Lewis & Bruno. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 5d

And this is how #ALIFE2025 ends! See you next year in Waterloo, Canada for #ALIFE2026!

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 5d

Hey #ALIFE2025 people! Have you heard of Assembly Theory? A month ago, I wrote a good, objective essay summarizing AT's contributions, limitations, and possible improvements. It's perfect if you don't want to read all the critiques and counter-critiques that have been written!

Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · Sep 12

As a promising avenue for unifying physics and biology, assembly theory (AT) has been subject of controversy, being both praised and refuted at the same time.

What is its current status? Has it really quantified selection and evolution?/1

#complexitycat🐈‍⬛

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Demystifying Assembly Theory

“It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or what his name is … If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there...

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