One of the most vulnerable parts of the #CriticalZone is a coastline. Especially in #hurricane season.

This story from the #USGS describes some of the ways researchers are working to better understand the #ComplexSystems that work where land meets ocean.

https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-collects-critical-information-about-storm-tides-one-most-serious-hurricane

quase todas as análises têm dois grandes defeitos(existem mais mas esses são predominantes). O primeiro é analisar todo o sistema na dimensão espacial apenas pelo presente e passado(ergodicidade quando ela não existe). O segundo é prever futuros comportamentos apenas pelos padrões do presente e do passado(sem percecionar que existe uma incerteza em sistemas complexos e as interacções não lineares deitam as bayesianices para o galheiro) #complexsystems

We need to get better at steering the complex systems around us, like the climate or the process(es) of societal consensus. One promising approach is Emergent Engineering, which I wrote a short post about at https://simplexity.quest/posts/2023-08-29-emergent-engineering.html .

All feedback welcome.

#complexsystems #engineering #emergentengineering

So happy and excited about this new paper...

“More is different in real-world multilayer networks”

just appeared in Nature Physics!

📚 Exactly one decade after our first paper on the math formulation of multilayer networks, this feels like an amazing milestone! 🥳

Special focus on biological networks, from proteins to brains, and on population dynamics.

Curious about a decade-long development of multilayer network science?
👉 read this (short) review about some of the most exciting points!

#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience

https://rdcu.be/dkALp

#Wildfire disturbances in the #CriticalZone have widespread impacts on soil and water #chemistry. Which are things members of the #BigData Cluster are very interested in.

We are among many, many researchers around the world studying these #ComplexSystems and how they function as part of a healthy critical zone.

The #USGS highlights some of this work happening in #California: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-adaptation-science-centers/news/igniting-change-evidence-based-review-california

#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal #biology #evolution #economy #incomedistribution #anthropology #culturalevolution #archeology#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal #biology #evolution #economy #incomedistribution #anthropology #culturalevolution #archeology #networkscience #complexnetworks

I am presently reading “Spatial Networks” by Marc Barthelemy. I am interested in how spatial networks differ from non-spatial ones. For a road network, measures like degree don’t work because an intersection is constrained by the number of roads that it can intersect. This is peculiar to roads but I am wondering what constraints a distance metric in general can impose on a network. Would a network including statistical or information distance be considered a spatial network? I realize that linear distance along a road is not a true distance as it doesn’t always fit the triangle inequality. I am wondering if a ratio of Euclidean distance to linear distance would somehow fix things. Does anyone care to comment?

Next week. The next #USGS Friday's Findings.

Seeing the Bigger Picture: Using Aerial Photos to Assess Tufted Puffin Habitat in Oregon

We study the #ComplexSystems of the #CriticalZone which supports all surface life on Earth. Including #puffins.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOIGS/bulletins/36b313e

We are but 1 of 9 Clusters that are part of the #CriticalZone Collaborative Network. Together we are over 300 researchers working to better understand the #ComplexSystems of the #Earth System that supports surface life on our planet.

#EnvironmentalScience

https://criticalzone.org/

At uni #research showcase presenting @c2Lab and some of our #network analysis demos, such as a dynamic network visualization tool for character recurrences in Charles Dickens' novels & a phylodynamics dashboard we developed during the early days of covid. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/itit-2017-0023/html https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021139v2 #NetworkScience #ComplexSystems #Complexity #NewZealand #Science #fediscientists #NZTwits #NZToots #NZtech

people worried about #overshootday should understand that, under current technology(and this is the conditional), if we transition to renewables too fast without other measures, that overshoot may happen sooner #complexsystems

Exciting news! 🎉 My visionary project, grounded on complexity and network science to tackle climate change, has received a 1 million euro grant from the Italian Ministry for Research, under the prestigious FIS call (kind of "Italian ERC")! 🇮🇹🔬🌍

Immense gratitude to my collaborators and our outstanding research lab members for their unwavering support. Together, we're venturing into uncharted territories, unraveling the intricate connections between #ComplexSystems and #Climate impact. Ready to embark on this scientific journey and glad it's going to start at the Università degli Studi di Padova, a place where knowledge and ideas are truly free to flourish since 1222.

#StatisticalPhysics #ClimateChange #ItalianResearchExcellence #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience

PS: Stay tuned, going to hire soon senior postdocs and PhDs.

@teelab Thank you for contributing to our growing understanding of the #ComplexSystems in the #CriticalZone.

If you are curious about the novel results published in Science and Nature by the collaboration btw Meta and US academics, you might want to read #ComplexityThoughts

I try to build some background for non-experts of #ComputationalSocialScience and summarize the main findings.

Finally, I dig into the ongoing debate, covering existing documents and my chats with Sandra González-Bailón, Sander van der Linden, Pierluigi Sacco and others

This debate might be of high interest for self-organized decentralized platforms, such as #Mastodon and the #Fediverse in general

You can read the (100% free) piece here: https://manlius.substack.com/p/are-social-media-undermining-democracy

If you find https://manlius.substack.com/ useful, please subscribe. It is (and will always be) free.

#SocialMedia #Democracy #DigitalDemocracy #DigitalPublicHealth #ComplexSystems #Complexity #HumanBehavior

New preprint:

"On the information-theoretic formulation of network participation".

We develop on an information theoretic formulation of nodal
connection diversity.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12556

#networks #complexsystems

#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal #biology #evolution #economy #incomedistribution #anthropology #culturalevolution #archeology

https://wjbeaver.wixsite.com/mysite/post/mixed-species-foraging-in-birds

Following up a previous post about the topic, here there is the second (and maybe the last one) essay. What is the technological singularity and is this a real issue? Again, a perspective from #complexity #science, with a travel through #cybernetics, slime molds and black-hole computers.

Share your #ComplexityThoughts!

#AI #Artificial #Intelligence #ComplexSystems

https://manlius.substack.com/p/from-science-fiction-to-science-facts

Very cool - a new open-access journal for peer reviewed science on #complexsystems , by PLOS

https://plos.org/complex-systems-research-journal/

@solderandchaos just finished first year! Getting a PhD in computational neuroscience with work focused on using Machine Learning to understand substance abuse trends as well as understanding the general aspects of cognition from a #complexsystems perspective

I have just posted my first short essay about a complexity science perspective on emergent abilities in AI, specifically current large language models.

There will be a follow up in the next days.
#ComplexityThoughts #ComplexSystems #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

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https://manlius.substack.com/p/navigating-the-transformative-potential

How disturbances (storms, wildfires, floods, droughts) affect the #ComplexSystems in the #CriticalZone is what the members of the #BigData Cluster study.

An overview from #University of #Vermont based Julia Perdrial.

https://youtu.be/T5BCSF6jFfU