Chris
@survifit.bsky.social
Love books, dogs, and mountains. Searching for the intersection of complex systems research and community resilience in the face of both acute and chronic disasters.
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Chris
@survifit.bsky.social
· Mar 8
What Jon learned while he was away #shorts
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Reality is complex and good public policy is a matter of grinding to gain and protect every inch. Despair comes easy these days, but we must stay positive, keep moving, and take care of ourselves and those around us. #strongertogether
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I wrote a little bit about this in my book The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom in the chapter about cyber and knowledge commons. People contribute to "pure public goods" (non-rival, non-exclusive) for a variety of reasons: reputation, community, fun, etc. Same with sharing code on GitHub.
July 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I wrote a little bit about this in my book The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom in the chapter about cyber and knowledge commons. People contribute to "pure public goods" (non-rival, non-exclusive) for a variety of reasons: reputation, community, fun, etc. Same with sharing code on GitHub.
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How do fleeting experiences become lasting memories?
Initially, your hippocampus and cortex work together, but over time, the cortex assumes control. Check this excellent @cshlpress.bsky.social paper on Memory Consolidation
cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/7/8/...
Initially, your hippocampus and cortex work together, but over time, the cortex assumes control. Check this excellent @cshlpress.bsky.social paper on Memory Consolidation
cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/7/8/...
July 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
How do fleeting experiences become lasting memories?
Initially, your hippocampus and cortex work together, but over time, the cortex assumes control. Check this excellent @cshlpress.bsky.social paper on Memory Consolidation
cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/7/8/...
Initially, your hippocampus and cortex work together, but over time, the cortex assumes control. Check this excellent @cshlpress.bsky.social paper on Memory Consolidation
cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/7/8/...
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New preprint: “Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides”, with @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, Martina Contisciani, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503
Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides
Migration is central in various societal problems related to socioeconomic development. While much of the existing research has focused on international migration, migration patterns within a single c...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New preprint: “Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides”, with @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, Martina Contisciani, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503
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What can be predicted when dealing with the real world? What are the limits of prediction? Watch this fantastic talk by @evamirandag.bsky.social on the nature of undecidability. With Turing, fluid turbulence, computation, chaos theory and ... rubber ducks www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJ8...
July 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What can be predicted when dealing with the real world? What are the limits of prediction? Watch this fantastic talk by @evamirandag.bsky.social on the nature of undecidability. With Turing, fluid turbulence, computation, chaos theory and ... rubber ducks www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJ8...
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"Questioning is the way of learning,"
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Questioning is the way of learning,"
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
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How did human language emerge? A key step was combining sounds into words, shifting from analog to digital to overcome error thresholds. Fascinating paper with deep ties to Shannon’s coding theory. @sfiscience.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
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July 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
How did human language emerge? A key step was combining sounds into words, shifting from analog to digital to overcome error thresholds. Fascinating paper with deep ties to Shannon’s coding theory. @sfiscience.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Our hearts are heavy as we witness the devastating impact of the Texas floods. The loss of life and destruction are truly heartbreaking.
We are working with our partners to meet communities' needs, including providing shelter, food, relief supplies, and mental health and reunification support. 1/4
We are working with our partners to meet communities' needs, including providing shelter, food, relief supplies, and mental health and reunification support. 1/4
July 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our hearts are heavy as we witness the devastating impact of the Texas floods. The loss of life and destruction are truly heartbreaking.
We are working with our partners to meet communities' needs, including providing shelter, food, relief supplies, and mental health and reunification support. 1/4
We are working with our partners to meet communities' needs, including providing shelter, food, relief supplies, and mental health and reunification support. 1/4
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How do ant colonies perform computations? What kind of dynamical state allows them to do it? It has already been 30 years since my colleague, Octavio Miramontes, and I suggested that they, as liquid neural networks, might exploit critical states. Check: hal.elte.hu/~vicsek/down...
July 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
How do ant colonies perform computations? What kind of dynamical state allows them to do it? It has already been 30 years since my colleague, Octavio Miramontes, and I suggested that they, as liquid neural networks, might exploit critical states. Check: hal.elte.hu/~vicsek/down...
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(🚨) This is as important a report as PROOF has ever published, here on the brink of a war that quite possibly became inevitable—and by design—many, many years ago.
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Is Indisputably the Co-Author of the Israeli War Against Iran—and His Iran Plot is Easily the Most Significant Betrayal of His MAGA Voters Yet
One thing MAGAs agree on is that MAGAism opposes the US becoming involved in any new foreign wars. But the available evidence now confirms—beyond any doubt—that Trump planned the current war in Iran.
sethabramson.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
(🚨) This is as important a report as PROOF has ever published, here on the brink of a war that quite possibly became inevitable—and by design—many, many years ago.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell).
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
arxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell).
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
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New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages - Nature Human Behaviour
Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.
www.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
June 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
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(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has *lots* of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).
Over 250 Photos From Around the Nation and the World From the Historic “No Kings Day” Protests
Almost no one showed up to Donald Trump’s surprisingly timid, depressing, and generally lackluster birthday party in Washington, but protests against him were bursting at the seams across the globe.
sethabramson.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has *lots* of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).
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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.
That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
June 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.
That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
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Can’t believe Trump’s Republican tariffs – the ones tanking the economy – are based on a fake economic advisor.
Literally a made-up person. @maddow.msnbc.com broke it down brilliantly.
Watch it. Share it. This BS needs to be seen. (1/4)
Literally a made-up person. @maddow.msnbc.com broke it down brilliantly.
Watch it. Share it. This BS needs to be seen. (1/4)
April 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Can’t believe Trump’s Republican tariffs – the ones tanking the economy – are based on a fake economic advisor.
Literally a made-up person. @maddow.msnbc.com broke it down brilliantly.
Watch it. Share it. This BS needs to be seen. (1/4)
Literally a made-up person. @maddow.msnbc.com broke it down brilliantly.
Watch it. Share it. This BS needs to be seen. (1/4)
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Coalition building is not the same as pandering to people's worst bigotries in the hopes they'll like you.
March 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Coalition building is not the same as pandering to people's worst bigotries in the hopes they'll like you.
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It's easy to feel like we're giving up our country without a fight.
But don't be deceived by polls & media gaslighting. There is a groundswell of resistance rising. The "Fight Oligarchy" tour just packed 15K seats in AZ. We will take our country back
Goodnight friends. Keep the faith✊Get some rest
But don't be deceived by polls & media gaslighting. There is a groundswell of resistance rising. The "Fight Oligarchy" tour just packed 15K seats in AZ. We will take our country back
Goodnight friends. Keep the faith✊Get some rest
March 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's easy to feel like we're giving up our country without a fight.
But don't be deceived by polls & media gaslighting. There is a groundswell of resistance rising. The "Fight Oligarchy" tour just packed 15K seats in AZ. We will take our country back
Goodnight friends. Keep the faith✊Get some rest
But don't be deceived by polls & media gaslighting. There is a groundswell of resistance rising. The "Fight Oligarchy" tour just packed 15K seats in AZ. We will take our country back
Goodnight friends. Keep the faith✊Get some rest
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🧵Today is #InternationalWomensDay - an opportunity to celebrate groundbreaking achievements by women in science like Dr. Elinor Ostrom, whose work and life is inspiring to many around the world in environmental, economic, and political sciences. 1/5
March 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🧵Today is #InternationalWomensDay - an opportunity to celebrate groundbreaking achievements by women in science like Dr. Elinor Ostrom, whose work and life is inspiring to many around the world in environmental, economic, and political sciences. 1/5
Reality is complex and good public policy is a matter of grinding to gain and protect every inch. Despair comes easy these days, but we must stay positive, keep moving, and take care of ourselves and those around us. #strongertogether
youtube.com/shorts/n8LjL...
youtube.com/shorts/n8LjL...
What Jon learned while he was away #shorts
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Reality is complex and good public policy is a matter of grinding to gain and protect every inch. Despair comes easy these days, but we must stay positive, keep moving, and take care of ourselves and those around us. #strongertogether
youtube.com/shorts/n8LjL...
youtube.com/shorts/n8LjL...