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If your complexity model ends with a tidy conclusion, it isn’t complexity. We end our Atlas unfinished! Incompleteness isn’t failure. It’s method. It’s imagination. It’s the only honest map we've got. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 32: The Unfinished Space
QUICK OVERVIEW AND LINKS TO THE OTHER THEMES AND CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK We come, finally, to the last chapter of the At...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
If your complexity model ends with a tidy conclusion, it isn’t complexity. We end our Atlas unfinished! Incompleteness isn’t failure. It’s method. It’s imagination. It’s the only honest map we've got. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet
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According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
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July 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
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Encouraging results from another low emission / clean zone, this time Newcastle...
BBC News - Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year - BBC News
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BBC News - Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year - BBC News
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Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year
New data shows a 9% fall in nitrogen dioxide levels from 2023 to 2024.
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June 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Encouraging results from another low emission / clean zone, this time Newcastle...
BBC News - Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The present future of methods research is applied complexity. The Atlas, Ch30, explores these methods, from case-based to systems mapping to trajectory QCA. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 30: Mapping the new methodological terrain
QUICK OVERVIEW AND LINKS TO THE OTHER THEMES AND CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK The first major content theme in T he Atlas of ...
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June 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The present future of methods research is applied complexity. The Atlas, Ch30, explores these methods, from case-based to systems mapping to trajectory QCA. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Ch29 Atlas: Complex Causality. Most models flatten social life into neat causes and effects. Real complexity is tangled, temporal. Drop the clockwork. Think in cases. Trace feedback. Embrace the mess. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 29: Revisiting Complex Causality
QUICK OVERVIEW AND LINKS TO THE OTHER THEMES AND CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK The first major content theme in T he Atlas o...
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May 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Ch29 Atlas: Complex Causality. Most models flatten social life into neat causes and effects. Real complexity is tangled, temporal. Drop the clockwork. Think in cases. Trace feedback. Embrace the mess. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Computational models have their place, but social complexity demands a wider modelling platform, including qualitative and mixed methods, all grounded in the ontological messiness of social reality. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social r sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 28: Make Love, Not Models
QUICK OVERVIEW AND LINKS TO THE OTHER THEMES AND CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK The first major content theme in T he Atlas of So...
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May 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Computational models have their place, but social complexity demands a wider modelling platform, including qualitative and mixed methods, all grounded in the ontological messiness of social reality. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social r sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
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Finland just seems to get it right - education, housing. #TaxTheRich #ClassWar
April 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Finland just seems to get it right - education, housing. #TaxTheRich #ClassWar
Final Atlas theme: methods. From critically engaging computation to embracing systems mapping, QCA, & complex realism, we ask: can our methods meet the complexity challenge? Not yet, but we're close. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 27: Theme 5, Methods
The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first the...
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April 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Final Atlas theme: methods. From critically engaging computation to embracing systems mapping, QCA, & complex realism, we ask: can our methods meet the complexity challenge? Not yet, but we're close. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Resilience isn’t just bouncing back. It’s co-evolving, adapting, transforming. We live inside socioecological systems. Our survival and well-being depend on their resilience. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 26: Resilience and all that Jazz
The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first theme includes six cha...
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April 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Resilience isn’t just bouncing back. It’s co-evolving, adapting, transforming. We live inside socioecological systems. Our survival and well-being depend on their resilience. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...
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🆕 Handbook of Trust and Social Psychology, edited by Kenneth J. Rotenberg, Serena Petrocchi, Annalisa Levante and Flavia Lecciso
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#SocialPsychology #HealthPsychology
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March 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🆕 Handbook of Trust and Social Psychology, edited by Kenneth J. Rotenberg, Serena Petrocchi, Annalisa Levante and Flavia Lecciso
Free content is available at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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#SocialPsychology #HealthPsychology
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This looks good:
Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research
www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...
Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research
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Call for papers
Call for papers, Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research. Two-day workshop for 10 November 2025 at LSE.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Economies aren’t machines seeking balance; they're living systems in disequilibrium: adaptive, entangled, unpredictable. Complexity economics doesn’t fix old models. It re-imagines the system entirely. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 25: Economics in an unstable world
The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first the...
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March 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Economies aren’t machines seeking balance; they're living systems in disequilibrium: adaptive, entangled, unpredictable. Complexity economics doesn’t fix old models. It re-imagines the system entirely. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
CH24 Atlas: Policy chases simple fixes for complex problems. Wicked problems aren’t puzzles, they’re living systems. Think adaptively, act collectively, & embrace complexity as a tool, not theory. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 24: The Challenges of Applying Complexity
The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first the...
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March 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
CH24 Atlas: Policy chases simple fixes for complex problems. Wicked problems aren’t puzzles, they’re living systems. Think adaptively, act collectively, & embrace complexity as a tool, not theory. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Looking forward to presenting at the Imaginary Institute on The Atlas of Social Complexity clea.research.vub.be/clea-seminar...
CLEA SEMINAR & IMAGINARY INSTITUTE. The Atlas of Social Complexity
In the upcoming CLEA x ii seminar session, we invite Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits to explore their seminal work, The Atlas of Social Complexity. We will focus on their final chapter, The
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March 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Looking forward to presenting at the Imaginary Institute on The Atlas of Social Complexity clea.research.vub.be/clea-seminar...
Complexity scientists: stop acting like policy is a physics problem. Wicked problems aren’t just complex; they're political. Engage power, irrationality, and governance to be useful. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 23: Governance, Politics and Technocracy
The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first theme includes six cha...
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March 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Complexity scientists: stop acting like policy is a physics problem. Wicked problems aren’t just complex; they're political. Engage power, irrationality, and governance to be useful. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
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🎙️ @complexcase.bsky.social and @lassegerrits.bsky.social discuss their title, The Atlas of Social Complexity, on Peter Erdi's podcast
Listen here: youtu.be/FYWoruE27Uo?...
#SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #ComplexityScience
Listen here: youtu.be/FYWoruE27Uo?...
#SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #ComplexityScience
Atlas of Social Complexity: Podcast with the authors: Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits
YouTube video by Peter Erdi
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February 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🎙️ @complexcase.bsky.social and @lassegerrits.bsky.social discuss their title, The Atlas of Social Complexity, on Peter Erdi's podcast
Listen here: youtu.be/FYWoruE27Uo?...
#SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #ComplexityScience
Listen here: youtu.be/FYWoruE27Uo?...
#SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #ComplexityScience
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🔔 Out now: Learning, Digital Skills, and the Global South, by Jeffrey James of @tilburg-university.bsky.social
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#DevelopmentEconomics #InnovationEconomics #InformationTechnology
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February 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🔔 Out now: Learning, Digital Skills, and the Global South, by Jeffrey James of @tilburg-university.bsky.social
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#DevelopmentEconomics #InnovationEconomics #InformationTechnology
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NEW: Families with Children in a Turbulent Era edited by Katja Repo, @miatammelin.bsky.social and Petteri Eerola
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#Education #SocialPolicy #Parents #Children #COVID
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February 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
NEW: Families with Children in a Turbulent Era edited by Katja Repo, @miatammelin.bsky.social and Petteri Eerola
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Endorsement by @ktwamley.bsky.social
#Education #SocialPolicy #Parents #Children #COVID
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No one better than @weissmann11.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Andrew Weissman and Jen Rubin on crumbling rule of law in America
Former General Counsel for the FBI Andrew Weissmann and Jen Rubin give an update on the criminal proceedings against Eric Adams and discuss the naming of right-wing influencer Dan Bongino as Deputy Di...
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February 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Looking forward to this event! Gente de Chile, pueden conectarse a este evento mediante la CDI TV! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
February 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Looking forward to this event! Gente de Chile, pueden conectarse a este evento mediante la CDI TV! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
February 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
Digital space/time intertwine with the urban, impacting how we plan, model, live. This “space of flows” reinforces megacities as central nodes, deepens inequalities, & reshapes mobility. See CH21 of Atlas @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 21: The Local and the Global: The Complexities of Place
As I stated in my previous posts, The Atlas of Social Complexity is comprised of several content themes. The first majo...
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February 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Digital space/time intertwine with the urban, impacting how we plan, model, live. This “space of flows” reinforces megacities as central nodes, deepens inequalities, & reshapes mobility. See CH21 of Atlas @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
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With new runways on the agenda I thought it was time to revisit the emerging and established evidence on UFP from airports. One from my back catalogue with links to lots of studies.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Children near Amsterdam airport use inhalers more, study finds
Results show increase in symptoms such as wheeziness in presence of high aviation-related ultrafine particles
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January 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
With new runways on the agenda I thought it was time to revisit the emerging and established evidence on UFP from airports. One from my back catalogue with links to lots of studies.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...