Hard steps, biological innovations and major evolutionary transitions:

"the timing of human origins was controlled by the sequential opening of new global environmental windows of habitability over Earth history"

#ComplexSystems 🌎🧪🌐

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing and inspiring special talk at the @cs3conference.bsky.social by our favorite Joker: our longtime friend and collaborator Alex Arenas from @urv.cat

Congrats Alex on the CSS award, you rock!!!

If you feel that BlueSky is “different“ from X, the data supports you :)

Using a network of 15M users (56% of the platform) we find that the probability that the log-normal law is wrong wrt to the power-law is just ~7%

Why that matters? Pop 🧵 follows!

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#scaling #NetSky #ComplexSystems 🧪

The physics of cacio&pepe pasta…
I wonder how many cacio&pepe the authors have enjoyed in making the study.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

🌟 We’re thrilled to introduce the lecturers of the 10th Mediterranean School of Complex Networks! #mscx25

🎓 Next up, meet Marta—Associate Professor at UC Berkeley and one of our esteemed speakers this year. Discover her story and expertise in the slides!

The results for the CompleNet 25 have been sent. If you submitted something, check your email. Also check the spam folder. Note that the results were sent to the corresponding author only! Have a good Xmas and New Year! See you in Fortaleza in 2025. #CompleNet25

🚨 New #ComplexityThoughts is out, Issue #48 🧪

As usual, here the links:

📝 Post: manlius.substack.com/p/complexity...

🎧 Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com...

👀 RSS: manlius.substack.com/feed

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I am (slowly) preparing a #ComplexityThoughts about civilizations and their decline.

I have found this article, suggesting that there are a few indicators whose increasing trend might provide early warnings.

I think it's more complicated than that. Data to suggest?

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The call for our 10th edition is open 🙃!
We trained almost 400 young researchers so far 🧑‍🔬

Can you miss one week of network science with leading network scientists in the field?
In the beautiful island of Ortigia (Sicily)?

Hurry up! Only 60 seats available, deadline 11/02/25

The call for the very special 10th Mediterranean School of Complex Networks is out! @mscxnetworks.bsky.social

This year, it will take place in Ortigia, a beautiful small island in Syracuse, Italy.

The lineup of lecturers is outstanding!
All info in the website: mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net

We have done our best to find some of our historical lecturers, contributing to the success of our School since 2014, and we have prepared a starter pack!

If you are missing, let us know! Get in touch and we will add you to the MSCX family ✨

go.bsky.app/4yU4NRG

X Vs BlueSky, Dec 2024

Hordes of unstoppable people on X, desperate for having someone to troll, throwing hate/conspiracy theories/disinformation and igniting conflicts.

This is why as a community we should work hard on BlueSky to keep this space safe: safety tools work well here, use them.

Hey everyone, the wait is almost over...it's time to gear up for the next edition of the Mediterranean School of Complex Networks!

This year brings something extraordinary, with leading scientists ready to inspire and challenge you. Stay tuned for more updates coming soon! #MSCX25 #ComplexNetworks

Hello #scaling and @bsky.app enthusiasts.

While the data gathering goes on, the sample size increases and I am saving snapshots.

Here you can see how the distributions are changing over time after moving from 40k to 540k users. Dashed lines are power laws with exp -2 and -1 for reference.

HNSW: you write the first implementation and think, wow, that was simple, just following the paper general idea. A few weeks and iterations later: wow, I had to invent half the algorithm that was missing in the paper.

With Redis 8, there is a return on investing in the community edition (the code you just download from Github), probably what made this possible is the license change. Anyway interesting new features / improvements:

redis.io/blog/redis-8...

From cybernetics, every good regulator, living or non-living, must model the system it regulates (Ashby).

Friston’s free energy principle links the mind with its world.

If (big if) regulation is cognition and cognition is survival, how do systems without minds survive?

#ComplexSystems 🧠🧪