Pirta Palola
@pirta-palola.bsky.social
Scientist and sailor | Passionate about ecology, economics, and complex systems science | PhD | University of Oxford
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What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:
Agent-based models move into the economic mainstream
In the 1980s and ’90s, SFI played laboratory to a promising new method known as agent-based modeling. In ensuing decades, agent-based models (ABMs) proliferated across many fields, including economics...
www.santafe.edu
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:
Beautiful times sailing in the Nastro Rosa double-handed offshore race in Italy this summer (Cagliari - La Maddalena - Geneva) 🌊
Many thanks to the Royal Ocean Racing Club for the opportunity!!
Many thanks to the Royal Ocean Racing Club for the opportunity!!
September 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Beautiful times sailing in the Nastro Rosa double-handed offshore race in Italy this summer (Cagliari - La Maddalena - Geneva) 🌊
Many thanks to the Royal Ocean Racing Club for the opportunity!!
Many thanks to the Royal Ocean Racing Club for the opportunity!!
What are the fundamental processes that support biodiversity? How do isolation and contact shape life on islands?
To answer these questions, we launched the Island Microbiome project. We’ve just carried out our first field expedition!! 🌊
@auraulo.bsky.social @eveliinahanski.bsky.social
To answer these questions, we launched the Island Microbiome project. We’ve just carried out our first field expedition!! 🌊
@auraulo.bsky.social @eveliinahanski.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What are the fundamental processes that support biodiversity? How do isolation and contact shape life on islands?
To answer these questions, we launched the Island Microbiome project. We’ve just carried out our first field expedition!! 🌊
@auraulo.bsky.social @eveliinahanski.bsky.social
To answer these questions, we launched the Island Microbiome project. We’ve just carried out our first field expedition!! 🌊
@auraulo.bsky.social @eveliinahanski.bsky.social
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Interested in climate change and the UK #CarbonBudget? Watch this space! @doynefarmer.bsky.social is heading up our latest project to fill evidence gaps ahead of the UK Government setting its Seventh Carbon Budget next year
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/sprint-...
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/sprint-...
Sprint to Seventh Carbon Budget Commences
A project to fill macroeconomic and distributional analysis evidence gaps has started at INET Oxford this summer.
www.inet.ox.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Interested in climate change and the UK #CarbonBudget? Watch this space! @doynefarmer.bsky.social is heading up our latest project to fill evidence gaps ahead of the UK Government setting its Seventh Carbon Budget next year
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/sprint-...
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/sprint-...
Happy to share that my second PhD chapter has been published: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Thank you to all my co-authors! @coschroeder.bsky.social
@ymalhi.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @plymouthmarine.bsky.social @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @ephe-psl.bsky.social
Thank you to all my co-authors! @coschroeder.bsky.social
@ymalhi.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @plymouthmarine.bsky.social @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @ephe-psl.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Happy to share that my second PhD chapter has been published: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Thank you to all my co-authors! @coschroeder.bsky.social
@ymalhi.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @plymouthmarine.bsky.social @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @ephe-psl.bsky.social
Thank you to all my co-authors! @coschroeder.bsky.social
@ymalhi.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @plymouthmarine.bsky.social @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @ephe-psl.bsky.social
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In Central Banking: how ABMs now support central bank policy making (after visionaries, including former Bank of England chief economist, Andrew Haldane, and @doynefarmer.bsky.social served as advocates)
centralbanking.com/central-banks/economics/macroeconomics/7972592/agent-based-models-come-of-age
centralbanking.com/central-banks/economics/macroeconomics/7972592/agent-based-models-come-of-age
Agent-based models come of age - Central Banking
Central banks are increasingly modelling the economy as a complex system
centralbanking.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In Central Banking: how ABMs now support central bank policy making (after visionaries, including former Bank of England chief economist, Andrew Haldane, and @doynefarmer.bsky.social served as advocates)
centralbanking.com/central-banks/economics/macroeconomics/7972592/agent-based-models-come-of-age
centralbanking.com/central-banks/economics/macroeconomics/7972592/agent-based-models-come-of-age