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February 23, 2:19 PM
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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. It's part of the Max Planck Society, the internationally renowned German research society.
More at: www.demogr.mpg.de
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February 12, 3:11 PM
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The Complex Systems Society (CSS) organizes every year the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS), the flagship annual meeting of the international complexity science community.
The CSS hereby invites bids to host the 2028 edition of CCS.
The conference is typically held in September–October and is intended to be primarily an in-person event, in order to preserve the value of direct interaction and collective discussion that characterize CCS. Hybrid formats may nevertheless be considered in a limited form, in particular to ensure inclusivity for participants who are unable to travel.
Interested organizing teams are invited to submit a proposal document outlining their bid.
More at: cssociety.org
The Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health is currently seeking to appoint one or more full-time post-doctoral researchers. We welcome applications from researchers with a PhD in demography, sociology, statistics, epidemiology, public health, biology, anthropology, economics, computer science, and allied fields. The successful candidate(s) will work on the role of genetic factors in shaping health inequalities, and/or they will develop novel techniques for leveraging genetic data. We are also open to applicants interested in the other research themes of the Center (family and health, health inequalities in an international perspective), and in other topics covered in the Department Social Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), including fertility, mortality and morbidity, and labor markets. The successful candidate(s) will develop their own agenda within the Center, and they will contribute their skills and knowledge to other projects in the Center and to the MPIDR. We are seeking creative, self-driven, and collaborative scholars. Advanced knowledge of quantitative methods and statistical software such as R, Python, or Stata is required. Read the full call at: www.demogr.mpg.de
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August 6, 2025 3:38 AM
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The Santa Fe Institute is now accepting applications for the 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships! Complexity fellows contribute to SFI’s research and collaborate with leading researchers worldwide. If you recently completed your PhD in any scientific discipline and are interested in transdisciplinary research, consider applying. SFI offers independent research opportunities and support to explore big questions across disciplines.
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March 5, 2025 10:36 AM
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Submission Deadlines:
Abstracts: 01 April 2025
Full Papers: 01 August 2025
Publication: March-April 2026 Cybernetics and systems education have long played a vital role in understanding complex, purposeful and adaptive systems. With the advent of next generation artificial intelligence and with the vast range of complex socio-technical systems that require collective transformation, cybernetic and systems principles have only become more relevant. There is a growing, transnational need for education programs to prepare the current and next generation to operate within and beyond these frameworks. This special issue seeks to bring together educators, researchers and practitioners to explore the past, present, and future of cybernetics and systems education. We aim to examine how cybernetic concepts and systems thinking have been previously and/or are currently integrated into educational paradigms, showcase novel approaches to teaching these principles, and envision transformative methodologies that may shape the future of cybernetics and systems education. Through this special issue we seek to create and promote a transnational network to further cybernetic and cybernetically informed systems education. Read the full article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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March 2, 2025 9:45 PM
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Complexity and Networks COmmunity and REsources (CORE) is an organization dedicated to connecting scientists and organizations in the fields of Complexity and Network Science. We enhance collaboration among organizations that organize talks, seminars, and events, and we collect all conference and job application deadlines to create a hub where scientists can find relevant news and information. On this page, you will find information about the organizations and contributors involved in this project. CORE Members: NetPlace, yrCSS, WiNS, Complexity Cat, WWCS, Complexity72h. More at: complexity-core.github.io
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February 23, 2025 9:28 PM
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The scientific community is increasingly aware of the profound challenges associated with research evaluation, particularly the reliance on quantitative journal metrics such as the impact factor as proxies for scientific quality. These practices have entrenched a system where researchers are compelled to publish in high-cost, high-impact journals to advance their careers, often at the expense of broader scientific contributions. Despite the growing adoption of initiatives like DORA (https://sfdora.org), Plan S (https://www.coalition-s.org), CoARA (https://coara.eu), or PEER Community (https://peercommunityin.org), which aim to reform research assessment and promote open science, progress has been slow, and deeply-ingrained evaluation schemes still dominate. Thus, initiatives that support dissemination of knowledge (outreach, extension), data curation and sharing, research in non-academic contexts (which is more “messy”, difficult to conduct) and in response to real-world needs and with impact is not sufficiently valued. These issues are compounded by the dominance of commercial publishers, whose exorbitant article processing charges (APCs) and profit-driven models exploit the academic community creating inequalities, fostering an unsustainable and unfair publishing system that threatens the very preservation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge. Read the full article at: cssociety.org
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February 2, 2025 4:45 PM
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January 28, 2025 3:40 PM
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The Complex Systems Seminar Series covers a wide range of topics, providing an opportunity for presenters to share and attendees to become exposed to the latest research from different fields and disciplines.
Agent-based simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, genetic algorithms, machine learning, neural networks, signal processing, social networks, system dynamics, and science itself are just a few of the many diverse topics that have been presented, all in an informal environment where questions and discussion are encouraged. Schedule at: www.pdx.edu
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January 5, 2025 5:10 PM
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The CCS is the flagship annual meeting for the complex systems research community, operating within the framework of the Complex Systems Society. This special 21st anniversary conference is organized within the University of Siena (Siena, Italy), in the magnificent Unesco Heritage City of Siena. Previous editions took place in London/Exeter 2024, Salvador de Bahia 2023, Palma de Mallorca 2022,Lyon 2021, Online 2020, Singapore 2019, Thessaloniki 2018 and Cancun 2017. More at: www.congressi.unisi.it
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December 4, 2024 2:43 PM
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Explore the world of complexity science with NECSI’s Winter Session 2025. This specially designed course offers an in-depth understanding of complex systems, combining theoretical foundations with real-world applications. Whether you aim to deepen your expertise or begin a new intellectual journey, this program provides a comprehensive and academically rigorous exploration of the field.
Course Dates: 10-21 February 2025
Details at: necsi.edu
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October 31, 2024 4:52 PM
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Do you have a great research idea but need the right people to bring it to life? Help us make Complexity72h an unforgettable experience again by applying to be a tutor in Madrid next June. The call for tutors is now open!
We’re looking for project proposals from experienced researchers to be developed over 72 hours by a team of 6-8 workshop participants.
Deadline for Call for Tutors: January 7th, 2025
More at: complexity72h.com
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February 20, 8:10 PM
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The yrCSS Advisory Board is composed of six members and is partially renewed every year. This year, there are three vacant places with a mandate of two years. We are therefore looking for motivated early-career researchers who wish to be a part of the Advisory Board. Please, consider applying and/or spreading this call. Application deadline: February 28th Voting: March 1-15th More at: yrcss.cssociety.org
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February 17, 2:10 PM
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Complexity72h is a cross-disciplinary workshop where young researchers work in small interdisciplinary teams on a real research project in complex systems over 72 intense hours. 📍 June 21–26, 2026 | Northeastern University London
👩🔬 Open to Master’s students, PhD students, and postdocs
📌 Application deadline: February 28th, 2026 Registration fee: €710 (includes 5 nights accommodation, workshop facilities, coffee breaks, lunches, invited lectures, and social events). More information and applications: https://complexity72h.com
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December 4, 2025 4:30 PM
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Complex systems fascinate because of the way dynamic microscopic interactions give rise to striking, often unexpected macroscopic structures: convection cells in fluids, patterns in ecosystems, networks in societies, and organization in biology. What unites these diverse examples is the deep link between how the agents in systems move and what structure emerges. While diverse approaches have been proposed, in addition, a unifying language may lie in variational principles and optimal control in stochastic and dissipative regimes which can offer a powerful language for understanding this interplay. Action principles are among the most unifying ideas in science: from Lagrangian mechanics to quantum field theory, they describe how nature selects pathways. The stochastic-dissipative extensions of the principle of least action in the form of path integrals, such as by Onsager-Machlup and more recent versions provide a natural framework for describing how agents and processes, obeying fundamental physical laws, select the most probable and efficient pathways under constraints. These pathways not only govern system dynamics but also generate—and are constrained by—emergent structures. Feedback between dynamics and structure thus shapes evolution, with frozen accidents and historical contingencies balanced against tendencies toward action-efficient configurations. If dynamics select the most probable, efficient pathways, then structure itself may be seen as the lasting imprint of such pathways. Can such principles also help explain the emergence of complexity? This Collection aims to gather theoretical, computational, and empirical contributions that advance the use of variational principles to explain and predict structure–dynamics interplay in complex systems. By doing so, we hope to move toward general non-equilibrium thermodynamics capable of grounding complexity science in physics while connecting to diverse domains of application. Contributions are welcome across disciplines, from mathematics and physics to biology, engineering, and social sciences. Themes may include, but are not limited to: - Stochastic and dissipative formulations of variational principles.
- Path integrals and optimal control.
- Structure formation in non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
- Agent-based simulations and computational models.
- Empirical case studies from physical, chemical, biological, or social systems.
- Comparative perspectives with non-variational approaches.
The aim is to advance a physics-grounded framework for understanding how complex structures emerge and persist under dynamic constraints. The objective of this Collection is to foster dialogue among researchers working on different manifestations of the same fundamental questions: How do dynamics give rise to structure, how structure determines dynamics, and how can variational principles provide the key to understanding this process across scales and systems? Can variational pathways explain the emergence of complex structures from dynamics across nature and society? More at: www.nature.com
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September 10, 2025 9:29 AM
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The Evolving Landscape of Complex Systems is a curated special collection in npj Complexity inspired by themes explored at the Conference on Complex Systems 2025 (CCS25). This collection consolidates emerging advances in theory, methodologies, and applications across the multifaceted area of complexity science. It seeks contributions that span the full spectrum - from novel computational frameworks and multiscale analyses to domain-adaptive models and novel complexity science applications - reflecting the discipline’s rapid evolution.
This collection invites novel research that explores:
Conceptual foundations and theory: advancements in network science, emergent dynamics, agent-based modelling, nonlinear systems, and adaptive behaviours, providing refined lenses for interpreting complex phenomena.
Cross-scale integration and robustness: studies elucidating how micro-level interactions scale up to macro-level patterns, resilience, and adaptation in systems spanning biological, social, technological, and ecological networks.
Computational innovation: cutting-edge analytical and computational methods - ranging from data-driven approaches and AI-augmented modelling to novel simulations and multilevel inference - that enhance the understanding and manipulation of complex systems.
Interdisciplinary and application-oriented research: compelling case studies where complexity science addresses urgent global challenges - such as pandemics, misinformation, climate change, socioeconomic inequality, inclusivity and diversity, and governance - demonstrating adaptability and societal relevance.
Submissions are welcomed from all researchers working in complexity science, regardless of conference participation. More at: www.nature.com
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April 10, 2025 10:40 AM
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For decades Hiroki Sayama has sought to achieve what a century ago would have been mere science fiction—creating life on our computers. Read the full article at: amahury.github.io
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March 5, 2025 10:10 AM
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The goal of this course is to help produce a community of leaders that is equally knowledgeable in neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science and will lead the scientific understanding of intelligence and the development of true biologically inspired AI. Course/Program Dates:
Aug 03, 2025 - Aug 24, 2025
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Mar 24, 2025 The basis of intelligence – how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how to endow machines with human-like intelligence – is arguably the greatest problem in science and technology. To solve it, we will need to understand how natural intelligence emerges from computations in neural circuits, with rigor sufficient to reproduce similar intelligent behavior in machines. Success in this endeavor will ultimately enable us to understand ourselves better, to produce smarter machines, and perhaps even to make ourselves smarter. Today’s AI technologies are impressive but quite different from human intelligence. We still do not understand the mechanisms underlying the robustness, the generalization, and the continual learning capabilities of biological intelligence. The synergistic combination of cognitive science, neurobiology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science holds the promise of significant progress. Elucidating how human intelligence works will in turn lead to more sophisticated AI algorithms. The goal of this course is to help produce a community of leaders that is equally knowledgeable in neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science and will lead the scientific understanding of intelligence and the development of true biologically inspired AI. Apply at: www.mbl.edu
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February 25, 2025 2:28 PM
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EPJ Data Science Submission deadline 31 July 2025 Digital, information and communication technologies, together with Big Data, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence, are reshaping almost every aspect of our societies. From traffic to logistics, from mobility to smart cities and societies, much of this gears towards more predictability, controllability, and automation, using digital twins and many other approaches. Optimizing performance, sustainability, resilience, and health are often stated goals. But what roles will complexity and collective intelligence, democracy and human rights, ethics, agency and freedom, co-creation and co-evolution play? And how can scientific disciplines – from data science and complexity theory to computational social science, network analysis, transportation modeling, game theory, and agent-based as well as AI-driven models – contribute to understanding these challenges and to shaping future solutions? This special collection seeks to reflect on recent advances in these fields and explore visions for the future. It will provide a platform for critical reflection on the scientific methodologies and technological strategies currently driving our world. We invite inspiring contributions that provoke innovative thoughts and stimulate rigorous debate on the future trajectory of these technologies and the socio-technical systems that are expected to result from them. Submit at: link.springer.com
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February 3, 2025 2:26 PM
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Applications for the third Complexity Global School (CGS) are now open. Like last year, the school will be hosted at Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), in Bogotá, Colombia, but for the first time, applicants from all countries are eligible to apply. Roughly 60 students will be selected for the school, which will run July 28 – August 8, 2025. Supported by the Omidyar Network and the Ford Foundation, the school is free for all admitted students — tuition, room, board, and a travel stipend are included. Applications are due by March 2, 2025. Apply at: www.santafe.edu
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January 29, 2025 11:24 AM
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Ole Teutloff, Johanna Einsiedler, Otto Kässi, Fabian Braesemann, Pamela Mishkin, R. Maria del Rio-Chanona Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization We examine how ChatGPT has changed the demand for freelancers in jobs where generative AI tools can act as substitutes or complements to human labor. Using BERTopic we partition job postings from a leading online freelancing platform into 116 fine-grained skill clusters and with GPT-4o we classify them as substitutable, complementary or unaffected by LLMs. Our analysis reveals that labor demand increased after the launch of ChatGPT, but only in skill clusters that were complementary to or unaffected by the AI tool. In contrast, demand for substitutable skills, such as writing and translation, decreased by 20–50% relative to the counterfactual trend, with the sharpest decline observed for short-term (1-3 week) jobs. Within complementary skill clusters, the results are mixed: demand for machine learning programming grew by 24%, and demand for AI-powered chatbot development nearly tripled, while demand for novice workers declined in general. This result suggests a shift toward more specialized expertise for freelancers rather than uniform growth across all complementary areas. Read the full article at: www.sciencedirect.com
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January 9, 2025 1:01 PM
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Robert Rosen was a leading theoretical biologist in the tradition of relational biology, making important contributions to the understanding of living systems. We believe that Robert Rosen’s work represents valuable perspectives on biology, causality, and science as a whole, and that it deserves to be more widely known and read. Over the last four years, we have taken care in classifying his complete published works, including articles, chapters, commentaries, and books both in and out of print, and most importantly, scanning and sorting a small part of his vast collection of unedited notes, which contain ideas that extend beyond his published works. Our hope is that interested readers will find a foundation here for a new science of biological systems, one that reflects the nature and complexity of these systems. Visit: www.rosenlife.org
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December 18, 2024 9:22 AM
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To celebrate 20 years since the launch of Journal of the Royal Society Interface, we are launching a Perspective competition. The winner will receive a prize of £1,000. More at: royalsociety.org
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November 26, 2024 5:16 PM
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The University of Klagenfurt is pleased to announce the following open position at the Department of Business Management at the Faculty of Management, Economics & Law with a negotiable starting date, commencing on March 3, 2025, at the latest:
University assistant predoctoral (all genders welcome)
Level of employment: 75 % (30 hours/week)
Minimum salary: € 37,577.40 per annum (gross); classification according to collective agreement: B1
Contract duration: 3.5 years
Application deadline: January 8, 2025
Area of responsibility
* Research in a project for studying Self-Fulfilling Prophecies from the perspective of complex systems and management control, emphasizing the impact of digital technologies
* Independent scientific work with the aim to submit a dissertation and acquire a Doctoral degree
* Teaching and student supervision in the domain of the project
* Engagement in networking and science communication Apply at: jobs.aau.at
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