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Economic research is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body of economic knowledge. Furthermore, empirical economic research and data play a central role for policy-making in many important areas of our economies and societies.
Openness enables and underpins scholarly enquiry and debate, and is crucial in ensuring the reproducibility of economic research and analysis. Thus, for economics to function effectively, and for society to reap the full benefits from economic research, it is therefore essential that economic research results, data and analysis be openly and freely available, wherever possible.

http://openeconomics.net/principles/

According to Anthony Giddens (1979), human agency must include an acting subject that deals with action linearly. Sound simple, huh? In this duality of structure, on the most basic level people make up society but are inherently constrained by it (Giddens, 1979). Social interaction is strongly linked this unavoidable embeddedness of the individual within a (social) system (Giddens, 1979). But in Giddens’ writing, I find his musings around power most interesting.

Nationwide hackathon this weekend encourages coders to use publicly available data to tackle problems ranging from poverty to poultry handling.

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2013

In the following areas:

1. Phisicochemistry
2. Biomacromolecules
3. Natural products
4. Organic chemistry
5. Inorganic chemistry
6. Analysis and material study of art and cultural works.

Metaknowledge research is an exciting new interdisciplinary field that blends Big Data, complex systems methods, and computational social science with sociological, anthropological, historical, and philosophical approaches in order to develop “knowledge about knowledge.”

Postdocs positions:

http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/about/jobs.php#pd-metanet

http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/about/jobs.php#pd-prog-nsf

Programmer positions:

http://bit.ly/XAoyLp ;

Prof. Motter has postdoctoral positions open in the broad area of complex systems and networks. Applications for research faculty positions may also be considered.
Research currently pursued in the group includes the modeling of network dynamical processes in physical and biological systems; network rescue and control; cascading failures; network synchronization; network structure beyond communities; applications to the physics of cancer, power transmission networks, and the design of new materials.

http://dyn.phys.northwestern.edu/positions_postdoc.html

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has an open call for postdoctoral fellowships to start in March, 2014 (with a close deadline!). Candidates should have obtained a PhD degree within the last three years and be under 36 years, both to the date of the beginning of the fellowship. The area of interests of candidates should fall within complex systems, artificial life, information, evolution, cognition, robotics, and/or philosophy.

http://complexes.blogspot.mx/2013/07/postdoctoral-fellowships-at-unam.html

EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics is a peer-reviewed, open access journal for the dissemination of knowledge about the applications of nonlinear dynamics and complexity-inspired integrative systems science, to the quantitative modeling and understanding of how structure, function and/or dysfunctions and diseases, often concomitantly, emerge in complex biomedical matter, systems and processes. The focus will be on the application-driven development of theoretical, experimental and computational techniques. This includes the development of relevant methodologies, instrumentation, and related advanced technology.

Call for Ludwig von Bertalanffy PhD Scholarship applications 2013

This call is open until 31st of October 2013.

The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS), Vienna, offers a scholarship for the support of work in systems science leading to a PhD-degree at an Austrian university.

The Ludwig von Bertalanffy PhD Scholarship is intended to enable a PhD student to carry out a dissertation project that contributes to the advancement of systems sciences.

The BCSSS will provide an inspiring work environment available to the student and help the junior scientist focus on the project.

The Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich (www.gess.ethz.ch ) invites applications for a tenure track assistant professorship in Social Network Analysis. The position is part of the interdisciplinary Behavioral Studies Section and open to applications from all scientific disciplines.

The candidate should have an internationally recognized track record in Social Network Analysis and be able to build and sustain a strong research program. Furthermore, he or she should document an ability to teach effectively and be clearly committed to doing research in an interdisciplinary environment. The new professor will be expected to teach undergraduate level courses (in German or English) and graduate level courses (in English) within the scope of the required electives in the humanities and social sciences. ETH Zurich offers an environment that expects and supports high quality teaching and research.

Complexity theory and social constructionism are two important meta-theories that have evolved from very different worldviews and knowledge bases. Yet, there are some important similarities between the core arguments of the two meta-theories and these similarities are largely neglected in methodological debates. In essence, both meta-theories reject reductionist, time, space and relationship-free analyses of positivist or Newtonian social science.

While social constructionism reveals existence of multiple realities and viewpoints, history and context dependence of reality and the role of social embeddedness; complexity theory studies heterogeneous populations and the role of stochasticity, path-dependence of processes, the role of interactions and interdependencies and properties of social networks.

This project aims to initiate an international network of scholars working together to identify conflicts or differences as well as links and similarities between complexity theory and social constructionism. The network will also aim to develop a lingua franca through which some stability could be imposed on the terms in which social scientists debate these matters, so that scholars from different disciplines, in particular the early career researchers, could find their way around over crowded terminology.

Frontiers in Neurorobotics Research Topic: "Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots"

The aim of this Research Topic for Frontiers in Neurorobotics and Frontiers in Cognitive Science is to present state-of-the-art research, whether theoretical, empirical, or computational investigations, on open-ended development driven by intrinsic motivations. The topic will address questions such as: How do motivations drive learning? How are complex skills built up from a foundation of simpler competencies? What are the neural and computational bases for intrinsically motivated learning? What is the contribution of intrinsic motivations to wider cognition?

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Now is an important moment in the study of intrinsically motivated open-ended development, requiring contributions and integration across a large number of fields within the cognitive sciences. This Research Topic aims to contribute to this effort by welcoming papers carried out with ethological, psychological, neuroscientific and computational approaches, as well as research that cuts across disciplines and approaches. Original research advancing specific aspects of the state-of-the art and review/theoretical papers aiming to systematize the field are both suitable for this Topic.

Topic Editors:

Gianluca Baldassarre, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Andrew Barto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Marco Mirolli, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Italy
Peter Redgrave
Richard M. Ryan, University of Rochester, USA
Tom Stafford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Deadline for full article submission: 21 May 2013

Extended deadline for full article submission: 21 Jun 2013

Tenure Track Faculty Position in Systems Pharmacology
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

The UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (BTS) invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Expertise in systems pharmacology is preferred. 

http://bts.ucsf.edu/careers/