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!!

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

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-...

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

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