We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be

#sociaOntology meets software, this a challenging but highly rewarding process.

Our Physical Review Letter looks at how to get power-law distributions of cascade size without tuning or self-organization to criticality by allowing cascades to improve in quality and jump over gaps or dead-ends TL;DR complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn... Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

It might start as a joke, belief, or rumor, easy to dismiss. But then it twists, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. Why do some ideas die out while others go viral? A new study by researchers from the University of Vermont and the Santa Fe Institute offers answers: santafe.edu/news

Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc

Hello, Bluesky! We're excited to relocate here from X. You can also follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...

There's amazing work on group effects in higher-order networks, but not a lot of connections to social ontology, collective action, and group selection. Led by @jstonge.bsky.social with expert guidance of @rharp.bsky.social we reviewed and formalized these connections. arxiv.org/abs/2507.02758

Have you ever wondered how to model effective governance on hypergraph? Say, even in the case of a polarized society. We’ll, it’s complicated. But we took a stab at it for you👇

Starter pack of academics who started starter packs. go.bsky.app/FdBRfF8

Secret’s Log, Day 117. Status report: Subject has achieved mastery over her center of gravity. Upon re-entry, she was now facing me head-on.