If your complexity model ends with a tidy conclusion, it isn’t complexity. We end our Atlas unfinished! Incompleteness isn’t failure. It’s method. It’s imagination. It’s the only honest map we've got. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Encouraging results from another low emission / clean zone, this time Newcastle... BBC News - Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The present future of methods research is applied complexity. The Atlas, Ch30, explores these methods, from case-based to systems mapping to trajectory QCA. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Ch29 Atlas: Complex Causality. Most models flatten social life into neat causes and effects. Real complexity is tangled, temporal. Drop the clockwork. Think in cases. Trace feedback. Embrace the mess. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Computational models have their place, but social complexity demands a wider modelling platform, including qualitative and mixed methods, all grounded in the ontological messiness of social reality. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social r sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

Finland just seems to get it right - education, housing. #TaxTheRich #ClassWar

Final Atlas theme: methods. From critically engaging computation to embracing systems mapping, QCA, & complex realism, we ask: can our methods meet the complexity challenge? Not yet, but we're close. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Resilience isn’t just bouncing back. It’s co-evolving, adapting, transforming. We live inside socioecological systems. Our survival and well-being depend on their resilience. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

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Economies aren’t machines seeking balance; they're living systems in disequilibrium: adaptive, entangled, unpredictable. Complexity economics doesn’t fix old models. It re-imagines the system entirely. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

All set up and ready to go! #AAG25

CH24 Atlas: Policy chases simple fixes for complex problems. Wicked problems aren’t puzzles, they’re living systems. Think adaptively, act collectively, & embrace complexity as a tool, not theory. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Looking forward to presenting at the Imaginary Institute on The Atlas of Social Complexity clea.research.vub.be/clea-seminar...

Complexity scientists: stop acting like policy is a physics problem. Wicked problems aren’t just complex; they're political. Engage power, irrationality, and governance to be useful. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

🎙️ @complexcase.bsky.social and @lassegerrits.bsky.social discuss their title, The Atlas of Social Complexity, on Peter Erdi's podcast Listen here: youtu.be/FYWoruE27Uo?... #SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #ComplexityScience

🔔 Out now: Learning, Digital Skills, and the Global South, by Jeffrey James of @tilburg-university.bsky.social FREE chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... #DevelopmentEconomics #InnovationEconomics #InformationTechnology

NEW: Families with Children in a Turbulent Era edited by Katja Repo, @miatammelin.bsky.social and Petteri Eerola 🆓 chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Endorsement by @ktwamley.bsky.social #Education #SocialPolicy #Parents #Children #COVID

No one better than @weissmann11.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Looking forward to this event! Gente de Chile, pueden conectarse a este evento mediante la CDI TV! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

this week's cover is on point ht: @jamiegangel.bsky.social

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

Digital space/time intertwine with the urban, impacting how we plan, model, live. This “space of flows” reinforces megacities as central nodes, deepens inequalities, & reshapes mobility. See CH21 of Atlas @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

With new runways on the agenda I thought it was time to revisit the emerging and established evidence on UFP from airports. One from my back catalogue with links to lots of studies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"On the wrong side of history, the wrong side of science & the wrong side of consumers who are looking for more sustainability, not less" António Guterres to major banks who pulled out of climate agreements & fossil fuel industries [email protected] www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In Digital Anthropocene, humans & machines co-create complex systems where agency is shared and solutions aren’t simple. Ch22 of the Atlas calls for critical, reflexive thinking to navigate our new world. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

Ch20 of the Atlas introduces Configurational Social Science, which combines intersectionality & configurational theory to address complexities of living in systems: power, identity, justice, equity. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Community analysis of Breathe London data reveals #airpollution impacts of fee paying schools. Investigations from King's College London indicated larger catchments than state schools. Should this cause us to question the sustainability of fee paying schools? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ch20 of the Atlas introduces Configurational Social Science, which combines intersectionality & configurational theory to address complexities of living in systems: power, identity, justice, equity. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Still time to submit your contribution to this new, exciting conference exploring critical perspectives on Research in Digital Learning. hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/ (Sep. 3-4, in Newcastle, UK) #digitaleducation #digitalliteracies #digitalresearch

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📣 We are currently looking for an Editorial Assistant to join our team at Edward Elgar Publishing! For more info visit: e-elgar.com/about/careers/ Applications close 8th February 2025 #CareersInPublishing #PublishingCareers #Publishing #Editorial #Hiring

This fall, the University of Chicago took the historic step of approving an undergraduate major in Climate and Sustainable Growth. I am thrilled to share that we are looking for a Senior Instructional Professor to lead this program: academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/15...

Merry xmas to all cyclists in #York and here's to a fantastic 2025 for #Cycling in the city - help make York an #ActiveTravel city with #RoomToRide and #SafeRoutesToSchool for everyone: link.tr.ee/yorkcycle

This is madness. Is the motto of HHS under RFK Jr “Make Polio Great Again?" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/12/the-...

"Experts & holidaymakers alike are pondering how worsening #airquality will change travel in the long-term." Piece by Daniel Seifert Good points, and of course we have to think of the people that have no choice but to live in these places and the aircraft pollution too. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

We frequently overlook the #airpollution problems caused by wood burning in rural villages, and the #climate harm too. To plug this gap, a team of scientists moved into a Slovenian village for winter. Here's what they found. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Social psychology links human behavior to social systems, but it's largely ignored by complexity scientist. The Atlas advocates a sociological social psychology as a fix. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2024/12/as-i... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Spent two weeks on trains in Japan going from the north to south, including nine different Shinkansen. Worst delay was 20 seconds. Back in UK today. First train cancelled then next one 35 minute delay due to signal failure. We’ve fallen behind no excuse.

The 'complexity turn' is over, but the 'social science turn in complexity' is just beginning. From urban planning to economics - see the Atlas to explore the new dynamics of living in complex systems. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Our Chair's Report, giving a round up of 2024 achievements and looking forward to 2025....JOIN US and help make it a great year for cycling in #York 🙌🙌🚲🚲🙌🙌 #ActiveTravel #RoomToRide #SafeRoutesToSchool yorkcyclecampaign.bike/2024/12/05/y...

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