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Our chapter on #syntheticpopulations and #researchinfrastructures is out: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... An overview of #algorithms for estimation and some applied cases in #socialsimulation research, W/ @garypolhill.bsky.social, Alice Sbrana, Nick Roxburgh, Evelina Sabatella, Mario Paolucci

Your back is up against the wall. All is lost. Who is coming to save you?

Electric cars seem to make an inordinate fuss out of plugging something in and turning it on. Other appliances manage this simple task without needing an app.

I want to suggest that we try to get ‘runctitional’ in to the dictionary by using it as an adjective for academic papers using AI. e.g. A reviewer might say ‘This paper has too many runctitional features to merit publication.’ #AcademicSky 🧪

In case you had any doubt that peer review doesn't work in pay-to-publish journals, including those with a Nature badge.... #academicSky pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...

When journalists quote think tanks I think they should be obliged to say who funds them so we know whose political agenda they are parroting

Really good read about the importance of supporting postgraduates and postdocs as a research leader. I absolutely agree that this should be as, if not more important, than publication metric when hiring.

We're looking for a postdoc for our new project on forecasting technological change - more details below

It’s more than that though. We have left things so late that emissions need to drop rapidly and go negative to achieve 1.5.

Oh, is that what we’re calling empirical agent-based modelling now…?

📢 Call for submissions is now open 👇👇👇

🍂🌞 October is here! Time to start thinking about your conference plans for 2026? In a couple of weeks we’ll be launching our Call for Submissions. Stay tuned to our website: www.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026 🍁🍃 @iaps-association.bsky.social | @eprg-surrey.bsky.social | @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social

🤖🌳 Inspired by a Hutton project, Aberdeen teens Anjishnu Bhaduri, Adwait Sharma & Jayawant Sivarajan built ThistleDroid—a robot that tests land for reforestation & plants seeds! 🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov. 👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe

You know when a piece of software does not work when its advocates start saying the problems aren’t with the software, they’re with people.

⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture! World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics 📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist! More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj

I’m wondering what else could be found to cause autism and whether any of them are things I don’t like. Cauliflower, for instance.

Not sure about Apple’s ‘glass’ UI thing in 26.0. But maybe I’m just getting retraumatized from Aero in Windows 20+ years ago.

CSSSA September Webinar Join us Wednesday, September 24, at 10 am (ET) or An Open Discussion on Education Needs for Agent-based Simulation with Dr. Rob Axtell and the CSSSA Team. Register here! (www.tickettailor.com/events/compu...)

Windows and Office are productivity vampires. Fun little UX today in Outlook. A pop-up over a tab that ‘helpfully’ tells you the same text as the tab title (but in a slightly smaller font), obscuring the cursor where I’m typing. Moving the mouse interrupts my train of thought.

🌾 #Flax, once a staple of Scottish agriculture, could play a key role in sustainable textiles and low-impact #farming today. We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential. More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr

So what do you do when you cannot sleep?

🌱 What happens when economic theory meets local action? Ahead of the #TBMacLecture, explore how our speaker, Kate Raworth’s, #DoughnutEconomics is shaping a Swedish town, and join us in Edinburgh to hear more. 🎟️: ow.ly/lAcp50WrKpv 📖 @theguardian.com : ow.ly/mbqo50WrKpt

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Horizon Europe project INSPIRI! Help co-create imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe's ocean and water systems. Learn more and apply by 31 August: www.stockholmresilience.org/4.aeea46911a...

No, I didn’t

It seems now the sole qualification for being doomed to watch history repeating itself is simply to live long enough

Nothing says “we do not value your privacy at all” as much as the words “we value your privacy”

Those who do study history are doomed to a life of frustration watching everyone else repeat it.

Terry Pratchett coined the term ‘hangunder’, but to me it has a different meaning. It is the embarrassment experienced by a middle aged person when they remember what they’ve done before their first morning coffee.

CSS 2025 Keynotes: Stefani Crabtree & Chris Kempes We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for this fall’s conference! Submissions are still open: click here for more info! (computationalsocialscience.org/conferences/...) We look forward to seeing you in Santa Fe!

Lithuania, Iceland or Switzerland get my vote #Eurovision

Social Simulation Fest 2025: Free Registration Our friends at ESSA have invited CSSSA for a joint session! For more details, see: www.socsimfest.eu (www.socsimfest.eu)

Calling all scientists, science postgrads & anyone who’s ever worked in a scientific discipline! Can you spare even just half an hour next Tues 12pm to join me, Chris Packham & 100+ scientists to urge for government policy to be informed by science? Let’s fill Parliament Square with scientists! 💪

CSSSA May Webinar (computationalsocialscience.org/wp-content/u...) Join us for the webinar series on Wednesday, May 21, at 11 am ET. Andrew Crooks and Alison Heppenstall will discuss “Agent-Based Modeling in Geography” www.tickettailor.com/events/compu... (www.tickettailor.com/events/compu...)

There are broader questions asked by this episode — not just for US Citizens — about whether _any_ organisation can be trusted with your data long term. It shows how we are one ‘disruption’ away from our data being exposed to people we might rather did not have it. Law and ethics give no protection.

DOE MODSIM 2025 is open for abstracts. If you're looking for a small expert community workshop environment focused on the intersection of #HPC, scientific exploration, and computer system modeling, please check it out! www.bnl.gov/modsim/abstr...

My thanks to Miriam Glendell for her excellent leadership on this perspective paper on #ComputerModelling to support #SystemsThinking published in Discover Sustainability today. doi.org/10.1007/s436... @hutton.ac.uk @huttonsegs.bsky.social 🧪

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Your twice-yearly reminder that I hate daylight saving time.

Want to find out more about the power of #soil forensics? You can watch our Head of #ForensicScience, Prof Lorna Dawson (@soilfit.bsky.social) on #CrimeWatch and see how she assists with criminal investigations. Available on BBC iPlayer now 🥼🔬 📺 From 19:00 > ow.ly/owVk50VgoGa

Managerialists among you: what SMART objectives would you have given Tim Berners-Lee that would have that led him to invent the World Wide Web? #AcademicSky

About the first winner of ESSA's Rosaria Conte Outstanding Contribution Award for Social Simulation: Nigel Gilbert. #sociology #socialsimulation #abm #jasss #simsoc #essa

How to rub salt into an academic’s wounds: after a day of admin and meetings and not getting any of _your_ work done, being asked to review someone else’s work that they did manage to get done #AcademicSky

PhD student in Scotland? Come and take a paid internship with us! Loads of different ones in the Scottish Government , but of course the RESAS ones on rural data will be the most interesting! www.sgsss.ac.uk/internships/... Please share on your networks if you know someone who might be eligible. 😀

Suggestion: if we take it for granted that Donald Trump’s capers are going to dominate the headlines for the next four years, can we have separate ‘normal news’ and ‘Trump news’ provision in the schedule so we can know about other things that are happening?

New policy for gambling adverts: you are required to show those who lost their money in proportion to those who won.

Does anyone know why the _British_ news is dedicating so much airtime to reporting on the Superbowl?

Join our @huttonsegs.bsky.social researchers for an interactive event aimed at identifying #circular solutions to amplify the benefits of a more #CircularSociety. Exploring practical steps to create meaningful change! 📅 February 20 | 🕛 10:30 am - 12:30 pm More: bit.ly/3Wmp5It

So we have Zaphod Beeblebrox for Prime Minister?