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Wow. The BASIC programming language just turned 60 years old. Have you used BASIC? It was one of the first languages I learned, along with Fortran.

Free article on this anniversary of BASIC: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

#Satellite UrbanSys2024 – Transport, Smart Cities, Complexity, and Urban Networks: Explore cities as complex systems. Topics include citizen behavior, urban evolution, mobility, accessibility, inequality, and scaling laws. urban-sys-net.weebly.com

#Satellite Criticality on Networks and Socio-Economic Systems: This satellite aims to foster cross-disciplinary discussions on criticality. Explore how it's defined across scenarios and review reported signs of criticality in the scientific literature yerali.github.io/criticalitysys…

“Network ecology is dead” vs “Networks are tools, not end”
Interesting pieces to read for anyone working on complex systems.
Interdisciplinary research needs good communication and understanding between the parts.

What kind of hysteresis is this!? It seems that the state of vegetation depends on the micro-relief which depends on the erosion, which depends on the plants...
I guess these systems also should be characterized by long-memory.
cc: Blai Vidiella Sergi Valverde🌍 Niles Eldredge

Scientists, your job is to produce knowledge AND to publish it. Otherwise, you would have failed. Period. kamounlab.medium.com/dont-perish-a-…

Never a mainstream topic, complexity science is now more important than ever. If our aim to synthesizing instead of reducing makes us philosophers, then we are philosophers, no problem with that. I'd rather admit that I don't know fuck than to act as if I know what I'm doing.

Translated: people should go to grad school because we require feudal labor for tenured faculty. We can’t downsize PhD programs—even though there are no professor jobs—because we maintain class privileges for “real” profs by offloading teaching duties onto exploited PhD students.

Complex Systems 😉

Niles' perspective on macroevolution has consistently inspired me, as well as countless others worldwide. Additionally, his understanding of the interaction between life and the abiotic environment is crucial in our current era of global climate change.

Sergi Valverde🌍 'I'm here for the science dammit, don't get all thinky on me'

Farewell to Paul Auster, who knew how to tell the uniqueness of each moment in time in his wonderful story 'Smoke', which became an extraordinary movie. And within that story, a small Brooklyn tale: the 'Auggie Wren Xmas Tale'. youtube.com/watch?v=_kCUbw…

Sergi Valverde🌍 Translation: 'Your argument threatens the economic rents I receive from the analytical tools that I use. These rents include grants, graduate students, and speaker invitations. Therefore, it must be cast out.' The comment is 'monster-barring.'

Fascinating account on some of the greatest theories in paleontology (PE). It underscores the importance of serendipity and the power of few people to change the field forever:
'Tom had a list of topics and was shopping around for speakers to be assigned to each one....' 1/2

Sergi Valverde🌍 The unfortunate kind of feedback that you get from narrow-minded 'colleagues'. You know how it is.