Fwd: SFI Parallax Newsletter — February 2024

Fri Mar 1 11:40:43 EST 2024

Some interesting stuff.  I will have to skim. This one might be useful 
on field day? "How to track important changes in a dynamic network 
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Subject: 	SFI Parallax Newsletter — February 2024
Date: 	Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:06:35 +0000
From: 	Santa Fe Institute <subscriptions at santafe.edu>
Reply-To: 	Santa Fe Institute <subscriptions at santafe.edu>
To: 	beatnic at comcast.net

SFI Parallax Newsletter — February 2024 The latest from the Santa Fe 
Institute: Complexity Global School; Major gift for EDU and Postdoc 
programs; Life as a planetary regulator; and more
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    Emerging Political Economies
    Applications open for Complexity Global School 2024
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In December 2023, the first Complexity Global School 
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(CGS) brought together students from South Asia and Africa to explore 
ideas at the intersection of complexity science and political economy. 
The second CGS 
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will convene students from Latin America and the Caribbean in 
Bogotá, Colombia, and those from the USA, Canada, and Western Europe in 
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Apply by April 8 
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    Community News
    New gifts support SFI Education and Postdoctoral programs
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In the first major gifts of 2024, and as part of SFI’s 40th Anniversary, 
the McKinnon Family Foundation and the Darla Moore Foundation have 
collectively pledged $750K each year for the next five years to support 
SFI’s education and early-career researcher programs. The gifts will 
ensure the financial stability of SFI’s Omidyar Fellowship, summer 
Undergraduate Complexity Research program, and flagship Complex Systems 
Summer School.

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    Research News
    Life as a planetary regulator: an experimental test
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In a new paper, SFI External Professor Ricard Solé and co-authors 
propose an experimental setup that will test James Lovelock and Lynn 
Margulis's hypothesis of planetary self-regulation.

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    Research News
    How to track important changes in a dynamic network
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Networks can represent changing systems, like the spread of an epidemic 
or the growth of groups in a population of people. But the structure of 
these networks can change, too, as links appear or vanish over time. In 
a new paper, a trio of SFI-affiliated researchers describe a novel way 
to aggregate static snapshots into smaller clusters of networks while 
still preserving the dynamic nature of the system.

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    Research News
    Modeling the UN’s biodiversity goals
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In 2015, the United Nations published its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable 
Development, but we're falling woefully short of those targets. Of 
particular concern to a pair of SFI External Professors are the 
biodiversity goals. In a February working group, researchers explored 
the probabilities and consequences of falling short of the U.N. goals.

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    Research News
    The cultural evolution of collective property rights
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Examples of successful governance of common-pool resources — like 
community forests and fisheries — exist, but the circumstances and 
mechanisms are often unclear or forgotten. A new simulation model 
published in /Nature Sustainability /shows that the evolution of 
sustainable institutions critically depends on clearly defined and 
enforced access rights.

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    Research News
    How a city is organized can create less-biased citizens
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A new study in /Nature Communications/ presents data and a mathematical 
model to explain why there is more unconscious racial bias in some 
cities than others, suggesting that a city's level of implicit bias 
depends on how populous, diverse, and segregated that city is.

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    Research News
    Study: Plant groupings in drylands support ecosystem resilience
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Many complex systems, from microbial communities to mussel beds to 
drylands, display striking self-organized clusters. According to 
theoretical models, these groupings play an important role in how an 
ecosystem works and its ability to respond to environmental changes. A 
new paper in /PNAS/ focuses on the spatial patterns found in drylands 
and offers important empirical evidence validating the models.

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    Community News
    Achievements
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SFI Professor Samuel Bowles was recently recognized 
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as a Fellow of the International Economics Association. According to 
IEA, the award is given “to recognize excellence in economic research, 
research-driven popular writing, and economic policymaking.”

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    Community News
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Do you know someone who would be a great fit at SFI? We are currently 
hiring for several open staff positions, from an internship to a 
directorship. See the full listing and descriptions at santafe.edu/jobs 
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    Parallax Ideas
    Free “Speech” on the internet
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“It no longer makes sense to speak of free speech in traditional 
terms,” write SFI External Professor Allison Stanger and co-author Jaron 
Lanier in an op-ed for /Wired/ 
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“The internet has so transformed the nature of the speaker that the 
definition of speech itself has changed.” The authors explore the 
history and ramifications of Section 230, the 26-word “liability shield 
that enshrined the ad-driven internet,” and consider the possible 
benefits should Congress decide to axe it altogether.

    Podcast

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  /Season: Physics of Life
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    Ep 2: How do we identify life?
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How did life originate on Earth and how we might identify it in other 
parts of the universe? Join us for insights from SFI External Professors 
Ricard Solé and Sara Walker on the signature characteristics of life and 
the debate around assembly theory.

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    Ep 3: Why is life so diverse?
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If everything is bound to fundamental rules with some exceptions, why is 
life so diverse? We talk to SFI External Professors Brian Enquist and 
Pablo Marquet about the wonders of ecology and evolution, where 
biodiversity comes from, if forecasts can be made about the biosphere 
just like we do for weather, and what happens when biodiversity is 
threatened.

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