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NetLogo Conference 2026 Interest Survey The NetLogo team at Northwestern University is planning a three-day conference to bring together NetLogo users, both researchers and educators, to learn from one another, foster collaborations, networ...

The inaugural NetLogo Conference is coming to Chicago, June 22-24, 2026!

Help shape the program → Take our 2-min survey: forms.gle/Zj4VCz6fCEPB...

Join researchers, educators & modelers from around the world for 3 days of ABM innovation & fun. Details: www.netlogo.org/netlogo_con_...

Agent-based models move into the economic mainstream In the 1980s and ’90s, SFI played laboratory to a promising new method known as agent-based modeling. In ensuing decades, agent-based models (ABMs) proliferated across many fields, including economics...

What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:

We are soon to release 7.0.1 and will pin something new, so maybe we'll do this one!

Yeah, that's one way to put it!

Sure! NetLogo was designed to be easy enough to use for children to get started with it, but it is also powerful enough that it used widely in professional research. Happy to answer any more specific questions you have.

Just a quick note: there are only 2 seats left for our “Agent-based and Individual-based Modelling using NetLogo” course, running online from 27 October – 7 November.
@netlogo.bsky.social
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Yidan Prize The Yidan Prize Foundation is a global philanthropic foundation. Through its prize and network of changemakers, it supports ideas and practices in education — specifically, ones with the power to posi...

We are incredibly excited to announce that Uri Wilensky, the founder of #NetLogo, has been awarded the prestigious Yidan Prize for Educational Research!

yidanprize.org/laureates/ur...

YouTube video by Seeing Into The Unknown - Cymatics Art What is a Chladni Plate? #chladniplate #cymatics #physics

Short explanation:
Sound waves → make plate vibrate → sand jumps around. At certain points, the sine waves cancel out → sand stops there

In the model, you can set "nodes" where there is no vibration. For a real plate, these depend on the shape. e.g.: youtube.com/shorts/jSefO...

New in NetLogo 7: a Chladni Plate model you can run in your browser.

Emergent patterns of sand dancing on sound waves! (explanation below 👇)

Play with it here and share your favorite pattern!
netlogoweb.org/launch#https...

#NetLogo #Science #Waves #Emergence #ABM

If you value NetLogo, please consider supporting our work: www.netlogo.org/donate/

NetLogo 7 is here!!

✨New modern UI with dark mode
🔧Performance improvements & new features

👉Download: www.netlogo.org/download
📣 Full announcement: www.netlogo.org/announcements/

#NetLogo #AgentBasedModeling #ABM #ComplexSystems

Great! If you set CORS permisions on your site to allow embeds from netlogoweb.org, you could then embed it in an iframe. Alternatively, you can export the whole thing to a standalone html file which you can host yourself without the CORS issue. You could just link it & people can open in a new tab

These are some very cool materials for learning agent-based modeling applied to archeology!

abmarchaeologists.github.io/ABMA_website

We can use ABMs to theorize about past societies and then compare their outputs to the archeological record.

Very cool! Did you know you could embed a runnable version on your website with NetLogo Web?

We're biased, but we recommend #NetLogo :)

As for arguments, though, the automatic visualization and immediate interactivity really help with verifying your model is actually doing what you intend.

Very cool model! I'm implementing a #NetLogo version, and I have a question: is there a real distinction between h_in vs h_out and γ_in vs γ_out, or could there just be 4 arbitrary traits? Since any link can be harmful or helpful based on harm/help ratio, the traits seem arbitrary.

Very true! We are tool pluralists ourselves. There is a python extension to run python within NetLogo if that is ever something you want to do.

We'd be interested in seeing the code!

I doubt we'll get funding of a billion dollar company, but if you give us a donation, we'll happily help with your cellular automaton! www.netlogo.org/donate/

What advanced features do you need? We're always looking to raise the ceiling of what NetLogo can do

When cats are confidently teaching NetLogo, you know we've built something truly accessible. Modeling literacy for every learner!

Jago is helping me learn about Agent Based Modeling. She's confident in her NetLogo skills.

We are excited to announce the NetLogo 7 Beta is publicly available! If you give us feedback in the next week, it could make it into the full release: netlogo.org/download