“We want to do for economic planning what Google maps did for traffic planning, so we can give anybody who has an economic question an intelligent and useful answer.”
@doynefarmer.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com
#Complexity #EconSky #ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition
12.02.2026 10:25 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Sara AlMahri @ifmcambridge.bsky.social is the next speaker in our @inet-complexity.bsky.social seminar series!
Join us on Wednesday 11th February @14:30 GMT in person or online, Register ➼ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/from-...
04.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Oxford Summer School in Economics Networks - now with added @doynefarmer.bsky.social!
#ComplexityEconomics #EconSky
@oxfordeconnet.bsky.social
03.02.2026 13:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our first @inet-complexity.bsky.social seminar of the year is coming up, featuring a book talk from @maxkasy.bsky.social!
Don't forget to register to watch in person or online ➸ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/the-m...
@oxfordecondept.bsky.social
27.01.2026 17:38 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
And keep an eye out for one more talk still to be announced! We hope to see you online or in person soon.
23.01.2026 18:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book Talk: The means of prediction - how AI really works (and who…
As economist Maximilian Kasy shows in The Means of Prediction , artificial intelligence, far from being an unstoppable force, is irrevocably shaped by…
Here's the announcement you've been waiting for - our Complexity Economics seminar speakers for this term! We start on 4 Feb with @maxkasy.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social discussing his new book The means of prediction: How AI really works (and who benefits)
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/the-m...
23.01.2026 18:34 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Do you want to help develop new theories for systems that adapt, evolve, and interact?
Applications are open for SFI’s 2026 UCR program, a fully funded, 10-week experience for undergraduates, offering mentorship, seminars, and project development.
Apply by Jan 14, 2026
www.santafe.edu/ucr
25.12.2025 18:02 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Highly recommended by all our team members who have attended in the past!
07.01.2026 16:29 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Complexity Economics Insights for the Seventh Carbon Budget
This briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget inquiry showcases four research programmes from the University of Oxford’s…
You can read our briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget inquiry showcasing 4 research programmes from @inetoxford.bsky.social that could help inform decisions
@doynefarmer.bsky.social @emilienravigne.bsky.social @bapeterj.bsky.social
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/complex...
18.12.2025 17:05 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Had the pleasure of giving talks at @cphsodas.bsky.social and @iasliu.bsky.social this past week on my recent preprint, "Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change". Thank you to my kind hosts, and I'm excited to continue learning about and sharing multi scale dynamics research!
04.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's seminar with the Chief Economist of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Donna Leong. 👇
02.12.2025 16:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mission analysis – how does the UK government model the transition to…
How does government conduct analysis to meet its twin missions of Clean Power 2030 and Accelerating to Net Zero?
In our #ComplexityEconomics seminar on 3 December: How does government conduct analysis to meet its twin missions of Clean Power 2030 and Accelerating to #NetZero? Director of Analysis and Chief Economist at DESNZ Donna Leong will give her perspectives.
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/missi...
24.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Interested in how to address inequality in economic models? Collective action and climate change? What the roadblocks are to better economic predictions? We have the podcast episode for you! 👇
@doynefarmer.bsky.social @inetoxford.bsky.social @smithschool.ox.ac.uk #Complexity #EconSky
21.11.2025 12:16 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cities are dynamos of demographic change, however our data practices can often hide this fact. In this paper, we explore growth in Chicago, a city purportedly burdened by a stagnating population. Using methods from population ecology, we show that not only is Chicago undergoing rapid, spatially...
12.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
Opinion | The Post-Cold War Era Is Over. What Should We Call This New One?
Great piece from Tom Friedman @nytimes.com on how to think about this crazy era we're in - and what to even call it! (And a few quotes from yours truly towards the end.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
10.11.2025 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by WIFO
WIFO Research Seminar: A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Credit Risk and Debt Sustainability
If you want to hear more from Karolina, you can watch the related WIFO research seminar she gave last month on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n8H...
07.11.2025 10:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We too are very excited about Karolina Bassa's new paper with Rama Cont on Dynamics of sovereign debt: credit risk and sustainability analysis
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications...
07.11.2025 10:21 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Cities for everyone
In this talk, Rafael Prieto-Curiel will explore the challenges of making cities work for everyone. Previously, Rafael worked on urban dynamics as part of…
In our next #ComplexityEconomics seminar on 12 Nov, Rafael Prieto-Curiel @csh.ac.at will explore the challenges of making cities work for everyone while facing dual challenges of managing both expansion and contraction at a time of rapid future population expansion
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/citie...
06.11.2025 15:12 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Image of new Our World in Data search page
🔍 Introducing our new, more powerful search!
→ ourworldindata.org/search
With such a rich publication—nearly 14,000 charts and 100s of articles on 120+ topics—it can be hard to find what matters to you.
Now, finding what you’re looking for, or discovering something new, has never been easier.
06.11.2025 10:10 — 👍 78 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 2
Vacancies
Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Come join the team! @francoislafond.bsky.social @doynefarmer.bsky.social and @maxroser.bsky.social need a postdoctoral researcher to join their programme on forecasting technical change
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
03.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
How to improve LLM responses in domains we can’t score? Implicit signals from structured dialogue help LLM agents edit their own contexts, improving responses dramatically.
“Self-evolving expertise in complex non-verifiable subject domains: dialogue as implicit meta-RL”.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15772
20.10.2025 11:16 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Job Details
Come work with us! We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Food System Transformations at the University of Oxford.
This role is part of an ambitious, interdisciplinary project exploring rapid food system transformations. More details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
08.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Uncovering utility functions from observational data
The algorithm, Preference Extraction and Reward Learning (PEARL) is able to uncover a representation of the utility function that best rationalises…
Our #Complexity Economics Seminar series is back! We start next Wednesday 22 October with a talk from Cambridge University's @martagrzeskiewicz.bsky.social presenting an algorithm for uncovering a utility function based on observational consumption data.
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/uncov...
15.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you didn't manage to catch Karolina Bassa's seminar "A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Credit Risk and Debt Sustainability", this is now available online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n8H...
14.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Fresh from ArXiv:
“Comparing Data Assimilation and Likelihood-Based Inference on Latent State Estimation in Agent-Based Models”
with @marcopangallo.bsky.social, @c0rrad0.bsky.social, & @gdfm.bsky.social
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.17625
06.10.2025 07:53 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Credit Risk and Debt Sustainability
Coming up on 1 October @wifo.bsky.social: Karolina Bassa will present on the impact of fiscal and public investment policies on the sovereign's borrowing cost and credit risk in the presence of stochastic output shocks and credit-sensitive funding from investors👇
www.wifo.ac.at/en/event/433...
29.09.2025 11:45 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Faculty member @csh.ac.at
https://linktr.ee/rafaelprietocuriel
Postdoc at Oxford INET. Physics PhD. Keynote truther
Interested in studying growth, change, and their effects on inequality.
Complex systems, Networks, Computational Social Science, Machine Learning
Postdoc at uc3m-IBiDat, Madrid
https://blas-ko.github.io/
Researcher | Complexity economics, climate change, sustainability | Associate @inetoxford.bsky.social | www.andreabacilieri.com
Connecting researchers & staff @ox.ac.uk with those who share our vision of public policy powered by the best available evidence & expertise.
The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSSSA) is a professional society that aims to advance the field of computational social science in all its areas, including basic and applied orientations.
Professor @Oxford University. Website iangoldin.org
Professor of Environmental Systems, Oxford.
I mostly like building computer models, pondering complex natural systems, appreciating friendly cats.
ACSCC is a one-week event where early-career researchers and non-academic stakeholders come together to work on interdisciplinary projects around climate change using complexity science as the backbone. acscc.nl
Economics, #ComplexSystems, and policy with @inetoxford.bsky.social, @blavatnikschool.bsky.social, and @sfiscience.bsky.social. Author of The Origin of Wealth. Like to play outside (cyclist, backcountry skier, rower).
Summer school with world-leading experts in the fields of economic networks and complexity science: 23rd-27th June 2025
https://bridgetsmart.com/
Economics at Oxford University – inspiring, transformative and influential
We are a world-leading department tackling global challenges through research and teaching. Follow us for updates from our SoGE community +
@ecioxford.bsky.social
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The Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford is a centre of pioneering research that aims to find solutions to the world's most urgent challenges.
https://linktr.ee/oxmartinschool
Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Germinated in 1991 at the University of Oxford
One of the world’s first interdisciplinary research institutions, continuing to tackle the challenges of environmental change, its causes, impacts, and adaptive solutions.
Informing effective climate solutions for achieving net zero with the best available research from the @universityofoxford.bsky.social & international partners. https://netzeroclimate.org/.
Oxford Climate Research Network (OCRN) is an interdisciplinary research community at @universityofoxford.bsky.social, harnessing Oxford's diverse strengths to address the challenge of climate change.
www.climate.ox.ac.uk
