Jonathan St-Onge

#sociaOntology meets software, this a challenging but highly rewarding process.

Our Physical Review Letter looks at how to get power-law distributions of cascade size without tuning or self-organization to criticality by allowing cascades to improve in quality and jump over gaps or dead-ends

TL;DR complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn...

Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

It might start as a joke, belief, or rumor, easy to dismiss. But then it twists, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. Why do some ideas die out while others go viral?

A new study by researchers from the University of Vermont and the Santa Fe Institute offers answers: santafe.edu/news

Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc

What is SOCKS? | Vermont Complex Systems Institute What is SOCKS? We'd love to tell you more! Thanks to the Vermont EPSCoR team, we'll be sharing a series of videos about this National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project that is building c...

Hello, Bluesky! We're excited to relocate here from X. You can also follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...

Defining and classifying models of groups: The social ontology of higher-order networks In complex systems research, the study of higher-order interactions has exploded in recent years. Researchers have formalized various types of group interactions, such as public goods games, biologica...

There's amazing work on group effects in higher-order networks, but not a lot of connections to social ontology, collective action, and group selection.

Led by @jstonge.bsky.social with expert guidance of @rharp.bsky.social we reviewed and formalized these connections.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.02758

I would listen to Milo. He knows.

Have you ever wondered how to model effective governance on hypergraph? Say, even in the case of a polarized society. We’ll, it’s complicated. But we took a stab at it for you👇

I’m glad at least one person gets it

Starter pack of academics who started starter packs.

go.bsky.app/FdBRfF8

Secret’s Log, Day 117.

Status report: Subject has achieved mastery over her center of gravity. Upon re-entry, she was now facing me head-on.