Eddie Lee

Glad to see politicians standing up for basic research!

"The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged."

www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...

Are you looking for a #postdoc to start in 2027? Do you have a #physics background and are you interested in #ecology #forests #ecosystems #learning #plasticity?

I'm looking for candidates to nominate for the Human Frontier Science Program in the Physics Department at Seoul National University.

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A fantastic experience (I've heard)

Strong quantitative backgrounds would be ideal as well as interest in studying #ecosystem #dynamics and #learning / #plasticity.

"The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged."

www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...

Are you looking for a postdoctoral position? I'm looking for candidates to nominate for the Human Frontier Science Program in the Physics Department at Seoul National University.

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Data-Driven Analysis Reveals Three Archetypes Of Armed Conflicts New CSH study identifies systematic patterns in armed conflicts across Africa – and the limits of forecasting conflict intensity, duration, or fatalities.

New study examines 20+ years of armed conflict data across Africa. Researchers @kushwaha.bsky.social and @spintheory.bsky.social identify three conflict archetypes, but also show that classification does not necessarily help to predict the severity of conflicts.

Learn more: shorturl.at/81pkf

An important topic! Also key to think about how innovation feeds into extinction.

A wintry day for complex systems!

People are often using AI to increase the seeming complexity of minimal ideas, where I find I spend most of my time taking highly complex ideas and compressing them as much as possible into minimal descriptions. Can AI do that? I would say not.

It’s times like these that remind me of Asimov’s Mule. And an interesting question about how far we can go beyond probabilities in looking ahead with social behavior.

AI sustains higher strategic tension than humans in chess Strategic decision-making involves managing the tension between immediate opportunities and long-term objectives. We study this trade-off in chess by characterizing and comparing dynamics between huma...

Your daily reminder that in complex conflict scenarios, long-term strategy is important: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13213

“Intuition is a name for rule-based cognitive processing where the rules consist of generally valid, experience-based heuristics, the details of which are not readily accessible to consciousness.”

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Cited in De Groot’s 1986 paper on the importance of #intuition in #chess ♟️

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

„ Die Empfindung sagt mir, dass etwas ist; das Denken, was etwas ist; das fühlen, was etwas für mich bedeutet; die Intuition, was etwas werden kann.“
- Jung

The four basic mental functions: sensation, thought, feeling, and intuition.

“Unreason darkens that gap of time bridged by our lightspeed ships, and in the darkness uncertainty and disproportion grow like weeds.”

- Ursula Le Guin

Thanks!

2026년 가을부터 서울대학교 물리학과에 조교수로 합류하게 되어 매우 기쁘게 알립니다!

저에게는 새로운 장이 될 것이며, 학과에서 이미 진행되고 있는 놀라운 연구에 새롭고 복합적이며 다양한 기여를 더하게 될 것입니다.

마지막으로, 이러한 혼란스러운 시기에 민주주의와 법치주의를 수호하는 젊지만 활기찬 문화를 포용하는 곳으로 가게 된다는 것을 말할 수 있어 안도감을 느낍니다.

새해를 앞두고 미리 건배합니다! 🥂

Finally, it is a relief to be able to say that, in these troubling times, I am moving somewhere that embraces a young but vibrant culture of standing up for democracy and rule of law.

Here’s an early cheers to the new year!

It will be a new chapter for me and a new, complex, diverse addition to the incredibly strong work that is already happening in the department.

I’m very happy to announce that I will joining #Seoul National University’s #SNU #physics department as Assistant Professor in Fall of 2026!

Merry xmas to Boltzmann!

“… whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“We can clearly see how it is that all living and extinct forms can be grouped together in one great system; and how the several members of each class are connected together by the most comples and radiating lines of affinities.”

…that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, and not some unknown plan of creation, or the enunciation of general propositions, and the mere putting together and separating objects more or less alike.”

On taxonomy:

“All the foregoing rules and aids and difficulties in classification are explained…on the view that the natural system is founded on descent with modification…all true classification is genealogical…

It’s difficult to explain sterility without knowing about genes:
“Both series of facts seem to be connected together by some common but unknown bond, which is essentially related to the principle of life.”

…not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”

Darwin on the elegance of natural selection:
“it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers,-ants making slaves,-the larva of ichneumonida feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars…