Bruce Edmonds

Post by Thorid Wagenblast, Nick Roxburgh and Alessandro Taberna on "Modelling Deep Structural Change in ABSS" #abm #socialsimulation #rofasss

Sorry, what has considering competence have to do with registering failed predictions? Are you thinking about a particular incident here?

Countries trusting each other and cooperating.... nah!

Slides from my talk at the WUR Resilience summer school in the NL: the file "ABM_and_assessing_SES_resilience.pdf" at cfpm.org/slides/

...I have a few questions about your Chicago model... ;-)

Only seems to be the cover and front matter to me, unless I am doing something wrong.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS continues to have low standards as to title hype

"Make some noise! Why agent-based modelers should embrace the power of randomness" by Peter Steiglechner and Marijn Keijzer on why testing your model with randomness is vital. #RofASSS #ABM #noise #randomness #robustness #socialsimulation #taxonomy #simulation #science #method #agent-based

A litmus test? Is your humour acid or alkali? ;-)

The slides from my talk at NORCE, Kristiansand are at cfpm.org/slides (The cartoon, by Justin Bilicki, was the winner of the UCS Science Idol political cartoon contest in 2008).

True, I was thinking of European countries with more of a safety net.

Surely, we are already post-scarcity in developed countries. This is what it is like... we find other things to worry about and compete for (e.g. status)

If it's top down it won't work Dale Munday makes the case for participatory, adaptive, and evidence-based approaches to ensure new policies work when implemented

This week on Wonkhe: Dale Munday makes the case for participatory, adaptive, and evidence-based approaches to ensure new policies work when implemented

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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I had a (deliberately funny) acknowledgement from a colleague on the lines of "we wish to thank... for their helpful comments and guidance. Needless to say none of these are responsible for any mistakes in the paper. I would also like to thank Bruce Edmonds" :-D

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Not the novel then? 😛

Call for evidence - The Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion We’re inviting contributions to a call for evidence to help shape the early phase of the commission. If you have insights, experiences, or ideas about how we can build more connected, cohesive and res...

ICYMI we're calling for evidence for the new Independent Commission on Community & Cohesion.
If you have insights, experiences, or ideas about how we can build more connected, cohesive and resilient communities, we want to hear from you.
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Nigel Gilbert By Corinna Elsenbroich & Petra Ahrweiler The first piece on winners of the European Social Simulation Association's Rosaria Conte Outstanding Contribution Award for Social Simulation. “Gilbert, a former sociologist of science, has been one of the chief links in Britain between computer scientists and sociologists of science” Nigel has always been and still is a sociologist - not only of science, but also of technology, innovation, methods and many other subfields of sociology with important contributions in theory, empirical research and sociological methods.

About the first winner of ESSA's Rosaria Conte Outstanding Contribution Award for Social Simulation: Nigel Gilbert. #sociology #socialsimulation #abm #jasss #simsoc #essa

None as woke as teaching Arabic numerals to US kids 😉

I think it is time to open another tab

The best social simulation conference anywhere, Delft 25-29th Aug 2025. Paper deadline 11th Apr. See great list of special tracks and workshops in the program. ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl #simulation #socialscience #abm #ssc2025

Call for papers - Special track @ Social Simulation Conference 2025 - Qual2Rule: Using qualitative data in agent-based models. Deadline 11/4/25 Details in: ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl/conference-p... #abm #simulation #socialscience #qualitative

Just as the X account "in mice" added these words to the ends of titles that would otherwise sound more impressive and generally applicable than they are, I have launched an account @in-a-model.bsky.social to point out the same about papers whose conclusions sound as if about reality but are not.

"Weak individual preferences stabilize culture IN A MODEL" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I was just on @BBCr4today talking about our OpenSAFELY platform, and how we protect the privacy of NHS GP records while supporting hundreds of researchers to do lifesaving work. You can see a 4 minute video explaining how the platform works here:

Docs.OpenSAFELY.Org

How bad does it have to get before other countries realise they have to resist the bullying of Mad King Trump (MKT) and his entourage? The actions and self-serving beliefs of the current US administration seem strangely similar to those of Colonial Britain (and other empires) in the past.