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The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science. santafe.edu linktr.ee/sfiscience
In this SFI seminar, @quantamagazine.bsky.socialΒ senior video producer and 2025 SFI Journalism Fellow Emily Buder shows how animation and storytelling can translate complex ideas β like quantum gravity β into resonant narratives without losing intellectual depth.
https://youtu.be/1kgqjPkVkvg
SFI President David Krakauer discusses the distinction between knowledge and intelligence in the age of AI, the concept of βexbodiment,β and what true emergence might mean for large language models.
Watch the full interview with Machine Learning Street Talk: http://youtu.be/jXa8dHzgV8U
Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships
If youβve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.
Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
SFI External Professor Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton University) explores universal mathematical structures underlying musicβs fundamental elements: pulse, pitch, and transformed repetition.
As well as its implications for how we understand music and other philosophical questions. youtu.be/PQPgQ4VmQ7o
This spring, SFIβs Board of Trustees elected Ian McKinnon and Sam Peters as Chair and Vice-Chair. Long-time SFI supporters with New Mexico roots, they bring decades of insight, generosity, and leadership to their new roles, alongside a renewed term for SFI President David Krakauer.
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Catch up on our most recent Community Lecture: "Whom Do We Trust? How AI Is (Re)Shaping Our Interactions Today" with Gillian Tett.Β
This was the third of six community lectures for 2025, and all are available to watch on SFIβs YouTube channel.
Watch here: http://youtu.be/AVXnBLh9tWY
Tomorrow: the 3rd event in SFIβs 2025 Community Lecture Series!
Join us at the Lensic Performing Arts Center for Gillian Tettβs lecture, βWhom Do We Trust? How AI Is (Re)Shaping Our Interactions Todayβ β 7:30pm.
Free tickets: lensic.org/events/gillian-tett or watch the live stream on SFIβs YouTube
An SFI workshop supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation explored whether the field of history β long focused on the particularity of human experience β can incorporate lessons from complexity science and evolutionary biology, without losing sight of human freedom and agency.
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What can ancient houses tell us about inequality?
A recent PNAS special feature, co-edited by Tim Kohler & Amy Bogaard, with contributions from Scott Ortman, uses data from 53,000 homes to trace how wealth disparities emerged, shifted, and narrowed over 10,000 years.
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Reserve your free tickets for SFIβs Community Lecture with Gillian Tett: βWhom Do We Trust? How AI Is (Re)Shaping Our Interactions Todayβ. July 22, 7:30pm at @TheLensic.
How is AI changing trust in society? Join us in person or watch online on SFI's YouTube.
Tickets: lensic.org/events/gillian-tett
How do we measure success, impact, and safety in #generativeAI models that engage with the world? Frontier labs in #AI searched for answers to this question at a studio co-organized by
@googledeepmind.bsky.social
researchers and the SFI Office of Applied Complexity.
Read more: santafe.edu/news
Daniel Messenger (LANL) discusses how weak-form inference methods can help derive macroscale descriptions from microscale observations. The approach is robust against noise and non-smooth dynamics, with applications from cell migration to kinetic-hydrodynamic systems.Β
Tristan Duke brings art and science together in his Glacial Optics project, documenting rapidly melting glaciers with a camera lens made from ice, retracing John Muirβs glacial surveys, and even developing giant photographs using Pinyon pine needles from SFIβs Cowan campus.
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SFIβs Anthony Eagan reviews "The Philosophy of Ted Chiang." He praises it as a rare, thoughtful look at how Chiangβs sci-fi raises deep philosophical questions, not by design, but as a natural part of his creative process, exploring time, consciousness, and agency.
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Catch up on our recent Community Lecture with Kyle Harper! The lecture, Climate Change and Contagion β Complex Crises Past and Present, is available on SFIβs YouTube channel.
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Congratulations to SFI's @annaclemencia.bsky.social, a recipient of the 2025 Whitman Center Fellowship from @mblscience.bsky.social. The 10-week fellowship supports Guerreroβs research on scientific imagery about the microscopic world.
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If youβve reserved a seat but have to cancel, please release your tickets back to the Lensic Box Office at 505-988-1234.
Canβt be there in person? The lecture will also livestream on SFIβs YouTube channel and be available for future viewing. youtube.com/live/fSyjmpC...
Join us tomorrow at the Lensic Performing Arts Center for an SFI Community Lecture with Kyle Harper! The lecture, Climate Change and Contagion β Complex Crises Past and Present, begins at 7:30pm with a book signing in the lobby at 6:30pm.
santafe.edu/events/clima...
A common narrative in the U.S. links a cityβs political leanings with its level of racial bias. These assumptions are often too simple, suggests a new study by SFI's Andrew Stier and Brandon Ogbunu. Nearly 40% of cities analyzed do not conform to partisan expectations.
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Holga 120 lomography double exposure of NYC and the Brooklyn Bridge. (image: Sandy Hibbard/Unsplash)
Traditional models of cultural evolution havenβt held up in the face of modern-day constructs like social media and easy global travel. Last month, @psmaldino.bsky.social and collaborators convened a working group to build new models for the 21st century.
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Congratulations to SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji, a recipient of this year's BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Science! Banaji and four others are recognized for their work revolutionizing how we understand and measure attitudes.
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The 2025 Santa Fe Institute Community Lecture Series is free to attend thanks to generous sponsorship by the McKinnon Family Foundation, with additional support from the Santa Fe Reporter and the historic Lensic Performing Arts Center.
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10.06.2025 20:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Historic climate variability is often associated with βcontagiousβ risks from conflict to disease. Drawing lessons from the collapse of empires to the Little Ice Age, Kyle Harper explores the possibilities of navigating future crises by approaching climate and societies as complex systems.
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Reserve your free in-person tickets to SFI's upcoming Community Lecture! lensic.org/events/kyle-...
Kyle Harperβs talk on βClimate Change and Contagion β Complex Crises Past and Presentβ at @TheLensic on ποΈ June 18, begins at 7:30 pm MT and will also stream online.
Catch up on our recent Community Lecture with Blaise AgΓΌera y Arcas! The lecture, Computing, Life, and Intelligence, is available on SFIβs YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/75PAyV8...
@blaiseaguera.bsky.social
More details: santafe.edu/events/blais...
19.05.2025 16:20 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0If youβve reserved a seat but must cancel, please release your tickets back to the Lensic Box Office at 505-988-1234.
Canβt be there in person? The lecture will also livestream on SFIβs YouTube channel and be available for future viewing.
Livestream: youtube.com/@SFIScience
Join us tomorrow at the Lensic Performing Arts Center for an SFI Community Lecture with Blaise AgΓΌera y Arcas! The lecture, Computing, Life, and Intelligence, begins at 7:30 p.m. with a book signing in the lobby at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: lensic.org/events/blais...
Congratulations to SFI Postdoc Kaleda Denton, the runner-up for this yearβs John Maynard Smith Award from the European Society for Evolutionary Biology!
@eseb.bsky.social
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