Thereβs a secret language beneath your favorite movies, musicals, and even video games.
We visualized every motif in Wicked, Hamilton, and Les Mis to show how tiny musical ideas can build entire emotional worlds.
π: pudding.cool/2025/12/moti...
10.12.2025 18:30 β π 12 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0
IC2S2 2026 Speaker announcement displaying the image of Kate Starbird from the University of Washington with a background showing Lake Champlain in Vermont
Keynote Announcement!
We're thrilled to have Kate Starbird from the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering speak at IC2S2 2026.
Registration is open with submissions opening on 12/15: ic2s2-2026.org
08.12.2025 16:13 β π 24 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Woohoo! We're excited.
01.12.2025 21:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by UVM Office of Research
IC2S2 2026 | Burlington, Vermont
We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
13.11.2025 15:36 β π 33 π 19 π¬ 0 π 1
YouTube video by Across the Fence
11/05/25 What Does a Computer Scientist (and Philosopher) think of A.I.?
Core faculty Juniper Lovato recently joined Across the Fence to discuss artificial intelligence. Check out the episode "What Does a Computer Scientist (and Philosopher) think of A.I.?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5V8...
07.11.2025 15:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Eight arms clapping for our champions: "Complex City United" is #1! Our complex systems team of faculty and graduate students won UVM's recreational soccer finals this month:
22.10.2025 16:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Group Science: The Open Source Study of Higher-order Networks With XGI | SIAM
The CompleX Group Interactions (XGI) software package offers analytical tools, tutorials, and documentation for higher-order network science research.
We wrote a little something! @nwlandry.bsky.social and I talk about how new software to study networks with groups (like @xgi.bsky.social !) can help interdisciplinary collaborations tackle old questions from social ontology and the science of groups.
www.siam.org/publications...
15.10.2025 15:00 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 2
Students and faculty standing outside for a group picture on a fall day in Vermont
Itβs fall in Vermont and here we are with @uvmvermont.bsky.social president Dr. Marlene Tromp for the annual social on the green ππ
12.10.2025 20:56 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
New paper dropped!
Led by @thosvarley.bsky.social and Pai Vaibhav, we show that flows of information within a #xenobot resemble flows of information observed in adult human brains.
Thomas provides caveats and context below.
w/ @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, Caitlin Grasso, & Jeantine Lunshof.
12.10.2025 12:52 β π 29 π 12 π¬ 2 π 0
π I've joined the PhD in Complex Systems & Data Science at @vcsi.bsky.social to work w/ @lhd.bsky.social & @juniperlov.bsky.social to explore social (complex) dynamics
π¬ Huge thanks to @joanagsa.bsky.social & LΓlia Perfeito for helping me get ready for this chapter
π Excited for this next step!
01.09.2025 21:19 β π 18 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
Excited about this paper and the interactive story to accompany it. Congrats @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @giulioburgio.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social and nice story telling @jstonge.bsky.social!
18.09.2025 18:59 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
18.09.2025 14:08 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1
PyData Vermont 2025 | Join the Python conference today
PyData Vermont 2025 is a two-day in-person conference for data scientists, engineers, and developers, featuring keynotes, talks, and networking at UVM in Burlington, VT, October 21-22.
Working on an interesting data project? Want to enjoy Vermont during leaf peeping season? Submit a talk for PyData Vermont 2025! We will be hosting this event at UVM through our open source program office, VERSO: pydata.org/vermont2025/
29.08.2025 19:00 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Team from the University of Vermont + External faculty posing for a picture by a river
VCSI executive director announcing location for the conference in 2026, standing on a large stage with colleagues
female scholar presenting a parallel talk, engaging with the audience
PhD student presenting a research poster
Proud of our team's talks and posters at #IC2S2 in NorrkΓΆping Sweden - what a great week. We're excited to host next year in Vermont!
25.07.2025 11:13 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
Great job Hendrik!
25.07.2025 09:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in NorrkΓΆping 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
24.07.2025 20:00 β π 29 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0
Newish work from VCSI core and external team members: @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @jstonge.bsky.social @jgyou.bsky.social & @nwlandry.bsky.social π
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The 2026 edition of the Conference on Complex Systems will take place in Binghamton, USA. The event will take place during October 9β16 2026.
The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. https://pudding.cool/
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UBC Vancouver (Mathematics) - Chadi Saad-Roy Group | BS-MS @ IISc, Bangalore (Biology Major) | Interested in game theory, epidemiology, collective human behaviour, social dynamics and economics
LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/prakhar-jaiswal-762542223
Data Science PhD from Drexel CCI
Postdoc at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, LiU
Social networks and collective behavior
AS β© CSS
https://martin-arvidsson.github.io
Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Interested in disease ecology and evolution, mathematical biology
https://chadisaadroy.wordpress.com
https://tunazislam.github.io/
Visiting Assistant Professor @PurdueCS
Ph.D. @PurdueCS, MSc @oducs, BSc @BUETCSE
TravelholicπYogiπ§ββοΈMom of 2 π§π¦ first-generation Ph.D.π©βπ
Interests: Computational Social Science (CSS), NLP, Social Media Mining
Tenure-track assistant professor at Uppsala University, UU Information Laboratory (UU-InfoLab)
International arbiter at International Chess Federation (FIDE)
davidevega.eu
Postdoc @nunetsi.bsky.social (Northeastern Uni) π Computational Social Science πΎ β¨ work on stability of belief in LLMs & Human-AI Collaboration πΏ he/him π±π» πΊπ¦ | www.savcisens.com
Visiting postdoc in mobility data science at Technical University of Denmark | postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology. #UrbanBigData & #Transportation | yuan-liao.com
Assistant Professor @ Institute for Analytical Sociology, LinkΓΆping U.
| Dynamics of segregation
selcanmutgan.com
@max@maxpe.todon.de
Principal Investigator at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Assistant Professor @cornellbowers.bsky.socialβ¬
#Innovation #ScienceofScience #ComplexSystems
Forbes 30 under 30 in Science
Assistant Prof at Northeastern University London | urban data | computational social science | economic geography | networks
PhDing in Complex Systems and Data Science at @UVM and @Vermont Complex Systems Institute
Computational Social Science, Complex Systems and Economics
Enjoying retirement from a former roller hockey career
#proudlycharroco
Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference.
http://martinsaveski.com
Political Sociologist, Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)
I study discursive dynamics and lawmaking in U.S. Congress and Europe.
Program Chair @ic2s2.bsky.social
Website: https://hendrik-erz.de
I develop @zettlr.com, a free academic writing app.
Sociologist at Rutgers. Studies far-right politics, populism, and hate speech. Computational social science.
https://www.thomasrdavidson.com/
Computer science doctorand at Uppsala University, @uuinfolab.bsky.socialβ¬.
Mining social networks, discovering new music, occasionally playing baseball and softball.
Probably not George Michael, but search engines believe otherwise.
PhD Candidate @TU Eindhoven | Statistics, networks, social science, sustainability, complexity.
