Vermont Complex Systems Institute

🎓 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

🔬 Huge thanks to @joanagsa.bsky.social & Lília Perfeito for helping me get ready for this chapter

🚀 Excited for this next step!

01.09.2025 21:19 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 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 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 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 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 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 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Juniper Lovato is a Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty member and an outstanding thinker who has been critical to many of our most significant research efforts. Learn about what makes her…... Juniper Lovato is a Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty member and an outstanding thinker who has been critical to many of our most significant research efforts. Learn about what makes her ...

We love this research profile on Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty @juniperlov.bsky.social 🐙 www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...

29.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Going Viral: How Ideas, Beliefs, and Innovations Spread in the Digital Age | Computer Science | The University of Vermont It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it’s easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others ta...

What do cascade dynamics teach us about why things go viral? New research from VCSI faculty and @sfiscience.bsky.social considers the fact that things don’t just spread — they change as they spread, and those changes strengthen or weaken their impact.

Read more here: www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/news...

22.08.2025 14:35 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Revisiting Cont's stylized facts for modern stock markets In 2001, Rama Cont introduced a now-widely used set of ‘stylized facts’ to synthesize empirical studies of financial price changes (returns), resulting in 11 statistical properties common to a larg...

Why do stock markets behave the way they do? New work from our partnership with MITRE upends traditional understanding of stylized facts in markets. Read more here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

19.08.2025 14:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

IC2S2'25 Norrköping - YouTube This playlist contains all keynotes from IC2S2'25 in Norrköping, Sweden.

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

25.07.2025 15:49 — 👍 42    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1

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 Norrköping Sweden - what a great week. We're excited to host next year in Vermont!

25.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Great job Hendrik!

25.07.2025 09:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

24.07.2025 20:00 — 👍 29    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 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 👀

21.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

UVM Attracts $5.5M from NSF for AI Supercomputer, Underground Robots, Health Science | UVM News | The University of Vermont

Some big news for us and congrats to @chrisdanforth.bsky.social on this NSF award: www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news...

18.07.2025 18:07 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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...

18.07.2025 15:32 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1