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Santa Fe Institute
@sfiscience
Santa Fe, NM
Joined November 2009
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    We're sorry to announce the passing of @NobelPrize Laureate and complexity giant Murray Gell-Mann, one of the 20th Century's greatest physicists – pioneer, SFI co-founder, prophet of the quark. You inspired so many, Murray. You will be missed. A tribute: youtu.be/8bOl0i1OORA
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    RIP John Conway... Organisms may be mortal but the Game of Life goes on forever.
    Farewell to mathematician John Conway. For us, complexity scientists, he will be remembered by the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life, that inspired so many ideas about complexity, computation and life itself. @sfiscience @svalver
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    Mathematical reasoning could lead to new insights into the universal characteristics of living systems. For 3.8 billion years, evolution has followed a branching tree pattern, from simple bacteria to complex life forms. But what if the structure of these evolutionary trees
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    What Is Complexity? To celebrate @ComplexExplorer's ten-year anniversary, here's SFI President David Krakauer with a brand-new 30-minute lecture on this fundamental question. Learn what distinguishes complex systems and the approaches used to study them: youtube.com/watch?v=FBkFu1…
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    Wonderful news! SFI Trustee @B3_MillerValue just gave us the largest donation in the Institute's history — possibly the largest single contribution to complex systems research ever — which he calls "a bet on the future of humanity." 🥳 THANK YOU, BILL! 🎉
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    📚 The @SFIPress’s latest project, “Foundational Papers in Complexity Science,” republishes 88 influential papers, providing contemporary insights into the field’s origins and evolution over the past century. From entropy to computation, these papers explore the fundamental
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    Novelist Cormac McCarthy, SFI trustee and Life Fellow passed away on Tuesday, June 13, at his home in Santa Fe. We are immensely saddened by his loss. His voracious mind and near-infinite interests will continue to inspire us.
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    This is the #textbook we've been waiting for! A beautiful new volume by SFI External Prof Stefan Thurner et al. at @CSHVienna (@UniofOxford Press) synthesizes 100s of disparate findings, identifying what all #complex #systems have in common: santafe.edu/news-center/ne… #complexity
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    Reserve your free tickets to SFI's upcoming Community Lecture! lensic.org/events/blaise-… Artificial life doesn’t evolve the way Darwinian evolutionary theory usually presumes. Instead of random mutation and selection, it uses symbiogenesis, wherein small replicating entities merge
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    Transcend disciplinary boundaries, take intellectual risks, and ask big questions about complex systems! Deadlines close January 15th for SFI's #Complex #Systems #SummerSchool (#CSSS) - 4 weeks of intensive research with mentorship by world experts: santafe.edu/csss
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    🎉 SFI turns 40 this year! For this landmark in SFI’s history, we are sharing glimpses from SFI’s early years as a hub for #ComplexityScience. 📷 Here’s a throwback to SFI’s 15th anniversary! #TBT
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    SFI External Prof Mark Newman has updated his classic textbook on networks to reflect the many recent advances in the field. "Networks, second edition" will be released soon. santafe.edu/news-center/ne…
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    It might start as a joke, belief, or rumor. At first, its easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others take over the internet? A new study published in Physical Review Letters offers a