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I'm not saying it's aliens: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18452427 #3IATLAS #InterstellarObject #OHSpectroscopy #MeerKAT #SETI #astrophysics #ComplexSystems #InformationTheory #StateMachines @setiinstitute @Astrodon

Consider: OH lines in 3I/ATLAS appear to show non‑Markovian behavior.

A turbulent coma shouldn’t remember an asymmetry for 12 days, invert it, gate a hyperfine line, and terminate at alignment.

Systems without memory don’t produce sequences.

🏭 February 1978, Is mankind warming the Earth?

🌀 It is a system that seems to strive for an uneasy balance among atmosphere, oceans, land and polar ice masses, it now appears though that we ourselves are becoming another significant factor in the climatic balance.

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2020-12/1978-is-mankind-warming-the-earth/

#ClimateChange #SciHist #complexSystems #Sustainability

Illustration for the cover the the 1978 Atomic Bulletin. A dark red and black factory sit in the bottom centre under a black outline of the earth. Text reads: Is mankind warming the earth?

Yesterday, 3,000+ people got #ComplexityThoughts Issue 75 in their inbox. Want the next one? Subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/... #ComplexSystems 🧪🧬🦠🌐 As usual, also on: 🎧 Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

System Failures at Boundaries
Across institutions, engineering, biology, and physics, failure is often blamed on weak signals or insufficient effort. This piece looks instead at the structural conditions that make correction possible — or impossible.
Escalation often fails not because people don’t try hard enough, but because systems no longer admit the kind of change being attempted.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/system-failures-at-boundaries?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #SystemsThinking #ComplexSystems #Boundaries #FailureModes

Unique among the senses, the ear expends energy to amplify the stimuli that it detects. New research shows that a segment of mammalian cochlea ex vivo displays features of this active process—amplification, frequency tuning, compressive nonlinearity & generation of distortion products—operating locally & near criticality at a Hopf bifurcation—a unified biophysical principle that underlies auditory processing across species. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2503389122
#PNAS #Hearing #Auditory #Complexsystems

When AI Can’t Give One “Correct” Answer

Dr. Stephen M. Fiore discusses how human-AI collaboration works in complex, high-stakes settings. From advanced decision systems on Earth to space missions, the challenge isn’t just smart technology — it’s how people and AI coordinate when problems don’t have a single right solution.

Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/sRF_wrJMm_E

#space #AI #HumanAI #ComplexSystems #TechEthics

Had a great time with Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA. We demonstrated our experiments involving turbulence, observed in lab-scale combustors and cloud chamber. We also presented our results on different systems from engineering and nature, including the similarities between them.

#NYUTandon #IITMadras #ScientificExchange #Turbulence #ComplexSystems #NonlinearDynamics #CriticalTransitions

Had a great time with Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA. We demonstrated our experiments involving turbulence, observed in lab-scale combustors and cloud chamber. We also presented our results on different systems from engineering and nature, including the similarities between them.

#NYUTandon #IITMadras #ScientificExchange t #Turbulence #ComplexSystems #NonlinearDynamics #CriticalTransitions

New paper led by Alessandra Corso and @valedand.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy at @comunelab.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy just out: www.nature.com/articles/s42... #ComplexSystems #HumanBrain #NetworkScience #CoMuNeLab /fin

📝 More than a buzzword? Mapping interpretations of the ‘polycrisis’.

I was initially skeptical of the usefulness of term 'polycrisis', but its original (1999) meaning linking "ecological degradation, economic turbulence, social fragmentation, and political dysfunction" does seem useful, albeit challenging to study.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-025-01790-9

#Sustainability #Polycrisis #Interdisciplinary #ComplexSystems #OpenAccess

New blog post: How I came to know John Cage in the mountains of Western NC and regularly stumble on ways his thinking has helped me navigate complexity.

https://www.sounding.com/2026/01/20/scale-is-step-by-step/

#JohnCage #BlackMountain #Complexity #Riak #SaltStack #DistributedDatabases #DistributedSystems #ComplexSystems #SystemsThinking

ML can model the smooth parts of progress, but it never sees the discontinuities.

In my latest essay, I use MediEvil speedrun history to show why machine learning forecasts fail when real–world innovations disrupt the pattern. Smooth curves hide chaos.

https://buthonestly.io/programming/limits-of-machine-learning/

#MachineLearning #AI #TechCritique #DataScience #Programming #ComplexSystems #IndieWeb

@marsiposa That is one example that kind of fits, yes.

The actual space I'm looking at at the moment though is physical climate-related financial risk disclosures. Thinking about how the results of risk assessments are not truly verifiable (even in the future they are only really verifiable at the economic scale, not for individual businesses).

I think that this means there is the possibility that the norms of the industry (a system made up of businesses, investors, risk assessors, regulators, etc. etc.) might drift such that the standard/"best practice" approaches become less and less representative of the true underlying risk profiles, because they are not strongly tethered by a responsive feedback loop of error detection and correction.

#climateScience #climateRisk #ClimateFinance #complexSystems #systemsThinking

on #X and #bluesky i wrote very lengthy threads about #systemsdynamics, i am not gonna do that anymore.

if you want to get a clue on the lowest, most basic level of this stuff, no matter if you are just a recreational systems thinker or an whole ass applied #systemsengineer (maybe especially then), you should read meadows primer on how this stuff _actually_ works.

#systemsthinking #sytemsdynamics #complexsystems

The image shows a book cover. At the top, the title reads "Thinking in Systems" in bold black text. Below that, in smaller text, it says "A Primer". Further down, the author is "Donella H. Meadows", and beneath that, "Edited by Diana Wright, Sustainability Institute" in even smaller text. On the left side of the cover, there is a colorful, coiled spring with segments transitioning from red through orange, yellow, green, to blue. The background of the cover is white.

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why should you give a fuck about this niche ass, inaccessible sophistry?

because that is the way to go on about understanding phenomena in #complexsystems. it is by far not the only way to think about it, systems science is wast and diverse. but it is a good start to wrap your head around things like #overshoot and hysteresis, things happening in the complex world around us which are hard to grasp and often get misunderstood. it is #complexity literacy.

#systemsthinking #sytemsdynamics

#ComplexSystems do not fail primarily because of chaos, but because of the absolutization of order and efficiency. The #MallinckrodtCycle describes this systemic tipping point and explains why adaptive viability emerges only within the dynamic resonance space between these two extremes.🖖