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Centuries of ontological dualisms (even recently permeating the literature) have muddied goal-directedness as something mystical. 🔮

It’s time to naturalize this concept and unpack its relationship to agency!/1

#complexitycat 😼

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Review The meaning and origin of goal-directedness: a dynamical systems perspective
Goal orientation is perhaps one of the most intriguing corollaries of living systems. Can we naturalize a concept that for centuries has been treated as something beyond reductionist explanations? Tod...
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amahury.bsky.social
Centuries of ontological dualisms (even recently permeating the literature) have muddied goal-directedness as something mystical. 🔮

It’s time to naturalize this concept and unpack its relationship to agency!/1

#complexitycat 😼

www.complexitycat.org/posts/goal-d...
Review The meaning and origin of goal-directedness: a dynamical systems perspective
Goal orientation is perhaps one of the most intriguing corollaries of living systems. Can we naturalize a concept that for centuries has been treated as something beyond reductionist explanations? Tod...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
Entropy | Special Issue on Emergent Dynamics of Complex Systems: From Synchronization to Clustering

Paper submission: December 31

#MDPI #SpecialIssue #sync #clustering #emergence #entropy ./7

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Special Issue on Emergent Dynamics of Complex Systems: From Synchronization to Clustering
Prof. Zhigang Zheng invite us to submit contributions to his organized special issue about emergence in complex systems. Deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 December 2025.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
Johns Hopkins University | Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence

Application deadline: December 1

#postdoc #physics #complexity #emergence #philosophy ./6

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Johns Hopkins University Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence
Sean Carroll is looking for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
Simons Foundation | Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Application deadline: December 4

#postdoc #job #plants #biology #SimonsFoundation ./5

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Simons Foundation Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support candidates who intend to pursue a career in basic research on fundamental problems in plant ...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
Mount Sinai Health System | Postdoc Fellowship on Brain-body Interactions and Regulation

Application open on a rolling basis

#postdoc #brainbody #regulation #behavior #metabolism ./4

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Mount Sinai Health System Postdoc Fellowship on Brain-body Interactions and Regulation
Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher to study brain–body interactions uncovering how neural and physiological systems regulate behavior and energy metabolism under stress!
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
Yale University | Postdoc and PhD fellowships on linguistics, cognitive science, and AI

Application open on a rolling basis

#PhD #postdoc #linguistics #cognitivescience #AI ./3

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Yale University Postdoc and PhD fellowships on linguistics, cognitive science, and AI
Assistant Professor Tom McCoy will be considering applications for PhD students & postdocs to start at Yale in Fall 2026! If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, &...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
University of Cambridge | Fully-funded PhD Pathology Studentships Michaelmas Term 2026

Application deadline: December 3

#PhD #pathology #virology #biogenesis #RNA #regulation ./2

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University of Cambridge Fully-funded PhD Pathology Studentships Michaelmas Term 2026
We are hiring! We have a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship to study how RNA viruses steal ribosomes and reprogram host translation.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
Dartmouth College | Graduate Program in Psychological and Brain Sciences

Application deadline: December 1

#PhD #neuroscience #neuraldynamics #brain #behavior #cognition ./1

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Dartmouth College Graduate Program in Psychological and Brain Sciences
The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences offers graduate training leading to a doctoral degree in Psychological and Brain Science or Cognitive Neuroscience. Research within the department is...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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sanjasreckovic.bsky.social
✨️Call for abstracts✨️
Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop
"Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations"
Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026

Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜
Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025
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Ruhr-University Bochum & London School of Economics joint workshop “Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations”
The following speakers are confirmed: Colin Allen, Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Tomer Czaczkes, Rebecca Dreier, Leonard Dung, Albert Newen, Simone Pika, Sanja Sreckovic, and Daria Zakharova.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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amahury.bsky.social
Shannon's information focuses on the syntactic aspect of communication without regard for what the messages actually mean.

Can we measure meaning? What is the relationship between semantic information and autonomous agency? 🧐💭

#complexitycat 🐈‍⬛./1

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Review Semantic information, autonomous agency and non-equilibrium statistical physics
Shannon’s information theory does not consider meaning; it is a quantitative theory focused on the probability and transmission of messages as signals, completely divorcing information from its semant...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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annaciaunica.bsky.social
Do you need your toes to think?

YESS!

Happy to see this one out 😎!

From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :

How to stay alive 😎😅
aeon.co Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 1d
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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complenet.bsky.social
🌍 We are excited to announce that we are introducing a reduced registration fee for participants from developing countries.
🚨 Last days to send your contribution – submit by Nov 30, 2025 (sharp deadline)!
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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wins-society.bsky.social
📅 Save the date!

Join us next Monday, Dec 1 at 11 AM EST, for another exciting seminar with Dr. Katharina Ledebur (Complexity Science Hub) on disease modeling.

Hoping to see you all there!✨
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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lammerdinglab.bsky.social
Motivational video for #MigrationMovieMonday. A persistent 4T1 breast cancer cell squeezing itself through a tight constriction despite undergoing repetitive nuclear envelope rupture. Credit: Kristen Nedza @weillinstitute.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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manlius.bsky.social
Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science?

The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.

🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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sinalana.bsky.social
#ALife
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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cna25.bsky.social
With just two weeks to go until #ComplexNetworks2025, we remind you that you must upload your presentation/poster to our CMT submission system by today midnight AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

We can't wait to see you, we'll have lots of surprises for you! 🎁🪩

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November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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najarro.science
Life fast-forwarded
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
amahury.bsky.social
As December approaches, we bring you the last #complexitycat thread of 2025, full of opportunities, from postdoctoral fellowships to international events taking place in 2026!

Here we go! 👇🧵
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
Winter Is Coming: And the Earth’s oldest organisms are prepping. 🥶
Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing | Quanta Magazine
Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it. The discovery suggests that seasonal tracking is fundamental to life.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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johanneskleiner.bsky.social
I'm very much looking forward to our "Mathematical Phenomenology: Synergies and Connections" workshop tomorrow!

👉 www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... #consci

A huge thank you to our speakers and my co-organisizer @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social in advance!
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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thosvarley.bsky.social
🚨New paper! 🚨
"The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems"
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The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems
Author summary The problem of understanding when a set of interacting components of a complex systems produce behavior that is “greater than the sum of their parts" is foundational in many areas of mo...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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manlius.bsky.social
Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐

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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
Special Issue: Complexity and Evolution, 2nd Edition

Paper submission: November 26

#MDPI #Entropy #CallForPapers #Complexity #Evolution #SpecialIssue ./19

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Special Issue: Complexity and Evolution, 2nd Edition
Submit your contribution by November 26th to this special number organized by Dr. Francis Heylighen and Dr. Tomas Veloz.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Postdoctoral Fellows Interdisciplinary Program

Application deadline: November 24

#postdoc #job #interdisciplinary #cancer #engineering ./18

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Postdoctoral Fellows Interdisciplinary Program
Applications are now open for 2026 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m. CST Monday, Nov. 24, 2025.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM