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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Jul 23

If your complexity model ends with a tidy conclusion, it isn’t complexity. We end our Atlas unfinished! Incompleteness isn’t failure. It’s method. It’s imagination. It’s the only honest map we've got. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 32: The Unfinished Space

QUICK OVERVIEW AND LINKS TO THE OTHER THEMES AND CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK We come, finally, to the last chapter of the At...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Jul 23

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet

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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

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Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · Jun 20

Encouraging results from another low emission / clean zone, this time Newcastle...

BBC News - Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year - BBC News
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Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year

New data shows a 9% fall in nitrogen dioxide levels from 2023 to 2024.

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Jun 6

The present future of methods research is applied complexity. The Atlas, Ch30, explores these methods, from case-based to systems mapping to trajectory QCA. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 30: Mapping the new methodological terrain

QUICK OVERVIEW AND LINKS TO THE OTHER THEMES AND CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK The first major content theme in T he Atlas of ...

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · May 21

Ch29 Atlas: Complex Causality. Most models flatten social life into neat causes and effects. Real complexity is tangled, temporal. Drop the clockwork. Think in cases. Trace feedback. Embrace the mess. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 29: Revisiting Complex Causality

QUICK OVERVIEW AND LINKS TO THE OTHER THEMES AND CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK The first major content theme in T he Atlas o...

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · May 4

Computational models have their place, but social complexity demands a wider modelling platform, including qualitative and mixed methods, all grounded in the ontological messiness of social reality. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social r sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 28: Make Love, Not Models

QUICK OVERVIEW AND LINKS TO THE OTHER THEMES AND CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK The first major content theme in T he Atlas of So...

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · Apr 21

Finland just seems to get it right - education, housing. #TaxTheRich #ClassWar

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Apr 22

Final Atlas theme: methods. From critically engaging computation to embracing systems mapping, QCA, & complex realism, we ask: can our methods meet the complexity challenge? Not yet, but we're close. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 27: Theme 5, Methods

The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first the...

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Apr 9

Resilience isn’t just bouncing back. It’s co-evolving, adapting, transforming. We live inside socioecological systems. Our survival and well-being depend on their resilience. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 26: Resilience and all that Jazz

The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first theme includes six cha...

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · Mar 26

🆕 Handbook of Trust and Social Psychology, edited by Kenneth J. Rotenberg, Serena Petrocchi, Annalisa Levante and Flavia Lecciso

Free content is available at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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#SocialPsychology #HealthPsychology

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yes it is.

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Cristina Costa @cristinacost.bsky.social · Mar 24

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Mar 24

This looks good:

Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research
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Call for papers

Call for papers, Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research. Two-day workshop for 10 November 2025 at LSE.

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Mar 26

Economies aren’t machines seeking balance; they're living systems in disequilibrium: adaptive, entangled, unpredictable. Complexity economics doesn’t fix old models. It re-imagines the system entirely. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 25: Economics in an unstable world

The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first the...

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · Mar 25

All set up and ready to go! #AAG25

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Mar 15

CH24 Atlas: Policy chases simple fixes for complex problems. Wicked problems aren’t puzzles, they’re living systems. Think adaptively, act collectively, & embrace complexity as a tool, not theory. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 24: The Challenges of Applying Complexity

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Mar 12

Looking forward to presenting at the Imaginary Institute on The Atlas of Social Complexity clea.research.vub.be/clea-seminar...

CLEA SEMINAR & IMAGINARY INSTITUTE. The Atlas of Social Complexity

In the upcoming CLEA x ii seminar session, we invite Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits to explore their seminal work, The Atlas of Social Complexity. We will focus on their final chapter, The

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Mar 2

Complexity scientists: stop acting like policy is a physics problem. Wicked problems aren’t just complex; they're political. Engage power, irrationality, and governance to be useful. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 23: Governance, Politics and Technocracy

The first major content theme in T he Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. This first theme includes six cha...

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · Feb 26

🎙️ @complexcase.bsky.social and @lassegerrits.bsky.social discuss their title, The Atlas of Social Complexity, on Peter Erdi's podcast

Listen here: youtu.be/FYWoruE27Uo?...

#SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #ComplexityScience

Atlas of Social Complexity: Podcast with the authors: Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits

YouTube video by Peter Erdi

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · Feb 25

🔔 Out now: Learning, Digital Skills, and the Global South, by Jeffrey James of @tilburg-university.bsky.social

FREE chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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#DevelopmentEconomics #InnovationEconomics #InformationTechnology

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · Feb 25

NEW: Families with Children in a Turbulent Era edited by Katja Repo, @miatammelin.bsky.social and Petteri Eerola

🆓 chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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Endorsement by @ktwamley.bsky.social

#Education #SocialPolicy #Parents #Children #COVID

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · Feb 25

No one better than @weissmann11.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Andrew Weissman and Jen Rubin on crumbling rule of law in America

Former General Counsel for the FBI Andrew Weissmann and Jen Rubin give an update on the criminal proceedings against Eric Adams and discuss the naming of right-wing influencer Dan Bongino as Deputy Di...

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Matías Valderrama @mvaldeb.bsky.social · Feb 25

Looking forward to this event! Gente de Chile, pueden conectarse a este evento mediante la CDI TV! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · Feb 24

this week's cover is on point

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 19

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

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complexcase.bsky.social @complexcase.bsky.social · Feb 11

Digital space/time intertwine with the urban, impacting how we plan, model, live. This “space of flows” reinforces megacities as central nodes, deepens inequalities, & reshapes mobility. See CH21 of Atlas @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 21: The Local and the Global: The Complexities of Place

As I stated in my previous posts, The Atlas of Social Complexity is comprised of several content themes. The first majo...

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