Complex Systems Studies

Surface Data vs. Deep Data Alyosha Efros (UC Berkeley) https://youtu.be/vk6lgHjjGp8 Jitendra Malik challenges the "bitter lesson" doctrine, arguing that simple scaling is insufficient for true artificial intelligence. By contrasting passive surface data with active, hard-earned deep data, this talk explores the necessity of curiosity-driven exploration and physical embodiment in creating systems that move beyond mere mimicry to genuine understanding of our world.

#Postdoc Fellow in Social Reinforcement Learning and Human-AI Hybrid Systems https://careers.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/jobs/8112072-postdoctoral-fellow-in-social-reinforcement-learning-and-human-ai-hybrid-systems

#Phd in Complexity Science https://csh.ac.at/education/graduate-program/ We are looking for students who want to use their exceptional knowledge and skills to make a meaningful difference in society – whether supporting the green transition, combating crime and misinformation, improving healthcare outcomes, or building more equitable economies.

AI Reference Verification A pipeline for checking whether references produced by large language models actually exist, by resolving each one against Crossref and OpenAlex and scoring how well the generated metadata agrees with the real record. https://github.com/yajiwang/AI-Reference-Verification

Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities People who live in large cities produce more patents per person than those who live in small towns. They also walk faster down the street, and use less infrastructure per person. Indeed, the relationships between these quantities and city population obey power laws with apparently universal exponents, reminiscent of scaling laws is biological organisms? Luis Bettencourt argues that they can be explained in similar ways, using ideas from complex systems and network theory. https://preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/07/27/362-luis-bettencourt-on-the-universal-properties-of-self-organizing-cities/

#PhD vacancy: Migration Narratives in Digital Societies How do online migration debates become politically consequential? Migration has long been central to political contestation, but digital platforms have transformed how it is discussed. Online debates do not revolve around facts alone. They unfold through rapidly circulating narratives that combine language, images, personal stories, and emotional appeals. ➡️ We are looking for a PhD candidate with strong quantitative research skills. You will combine multimodal social media analysis with survey experiments and data-donation methods, drawing on sociology, political science, computational social science and data science. https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-a-multimodal-analysis-of-emotion-narrative-and-migration-politics-online

Fully funded #PhD position in infectious disease modeling and inequalities Supervisor: Prof. Michele Tizzoni, University of Trento https://www.unifi.it/en/study-us/after-graduation/phd-programmes/phd-courses/cycle-42-call-applications

Author-Paid Publication Fees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned https://osf.io/preprints/osf/3ez9v_v2

Linköping University #PhD student in financial mathematics or financial statistics https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/29073 #Postdoc in Financial Mathematics or Statistics https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/29133

Research fellow (University Researcher) in AI for Population Health and Genomics https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Research-fellow-%28University-Researcher%29-in-AI-for-Population-Health-and-Genomics/1365198157/

#Postdoc Researcher in Computational Social Science | Aalto University https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-researcher-in-computational-social-science

#Postdoc Fellow in Infectious Disease Modeling and Causal Inference: Impact of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 outcomes https://postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/opportunities/open-postdoctoral-position-faculty-mentor-marc-lipsitch

#Postdoc Research Scientist in Computational Vaccinology Pandemic Sciences Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health and Information Discovery, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=187018

#PhD Position in Uncertainty Quantification and Communication for Large Language Models at IT University of Copenhagen https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181880&DepartmentId=3439&MediaId=5

ICTP Associates Seminars are part personal, part scientific, with speakers sharing their career trajectory and experiences, then introducing their research field and work. In this seminar, Prof. Reza Ejtehadi from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, will discuss being a scientist in Iran, and work on active matter in his group in Iran. Abstract As it is going to be the custom in this series of seminars, in the first part I will present a picture of the life of a scientist in Iran to see how being active under these circumstances can differ from the general image of the usual activity. n the second part I will give an overview of the search activities of my group in Iran. We focus on soft and biological matters and in the last decade we have also become interested in active particles, active polymers and active matters. On-site and online: https://ictp.global/events/215341

سلام! من قصد دارم در تابستان پیش رو کنفرانس آنلاین یک‌روزه‌ای به زبان فارسی بین ۱۳ تا ۱۹ جولای برای دانشجویان تحصیلات تکمیلی در رشته‌های مربوط به سیستم‌های پیچیده و سایر علاقه‌مندان برگزار کنم. اگر مایل هستید که به عنوان سخنران در این برنامه شرکت کنید، لطفا این فرم را کامل کنید: کنفرانس تابستانه سیستم‌های پیچیده تیر ۱۴۰۵ | آنلاین https://forms.gle/jCesEZWTtSk3T7UY6 ممنون از شما عباس ریزی

Jagged Intelligence The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs https://yalereview.org/article/melanie-mitchell-jagged-intelligence

#Postdoc in Foundations for Emergent Deception in Human-AI Interaction We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to work on the project "DeceptionWeb: Foundations for Emergent Deception in Human-AI Interaction", funded by a UCPH Convergence Grant and led by Pepa Atanasova (Computer Science), Ingo Zettler (Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science and Department of Psychology), and Egor Starkov (Economics). The project's goal is to build a foundational framework for understanding emergent deception in human-AI interaction by uniting behavioural-psychological, economic-strategic, and machine learning perspectives. The ideal candidate would have an educational background, prior research and work experience on Natural Language Processing, LLM Security, and/or Explainable AI. https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=3010&departmentId=19976&ProjectId=163590&MediaId=4917

The Lab of Robert Legenstein at Graz University of Technology (Austria) https://www.tugraz.at/institute/iml/people/prof-legenstein/ is offering a funded PhD position (Univ. Assistant) in the areas Brain-inspired Machine Learning/Spiking Neural Networks. In paticular, we will investigate brain-inspired models that bridge between sub-symbolic and symbolic artificial intelligence approaches in the context of the Cluster of Excellence Bilateral AI: https://www.bilateral-ai.net A background in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or Mathematics is desirable, as well as evidence for excellent prior performance as a student. For details and application portal, see https://jobs.tugraz.at/en/jobs/e60aac86-0142-4968-a7f1-87662a99f784

Too Lazy to Use Claude Code for Research https://youtu.be/8jo91yMtD_E In this special episode of Too Lazy to Read the Paper I talk to YY Ahn about using Claude Code for Research. Normally in Too Lazy to Read the Paper, somebody explains a paper to me, because reading papers is hard and talking to people is fun and natural. And if someone's too lazy to read the paper, they're definitely too lazy to read the manual. So today there's a new format. There's no paper. Instead there's a thing we're all talking about in the shadows – agentic coding, Claude Code. The whole business of handing an AI your research and letting it write and run the code – and my sense is that getting started on this is a big hurdle to a lot of folks. So to help them (and myself, I'm sitting down with all-round genious, renessaince man, deep thinker, conneseur of all things coding and living in the terminal, and honest, decent person, YY Ahn.