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Bruce Edmonds

@bruceedmonds.bsky.social
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Interested in too many things for his own good, but including: policy<->analyst interface, thinking skills, social simulation, philosophy of modelling, understanding political change, policy modelling. More at:http://cfpm.org. ORCID:0000-0002-3903-2507

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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
By people who threatened them - not just expressed their concerns.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I, also, am angry about the termination of 3-level .name domains by Verisign. I registered bruce.edmonds.name (which gives me the email bruce@edmonds.name) to have platform independence, this is now taken away without my consent. neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09... #versign
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think this is right. But looking at the working reveals all the assumptions, caveats and limitations of the "fact"
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Registration now open: talking-about-risk-and-resilience.blog/registration/
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Registration
If you are interested in participating, and/or presenting your work, then please goto the page If we get more people expressing interest than we have space/funds for we will have to select among th…
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There is an early episode of Star Trek where they land on a planet which provides what each of them desire. Kirk gets someone to fight.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No opinions on what is or is not a fact? The length of time and complexity "More or Less" takes to unpack facts tends to indicate the opposite.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
and opinions as to what are facts....?
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I am organising a workshop on "Talking about Risk and Resilience" about how normal people communicate about these to each other. It is noon 28th - noon 30th at Wageningen University in the NL. There is no registration fee. talking-about-risk-and-resilience.blog #risk #resilience #workshop
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Talking about Risk and Resilience
A 4TU.Resilience workshop at Wageningen University, NL, noon 28 - noon 30 Oct 2026
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Review of Artifical Societies and Social Simulation @rofasss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New contribution: “Theorywashing” – the practice of misattributing theory to impart academic credibility by Nanda Wijermans and Bruce Edmonds. rofasss.org/2026/08/11/t... #socialscience #simulation #abm #theory #design #justification #credibility
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“Theorywashing” – the practice of misattributing theory to impart academic credibility
By Nanda Wijermans and Bruce Edmonds “Greenwashing” is when claims are made by organisations (usually companies) to mislead “the public to believe that a company or other entity is doing more to pr…
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hmmmm I will have a read. My feeling is that some metaphors are so misleading as to be less than useful overall.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If metaphors have significant implications, then they should be subject to some validation. Wrong metaphors can mislead
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the analogies used to characterise ourselves have frequently come form our tech, eg. the victorian's thought of everything as clockwork
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
like a children's party, academics need the odd organized activity every now and then, or they get antsy 😛
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I we (England) won we would not have been able to be beaten by France for 3rd place.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The draft programme for Social Simulation 2026, , 24-28 Aug 2026, Durham, UK: www.conftool.pro/ssc2026/sess... #society #simulation #ABM #research #agents #interaction
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Any chance of one of these for the Makerfield MP elections (2024 & 2026)? Thanks (PS why so many analysts miss out the DND part of the electorate is astounding to me)
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I think the bigger danger is that we are simply ignored/bypassed - for better or worse ...
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
But what if we are replaced when people *thiink* we are replaceable, not when there is something that would do what we do as well, or better, than us?
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I agree, such good plotting
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
it's a pain whenever you do it and it can get in the way of the flow of writing at the time
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Plenary lectures will be livestreamed, so you can attend those lectures online. There are no participation fees but you have to register.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Upcoming workshop 24-26th June, Groningen, NL on "Power to the People: Participatory Modeling for Societal Resilience". www.rug.nl/rudolf-agric... #participatory #modeling #resilience #society
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Power to the People: Participatory Modeling for Societal Resilience
When communities face their most pressing challenges—managing disaster risk, adapting to climate change, navigating energy transitions—solutions rarely...
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Even _more_ fun when both the author and the reviewer are largely LLMs! :-))
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I *do* hope that Giro is a dog!
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Broadly I agree, but sometimes this kind of argument is used to exclude useful explanations from other fields, in a £not invented here" kind of way. The best explanation (for a particular purpose) may be at the same level, may be at a level below, or even a level above.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Either on its own, but not this mixture!
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
After 14 months of pestering a top journal about the progress of our paper, they admitted to losing it. We sent it again and waited 3 months then got a two-week deadline to revise it adding a completely new survey for us to do :-/
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
May 20 (cont): Workshop on ABMs and Artificial Intelligence synergies. Forum with ESSA's Management Committee. Discussion on Starting a journey towards a science of ‘Narratisation’
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
May 20: Talk by Christophe Le Page on: Participatory Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation: Engaging Local Communities to Support Social Learning in Socio-Ecological Systems.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
May 19 (cont): Panel session followed by discussion: Can GenAI Enhance Social Simulation without Compromising Scientific Standards? Workshop in conjunction with CSSSA on: The "Agent-Verse".
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
May 19: Talk by Clémentine Cottineau-Mugaza (Delft University) on "Simulating the spatio-temporal effects of urban segregation on health inequalities". ESSA@work is a session that is open to all interested modellers at any career stage seeking early advice on their work.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Social Simulation Online Festival 2026 (SocSimFest) will be on the 19&20th May - a mixture of talks, workshops, forums and discussions. There is no registration fee but you have to register. For details see socsimfest.eu #social #socsimfest #essa #simulation
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Possibly... I genuinely do not know. In stats each technique is good for some things and not others. It may be that we can use language but are not good at knowing what it can and cannot be used for. In stats it can be clear when it has been used wrongly, maybe not with language
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Does this mean that I will have to understand language before I use it as a tool?
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Well, *you* would say that, you are always far too positive! ;-)
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
After a premptive raid on their assumptions? ;-)
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
New paper in which I played a very small part. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Edmund Chattoe-Brown @edmundcb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#abm Edmonds, B. Carpentras, D. and Chattoe-Brown, E. (2025) 'Strongly Empirical Modelling' in Czupryna et al. (eds.) Advances in Social Simulation (Springer), pp. 99–111. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Strongly Empirical Modelling
The paper argues for, and discusses, the practice of &#8220;Strong Empirical Modelling&#8221;. This involves a shift in effort from the internals of a model towards how the model relates to observatio...
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Review of Artifical Societies and Social Simulation @rofasss.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New Contribution: A Reminder – computability limits on “vibe coding” ABMs by Bruce Edmonds. rofasss.org/2026/02/12/v... #rofasss #ABM #agentbased #programming #LLMs #AI #vibecoding #computability
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A Reminder – computability limits on “vibe coding” ABMs (using LLMS to do the programming for us)
By Bruce Edmonds Introduction Machine-learning systems, including Large Language Models (LLMs), are algorithms trained on large datasets rather than something categorically different. Consequently,…
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A pre-print in which I played a very small part: Rosello, C., Hamilton, S./ H. and Grimm, V. et al. (2026) FAIR principles for good modeling practice and standards. Available at SSRN. ssrn.com/abstract=621... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
About the school here wedsss.janlo.de/.../social-c...
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Social Cohesion 2022 @ Groningen - Schools in Computational Social Science and Data Science
The BIGSSS-CSS Summer School on social cohesion takes place on July 4 - 15, 2022 at the Department of Sociology of the University of Groningen (Netherlands). (The school was planned for 2020 but has b...
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Book just published (Free to download). This collects together work done by the groups at the Research Incubator held in Groningen in the summer of 2023 which I participated in. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #abm #polarization #socialscience #cohesion
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The other function of collecting data for any researchers to analyse/use is very much downplayed. Indeed it is hard to get access to much good qual data.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Many qualitative presentations I have heard stress the "give a voice" story and then cherry-pick "interesting" examples from their interviews, ignoring the majority of more mundane comments.
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Yes, a major function of qualitative methodology (and particularly its language) is to give more importance to its findings. [this complements the major function of quantitative methodology (and its language) which is to give the impression of more rigour & reliability of results than is warrented]
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Review of Artifical Societies and Social Simulation @rofasss.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New Contribution: "Why Object-Oriented Programming is not the best method to implement Agent-Based models" by Martin Hinsch. rofasss.org/2026/02/03/oop #oop #abm #objectoriented #agent-based #agentbased #rofasss #simulation #modelling
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Why Object-Oriented Programming is not the best method to implement Agent-Based Models
By Martin Hinsch Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentUniversity College London Introduction A considerable part of the history of software engineering consists of attempts to …
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Sorry! This is a real pain, but it follows "Edmonds law of simulation" - that results become more boring the more bugs you eliminate ;-)
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"10 simple rules for good model sharing practices" journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Bruce Edmonds @bruceedmonds.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
New joint paper that only took us 3+years to get published! This inferrs the cognitive model of agents from data. Batzke, et al. 2025. From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data-driven agent-based model of belief change. doi.org/10.1111/pops...
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