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Gemma De les Coves @gemmadlc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've written an article for The Conversation about what I find most exciting these days: The reach of self-reference and negation in science, philosophy and beyond. Perhaps art? theconversation.com/paradojas-in...

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Paradojas inalcanzables: un recorrido de la lógica a la poesía

A veces, basta una frase para poner en jaque a la lógica: “Esta frase es falsa”. Si es verdadera, es falsa; si es falsa, es verdadera. Ese nudo conceptual –la combinación de autorreferencia y negación...

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shouldn't we be doing it the other way around? Meaning, if we reduce cattle by half, we could give back to nature so much land.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Since we use about 40% of all habitable land for livestock (not only cattle, but mainly), increasing such cattle numbers would imply clearing almost half of our remaining forests and shrublands (one cow needs about one hectare, so 0.8 billion extra hectares).

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thus, to keep everyone "well fed", we would need about 2.3 billion cows. That is 50% more than what we have now (1.5B).

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are about 8.3 billion. Let's be modest and eat only 100gr per day of beef. One cow yields about 200kg of meat, so that is enough for 2000 people in one day. How many cows per day to feed 8.3B? 4.15 million cows per day. It takes about 18 months for cows to reach slaughter weight.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I started watching the great documentary How to Live on Earth with our 12 year old. A Brazilian cattle farmer said that wealth is when people can eat meat every day. How much would it take to give such wealth to all humans on the planet?

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

where do you get experts on something that doesn't even have a name?

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If we have never experienced it, we don't know what are its components.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How can we estimate the probability of something that has never happened?

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Will AI slop drown the Internet, and future LLMs be degraded because of the inability to verify all information available?

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy to share my new paper with Pedro Rivera, Gerardo Febres & @cgershen.bsky.social, now published in npj Systems Biology and Applications ( @natureportfolio.nature.com )! 🔓 Our question is quite concise: can structured novelty be measured and engineered?/1 🤔👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“It is much easier — but still difficult — to change ourselves to fit the world, than to try to change the world so that it fits ourselves.”

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very strange... hope you can copy paste from this image. If it still is Page Not Found, maybe it is because of your IP or Location.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It works for me.. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

More details and preorder: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This book – 15 years in the making – was possible thanks to so many people. It is certainly a collective effort. Finally, preorders are available (link below). As we learned from “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, it is natural to avoid extremes, because a balance between them is more sustainable.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Get the full preprint from www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We identify four periods, which identify intelligence as logic, knowledge, learning, and scale. In the last period, exponential increase has accelerated. What will be the limits of this?

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

After 70 years of the "Summer of AI", how much progress there has been in the field? Where are we heading towards? New preprint with talented PhD students Mario Franco, Zeinab Davoudmanesh, Sean P. Maley, and Fernanda Sánchez-Puig.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How catastrophic will this be, it is even less knowable, because there are indeed many aspects of AI that have been successful and are here to stay. Nevertheless, changes are coming. What implications do you foresee?

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The AI bubble probably will burst soon. Whether in weeks or months, we don't know, but the growth rate is not sustainable, and many promises that have been made will not be fulfilled.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is relevant because traditional models in astrophysics rely on differential equations that require supercomputers, while our model leaves out thermodynamic details but still manages to reproduce the data.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

With a very simple agent-based model, inspired by preferential attachment, we are able to reproduce the observed distribution of star masses in galaxies.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"An Agent-Based Model of the Stellar Mass Distribution", a paper just published from Enrique Olguín-Rodríguez's PhD research, coadvised with Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni. (link at bottom of thread)

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cssusne.bsky.social @cssusne.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Reminder: submit your contributed talk for Womplexity Meets Northeast! Women in complex systems (all career stages) present at our #CCS2026 satellite in Binghamton, Oct 15 🚀. Abstracts due Aug 15 #WomenInSTEM forms.gle/mbJJ7TbxhNq3...

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"The Implications of Complexity" Video of the talk I gave at the ZEF's Complex Systems Group, The University of Bonn youtu.be/pbvbzGZa-7U?...

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ZEF Complex Systems Group (CSG) Expert Talk by Prof. Carlos Gershenson

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In 72 hours, we submitted the preprint "Linking the "inner" and "outer" self to mental health and brain networks" to the arXiv (Link below). We used Connectome Data to analyze how are psychosocial profiles, mental health, and brain functional connectivity related.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We got to work with the bright and motivated Cosimo Agostinelli, Ivan Casanovas, @lochanchaudhari.bsky.social, Arda Ergin, Pablo Estévez-Gutiérrez, @iakankshagupta.bsky.social, @moraesjuliane.bsky.social, and Mario Edoardo Pandolfo.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Every situation, every event, every change can be judged as positive, negative, or neutral.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"The Implications of Complexity". Video of my talk last April at the World Conference on Complex Systems at UM6P in Morocco. Part of the Panel "Rethinking Knowledge in the Age of Complexity" youtu.be/eZIjvo-4YQ0?... (starts at 19:52)

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WCCS 26 Panel 2 - Rethinking Knowledge in the Age of Complexity

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Fractal mandala and fractal tessellation, playing with the Koch snowflake ❄️.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Which color pattern do you prefer? Left or right?

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Struggling to finish the semester? We've got your back! That's why we've extended the submission deadline for #CCS2026 by two more weeks! Submit your abstract by May 15th and join the largest and most prestigious international #conference in the field of #ComplexSystems science!

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What are the foundations of #ComplexSystems & #NetSci, really? Working in this field? Contribute a small set of papers you consider foundational (DOI only): both the obvious and the overlooked matter. 🕒 <10 minutes 👉 Take the survey: manliodedomenico.com/complexity_m... 🧵 1/ more info 👇

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Limits of Science, Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems, last lecture. youtu.be/7S9bCpIr5QA

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Limits of Science

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

“If I want to be a great lover, first I have to love myself” —H. H. Karmapa XVIIth Trinley Thaye Dorje

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

¿Te gustaría hacer una maestría o doctorado en Ciencia de Sistemas? Binghamton University es líder mundial, con posgrados presenciales o completamente en línea. Asiste a una sesión informativa en español Registro: forms.gle/KCthCdTWFvRs... Más información: www.binghamton.edu/ssie/graduate/

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Networks and Hypergraphs Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems, Lecture 10 youtu.be/KoOO3OYJWOU

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Networks and Hypergraphs

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fractals, Information, and Semiotics Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems, Lecture 9 youtu.be/aRmXYt1JboA?...

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Fractals, Information, and Semiotics

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