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Pirta Palola @pirta-palola.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Our paper was recently published! We observed a loss of coral reefs and a new aggressive expansion of peyssonnelid algal crust (PAC) in northeastern Puerto Rico. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:

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Agent-based models move into the economic mainstream

In the 1980s and ’90s, SFI played laboratory to a promising new method known as agent-based modeling. In ensuing decades, agent-based models (ABMs) proliferated across many fields, including economics...

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Pirta Palola @pirta-palola.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Beautiful times sailing in the Nastro Rosa double-handed offshore race in Italy this summer (Cagliari - La Maddalena - Geneva) 🌊 Many thanks to the Royal Ocean Racing Club for the opportunity!!

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Pirta Palola @pirta-palola.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

What are the fundamental processes that support biodiversity? How do isolation and contact shape life on islands? To answer these questions, we launched the Island Microbiome project. We’ve just carried out our first field expedition!! 🌊 @auraulo.bsky.social @eveliinahanski.bsky.social

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INET Complexity Economics @inet-complexity.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Interested in climate change and the UK #CarbonBudget? Watch this space! @doynefarmer.bsky.social is heading up our latest project to fill evidence gaps ahead of the UK Government setting its Seventh Carbon Budget next year www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/sprint-...

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Sprint to Seventh Carbon Budget Commences

A project to fill macroeconomic and distributional analysis evidence gaps has started at INET Oxford this summer.

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Pirta Palola @pirta-palola.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Happy to share that my second PhD chapter has been published: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Thank you to all my co-authors! @coschroeder.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @plymouthmarine.bsky.social @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @ephe-psl.bsky.social

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INET Complexity Economics @inet-complexity.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In Central Banking: how ABMs now support central bank policy making (after visionaries, including former Bank of England chief economist, Andrew Haldane, and @doynefarmer.bsky.social served as advocates) centralbanking.com/central-banks/economics/macroeconomics/7972592/agent-based-models-come-of-age

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Agent-based models come of age - Central Banking

Central banks are increasingly modelling the economy as a complex system

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