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Yannick Oswald

@yloswald.bsky.social
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Researcher @University of Lausanne | Follow me for complexity, computational modelling, ecological economics 📉, sustainability + climate 🌍🌿, personal views Web: yannickoswald.github.io Substack: substack.com/@theworldinmodels

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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Here is me remembering Jiaqi Ge, a former colleague and acquaintance at the University of Leeds, and some of her work that I find interesting. She tragically passed away last year. theworldinmodels.substack.com/p/jiaqi-ge-t...
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Jiaqi Ge, the fleeting nature of life, and her work on country-level Agent-based Modelling
A farewell, yet the start of a deeper engagement
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
What is left now other than going fully renewable, electric and making our own hydrogen?
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Back from holiday with a bang 💫 Am pleased my article Artificial Utopia is now published in the journal Futures. lnkd.in/e_fnEbg3 This article conceptualises thinking about Utopian and radically socially innovative societies with the help of computational simulations.
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I believe that if you are interested in modelling social change, also in relation to climate change, postgrowth economics etc. this winter school could be quite useful to you. schumpeter-centre.uni-graz.at/de/veranstal...
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GSWS 2025 - Graz Schumpeter Centre
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Why the German chancellor is wrong - the focus on increasing working time is misguided - and what to do instead open.substack.com/pub/theworld...
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Why the German chancellor is wrong - the focus on increasing working time is misguided - and what to do instead
Simply working more will not address Germany's deep-rooted problems
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here is a blog on the current debate around increasing work time in Germany. Instead, we must think out of the box and experiment with drastic economic and social innovation. theworldinmodels.substack.com/p/why-the-ge...
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Why the German chancellor is wrong - the focus on increasing working time is misguided - and what to do instead
Simply working more will not address Germany's deep rooted problems
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Sorry to link to X, but I am so glad another (senior) person is speaking out about this, it is a different field than mine but I had the same problem with a paper that got rejected and even an ERC grant application. x.com/Michael_J_Bl...
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Michael Black on X: "The use of AI in reviewing is a growing problem. Several of my ICCV papers have AI reviews -- one reviewer was so lazy that they left in the prompts! A common refrain that I hear is that people have difficulty writing in English and need to use AI to clean up their review." / X
The use of AI in reviewing is a growing problem. Several of my ICCV papers have AI reviews -- one reviewer was so lazy that they left in the prompts! A common refrain that I hear is that people have difficulty writing in English and need to use AI to clean up their review.
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Very interesting new database on intergenerational mobility www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database
Using individual data from over 400 household surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countr…
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
👉AI for good? AI for agent-based models? What kind of forms could this take. Please note the deadline to our SSC special track this Friday! We are looking forward to your research. 👉Also Please spread if you can!!😀
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
👉🙌 😀I am happy to share my new article (preprint) Artificial Utopia: Simulation and Intelligent Agents for a Democratised Future arxiv.org/abs/2503.07364
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Artificial Utopia: Simulation and Intelligent Agents for a Democratised Future
Prevailing top-down systems in politics and economics struggle to keep pace with the pressing challenges of the 21st century, such as climate change, social inequality and conflict. Bottom-up democrat...
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
But evidence shows different already. Here is a study showing that LLM generated ideas are judged as more novel than researcher generated ideas in NLP. arxiv.org/abs/2409.04109
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Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have sparked optimism about their potential to accelerate scientific discovery, with a growing number of works proposing research agents that autono...
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Crazy that in this whole tumult around Zelensky and Trump, the Americans, Trump and his friends, also just swept under the rug that Russia already allied with North Korea and North Korea literally has troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukrainians. But sure *Zelensky* gambles with WW3.
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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
One scenario the EU must be prepared for now is the U.S. lifting sanctions on Russia. Key principles for the EU: - make sure to stay united - not return to dangerous dependencies - not deliberately support the Russian war economy Not changing anything might not be the right answer
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I am reading and learning about models of opinion and cultural change and diffusion. Particularly with relevance to agent-based models or network models. The main classes I have identified so far are as follows. Anything I am missing?
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I am reading and learning about models of opinion and cultural change and diffusion. Particularly with relevance to agent-based models or network models. The main classes I have identified so far are as follows. Anything I am missing?
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Has the Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow be misintepreted by a lot of people? They actually argue themselves that hierarchical and egalitarian societies are around since complex social life emerged, not that all hunterer gatheres were egalitarian. research-portal.uu.nl/ws/portalfil...
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
21 % für die AfD sind 21 % zu viel.
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Exciting News 📣🫵 Wolfram Barfuss and I are organising a special track at the Social Simulation Conference 2025 in Delft. On "Artificially Intelligent Agents in Social Agent-based Models" The call is out now. ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl/important-da... Looking forward to exciting contributions.✍️
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
👉Happy to have contributed a tiny bit to the writing of this new article: Understanding Pedestrian Dynamics using Machine Learning with Real-Time Urban Sensors journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Really good blog on the nature of authorships and citation pressure. I think academia should make itself honest about this and try not to constantly reproduce that system... blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?
The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life. Drawing on a range of evidence of the use and misuse of citations data, Stuart Macdonald …
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Periodic reminder that the smallest nations of Earth, including many island states, emit only a fraction of industrialized nations. Here is a comparison between the 50 least emitting nations and what super low fruit hanging policies in Germany could have saved (under the now defunct government).
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Citizen assemblies (CA) are often thought to decrease polarization on sensitive issues. However there is a surprising amount of literature showing other effects. E.g. this experimental study found students became *more* ideological through a modelled CA. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Creating Better Citizens? Effects of a Model Citizens' Assembly on Student Political Attitudes and Behavior
Perceiving political engagement to be dangerously low among American citizens, many political science professors in recent years have attempted to promote engagement and “healthier” political atti...
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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Really sad to see 😔
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This piece by Marco Pangallo is one of my favorite recent articles. It discusses the concept of equilibrium in economics recognizing that it actually has a lot do with systemic complexity thinking but still adding a justified critique. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Equations vs. maps: complexity, equilibrium, disequilibrium
A key theme of complexity economics is non-equilibrium/disequilibrium dynamics. However, it is often not clear what this precisely means, leading to confusion a
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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Gaza genocide - Wikipedia
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Eine unsere Studien in diesem Feld www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy
Equitable climate policies are required for a just and rapid energy transition. A widely discussed climate policy instrument is carbon taxes. Previous…
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Definitely one of the biggest mistakes. Next to autocratic capitalists and capitalist autocrats controlling basically the entire economy and sending us to climate and inequality hell.
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Mary Eliza @elizaamary.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Thrilled to share that I have officially graduated as a Doctor in Evolutionary Biology and Social Sciences from The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Thanks to my supervisors Ellie and Anna @annakspeaking.bsky.social, my husband @yloswald.bsky.social, my parents, brother & friends.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I am generally for climate protests for obvious reasons. What the UK is doing horrible here but can someone explain these results to me? Why is that labeled as clear evidence for protests working. All I see is null results. ->
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
My overleaf.
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Great video on political biases in scientific information assessment by Veritasium www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_O... Largely based on this study papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I think one great and underappreciated point about lists is that now if I want to educate myself about a certain topic and follow a few experts, I know where to look. Even without immediately following the entire list. Super useful.
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marcopangallo.bsky.social @marcopangallo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
If business cycles are (at least partly) caused by forces endogenous to the economy, rather than by exogenous shocks, it is much easier to explain why economic activity tends to co-move across countries. New paper in JEBO: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kB5Vc24b7... 🧵👇
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Since I never shared in the new, more amicable, space here is my current working paper on "Global convergence of incomes in a climate‐constrained world" which aims to scope the general scenario space of global income convergence and emission implications.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🚨🚨📢Very happy to share our latest paper on “Agent-based models of the United States wealth distribution with Ensemble Kalman Filter” In the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, for the special issue of Complex system approaches to 21st century challenges
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Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Carbon inequality & climate policy: Another starterpack to make sure you follow whats good. Please suggest who should be included! go.bsky.app/E3qHxFZ
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🚨🚨📢Very happy to share our latest paper on “Agent-based models of the United States wealth distribution with Ensemble Kalman Filter” In the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, for the special issue of Complex system approaches to 21st century challenges
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Things I can say about my bsky account but not about my X account... 1) Zero bot followers so far.
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Interesting. It is because of the communities introduced I'd say. And in the long-run I expect the usual distribution to emerge. But let us see.
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Three little books with really big ideas…
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Very interesting article. I ask myself this question everyday since I live here. Indeed public transport could not be more punctual and frequent, except, and of course 🙃, during rush hour in the afternoon. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po....
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Why cars still reign supreme in ‘rail-nation’ Switzerland
Some Swiss motorways are nearing saturation point. Some 50,000 hours were lost to traffic jams last year. But infrastructure is not the root of the problem, experts say.
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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It's great to see the massive wave of people coming to 🦋. Here's my first stab at a Computational Social Science starter pack: go.bsky.app/2m6iQ68 Go check out similar lists to bootstrap your network: bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Wonder if these lists could be merged somehow..
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The country of Tuvalu is building a digital twin of itself to ensure the surival of its nation. It is forced to so because of rising sea levels and climate change. academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
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Digital Tuvalu: state sovereignty in a world of climate loss
Can Tuvalu survive state extinction? Against the background of climate catastrophe, this small Pacific island is advancing a highly relational notion of vi
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Things I can say about my bsky account but not about my X account... 1) Zero bot followers so far.
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Interesting new study on participatory budgeting royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Fair voting outcomes with impact and novelty compromises? Unravelling biases in electing participatory budgeting winners
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Our paper on An Agent-Based Model of the 2020 International Policy Diffusion in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic is cited only 2x, but it is cited in a metaphysical discussion of what computational simulations actually are and represent😄😍. cool! metaphysicsjournal.com/articles/10....
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Another #COP29, more empty promises? 😵‍💫 No country but China, India and the USA matter? 🤔 Now that Trump will be US-President again, all is lost anyway? 😱 What people and policy makers need to understand is that every country's policy decisions matter. 💯 🌿 👇
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Yannick Oswald @yloswald.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Overall, Trump won with 51% to 49% of all votes. Hardly a landslide. America pretty much 50/50 polarised as ever. Source @TheEconomist
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