EPIC Lab. Emergent Phenomena from Interactions & Constraints, i.e., the physics of collective decisions. Assistant Professor in Physics, Seoul National University. Associate Faculty at Complexity Science Hub. https://eltrompetero.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mtl2iedqjk2gThe EPIC Lab is here21 Aug 2026 05:43 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtl2iedqjk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3msd2z2xdmc2tIt’s official. The EPIC Lab’s new headquarters are at #Seoul National University’s Department of Physics & Astronomy as of this week. We’re recruiting graduate students! https://physics.snu.ac.kr/en/research-faculty/faculty/fulltime?mode=view&profidx=5505 Aug 2026 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3msd2z2xdmc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mrn4cmxy5i2uHell yeah! [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jul 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrn4cmxy5i2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mpor5ythq22mTo #migrate is a decision that depends on others. This has overlooked dynamical consequences. New #preprint with @kushwaha.bsky.social and Woi Sok Oh Collaboration between @csh.ac.at @uwaterloo.ca #NonlinearDynamics #Physics #Complex arxiv.org/abs/2606.30604 (1/5) 🧪🦋 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.3060402 Jul 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpor5ythq22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mpnjl4hxm22nThanks for the call out! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jul 2026 07:37 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpnjl4hxm22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mpdkfcwra222NYT writes “Testing Truce.” Wouldn’t it be planner to write that the truce has been broken?28 Jun 2026 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpdkfcwra222https://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mojiwyo52k25Get ready for something EPIC! Starting this fall at #Seoul National University, a new research group will be coalescing. *** For prospective int'l graduate students, apps for the PhD program are open July 6–9; rec letters due July 10. *** #physics #complex #complexity #phd #graduate17 Jun 2026 23:50 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mojiwyo52k25https://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mobeflsnns23In Cordwainer Smith’s Rediscovery of Man, the future is taken back to the past, technology revoked, disease embraced, making civilization “great” again. “I myself was the first man to put a postage stamp on a letter…We watched at the eye -dash machine when cholera was released in Tasmania…”14 Jun 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mobeflsnns23https://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mo2ayexphs2hHad a great time teaching and meeting the folks at @igfae.gal at the summer school and #datascience and #complexsystems11 Jun 2026 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo2ayexphs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mng5ftapjs23ConIII v4.0 is out 🎉 The Convenient Interface to Inverse Ising — a Python package for pairwise maxent / inverse-Ising inference. New: NumPy 2 + Python 3.13, modern build, reorganized API, docs, and a faster solver. pip install coniii 📖 coniii.readthedocs.io #Python #maxent #compneuro 🧪🦋 https://coniii.readthedocs.io03 Jun 2026 22:20 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mng5ftapjs23https://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mmbzin44r22r#Turin! This week we’re discussing Computational Social Science in #Italy #complex #physics 🧪🦋 @cs2italy.bsky.social20 May 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbzin44r22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mlpxod62pk2gA preview of "a planet where life has been reduced to absolute simplicity." Karol Jałowchowski, filmmaker of the scientific world, was at @csh.ac.at last year. Here's a preview of his work, a tour through the mind of Complexity Science Hub through an outrageous hypothesis. https://youtu.be/NhwKDoRUs0c?si=gCqSDGmg1H-EK_cw13 May 2026 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpxod62pk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mlowzz7v3c2eLevi-Strauss on the natural environment as a conceptual apparatus that allows “savage” societies to order the world around them. The maps are many but he raises the question of if the logical structures are universal.12 May 2026 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlowzz7v3c2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mhnqams3sc2cLove this attitude: "In 1963 Wilson joined the Cornell physics department and was soon given tenure even though he had hardly published." https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/06/physics-nobel-laureate-kenneth-wilson-dies 1/222 Mar 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhnqams3sc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mgxer7lhz22fI would like to say I’m shocked about this but this is only the latest in a sequence of actions against common sense and scientific evidence that are beyond the pale. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Mar 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxer7lhz22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mgwzzeh62c2p#Peace is fragile. And #conflict is much more #complex than a few world leaders deciding where to shoot missiles or send troops. A little thread coming from our years of work on the #physics of #conflict... 🧪🦋13 Mar 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwzzeh62c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mgeqhtc7zc22Everyone complains that #GPTs make up references, but that makes me wonder. When do they *not* #cite things? Presumably, this "enhances" the #novelty or #innovativeness of ideas that it has.06 Mar 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgeqhtc7zc22https://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mfjolxmxdc2gTwo papers so far this year that have crossed my desk for review that are more or less AI applications of previous work with slight modifications. In principle, little problem with new tool use...23 Feb 2026 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjolxmxdc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3medq2m75ws2qWhen an American thinks about the problem of #government-building, he directs himself not to the creation of #authority and the accumulation of #power but rather the limitation of authority and the division of power. - Huntington08 Feb 2026 10:29 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3medq2m75ws2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mdif2ahndk2fAre you looking for a #postdoc to start in 2027? Do you have a #physics background and are you interested in #ecology #forests #ecosystems #learning #plasticity? I'm looking for candidates to nominate for the Human Frontier Science Program in the Physics Department at Seoul National University. 🧪🦋28 Jan 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdif2ahndk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mdfy2ixqsk2cA fantastic experience (I've heard) [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jan 2026 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdfy2ixqsk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mcws3yrmdk2tAre you looking for a postdoctoral position? I'm looking for candidates to nominate for the Human Frontier Science Program in the Physics Department at Seoul National University. Thread continues below 🧪 https://www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp-funding/postdoctoral-fellowships21 Jan 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcws3yrmdk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mby6r37muk2pA wintry day for complex systems!09 Jan 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mby6r37muk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mbtmug2lg22sPeople are often using AI to increase the seeming complexity of minimal ideas, where I find I spend most of my time taking highly complex ideas and compressing them as much as possible into minimal descriptions. Can AI do that? I would say not.07 Jan 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtmug2lg22shttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mbrtaz5fvs2lIt’s times like these that remind me of Asimov’s Mule. And an interesting question about how far we can go beyond probabilities in looking ahead with social behavior.06 Jan 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrtaz5fvs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mbj5gesicc2qYour daily reminder that in complex conflict scenarios, long-term strategy is important: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13213 https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.1321303 Jan 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbj5gesicc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mb6ytb7skk2c„ Die Empfindung sagt mir, dass etwas ist; das Denken, was etwas ist; das fühlen, was etwas für mich bedeutet; die Intuition, was etwas werden kann.“ - Jung The four basic mental functions: sensation, thought, feeling, and intuition.30 Dec 2025 09:08 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb6ytb7skk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/spintheory.bsky.social/post/3mayr53rjus2j“Unreason darkens that gap of time bridged by our lightspeed ships, and in the darkness uncertainty and disproportion grow like weeds.” - Ursula Le Guin27 Dec 2025 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:aarhypvsdz23rahjcwo3mkoc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mayr53rjus2j