SFI Board Member elected to the American Philosophical Society
SFI Science Board member Richard Lenski has been elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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SFI Science Board member Richard Lenski has been elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.
SFI External Professors Mahzarin Banaji and Pablo Marquet join the National Academy of Sciences.
"Algorithmic Information Dynamics: From Networks to Cells," is a new online course that will introduce students to tools that allow them to explore causal relationships in complex datasets. Register online through Complexity Explorer.
SFI welcomes Omidyar Fellow and Baird Scholar Albert Kao
SFI welcomes Program Postdoctoral fellow Hajime Shimao.
SFI welcomes Omidyar Fellow Vicky Chuqiao Yang.
SFI hosts a three-day working group to explore the effect of increasing oxygen on the early evolution of animals.
SFI will be inaugurating a new annual tradition June 7-8 — the InterPlanetary Festival, which will render Santa Fe’s Railyard district a platform for imagining future human civilizations, on and beyond Earth.
May 4-5, 2018, SFI will host its annual Science Board Symposium and will focus on complex time, to kick off a new research program that seeks to understand time's passage.
Three researchers are spending several months at SFI to tackle some big questions: “Why do we sleep less as we get older?” “What do city pigeons have in common with drug interactions?” and “Is there a trajectory underlying human history?” to name a few.
SFI External Professor Pablo Marquet has been elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In a new study, researchers examined just how accurate our collective intelligence is and how individual bias and information sharing skew aggregate estimates. Using their findings, they developed a mathematical correction that takes into account bias and social information to generate an improved crowd estimate.
Science writer Katherine Mast chatted with ASU-SFI Fellow Elizabeth Hobson about her upcoming experiments from a grant received by the Army Research Office to conduct social science research.
SFI Science Board member George Oster passed away Sunday, April 15, at the age of 77.
New research from an interdisciplinary collaboration among historians, political scientists, and statisticians suggests that rhetorical innovations may have played a significant role in winning acceptance for the new principles of governance that built the French republic’s foundation — and inspired future democracies around the world.
A workshop, Integrating different perspectives on social learning, meets to share insights from a range of disciplines.
A new study by External Professor Andreas Wagner and colleagues identifies the kind of gene regulation most likely to generate evolutionary change.
The Social Reactors working group meets April 5-6 to quantify the social processes that could govern both modern and ancient cities.
Damon Centola presents more than a decade of original research examining how changes in societal behavior ― in voting, health, technology, and finance ― occur and the ways social networks can be used to influence how they propagate. Watch the talk. (1 hour 22 minutes)