The draft programme for Social Simulation 2026, , 24-28 Aug 2026, Durham, UK: conftool.pro/ssc2026/session… #society #simulation #ABM #research #agents #interaction

The Social Simulation Online Festival 2026 (SocSimFest) will be on the 19&20th May - a mixture of talks, workshops, forums and discussions. There is no registration fee but you have to register. For details see socsimfest.eu #social #socsimfest #essa #simulation

New paper in BioScience, in which I played a very small part. academic.oup.com/bioscience/…

Book just published (Free to download). This collects together work done by the groups at the Research Incubator held in Groningen in the summer of 2023.

"Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices" journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…

New joint paper that only took us 3+years to get published! This inferrs the cognitive model of agents from data. Batzke, et al. 2025. From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data-driven agent-based model of belief change. doi.org/10.1111/pops.70099

Introductory video here youtube.com/watch?v=6vmVGkpF…

This could be about many fields (e.g. economics) but happens to be a critique of some theoretical physics. That she was sacked from her academic post at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy for calling out BS is a scandal. youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5u3V6L…

Slides from my talk at the WUR Resilience summer school in the NL: the file "ABM_and_assessing_SES_resilience.pdf" at cfpm.org/slides/