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📣 The Atlas of Social Complexity by Brian Castellani & Lasse Gerrits

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#SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #ComplexityScience

November 13, 2024 at 11:13 AM

Damien Gergonne

@damsgergonne.bsky.social

We organized a workshop on the link between social complexity and invasiveness in arthropods. Lots of interesting discussion. In 2026, we'll review what we've understood and what we've discovered! 🐝🐜🐛
#SocialInsects #Invasiveness #Eusociality #SocialComplexity #Stellenbosch #LifeCycle

January 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM

Edward Elgar Publishing

@elgarpublishing.bsky.social

🎙️ @complexcase.bsky.social and @lassegerrits.bsky.social discuss their title, The Atlas of Social Complexity, on Peter Erdi's podcast

Listen here: youtu.be/FYWoruE27Uo?...

#SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #ComplexityScience

Atlas of Social Complexity: Podcast with the authors: Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits

YouTube video by Peter Erdi

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February 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM

Anthropology.net

@anthropology.net

Did fermented booze help build human civilization? A new cross-cultural study finds traditional alcohol is modestly linked to political complexity. Cheers to hierarchy? 🍺🏛️ #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Fermentation #SocialComplexity

July 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM

Edward Elgar Publishing

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#SocialComplexity #ComplexityTheory #SocialScience

November 14, 2024 at 3:16 PM

Damien Gergonne

@damsgergonne.bsky.social

J’aurai l’immense honneur de présenter une conférence sur le rôle de la complexité sociale 🐝et de la structure génétique 🧬 dans le succès invasif de l’espèce Vespula germanica. 😀
#SocialComplexity #Invasiveness #PopulationsGenetics

Romain Honorio @r-honorio.bsky.social · May 27

Plus que quelques jours pour s'inscrire : iussi-sf-2025.sciencesconf.org

May 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM

Damien Gergonne

@damsgergonne.bsky.social

Presenting tomorrow at #IUSSI2026 🐜🐝🪳🐞🦀

We asked 294 specialists to rate social complexity, then turned consensus into the ASCI: a cross-taxa social complexity index. Does it predict invasiveness?
Come find out 👇

K8 · S11 · 16h
#SocialInsects #Superorganism #SocialComplexity #Freigburg

August 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM

InfoMullet

@infomullet.bsky.social

Combining micro, meso, and macro elements of #SocialComplexity in #SocioTechnical #Simulations. Presented here in national security applications but the practices can help in any large complex population simulation. #CSSA #SocialScience

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDZC...

[CSSSA Webinar] Micro, Meso, Macro: Generic Structures of Social Complexity for Defense Systems.

YouTube video by CSSSA

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November 19, 2024 at 1:08 PM

Archaeoethnologica

@archaeoten.bsky.social

Archaeoethnologica: Journal of Urban Archaeology Nº 11 - 2025

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/08/jour...

#Archaeology #City #Protohistory #Prehistory #NearEast #Europe #Egypt #Iberia #socialcomplexity #Eneolithic #IronAge #BronzeAge #collapse #sustainability #journals

August 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM

Betelgeuse

@santhoshj.bsky.social

4/ Counterintuitively, status isn't always about appearing "high class". Sometimes it's about appearing authentically rebellious, knowledgeable, or culturally sophisticated in nuanced ways. Status is multi-dimensional. 🧩 #SocialComplexity

November 21, 2024 at 1:53 AM

Damien Gergonne

@damsgergonne.bsky.social

🦋🦞🐜 Calling all #Entomologists and #Arthropod enthusiasts! 🌍Help us explore the scientific perspectives on #SocialComplexity in arthropods by participating in our survey. Your answers are very precious!

redcap.sun.ac.za/surveys/?s=A...

#Science #Sociality #InsectResearch #IUSSI

December 10, 2024 at 10:19 AM

ccsa-cuboulder.bsky.social

@ccsa-cuboulder.bsky.social

Inequality was not just a product of modernization or scale, but of how societies chose to organize themselves.

#Inequality #Archaeology #SocialComplexity #GINIProject #EconomicHistory #Governance #AncientSocieties #WealthGap #PastAndPresent #Urbanism #InstitutionalChange

September 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM

ccsa-cuboulder.bsky.social

@ccsa-cuboulder.bsky.social

The surprising takeaway: inequality didn’t rise everywhere in the same way, or for the same reasons. Technological progress alone wasn’t enough, context mattered.
#Sustainability #Inequality #GINIProject #NeolithicRevolution #SocialComplexity #ArchaeologicalResearch #Prehistory #GlobalHistory

September 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM

Ethnic and Racial Studies

@ersjournal.com

Reducing Social Complexity. Negative Moral Dynamics and the Future of Superdiversity.

Authors: Boris Nieswand

University of Tübingen

Coming soon!

#Superdiversity, #SocialComplexity, #StevenVertovec, #MoralOthers, #threat, #Morality