CSS, recognize the genocide in Gaza!
This is a call to all members of the Complex Systems Society.
We ask the CSS to join other academic organisations in publicly condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
We ask you to sign the letter below in support of the initiative.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9yqD3JufuaNBJQkg7q0KsYqnUSpYnRVprbb8E-V7rV7To2A/viewform

#phd in Neurosciences
https://uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:840322/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Sune Lehmann on "Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives"

https://youtu.be/2t5iNmOk7EI

#Postdoc Positions in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences KU

https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentId=18973&ProjectId=164797&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=false

Some thoughts on Al and infectious diseases as we prepare for the next pandemic

https://sciencenews.dk/en/artificial-intelligence-could-be-our-greatest-ally-in-the-next-pandemic

74% of MPI postdocs are international (immigrants).

Only about 25% of those international postdocs are certain they want to stay in Germany after their postdoc ends. Many cite family reasons, better opportunities abroad, or language barriers as factors.

https://www.postdocnet.mpg.de/214512/2024-survey-results

Your friends are funnier than you are
https://complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funnier-than-you-are

NetSciX 2026
International School and Conference on Network Science
17th-20th February 2026
Auckland, New Zealand

https://netscix2026.github.io/

Submission Deadline: 26th September 2025, 23:59 AoE.

#Postdoc Research Associate in Applied Mathematics and Computational Neuroscience

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169

🎞 State-Space Compression, Coarse-Graining, and the Averaging of Life and Mind

Simon DeDeo

Abstract
Renormalization is a principled coarse-graining of space-time. It shows us how the small-scale details of a system may become irrelevant when looking at larger scales and lower energies. Coarse-graining is also crucial, however, for biological and cultural systems that lack a natural spatial arrangement. I introduce the notion of coarse-graining and equivalence classes, and give a brief history of attempts to tame the problem of simplifying and "averaging" things as various as algorithms and languages. I then present state-space compression, a new framework for understanding the general problem. At the end, I present recent empirical results, in an animal social system, that show evidence for the coupling of scales: the reaction of coarse-grained facts about a system "downwards" to influence the microphysics.

https://pirsa.org/14120020

#postdoc position in Computational Epidemiology
https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:849295/

Gender differences in collaboration networks - Aaron Clauset

https://play.umu.se/media/t/0_40tneuk1

IceLab Seminar: Gender differences in collaboration networks with Aaron Clauset

Information, Entropy & Reality | Seth Lloyd on Quantum Computing

https://youtu.be/2udAAPQFnME

#PhD position around the use of 7T MR to examine the role of hashtag#locuscoeruleus in aging. Looking for someone with experience in imaging and aging Neuroscience.

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/286742/phd-in-aging-neuroscience

Ambitions for theory in the physics of life
William Bialek
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 84 (2024)

Dear all,
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin is happy to announce that they have two DAAD-funded scholarships for doctoral students available ℹ️

They will select two excellent doctoral student candidates to receive scholarships from the DAAD as part of the Graduate School Scholarship Program (GSSP).
    The scholarships begin in October 2026 à 1,300€/ month, for up to a maximum of 4 years,
    In addition to the scholarship, health insurance, accident insurance, and liability insurance will be covered by the DAAD,
    Scholarship recipients can also receive assistance for their rent payments,
    Scholarship recipients with families may receive additional funding,
    Scholarship recipients will have access to a country-specific travel budget from the DAAD,
    Scholarship recipients will have access to additional Study and Research grants,
    Can have German courses financed by the DAAD.

To be eligible for the GSSP scholarships, the student must:
    Have an excellent academic profile and must have completed their master's (or equivalent) by the start of the funding period (October 2026),
    Can not have completed their master's (or equivalent) more than 6 years ago,
    At the time of application (March 2026), can not have been a resident in Germany for more than 15 months,
    Can not already have a PhD,
    Can not perform more than 25% of their doctoral work outside of Germany, and external work can not take place at the start of the doctoral project.

To be awarded the GSSP scholarship, the student must:
Apply to the BCCN PhD program -->Application deadline March 15th 2026!
A member of the BCCN Berlin must agree to supervise and accept the student to their group for the duration of their PhD.
A project proposal outlining the general goals of the doctoral project must have been agreed upon by the student and the BCCN Berlin supervisor by the application deadline. 

For more information on how to apply to the International Doctoral Program Computational Neuroscience of the BCCN Berlin, please see our website:
https://www.bccn-berlin.de/doctoral-program-application.html

Finally, we organize an Information session about our graduate programs which will take place in January 2026:
https://www.bccn-berlin.de/events-list/information-day-2026-international-graduate-programs-computational-neuroscience.html

Please share this information with anyone who may be interested.

50 years of spin glass theory | Nature Reviews Physics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-025-00871-z