@rogercre
Climate Change, Complexity Economics, Cities, Systems, Cascading Risks, Nexus, Data, Ecology. Complex systems insights for sustainable futures. Assoc Prof @ SEES SRI Leeds FRSA https://is.gd/1alYNP + https://is.gd/PfiCiI
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A graph does not define a complex system; it constrains it.
Thus a graph model is not a “simplification” of a hypergraph; the opposite is true.
Graphs have been used to model higher-order interactions for decades.
Let’s stop this misleading narrative about hypergraphs!
skewed.de/lab/posts/hi...
New paper by Dr @rogercre.bsky.social & colleagues expose hidden risks in global food system.
Shows how food‑trade globalisation makes some regions more vulnerable to production shocks, plus their tool estimating how much countries must boost reserves of any food category to withstand 20% of shocks👇
gander 0.2.0 is now on CRAN! The package provides quick, granular AI assistance with #rstats code. This release substantially tightens up behavior in Quarto documents.
Read more: github.com/simonpcouch/...
Murky days make for good fishing if you’re a predator like this double crested cormorant #doublecrestedcormorant #cormorant #murky #seabirdsofcoralcity #coralcitycamera
Well done @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social
Novel insights on product-specific #cascading risks & country resilience patterns explored with multiplex networks.
Thanks to @arifosch.bsky.social and @ymoreno.bsky.social for your leadership and interdisciplinary collaboration & @globalfoodleeds.bsky.social for policy impact suggestions
While these signs are so positive and so helpful at this delicate moment, there is more to this story:
The Spanish gas industry was well overcompensated beforehand.
See from 2012 www.iese.edu/insight/arti... and 2021 (picture)
ieefa.org/wp-content/u...
🌾Without women, there is no food.
From farmers to food workers and community leaders, women sustain food systems across the world. Yet are denied resources and recognition.
On #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate the women who feed the world. 💜
#IWD2026 #WomenInAg #FoodSystems #Agroecology
Geopolitical Ecology, the urban scale.
What electoral system is less susceptible to different means of influence?
Some innovative quantitative hints here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... (early version here arxiv.org/pdf/2308.10066)
Ping @hetanshah.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social
Stock taking interview by the great Rebecca Solnit, always inspired by and inspiring social-ecological change.
youtu.be/sOJ_uaffG5s?...
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
monitoring at Backstone Beck
1/3 Why it is so important to monitor Natural Flood Management interventions?
This is one of the key topics explored in the next free online Blue Green Infrastructure Training Session as part of West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme.
📅 Wednesday 18 March
⏲️ 1pm-3pm
Message us to book.
An attempt to express how I principally use LLMs.
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought
sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...
Time to read Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochi...
A screenshot of an RStudio window. On the left-hand side is a new pain called Posit Assistant. The Posit Assistant had recently run code making a lat-lon plot of Washington state, colored by whether the point had been marked as forested or not.
Today we're releasing AI for RStudio. It's really, really good—I'd encourage you to point it at the messiest data sources you have and see what it can do.
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...
Our pre-print "Reliable Adaptation Policies to Sea-Level Rise Require Incorporating #Complexity in Economic Models" is ready for you to review in #openaccess @egu.eu's Earth System Dynamics.
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
Most compact quadruple star system yet fits within an area the size of Jupiter’s orbit Illustration of the architecture and true physical dimensions of the compact quadruple star system, TIC 1203...
#Space
Origin | Interest | Match
Fantastic points. It really makes you think about all those #systemicrisks hiding just out of sight
🌿 Nature knows how to fix itself 🌿
Reintroducing beavers in Europe has restored wetlands, helped wildlife, and improved water quality. 🦫💧(1/2)
They searched through the last cloud but found no drops were forming, and had to look for water underground, where the rest of their lives would be spent, escaping the surface of a cloudless world.
#WorldBookDay #Microtale
36 years of shifting trade #networks have rewired the #foodsystem: a "perfect storm" of vulnerability for food-insecure regions, who are more exposed to #cascades from distant supply shocks than ever before.
@arifosch.bsky.social @ymoreno.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.01740
Join us at the #EMS26, the European Meteorological Society meeting this September in Utrecht for our session on high-impact extremes!
📍 UP3.7. High-impact climate extremes: physical understanding, storylines, impacts and projections
lnkd.in/efWVVCYX
Abstract submission deadline is 27th of March.
Another insightful observation from @deschuttero.bsky.social from the @theguardian.com
You know there is a problem when the UN Special Rapporteur on *Extreme Poverty* thinks Extreme Wealth is the real issue.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hi @johnmarsham.bsky.social, what would be the best way to integrate climate data in this model?
New preprint: Population synthesis with geographic coordinates 🌍
We introduce a method to generate synthetic populations with explicit lat/long coordinates.
Using Normalizing Flows + VAEs, we capture spatial + non-spatial correlations between samples and features.
📄: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
36 years of shifting trade #networks have rewired the #foodsystem: a "perfect storm" of vulnerability for food-insecure regions, who are more exposed to #cascades from distant supply shocks than ever before.
@arifosch.bsky.social @ymoreno.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.01740
This was a fun generalized modelling project with @janamassing.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @jdyeakel.bsky.social. Bacteria really need generalized models to make the maths fit properly.
Some reviews are born outdated...
As we show (arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937 ):
1. Graphs are not limited to expressing “pairwise” interactions, and generalize hypergraph models.
2. The abrupt transitions described in the review occur in tree-like graphs, and do not require hypergraphs at all.
