As part of ESSA’s mission to encourage collaboration and education in social simulation, we have established the Open Labs Initiative to facilitate young researchers to undertake short visits to research groups doing social simulation in Europe. www.essa.eu.org/open-labs-in...

LHIEM: The Longitudinal Health, Income, and Employment Model by Adrienne Propp, Raffaele Vardavas, Carter Price and Kandice Kapinos

www.jasss.org/28/2/1.html

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Harvard study shows we can measure leadership skills by seeing how folks manage GPT-4o simulated people

AI assessments strongly correlate (r=0.81) with human assessments. Effective leaders ask questions & do conversational turn-taking and have fluid & social intelligence www.nber.org/papers/w33662

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New paper published:

Edmonds, B., Hofstede, G. J., Koch, J., le Page, C., Lim, T., Lippe, M., Nöldeke, B., & van Delden, H. (2025). Chimaera Modelling – when the modellers must reconcile inconsistent elements or purposes. Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, 6, 18593. doi.org/10.18174/ses...

- Social Simulation Conference 2025 Welcome to the Social Simulation Conference 2025 .

The 20th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2025) will take place from 25th to 29th August 2025 at Delft University of Technology. This year’s special theme is “Social simulation in a socio-technical context: embracing societies’ complexities.”

ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl

Nigel Gilbert By Corinna Elsenbroich & Petra Ahrweiler The first piece on winners of the European Social Simulation Association's Rosaria Conte Outstanding Contribution Award for Social Simulation. “Gilbert, a former sociologist of science, has been one of the chief links in Britain between computer scientists and sociologists of science” Nigel has always been and still is a sociologist - not only of science, but also of technology, innovation, methods and many other subfields of sociology with important contributions in theory, empirical research and sociological methods.

About the first winner of ESSA's Rosaria Conte Outstanding Contribution Award for Social Simulation: Nigel Gilbert. #sociology #socialsimulation #abm #jasss #simsoc #essa

Call for evidence - The Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion We’re inviting contributions to a call for evidence to help shape the early phase of the commission. If you have insights, experiences, or ideas about how we can build more connected, cohesive and res...

ICYMI we're calling for evidence for the new Independent Commission on Community & Cohesion.
If you have insights, experiences, or ideas about how we can build more connected, cohesive and resilient communities, we want to hear from you.
www.livingwelltogether.org.uk/call-for-evi...

The S&P/ASX200 is sharply lower today, dropping 344.20 points or 4.49% to 7,323.60 and setting a new 100-day low and reflecting global trends,

These market drops are the result of decisions among individual economic agents and are the sort of phenomenon that ESSA members often investigate.

SimSocFest is ESSA's annual online social simulation festival and it is coming up on the 20th and 21st of May! Stay tuned for the program release featuring inspirational speakers and a host of great sessions from opinion dynamics to health systems and economics - www.socsimfest.eu/programme-20...