CSBC News
Postdoctoral Positions at CASCI
Posted on January 21, 2022
The Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI) lab at the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department, Binghamton University (State University of New York) is accepting applications for one or more full-time non-tenure track postdoctoral fellows to conduct interdisciplinary research in Complex Networks and Systems applied to various social, ecological, biological, medicine and health problems.... continue »
Criticality in Biochemical Networks
Posted on January 19, 2022
Researchers from our center, in collaboration with State University of New York, Binghamton University and the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência developed a mathematical and computational framework to understand how biochemical networks contribute to the evolvability, robustness, and resilience of biological organisms. In a paper in the journal Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Luis Rocha,... continue »
CSBC researchers show rise and fall of rationality in language (PNAS)
Posted on January 17, 2022
This new paper is the result of a long-standing collaboration between CSBC director Johan Bollen and Marten Scheffer, Ingrid van de Leemput, and Els Weinans of Wageningen University: “The rise and fall of rationality in language” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2021, 118 (51) e2107848118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2107848118 Summary: “The post-truth era has taken many by surprise. Here,... continue »
CSBC researchers discover surge in cognitive distortions since the 1980s
Posted on July 26, 2021
In a study published in PNAS, “Historical language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades,” CSBC researchers in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and colleagues at IU’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences analyzed millions of books published over the past 125 years. They discovered that, since the 1980s... continue »
Congratulations to new PhD Kelly McClinton!
Posted on June 23, 2021
Congratulations to CASCI member Kelly McClinton for successfully defending her dissertation entitled “Computationally Modeling Roman Domestic Art and Architecture” on April 23rd 2021. Kelly was co-supervised by Luis Rocha and Bernard Frischer. She completed her PhD degree as a fellow of the NSF-NRT Interdisciplinary training in Complex networks and Systems. Dr. McClinton’s research investigates how computational models, including 3D... continue »
Posted on March 16, 2021
Researchers from our lab, in collaboration with the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, and Northeastern University have developed a mathematical framework that increases our ability to explain and control biochemical systems, including those involved in disease. In a paper featured on the cover of the journal Proceedings of the National... continue »
CSBC researchers use Twitter data to study mental health impact of COVID-19
Posted on January 17, 2021
Researchers at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, led by Professor of Informatics and Computing Johan Bollen, Assistant Professor of Public Heath Danny Valdez from the IU School of Public Health, and Bollen’s post-doctoral fellow Marijn ten Thij, with colleagues in the Department of Psychology and Brain Science, used data collected from Twitter to study how... continue »
Reopening Colleges Likely Fueled Covid-19 Significantly
Posted on September 22, 2020
Prof. Ana Bento, affiliated with the CSBC, has published a new study showing that colleges and universities that reopened for face-to-face instruction might have caused tens of thousands of additional cases of Covid-19 in recent weeks. The team, which includes researchers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Indiana University, the University of Washington... continue »
We are hiring Posdoctoral Fellows!
Posted on January 14, 2020
The Center for Social and Biomedical Complexity (CSBC) at Indiana University Bloomington is accepting applications for one or more full-time non-tenure track postdoctoral fellows to conduct interdisciplinary research in Complex Networks and Systems applied to various social, ecological, biological, medicine and health problems. The expected start date for the appointments is February 2020. Candidates interested... continue »
CSBC Awarded Project to develop Resilient Community-Environment Interactions in Urban Waterways
Posted on October 11, 2019
In a collaboration with Professors Heather Reynolds (IU Biology) and Gabriel Filippelli (IUPUI, Center for Urban Health) of the Environmental Resilience Institute, CSBC Professors Bollen and Rocha were awarded a grant for project “A River Runs Through It: Restoring Biodiversity and Empowering Resilient Community-Environment Interactions in Urban Waterways.” This 2-year project is part of the... continue »