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Kaleda Denton selected as a “Rising Star in Computational and Data Sciences”

Andreas Wagner awarded ERC Advanced Grant

SFI Professors Give Judges Advice on AI

John Krakauer named director of Champalimaud's Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology

Book Review: "Tipping out of Trouble: How Societies Transformed and How We Can Do So Again"

In Memoriam: Jim Rutt

Does intelligence ‘emerge’ in large language models?

Your dominant hand is made, not born

A bird song almost too quiet to hear

Model redefining conformity excels against real-world data

Decoding animal minds

SFI External Professor Nicholas de Monchaux named Dean of UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Simon Levin named Fellow of the Royal Society

Brian Enquist receives Robert H. MacArthur Award

Han van der Maas named director of Amsterdam’s Institute for Advanced Study

Marina Dubova receives Dissertation Prize

Smart parts for smart wholes

Aaron Clauset receives honors from AAAS and University of New Mexico

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne receives Erdős-Rényi Prize

Why noise may be the key to understanding cell group patterns