Nelson Fernández

Complex Systems Lab @unipamplona.
Research Scholar at @binghamtonu @bing_watson and @BinghamtonCoCo
Columnist at

[La Derecha Diario Colombia @DerechaDiarioCO]

🚨🇨🇴🇦🇷 | CÁTEDRA: @jrestrp dio una magistral clase de economía explicando el plan del gobierno de @ABDELAESPRIELLA para destruir la burocracia parasitaria, acabar con el despilfarro estatal y liberar la economía colombiana, al mejor estilo motosierra de Javier Milei.

“Hay que hacer un Estado más pequeño, más eficiente y austero, recuperar lo que se pierde por corrupción y evasión, bajar la carga a las empresas y dejar que el sector privado crezca fuerte”.

[Oliver Lopez-Corona (Tecozcacuauhtli) @otrasenda_AC]

Te invitamos a participar en FisMatEcol, 2026: #IA en investigación, educación y vinculación + CoThinking Lab.
Registro: https://t.co/4CF0yVxplB
Sitio web: https://t.co/kt4gLkEFK7

[Guillermo Restrepo @restrepog]

A pleasure to share this piece in Nature Chemistry, in which I discuss the limited diversity of chemical space and propose two strategies to expand it. https://t.co/iHnSu4zxDR #chemistry #AI

[Mason Porter @masonporter]

Another new paper: "Graph energy as a measure of community detectability in networks": https://t.co/NvXuHCPpkp

[Nelson Fernández @Biomarino]

Síndrome del Almendrón https://t.co/9i4vDnaOGq via @YouTube

[Nelson Fernández @Biomarino]

Individual workflows excel at simple tasks but falter when tasks become complex due to cognitive limits. Collective workflows shine in areas like biodiversity and learning, but risk echo chambers that block information flow. Striking a balance is essential @cgershen @cesifoti

[César A. Hidalgo @cesifoti]

In the 1960s families spent about 1/3 of their income in food, motivating a poverty line of food expenditures x 3.

Today that factor would be 16. This article by @profplum99 explores in detail how to think about poverty lines in a world where our needs have changed.

[César A. Hidalgo @cesifoti]

Looking for a cultural evening in London?

Join us for the launch of The Infinite Alphabet, and learn about the principles that govern the growth, diffusion, and value of knowledge.

📅The Royal Institution Theatre.
📍Monday Nov 17, at 7 p.m.

Tickets are available at:

https://t.co/DYSpFfYdyy

[Nelson Fernández @Biomarino]

@ArturoErdely También de acuerdo.
Sigamos con los ejemplos:
No hay computación sin sustrato físico.

[Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) @BinghamtonCoCo]

Final CoCo seminar of Fall 2025 by Yeun and Sarah (SOM/SSIE graduate students) on next Wednesday!

[Oliver Lopez-Corona (Tecozcacuauhtli) @otrasenda_AC]

Fat-tailed processes, intergenerational risk and the sacred.
https://t.co/VdLkEx3KC6

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado has led the struggle for democracy in the face of ever-expanding authoritarianism in Venezuela. Ms Machado studied engineering and finance, and had a short career in business. In 1992 she established the Atenea Foundation, which works to benefit street children in Caracas.

Ten years later she was one of the founders of Súmate, which promotes free and fair elections and has conducted training and election monitoring. In 2010 she was elected to the National Assembly, winning a record number of votes. The regime expelled her from office in 2014. Ms Machado leads the Vente Venezuela opposition party and in 2017 helped found the Soy Venezuela alliance, which unites pro-democracy forces in the country across political dividing lines.

In 2023 she announced her candidacy for president in the 2024 presidential election. When she was blocked from running, she supported the opposition’s alternative candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. The opposition mobilised widely and collected systematic documentation that it was the true winner of the election. The regime declared victory and tightened its grip on power.

Ms Machado is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize first and foremost for her efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela. But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, to cast one’s vote and to be represented in elective government – is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.

Read more about this year’s #NobelPeacePrize laureate: https://t.co/juIj539Bh9

[Nelson Fernández @Biomarino]

@otrasenda_AC Without diverse small groups, resilience disappears.

[Nelson Fernández @Biomarino]

@otrasenda_AC Exactly! Like a monoculture supported by fertilizers or irrigation—efficient but fragile. Once the flow stops, collapse happens quickly. In society, our “artificial flows” are algorithms, subsidies, or synthetic substitutes for community.

[Nelson Fernández @Biomarino]

@otrasenda_AC Yes! Like ecosystems, societies collapse when small functional groups disappear. Reintroducing communities and sacred practices (codified behaviors, embedded in cultural traditions that function as adaptive mechanism), is our way of “rewilding” social life and antifragility.

[Nelson Fernández @Biomarino]

@otrasenda_AC Maybe we need a social rewilding—restoring our “wolves”: guilds, associations, communities. The nodes that keep networks complex, adaptive, and antifragile.

[Nelson Fernández @Biomarino]

@otrasenda_AC What we face is a multiscale erosion. Without small communities, perturbations either shatter fragile individuals or destabilize large institutions.