Applications for the 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are open through September 30.
Katrin Schmelz just completed SFI’s Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she reflects on what the experience meant to her. A behavioral economist and psychologist, Schmelz shares what
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- Every human has implicit biases, or involuntary associations about members of different social groups. But these biases are not fixed. Rather, they’re malleable reflections of our everyday experiences. It’s harder to change the biases of people living in big cities, with
- Competition to publish in elite journals like Science, Nature, and the New England Journal of Medicine is fierce, yet the confidentiality of the peer-review process — the gold standard for assessing whether a study meets the criteria for publication — has long made the process
- In aviation, countries manage their airspace and direct air traffic, but they also adhere to shared protocols that allow thousands of planes to traverse international airways without colliding. Something analogous is needed in space. In a comment article recently published in
- From HIV and hepatitis C to Zika, Ebola, and mpox viruses, the list of pathogens that can be transmitted in more than one way is growing rapidly. In a Focus article recently published in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Samuel Scarpino (Northeastern University) explains

