Associate Professor@TU Delft, sustainability, socio-technical systems co-evolution, complexity, Agent Based Modelling, hacker, dad. Retweet != endorse.
Delft, The Netherlands
Joined April 2010
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Igor Nikolic retweeted
I'm super excited that our article "It's the social network" was accepted in Cities! We present The Social Neighbourhood model to unravel local social structures for liveable and safe neighbourhoods. The ABM is also published. @ComplexEvo
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Brace yourself.
One of the most brutal Arctic cold outbreaks on record is gathering momentum and moving through North America right now.
Wind chills are hitting extremely dangerous levels of -70°F (-57°C) in Wyoming.
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636 fossil fuel lobbyists are at #COP27 right now.
200 of them are on government badges.
This industry is the top cause of the climate crisis.
They do not want to solve it, they want to profit from it.
We need a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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With the melt season now underway, current levels of #Antarctic sea ice extent are the lowest on record for the date...
+ More graphs of conditions: zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-i….
ALT Line graph time series of 2022's daily Antarctic sea ice extent compared to each year from 1979 to 2021. Lines are colored from purple in 1979 to white in 2021. 2022 is shown in red. There are no statistically significant long-term trends visible in this graph between October and December. Data are smoothed using a 5-day running mean from the Sea Ice Index v3.
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Recently I learned about a man who has trained 1,000+ people to block wind and solar projects.
I read through all his training materials, presentations, and seminars.
Here's what I learned about him and how his students plan to "win the war on clean energy."
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Igor Nikolic retweeted
Has anyone ever seen this graph in $*volume-terms (ideally per year and also with fossil energy)?
Will the commodity pyramid invert in value terms before the "party" ends? (Need to update it, this one is from 1998; the one quoted is in tonnes.)
Reminder: rare earth minerals that are crucial for RE have a market size 200X smaller than the oil market.
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Lecture for #eRefinery by @ComplexEvo on multi-model.nl
Towards a multi-model infrastructure for integrated decision-making in the energy transition!
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Biden accuses oil companies of ‘war profiteering’ and threatens windfall tax theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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Yesterday Lammenezan (640 m asl) in France rose to the extraordinary value of 30.3°C, setting a new monthly record.
10 October records were broken and highs exceeded 33°C in some locations.
Also Benelux, Germany and Switzerland reached astonishing highs.@extremetemps
Igor Nikolic retweeted
Built in 1891, the "Cathedral of Immerath" was destroyed in January 2018 by Coal company RWE.
@RWE_AG made 1.900.000.000 euros profits in 2017.
Igor Nikolic retweeted
Klein detail: er zijn geen kunstwerken besmeurd. Alleen de glasplaten vóór die kunstwerken. Kunnen we even ophouden over mekkeren over kunstwerken die geen moment in gevaar zijn en het eens over de weerrecords die nu zo ongeveer wekelijks sneuvelen hebben?
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@BrankoMilan is rightly scathing: "Now, we are to believe that “friend-shoring” is somehow different. It is not. It just mercantilism under a new name and trade blocs in a different costume."
Let’s go back to mercantilism and trade blocs! open.substack.com/pub/branko…
Igor Nikolic retweeted
We need to de-corporatize publishing and return to this model
Van Valen founded his own journal, Evolutionary Theory, in 1973, and used it partly to air grievances and seek revenge. It is an amazing repository of evolutionary insights and snark (plus an attack on journal publication fees of as much as $25!). mn.uio.no/cees/english/servi…
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Here is the distribution of mammals on Earth today, by biomass.
🐘 Wild mammals = 4%*
🐄 Livestock = 62%
🧍♀️ Humans = 34%
*This includes marine mammals. Mostly whales. If only counting mammals on land, it's 2%.
Igor Nikolic retweeted
New publication published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education! I'm excited to share "In the Trenches: Just Trying to Make It as a Black Man in Early Career Faculty Roles!"
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Igor Nikolic retweeted
Stunning work by Dillon Marsh visualizing mining outputs and the mines they came from.
Here's copper.
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Scientists who fly the most have the highest H-index.✈️ This is what is shown in a new study, as part of the @labos1point5 initiative and published today in Environmental Research Letters.
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Igor Nikolic retweeted
You can start by learning that "AI" is first & foremost a marketing term used to mystify & oversell a vast array of data-centric techniques that generally require resources only a few companies have & are frequently protected from validation & scrutiny by trade secrecy
Igor Nikolic retweeted
Another exciting PhD opportunity in the upcoming Horizon Europe MIRACA project! You will be based and working at Deltares, and obtain your PhD degree at @VU_IVM within my research group.
We offer a very nice PhD position on 'Adapting Europe's infrastructure to climate change'. An ideal mix of: doing academic research, using state-of-the-art python tools and answering urgent societal questions. careers.deltares.nl/nl/ad/ph… @deltares
