Sam Arbesman | Experimenting with Scientific Organizational Structure
Bio | Samuel Arbesman is a complexity scientist, whose work focuses on the nature of scientific and technological change. He is currently Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm investing in emerging science and technology ventures. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado Boulder and Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation.
Arbesman’s training is in complexity science, computational biology, and applied mathematics. His scientific research has been cited widely and has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His essays about science, mathematics, and technology have appeared in such places as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired, where he was previously a contributing writer, and he has been featured in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010. Arbesman is the author of two award-winning books, Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension (Current/Penguin, 2016) and The Half-Life of Facts (Current/Penguin, 2012).
Previously, Arbesman was a Senior Scholar at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a Research Fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He completed a PhD in computational biology at Cornell University in 2008, and earned a BA in computer science and biology at Brandeis University in 2004.
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Summary | Sam Arbesman moves fluidly between technology, science and startup circles looking for new ways to connect ideas and people. His latest project is the The Overedge Catalog, a clearinghouse for new types of research organizations.
Arbesman has lived at the frontier of metascience for decades now. It's fitting that he decided to make a map-themed guide to what could happen next.
On his Scientist-in-Residence role at @lux_capital:
— science better (@scibetter) June 22, 2021
"essentially an import-export business of ideas and people." pic.twitter.com/Iax7THtsVG
On the enthusiastic response to launching The Overedge Catalog:
— science better (@scibetter) June 22, 2021
"There really does appear to be a certain pent-up desire for some sort of community or recognition that there is something interesting happening here." pic.twitter.com/PALlqDmJJZ
We shouldn't promote the results of science at the expense of communicating the *process* of science.
— science better (@scibetter) June 22, 2021
"Science is a process... We should teach that. We should revel in it." pic.twitter.com/N9NNHwz2ue