Welcome

My name is Cody Moser. I am a PhD candidate and Fletcher Jones Fellow in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced, a Graduate Fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, and a 2024 Junior Fellow at The Institute for Humane Studies.

I work on questions examining the relationship between structure and adaptation in social, biological, economic, and neural systems from a complex systems perspective. To do this, I utilize methods from network theory, agent-based modeling, and large-scale corpus analysis.

Please reach out to me either via email or on Twitter if you would like to chat.

In the meantime, here’s a collaboration network I made of my department. We have 51 nodes, an average clustering coefficient of .17, and a path length of 3.39. In my work on innovation and collective problem-solving, I have yet to find an organization of this size that is as innovative as ours. You can download the edge list here.

The strong message for successful ongoing adaptive evolution is ‘Keep a masterpiece and, at the same time, continue to explore adaptive space with mutational variants.’ - Toquenaga & Wade, 1996