It is pretty annoying that that sub is labeled for US politics on a .world server…

You’re not wrong, but why would you just post that stuff to global news/politics communities? Wouldn’t it make.more sense to focus on what differentiates the Europe lemmy community?

Would be cool if lemmy communities could just tag themselves, so a directory like this could be automatically generated… Maybe even just hashtags in the sidebar or something.

Biol and maths. Then climate science. Now working in climate risk, and it turns out everything at that point is basically sociology anyway, because it all comes down to belief in predictions, uncettainty, world views, subjective risk tolerance and decision making…

Oh yeah, that’ll do it 😂

What discipline are you in? Something stemmy, or more social science?

At first I was like “why?”, and then I saw the last word and I was like “Arrr” 🏴‍☠️

What kind of classes did it come up in?

Ah right. I think that’s what I did, but I think the UI automatically made it a link? Anyway, thanks.

Appreciate your domain, BTW. Gross.

Yes! They are both forms of systems thinking, for sure.

I guess the intermediate discipline would be systems engineering? But one of the problems with systems thinking is that it’s extremely diverse, and there’s a lot of similarly-named fields that aren’t quite the same thing. I posted about DSRP, which is an attempt to universalise the fundamental concepts of all of those fields, from science and engineering to sociology and art.

There’s a pretty decent broad overview of systems thinking (aka complexity theory, the study of complex adaptive systems) in the wikipedia page linked in the sidebar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking

I’d say it’s more of a way-of-thinking than anything (so I guess philosophy?), kind of a counterpart to reductionism. In practice, it applies (and has been applied) to basically any field, definitely including physics - early work was very physics focused, but later on the field expanded to include economics and other social science questions. There are models that do use maths/computation (especially some of the earlier approaches), but there’s also a lot of qualitative work associated with it as well.

So I guess the answer to all your questions is “yes”? :)

The first two posts on the community are good deeper introductions to the field.

Did that link in the body not work on your instance?