Several of my publications on agent-based modeling cover the same ground from different sides. This is the order I would read them in, starting with a hands-on lesson on building a first simulation of Republic of Letters correspondence in Python.

HawkDove.jl simulates a spatial Hawk-Dove game in which players differ in their attitude toward risk. Agents play against their neighbours, updating their strategy each round and, periodically, adapting their risk attitude toward that of more successful neighbours. A small-world rewiring parameter …

DHTech’s community code review process — described in Code review in digital humanities — pairs researchers who submit a piece of code with reviewers and a facilitator, working around the fact that most DH developers work alone. I’ve taken part on both sides of that pairing: submitting …

Agent-based models let researchers explore possible pasts and possible futures side by side. This chapter takes stock of what such models can offer historians and policymakers working with incomplete evidence, weighing their limitations as carefully as their possibilities.

Fusion research has long been examined as a site where big science, Cold War politics, and international community-building intersect — from ITER back to its European precursors. Existing accounts of the cooperation between scientists, administrators, and policymakers in this field tend to stay …

This data paper describes a dataset of 18,361 issues from roughly 800 Polish-language periodicals mentioning petroleum, published between 1 January 1853 and 31 December 1918. Alongside periodicals from historically Polish territories, it includes diasporic Polish-language press from elsewhere in …