🤖🧬 How does cooperation evolve in humans and machines? A new PNAS issue links game theory & AI – with work from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. Insights into collaboration, incentives & digital systems. 🔗 www.evolbio.mpg.de/3826775/evol... #AI #PNAS #GameTheory

‘The evolution of collective intelligence’, compiled and edited by @omadagain.bsky.social, @anthrosarah.bsky.social, Monique Borgerhof Mulder, @edseabright.bsky.social, @jsegoviamartin.bsky.social, Andrew Whiten and @replicatedtypo.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

1/ Three years in to the war in #Sudan a reminder from @unep.org that damage to its environment and natural resources are impacting its people and ecosystems. Compared to Ukraine, Gaza and Iran, the war's environmental narrative is underdeveloped: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

"Cuando las instituciones fallan, la desobediencia civil recuerda que los derechos humanos no pueden quedar atrapados en la parálisis burocrática". Una tribuna de José Segovia-Martín sobre la historia de la resistencia pacífica. ctxt.es/es/20250901/...

🆕‼️Mucha atención a lo último de Amador Fernández-Savater ✍️ La eficacia de la interrupción (sobre la Vuelta) 🎯🗣️ Esta democratización de la acción ha interrumpido nuestra propia impotencia ante el genocidio. No es poca cosa recuperar una sensación de agencia política. ⬇️ ctxt.es/es/20250901/...

As @sashamtl.bsky.social says, it's good we have these numbers, but there is much more that we need & deserve. www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.tech... >>

Just found out that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, written around 1948, describes a "versificator" that composes the words for songs "entirely by mechanicsl means" simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/n...

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

One year ago today: A non-linear model to illustrate how ideas that cross international borders can potentially have a big impact on electoral outcomes. Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Excellent coverage from Nature about LGBT+, gender identity, and DEI grants termination. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Chaos governs our world, even if it doesn’t seem like it. aeon.co/essays/witho...

On a global scale, absolute decoupling of GDP from resource use remains unlikely. Why? Because even optimal efficiency strategies, when wiped out by rebound effects, can lead to unsustainable outcomes—a formal take on the Jevons paradox. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

New study suggesting the Palestinian health ministry under-reported mortality in Gaza by 41%. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... "We estimated 64 260 deaths (95% CI 55 298–78 525) due to traumatic injury during the study period, suggesting the Palestinian MoH under-reported mortality by 41%."

The second law of thermodynamics states that a quantity called entropy is on the rise, indicating that the universe is predisposed to disorder. But the idea of entropy is evolving. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...