Google's NotebookLM is one of the few times that AI has pleasantly surprised me. Especially with its new feature of creating slide-decks from sources you upload, it's an incredible tool for self-study.

This week, we are highlighting Rohini Balakrishnan, a @jexpbiol.bsky.social author, Editorial Advisory Board member and a part of the first cohort of JEB Travelling Fellowship recipients, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists

How Randomness Can Flip Evolution: New Study Uncovers Surprising Role of Population Noise Summary & Analysis by Tahirah Williams of “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics for Finite Populations and the Noise-Induced Reversal of Selection” by Bhat et al. www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

Full House brainstorming about Projects at the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior . What an amazing group of Students . Each student works on a project to be presented at the end of the school @cbehav.bsky.social

I recently learned that people may be using em-dashes (—) as one of the tell-tale signs for AI generated text. Now I have to consciously avoid using them in emails etc. I liked my em-dashes! 😞

Nabeel et al. present a method to derive models of theoretical ecology from stochastic time series data. This data-driven method may help empirical tests of ecological theories and to discover unknown principles. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

After languishing in the peer-review purgatory for over two years, our work on discovering dynamical models from time series data is finally out in @asn-amnat.bsky.social! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.

So elegant! Back in the day when I was a CS masters student, streaming algorithms were of my favorite things in our graduate algorithms course.

Do you work with individual-based models of birth, death and movement? We have a review paper for you, part of a special collection for the journal Interface’s 20th birthday! doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

This past week, I had a pleasure to attend and teach a tutorial session at the ICTS-ICTP Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology. Fascinating school, opened my eyes to the amazing world of theoretical community ecology.