Could humans and AI become so interdependent that they form a new kind of evolutionary individual? In this op-ed, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary individuality.

not if you sum it !

This blog post discusses the policies that will likely evolve as #AI technology continues to advance, and its impact on #PeerReview and the scholarly publishing landscape becomes more pronounced. Read more: royalsociety.org/blog/2023/09... #PRW2025

A new study published in #RSOS has uncovered a potential driver behind the aggressive spread of #glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of #BrainCancer. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Practical quantum computing just around the corner? Two interesting reads: www.wsj.com/articles/her... www.wsj.com/articles/psi...

Will humans and AI coevolve in the future? As interdependencies grow, the two could come to function not merely as interacting agents, but as an integrated evolutionary individual. Check this paper in @pnas.org by @mkhochb.bsky.social & P Rainey @sfiscience.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What future does AI hold? With @paulbrainey.bsky.social, we hypothesize that human-AI coevolution is leading to the emergence of a new evolutionary unit of selection. Science fiction or looming fact? Read our paper and judge for yourself. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What makes intelligence unique? Not surprisingly, no single, simple answer! Progress is however possible on the question if we view intelligence in an information framework. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Despite the title, I found these interviews informative, particularly those with Eric Schmidt. Main take-aways: AI moving fast, increasing dependence, semi-predictable future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-b...

unbelievable to say the least

yeast cool - and the shirt's probably full of it after a wear to two

Welcome !!!

Simple and very cool (or rather hot) wapo.st/4mWQ740

Nice article. Provocative last sentence: "Decades later this fascinating material is still not fully understood." Next generation AI may indeed (ironically) decipher some of it.

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Sharing this new review written by two talented trainees from the Ford lab, Sheera Rosenbaum and Kaiah Fields. @kaiahfields.bsky.social

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

An alternative, likely scenario to be published soon. Stay tuned.

Four new species of tarantulas with "unusual male sex organs" discovered by @alirezazamani.bsky.social et al, just published in ZooKeys! Read more here: blog.pensoft.net/2025/08/04/n...

This is so very cool: "ribosomes colliding and stalling". Looking forward to a deeper dig as to how and why.

Very interesting essay on consciousness and self-awareness. Beyond questions of whether there are different grades and different dimensions of each, lies the question of the reliability of assessments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am cautiously predicting that ChatGpt (and like) will render Mathematica (and like) largely obsolete.

Consider guest editing a theme issue on a topic of your choice! We are looking for proposals in all areas of biology: buff.ly/gkVdvKU | #PhilTransB #PhilosophicalTransactions

Students attending #Evol2025 Stop by the University of Chicago Press booth to get a free year of American Society of Naturalists student membership and subscription to The American Naturalist. @asn-amnat.bsky.social

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Quetzalcoatlite: - Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour - Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals - This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

I would love to host a PhD student on my lab with strong quantitative training interested in projects integrating ecology and evolution, or cell physiology and ecological dynamics www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Eye opener www.wsj.com/science/biol...

Bientôt en direct pour une émission spéciale de SCOPE sur les attaques de Trump contre les sciences climatiques 💥 C’est sur le Twitch de @artefr.bsky.social et sur YouTube. Avec @marietreibert.bsky.social @pierregirard.bsky.social Et @valmasdel.bsky.social @palomamoritz.bsky.social RDV à 19h !

Always love a good bacterial warfare study: "Horizontal gene transfer of molecular weapons can reshape bacterial competition" by @prokaryota.bsky.social, @jdpal.bsky.social, et al. in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

🧬🔬🧫 We have an opening for a senior scientific officer to lead our single cell genomics #techdev and #cancer molecular profiling work @cec-icr.bsky.social Details and application here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12... Interested? Please do drop me a line to discuss. @icr.ac.uk

Beata Ujvari, Andriy Marusyk and Aurora Nedelcu are organising a symposium on “Cancer in an evolutionary framework: across species and within individuals” at the @eseb2025.bsky.social conference in Barcelona this August. Abstact submission closes on Friday: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

Now using ChatGpt at least several times a day. Any question: ask, evaluate response, query or hone if necessary. I see this as possibly bottlenecking my information sources, and am very curious to know how the diversity in viable responses is represented in Gpt. Perhaps I should ask it?

A new #CosmicDistanceLadder post, on intriguing hints from the DESI survey data that suggests that the cosmological constant (aka "dark energy) might not, in fact, be constant after all. www.instagram.com/p/DIP0yy5oDUu

Latest blog post where I do a deep dive into a concept of success = persistence. I visit ideas of Schrodinger, Darwin, Haeckel, and a hat tip to Vonnegut, to name a few. My conclusion of what success is really is a bit counterintuitive. mehochberg.wixsite.com/blog/post/su...

Latest version of my attempt to synthesize concepts in intelligence including biological, human and AI, and propose a framework, which with more research, could lead to a predictive theory. www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Our Observation of the Day is this tiny Neotrichozetes spinulosa beetle mite, seen in New Zealand by shou_1221! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

🚨 ESEB 2025, here we come! 🚨 Abstract submissions are now open for our symposium - "Enhancing Diversity & Transparency in Ecology & Evolution: Reliable Practices for Research & Organizations" 🌍✨ Featuring invited speakers: 🔹 Dr. Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz 🔹 Dr. Joel Pick #ESEB2025 #SORTEE

Q: Will AI go to AGI and then to SAI? How would/could this happen? What might the time-line be? Spoiler As: Yes. Through predictable steps. By the end of 2027. ai-2027.com

Deadline is TODAY to register for PaBST 2025! If you want a friendly, relaxed atmosphere to talk about the big questions in philosophy, biology, and modeling, this is your workshop. Ideas-in-progress especially encouraged!

It is indeed Friday. Another hectic but satisfying week. If you want some self-amusement, think about your 10 most memorable haircuts. Here are mine. mehochberg.wixsite.com/blog/post/ba...

Where (when) would you travel if time travel were possible? To the past, to the future? Is it possible? What physics can tell us about this? Check this BBC piece www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Just finished reading "The Coevolution - The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines" by Edward Ashford Lee. Pleasantly surprised. Deep dives into machines, humans, their interactions and emergent coevolution. Some views I disagree with, but that's what makes a good book.

Saturday wake up www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX0C...

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

With the #academic bloodletting in the US, we’ve been talking about opening up positions in #Vienna. It’s a strong place to do research, beautifully liveable, and now a bastion of scientific, liberal, and democratic thought. 🧪🦋

“Other studies suggest that the earlier egg-laying seen now in some turtle species seems to be enough to offset the effects of warming temperatures on the eggs.” #scicomm #sensoryecology #climatechange #globalwarming www.sciencenews.org/article/sea-... 🧪 🐢 🐍 🦑

Interesting, amazing, and a bit scary www.wsj.com/tech/microso...

📢 Pre-announcement! The 5th EU-LAC Multi-Thematic Joint Call 2025 is coming! Get ready to collaborate with EU & Latin American/Caribbean partners on research & innovation projects. Topics: Biodiversity, Bioeconomy, Global Health, Energy Transition & OpenScience. #greentransition #funding 🧪

Scientific debate on this is good