Fantastic work by Amalia Bastos and @chriskrupenye.bsky.social on acknowledging and "going along" with shared imaginary realities in non-humans. If general, then it could push back some traits of the cognitive revolution from 60-70 K to 6-9 mya. Extremely exciting! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fantastic! Congratulations!!! To you and to the Center!!! It’s great to see you will be closer!!

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Amazing inaugural lecture double feature today by Kathi Zarnack @zarnack-group.bsky.social and Sabine Fischer! @cctb-wue.bsky.social. Here’s to formalising a core bioinformatics, computational and theoretical biology competence @uni-wuerzburg.de

Don't miss out on our guest speaker Dr. Elisa Thébault and her scientific talk "Species diversity, food web structure and ecosystem stability: Bridging the gap between theory and data" More details about our Lunchbox models seminar series on: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...

Thanks a lot @hyejinpark.bsky.social , @elibbyscience.bsky.social and @llizana.bsky.social for organising such an amazing meeting in the Arctic on Adaptive Mechanisms! It was brilliant to be a part of the superb program! Thank you!

A brilliant performance today by @vkulkarni.bsky.social from the group of Sylvia Cremer clearing her qualifying exam @istaresearch.bsky.social. I’m very excited to work with her in the future combining theory and experiments in social immunity.

Our paper is out! Learning evolutionary parameters from genealogies using allelic trees url: academic.oup.com/genetics/art... With Aleksandra Walczak and @thierrymora.bsky.social Congrats to first author Antoine Aragon, well done Antoine!

The submission deadline (Jan 31st) for the 2026 Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Crete mceb2026.sciencesconf.org is getting closer!

I highly recommend this fellowship, which offers the opportunity to work with th fantastic @tobiasgalla.bsky.social !

Cool work by @prateekverma.bsky.social, Oman Akbari, and John Marshall studying the use of Y-linked genome editors focusing on safer genetic biocontrol for invasive rodents on islands

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

A huge present for my small contribution at the Game Theory Summer School in Kyiv arrived today! 🎁 The school was jointly organised by the Kyiv School of Economics and the Ukrainian Catholic University. The main work was carried out by the local organisers, who put together an excellent programme 🙏

Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

🌏 #ICSD2026 is on! Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄 Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵

And we are off!!! Just kickstarted the Long Night Againt Procrastination! All the best to everyone and have fun!!! @gslsuniwue.bsky.social

We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching. We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):

The program of our 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 is live! 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 26, 2025 With: Keynote by @chilbe.bsky.social Sessions on Learning, Evolutionary Game Theory, & Applications 🔗 Full lineup tinyurl.com/2s4j56nz

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? "Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection." journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Some really fantastic work here on hammering down a viable path to endosymbiosis via genomic plasticity and the dependence evolution!

Highly recommend this great opportunity to develop #theory together with @kostchristian.bsky.social and group who are simply a wonderful bunch!!

I wrote an Insight piece to accompany new work by Matthijs van Veelen on incorporating nonlinearity into Hamilton's rule. elifesciences.org/articles/108... TL;DR: The future of evolutionary theory is nonlinear, and our mathematical tools should reflect that.

So glad you had a good time! It’s a magical place to be!

🎮🧠 Theory meets reality @uni-wuerzburg.de Informatics Expo. Our group collaborates with the GamesLab to ask two questions through interactive play: 1️⃣ Game Theory in the Uncanny Valley and 2️⃣ EcoSims: managing an ecosystem

Very proud that @gauravathreya.bsky.social's brilliant work based on his Master's thesis is out as his first paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, evolutionary transitions in individuality, and some great theory to back it?...check out the🧵👇

Join us on Wednesday, July 23, at 11:15 am for the next CCTB/Bioinfo II Seminar! Adrian Krenzer (AI in Medicine, CAIDAS) will speak on: “Insights from medical image analysis with artificial intelligence" 📍 John-Skilton-Straße 4a, Seminar Room 2 🍕 Pizza will be served afterwards - everyone’s welcome!

We discussed how writing IS thinking e.g. the benefits of writers block in our recent group meeting… this editorial puts it in the LLM context ! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September

We are extending the deadline to 22 July 2025, 23:59 CET ! 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 25 or 26, 2025 Please check the website for more info: edai-workshop.github.io/2025/

Congratulations to all authors and our very own @gokhalecs.bsky.social for putting forth this perspective on Collective Cooperative Intelligence in @pnas.org ! Check out the full special issue on #Collective #ArtificialIntelligence and Evolutionary Dynamics www.pnas.org/topic/569

Join us this Wednesday, June 25 at 11:00 for the next CCTB Seminar! 🧬 Dharanish Rajendra (Theoretical Biology group) will speak on: “Learning to adapt to dangerous environments” 📍 John-Skilton-Straße 4a, Seminar Room 2 🍕 Pizza will be served afterwards—everyone’s welcome!

Thank you @wbarfuss.bsky.social for spearheading this !

How to cooperate for a sustainable future? We don't know (yet), but I'm thrilled to share that our new perspective piece has just been published in @pnas.org. Bridging complexity science and multiagent reinforcement learning can lead to a much-needed science of collective, cooperative intelligence.

i made a new framework for modelling stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits !! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🚨 New preprint! 🌀🎲 We explore the interplay between chaotic dynamics and demographic noise in finite populations. Interestingly, we find that the strange attractor persists despite constant perturbations from noise. @theobioarne.bsky.social G.Datseris #evosky 👉📄: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.00028

This postdoc position will be a fantastic mix of computational and mathematical approach towards developing a fitness landscape of the Fabry disease. Hosted by @iimog.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy we will be collaborating intensively on this topic.

Lynn Govaert from @igb-berlin.de visits us this week!! Don't miss her talk on the 14th May 2025

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

We are happy to announce the 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 25 or 26, 2025 🗞️ Submission deadline: 17 July 2025 23:59 CET 🔔 Workshop website: t.co/yiq4aWz75d

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

Apply for an NSO grant until 1st May! Our grants can be used to support networking and education in ecology and evolution between the Nordic countries and beyond, such as workshops, courses or smaller meetings. Full guidelines and application form here: www.nordicsocietyoikos.org/grants

If you are at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2025 #BFECam25 do not miss the talk today by our very own Luis Alejandro Villaneuva at 1300 GMT (zoom link in the programme) bfeconference2025.wordpress.com/programme/ @gokhalecs.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Big thanks to @cctb-wue.bsky.social @gokhalecs.bsky.social for inviting me to share my research on game theory! 🎲 I truly enjoyed the thought-provoking discussions, warm hospitality, and, of course, the delicious pizza 🍕 Looking forward to future collaborations!