Amazing paper idea, brilliantly executed! Cultural #macroevolution of arcade video games by @svalver.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @blaividiella.bsky.social and R. Alexander Bentley www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

Next Monday I will be at @i2sysbio.es with my colleagues @julipereto.bsky.social, @josepsardanyes.bsky.social, and others discussing our recent work with @nilese.bsky.social, @blaividiella.bsky.social, @andrejpaleo.bsky.social et al. on punctuated evolution. See you! www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...

Next July 14th, I will be at the @i2sysbio.es talking about our recent work about punctuated evolution in culture, technology, biology, and more. i2sysbio.es. @blaividiella.bsky.social @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @nilese.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

@svalver.bsky.social et al. analyzed 15 years of Gene Ontology evolution, finding that GO changes not just incrementally, but also via major, curator-driven restructurings. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf148 #evobio #geneontology

Punctuated evolution by “hopeful monsters” to enable terrestrialization? Is it possible that evolution actually follows more dramatic and "unprovable" paths than what typical gradual models predict? See doi.org/10.1038/s415... Amazing & ground breaking findings from @rosafernandez.bsky.social lab!

Can the structure of knowledge evolve like life itself? In our new MBE paper, we show that the Gene Ontology evolves through mechanisms shared with cultural and technological systems—reuse, modularity, and curator-driven restructuring. Here’s what we found: 🧵

Thanks Sergi!

What are the implications of considering #TippingPoints in #restoration strategies? Thanks to the organizers of the #RamonMargalefColloquia & @ricardsole.bsky.social for the opportunity to give this lecture! Some topics were: #ClimateChange #WarningSignals #DynamicalGhosts #Antrhopocene

Why does theory matter in marine restoration? Cristina Linares gave a great lecture at RAMON MARGALEF colloquia on recovery depth, habitat connectivity, facilitation, and succession cascades. i.e. Slow-growing species can survive fluctuating pressures—living on borrowed time. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

New key finding: Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes. Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My Obituary of Elisabeth Vrba—out today in Nature in read-only format: rdcu.be/ediyO

What is complexity? What kind of approach is needed to define it? Here's a 1977 paper by Robert Rosen, one of the pioneers of System Science, discussing how information, error and scale are central to this problem: tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... @manlius.bsky.social @svalver.bsky.social

Great to see the incredible work happening in the #Biocean5Dproject! Bringing together disciplines, diverse organisms, and countries is advancing our understanding of ocean #biodiversity and functioning. With the SETE-CNRS team: @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social, Jose Montoya, Alexandre Génin & F.Rincon

Following two wild weeks completing my Spanish national grant, here I am working on the slides for a Tuesday talk @icarehb.bsky.social on punctuated evolution. cc: @blaividiella.bsky.social @nilese.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social

Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am thrilled to have been selected to share our ongoing research on punctuated evolution at this amazing symposium. See you there! #EvoBio #CultEvo @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @blaividiella.bsky.social @nilese.bsky.social @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social

Many thanks to Alex Bentley, our coauthor, for coming to see us today. We look forward to working on future projects! @blaividiella.bsky.social @utknoxville.bsky.social

How do we make ecological networks relevant to biodiversity conservation and management? 🌏🧪 In a new preprint, @gabdans.bsky.social & @ceresbarros.bsky.social et al. suggest that the main challenge remains uncertainty and its propagation. But the good news is that they suggest a way forward!

🌊 How does climate change reshape sponge microbiomes? How effective are cleaner fish in controlling parasites? Last week, @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social from BIOcean5 shared fascinating insights into sponge responses to warming & the ecology of cleaners! See an ex doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03858-3

Are the major evolutionary transitions describable as phase transitions, as in statistical physics? A great example of this is the transition to eukaryotic cells, as shown by this excellent paper by Jordi Bascompte and co-workers europepmc.org/api/fulltext...

In this article we provide a wide review on regime shifts and tipping points, and implications in ecosystems management. We also introduce the so-called Late Warning Signals, with @blaividiella.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bretskyan hierarchy (of tectonically bounded Earth-Life structures) doi.org/10.1017/pab.... affects not only the evolution of life , but the cultural diversity and evolution too 👇 🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio⚒️#Geology cc: @nilese.bsky.social @blaividiella.bsky.social svalver.bsky.social

Thanks, Helen! Our recent work explores #PunctuatedEvolution, expanding it beyond palaeontology and evolutionary biology. @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social, @blaividiella.bsky.social, @andrejpaleo.bsky.social, Niles Eldredge (@nilese.bsky.social), Alex Bentley & Mike O'Brien. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Why doesn’t evolution follow a path of constant #adaptation? Over the past 50 years, punctuated equilibrium has expanded leading to a unified framework for punctuated #evolution across scales—from genes to #ecosystems & our planet. Our new collaboration at doi.org/10.1111/pala...