Hey all! Been away from BSky for a while but this Friday I am giving a talk on our latest PNAS Nexus paper on repeated games! We model situations where players, instead of acting simultaneously, act in order. We study the status of well-known equilibrium strategies when simultaneity is broken.

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Saptarshi Pal (Harvard) From simultaneous to leader-follower play in direct reciprocity Date: April 10 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

A different view of direct reciprocity in the evolution of cooperation. The enduring strategy in an evolving population need not be discriminators if unconditional cooperators can occasionally mutate to a conditional strategy in presence of defectors. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I mean, as someone whose life's work has been developing general mathematical theory for evolution, I do think there is some scope to do theory in a general way, while still acknowledging the limits of its applicability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Asymptotic Extinction in Large Coordination Games (with Desmond Chan, Bart De Keijzer, Stefanos Leonardos, Carmine Ventre) arxiv.org/abs/2412.15461 We show that, for large random coordination games, Q-Learning converges to a Quantal Response Equilibria near the >>>

Looking for a light read during the holidays?🎄 Let me tell you about our new publication with Vince Knight & @marcharper.bsky.social on the properties of strategies in computer tournaments for the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (IPD) 🧵 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

In a new paper published today, @yohm.bsky.social and I discuss a general framework to make sense of social norms and different indirect reciprocity models. Below is a 🧵, here is the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨The evolution of forecasting for decision-making in dynamic environments🚨 We explore a middle ground between rational economic and myopic evolutionary theories, when decisions feedback on environmental states. By A Tilman @erolakcay.bsky.social @VVLVasconcelos doi.org/10.1177/2633...

My profile is finally up on the Max Planck Institute's Dynamics of Social Behavior group website. I feel so privileged to be working with this amazing group of researchers! You can check out who we are and what we work on here: web.evolbio.mpg.de/social-behav...