Chaitanya Gokhale
@gokhalecs.bsky.social
Professor of Theoretical Biology at the University of Würzburg
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/...
Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo
Secondary representations enable our minds to depart from the here-and-now and generate imaginary, hypothetical, or alternate possibilities that are decoupled from reality, supporting many of our rich...
www.science.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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!!
Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main!
www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...
www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...
Who we are - Center for critical computational studies
www.c3s-frankfurt.de
February 3, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Fantastic! Congratulations!!! To you and to the Center!!! It’s great to see you will be closer!!
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We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!
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Research Group Leader
Do you want to lead groundbreaking research in computational biology? Join us at EMBL-EBI! EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is seeking talented and highly-motivated scientists to jo...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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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
January 30, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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
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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...
More details about our Lunchbox models seminar series on: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...
January 21, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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...
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!
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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.
@istaresearch.bsky.social. I’m very excited to work with her in the future combining theory and experiments in social immunity.
January 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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.
@istaresearch.bsky.social. I’m very excited to work with her in the future combining theory and experiments in social immunity.
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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!
With Aleksandra Walczak and @thierrymora.bsky.social
Congrats to first author Antoine Aragon, well done Antoine!
Learning evolutionary parameters from genealogies using allelic trees
To better understand how genetic differences arise in populations of cells, Aragon et al. created a new method, which estimates how fast cells divide, die,
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January 8, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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!
With Aleksandra Walczak and @thierrymora.bsky.social
Congrats to first author Antoine Aragon, well done Antoine!
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The submission deadline (Jan 31st) for the 2026 Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Crete mceb2026.sciencesconf.org is getting closer!
January 7, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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 !
January 7, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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
Y-linked editors for invasive rodent control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.693037v1
December 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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
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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
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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
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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 🙏
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 🙏
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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 🙏
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 🙏
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Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social
ECR feature: Axel Arango
Axel Arango is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Würzburg, Germany. He is a evolutionary biologist with special focus on Macroecology and Macroevolution. Here, Axel shares his recent wor…
biogeographynews.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social
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#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
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
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#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
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
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🌏 #ICSD2026 is on!
Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄
Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵
Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄
Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵
🎉 We're excited to announce that the #ICSD2026 (Jun 1-5, 2026)website is now live! sites.google.com/view/icsd2026
📅 Key dates
Nov 2025: Abstract submission opens
Dec 22, 2025: Submission deadline
Late Feb 2026: Acceptance notifications
Apr 3, 2026: Registration closes
Jun 1, 2026: Conference begins
📅 Key dates
Nov 2025: Abstract submission opens
Dec 22, 2025: Submission deadline
Late Feb 2026: Acceptance notifications
Apr 3, 2026: Registration closes
Jun 1, 2026: Conference begins
ICSD 2026
Welcome TO ICSD 2026
We are delighted to announce that the International Conference on Social Dilemmas will be held in Shimonoseki, Japan, on June 1-5, 2026, at the Shimonoseki Grand Hotel. The confer...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🌏 #ICSD2026 is on!
Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄
Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵
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
October 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
And we are off!!! Just kickstarted the Long Night Againt Procrastination! All the best to everyone and have fun!!! @gslsuniwue.bsky.social
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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):
We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
October 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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):
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
📍 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
EDAI 2025
Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI (EDAI) Workshop at ECAI 2025. Dates: 26 October 2025
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October 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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
📍 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
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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/...
"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/...
September 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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/...
"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!
How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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 am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
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Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück
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August 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Highly recommend this great opportunity to develop #theory together with @kostchristian.bsky.social and group who are simply a wonderful bunch!!
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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.
elifesciences.org/articles/108...
TL;DR: The future of evolutionary theory is nonlinear, and our mathematical tools should reflect that.
July 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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.
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!
Amazing time at the Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School! 🤠🌵🌅📚🌌
Learnt a lot about network science, scaling laws, emergence, collective phenomena, ... and had a blast doing it. Thanks to everyone for such an unforgettable experience!
@sfiscience.bsky.social #ComplexSystems #Complexity
Learnt a lot about network science, scaling laws, emergence, collective phenomena, ... and had a blast doing it. Thanks to everyone for such an unforgettable experience!
@sfiscience.bsky.social #ComplexSystems #Complexity
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So glad you had a good time! It’s a magical place to be!