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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Sep 7

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/...

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

Vesna Grujcic @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

Figure from Allen (2025): Linear and nonlinear regression models for the benefits of helping behavior.

(A) A standard approach to quantifying the benefit b
and cost c of cooperation is to apply a linear regression model of the form w=w0−cp+bq+ϵ, where w is an individual’s offspring number, w0 is a constant term, p is the genetic propensity of the individual to cooperate, q is the genetic propensity of the individual’s partner to cooperate, and ϵ is a residual term. Benefit and cost are then determined by applying least-squares regression to population data for a single generation. Here, for simplicity, we show hypothetical data for w and q only (blue points), ignoring the effects of p. In this scenario, offspring number peaks at an intermediate level of help. Fitting a linear model w=w0+bq+ϵ (orange line) results in a “benefit” b that sheds little light on the nature of the cooperative trait. (B) Fitting a quadratic model w=w0+b0,1q+b0,2q2+ϵ (orange curve), as van Veelen’s framework allows for, yields a more informative characterization of cooperation in this scenario.

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

Alejandra Ramirez @ma-ramirez.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jul 25

Both of these projects are experiences for the students to learn coding interactive games and the products can be used for exploratory research, outreach, and teaching. Thank you so much to the GameLab instructors and the participants for including us and for the great prototypes!

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jul 25

In EcoSims you choose between hunting, foraging, managing pastures and maintaining a healthy ecosystem where realtime decision-making can be prototyped.

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jul 25

In Game Theory in the Uncanny Valley can you tell if you’re cooperating with a human or an AI? Blurring lines between who we interact with in an increasingly digitised world..

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎮🧠 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

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jul 24

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🧵👇

Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Jul 23

Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:

figure 1 from https://doi.org/10.1086/737588 describing (a) our conceptualisation of an evolutionary transition in individuality, (b) an interpretation of the traits that we consider in our mathematical model, and (c) a graphical representation of the population dynamics in the model.

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CCTB @cctb-wue.bsky.social · Jul 22

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!

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...

Writing is thinking - Nature Reviews Bioengineering

On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.

www.nature.com

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jul 17

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/

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CCTB @cctb-wue.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

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CCTB @cctb-wue.bsky.social · Jun 23

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!

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

Wolfram Barfuss @wbarfuss.bsky.social · Jun 17

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.

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Wolfram Barfuss @wbarfuss.bsky.social · Jun 17

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.

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bob week @bweek.bsky.social · Jun 12

i made a new framework for modelling stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits !!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

doi.org

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Alejandra Ramirez @ma-ramirez.bsky.social · May 30

🚨 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

The strange attractor persists despite constant perturbations from noise.

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · May 26

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.

CCTB @cctb-wue.bsky.social · May 26

🚨 Postdoc opportunity!
Passionate about theoretical & computational biology? Help map the #fitnesslandscape of #Fabry disease!
Join @iimog.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy, @sabinefischer & @gokhalecs.bsky.social at CCTB, @uni-wuerzburg.de
🔗 [PDF] tinyurl.com/mvr76my7
#Postdoc

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · May 23

Same. And I can’t forget the awe in the faces of students as we go through the barcharts. It’s a powerful plot @ourworldindata.org

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CCTB @cctb-wue.bsky.social · May 12

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

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

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

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Apr 30

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

http://edai-workshop.github.io/2025/

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