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Sergi Valverde
@svalver.bsky.social
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#ComplexSystems scientist. Institute of Evolutionary Biology @csic.es, Barcelona| DySOC-UTennessee, Knoxville | ECLT, Venice. Girl dad. He/him. Lab: svalver.github.io #EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · Nov 12
A starter pack for researchers interested in #ComplexSystems. Complex system science investigates how interactions among multiple parts lead to collective behaviour, as well as how the system interacts and forms links with its environment - please add your name!

go.bsky.app/FNYZ61y
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𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼 @complenet.bsky.social · 23d
📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference!

🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 6d
My favorite second hand bookstore! Get lost in the stacks.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7d
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91. Gift link: nyti.ms/48FOuUn
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 7d
Study is exploring what paleontologists and neontologists know about the punctuated equilibria, and how they perceive the dominant modes of evolution. As expected, there is a significant variance in views on evolution reflecting differing backgrounds.
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
Opinions of evolutionists on the prevalence of different modes of evolution.
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Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · 7d
We're hosting the 20th anniversary meeting of the Network Science Society at Northeastern University!

Follow our account as we announce speakers and join us in Boston this summer!
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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 8d
📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 14d
New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio
Book cover of “Modelling Evolution” by Walter Veit, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 10d
Noted, but I prefer my own way of reading. Blocking now—books over bots any day.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 10d
Or we could just use social media less and rely more on other channels, including face-to-face interaction.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 10d
Fair enough. Immersion and reflection are exactly what I meant.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 10d
Fascism thrives on noise, confusion, and emotional manipulation. That’s exactly why I turn to books and history: to find clarity, and strength to resist.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 10d
If you want to dismiss reflection as ‘burying myself,’ that’s your view. I see it as refusing to be consumed by shallow outrage.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 10d
Stepping away from the noise is not self-indulgence; it is a way to regain clarity and strength. I believe there are many ways to serve one's country, including reflection and learning.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 10d
All of the noise and misinformation on social media, as well as the neverending celebration of stupidity, encourages us to seek refuge in books and old papers. See you soon.
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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 13d
In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.

He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.

Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.

Why?
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14d
Very proud of this paper in BioScience :

« Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature »

🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife !

👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

🧪🦤
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Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social · Jun 22
Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database
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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 20d
Prof. Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social will join us in Copenhagen on Wed, Sep 24, 12:30-13:15 to present at an exciting data science seminar!

Topic: Why Use An Evolutionary Perspective To Study Culture?

To attend, see: nerds.itu.dk/event/data-s...
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 22d
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!

400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"
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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · Dec 22
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."

- Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980)

Visualisation of our galactic cluster 💫😲💫✨💫🌌💫

NASA
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25d
@aaup.org has prepared materials for faculty who face these threats and harassment. 6/ www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
Targeted Harassment of Faculty
The AAUP has developed a toolkit to address the threat of targeted harassment of faculty.
www.aaup.org
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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · Jul 22
Ever wondered how animals know where they are? Or how they find where they need to be?

The answer is that they have maps and compasses built into their heads! Excited to see this new review of map-and-compass navigation led by Joe Morford out in Animal Behaviour @asab.org

doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Image description: figure from review titled Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps. The figure shows how environmental cues can vary in predictable gradients through space, generating unique cue combinations at each location. The second part of this figure shows how animals may respond to these cue combinations, either treating them as discrete cue-location associations, or as continuous gradients. These differences may lead to differences in navigational strategies and performance.
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Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · 25d
The Guardian names ANDOR the Best Show of the Year.

“It is unlikely we will see something like it - politically radical with Disney budget carte blanche - ever again.”
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d
The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.

Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 27d
Exciting to see the major transitions in evolution framework spanning biology, technology and now human–AI systems. From stone tools to software, humans adapt with technology — today’s large language models are just the latest iteration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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