Richard Mann

How not to fix an AI institute The Alan Turing Institute doubles down

www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to...

14.07.2025 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A real must-read post from @rmcelreath.bsky.social that resonates particularly well after having spent the last couple of days on a matters arising for an open, pre-registered paper in a high-profile journal for which the results and story they support are largely a statistical artifact.

09.07.2025 15:31 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

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.

17.06.2025 10:29 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2

Program Exploring new generative AI methods for understanding dynamic complex social and socio-ecological systems Date: 9th – 13th June 2025 Venue: Brussels, Belgium (Double Tree By Hilton Brussels City Hot...

Long in the making, finally happening this week at Brussels: #GenAIResearchRetreat2025 - Exploring new generative #AI methods for understanding dynamic complex social and socio-ecological systems.

Exciting programme, great group:

computationalclimateactionlab.github.io/genai2025rr/...

09.06.2025 21:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The tree of life The Proto-Earth was formed about 4.5 billion years ago. For about 100 million years, it marked time, dutifully circling round the sun, waiting for

Wonderfully kind and fulsome review of my book 'The Tree of Life' in the TLS by Charles Foster. "breezy, scholarly, whimsical, rigorous and companionable…" "extraordinary, adventurous book." I am absolutely THRILLED! @johnmurrays.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/science-tech...

06.06.2025 09:30 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

AI generated image showing flock of sheep, shoal of fish, flock of birds and swarm robots

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PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems.

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03.06.2025 21:22 — 👍 19    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 2

It took us many years to improve idtracker.ai in both accuracy and tracking time. Here it is.

03.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Sponges, ctenophores and the statistical significance of syntenies Shared fusions between ancestral chromosomal linkage groups have previously been used to support phylogenetic groupings, notably sponges with cnidarians and bilaterians to the exclusion of ctenophores...

New entry into the sponge/ctenophore debate.... Have the chromosome fusions separating ctenophores from all other animals been given too much weight? Beautifully clearly written paper covering complex arguments from @rcply.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

12.05.2025 09:56 — 👍 32    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

I am seriously becoming of the opinion that there should be a (ideally permanent, but at least a few years) moratorium on publication of molecular clock papers. This would allow authors to reflect on the idea that their results invariably involve “event x happened 10s - 100s Myrs before we thought”.

04.04.2025 08:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Starting this account with a link to a nice recent Youtube video on the infinite game of Beggar-My-Neighbour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HwK...

24.03.2025 08:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0