Chaitanya Gokhale

Fantastic! Congratulations!!! To you and to the Center!!! It’s great to see you will be closer!!

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...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!

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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

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...

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!

Kiruna Airport

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.

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,

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!

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 !

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

Many congratulations!!!

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...

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

Yes please, could we have a link to watch this in our group? We are developing theoretical models of conservation biology and its social aspects. Would be great to hear your views!

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 🙏

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…

Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social

#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.

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Deadline: 12.11.25

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🌏 #ICSD2026 is on!
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

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):

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

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."

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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!!

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.

I wrote an Insight piece to accompany new work by Matthijs van Veelen on incorporating nonlinearity into Hamilton's rule.

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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!

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!

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

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..

🎮🧠 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