Chaitanya Gokhale

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.

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!

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

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🧵👇

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!

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...

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

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/

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

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!

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

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.

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

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The strange attractor persists despite constant perturbations from noise.

🚨 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

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.

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

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

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

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

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

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)!
Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available.
Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

Apply for an NSO grant until 1st May! Our grants can be used to support networking and education in ecology and evolution between the Nordic countries and beyond, such as workshops, courses or smaller meetings. Full guidelines and application form here: www.nordicsocietyoikos.org/grants

Congratulations!! And a nice title!!!

Programme Please note that the programme is subject to change prior to the conference. The latest version was uploaded on 1 April 2025. BFE Cam Programme 2025 v3Download Home

If you are at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2025 #BFECam25 do not miss the talk today by our very own Luis Alejandro Villaneuva at 1300 GMT (zoom link in the programme) bfeconference2025.wordpress.com/programme/ @gokhalecs.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Big thanks to @cctb-wue.bsky.social @gokhalecs.bsky.social for inviting me to share my research on game theory! 🎲

I truly enjoyed the thought-provoking discussions, warm hospitality, and, of course, the delicious pizza 🍕
Looking forward to future collaborations!