Very excited to share our latest article in Trends in Microbiology, with @ninan-abraham.bsky.social, @chilbe.bsky.social, @ayesha-mahmud.bsky.social, and Arne Traulsen! We highlight the importance of disentangling these interactions and suggest potential paths forwards

Trends in Microbiology@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Interactions between immuno-epidemiology and individual decision-making for nonpharmaceutical interventions

Job opportunities... Newly launched Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three collaborative postdoctoral fellowships. Best consideration date 3/14. Full Details: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

Please join us for a @smtpb.bsky.social panel discussion about publishing theory in biology w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social (Co-Chief Editor of J Theor Biol), Mark Lewis (Advising Editor for J Math Biol & Bull Math Biol), and me (Theor Pop Biol) 13 Feb 2026 9:00AM–10:00AM PST smtpb.org/event-6520871

Yesterday, two papers appeared in @pnas.org, to which I contributed to. Both papers deal with strategic behavior in repeated games. Apart from that, they are quite different. A 🧵 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🗞️📣 New paper "Exact conditions for evolutionary stability in indirect reciprocity under noise" with @chilbe.bsky.social & @yohm.bsky.social How can cooperation persist in large groups of unrelated individuals? Reputation 🗣️ But which social norms make this stable, even when mistakes happen? 🧵(1/6)

Exact conditions for evolutionary stability in indirect reciprocity under noise

Author summary Understanding how cooperation can evolve and be sustained is a central question in evolutionary biology and social science. One prominent explanation is indirect reciprocity, where indi...

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A different view of direct reciprocity in the evolution of cooperation. The enduring strategy in an evolving population need not be discriminators if unconditional cooperators can occasionally mutate to a conditional strategy in presence of defectors. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Stabilizing unconditional cooperation | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

The ultimate goal of research on the evolution of cooperation could be conceived as finding a method for stabilizing strategies that always cooperate, that never deviate from cooperation, that never e...

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A model of direct and indirect reciprocity—in which people act more favorably to people with good reputations—finds that full cooperation can always be sustained as a Nash equilibrium. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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.

This is a great opportunity to work with @yohm.bsky.social, one of the leading researchers in evolutionary game theory these days. 🙂 I can only recommend applying ⬇️

Yohsuke Murase@yohm.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 We’re hiring! RIKEN iTHEMS has launched a new Mathematical Social Science Team, and we’re looking for researchers to join us. If you're into cooperation, norms, or networks, check out the call! 🔗 www.riken.jp/en/careers/r... Feel free to DM me if you have questions!

A little text about my journey with bipolar disorder. Seeing scientists speak openly about their experiences encouraged me to help break the stigma too. A part of me feels insecure about sharing this, but it also feels like the right thing to do. adileyasar.github.io/one-of-these...

Corina Tarnita and I have discussed the relation between theoretical ecology and evolutionary game theory since my sabbatical in 2022. Now the paper is out, doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Cooperation in nature may not be mysterious when there are growth differences- questioning the notion of cooperation.

How valuable is memory? In my very first paper, now published in Economics Letters, together with @chilbe.bsky.social and @nikoletaglyn.bsky.social, we give sufficient conditions under which a player can afford to remember less than their opponent. 🧵 📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality. Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

Just two days left to apply for this postdoc position in @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social's group in Stockholm, on an exciting project on social learning and cultural evolution ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... in collaboration with Piet van den Berg (Leuven) and myself (Amsterdam). Reposts welcome!

Postdoctoral Researcher in computational psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution

Do you want to contribute to top quality research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researchers to joi

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🚨 POSTDOC WANTED 🚨 Join the Behavioral Economics of Crime & Conflict Group at MPICSL in Freiburg! We're seeking a behavioral scientist with PhD in economics, psychology, or related. Experience with experiments is key. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Apply now! tinyurl.com/FGR251 #EconSky

In game theory, we often assume that people only interact in one game at a time. In a new paper, we explore theoretically and experimentally how people cooperate when they engage in two games concurrently, either with the same partner or with different partners, www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 2y ago

My former PhD @dominikdeffner.bsky.social is now a professor and is looking for a PhD student. Know someone who would fit? stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3...

🚨 Annual IMPRS Call for Doctoral Positions at MPI-EvolBio 🚨 🎓 Fully-funded 3.5-year doctoral projects available in diverse research areas! #PhD #ResearchOpportunities #IMPRS #Science evolbio.mpg.de/3801127/annu...

I am genuinely very excited to announce that I am officially a Research Scientist at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in the Discrete Event Simulation team, led by Nobuyasu Ito! 🇯🇵 🗾 🗻

How do institutions enable large-scale cooperation? 🤝 Institutions promote cooperation but depend on cooperation to function. In a new study in @pnas.org, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @lfitouchi.bsky.social and I explore this paradox. 🧵 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A very nice journey with a great ending: In a new paper, @NikoletaGlyn describes how longer memory allows people to sustain reciprocal cooperation. For details, see 🧵 below 👇 Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Conditional cooperation with longer memory | PNAS

Direct reciprocity is a wide-spread mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. In repeated interactions, players can condition their behavior on p...

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Nikoleta Glynatsi@nikoletaglyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Together with Ethan Akin, Martin A Nowak and @chilbe.bsky.social our new paper published in PNAS characterizes partner strategies (Nash strategies that sustain cooperation) for reactive-n strategies in repeated games 🧵 📜 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Université PSL's new research network CultureLab is hiring two 5-year postdocs to develop computational methods to analyze cultural, historical, and social data! Research budget included - Deadline on 12-15-24, details below ⬇️

Last chance! Deadline tomorrow!

Tiago Peixoto@tiago.skewed.de · 2y ago

🚨Job alert!🚨 Come join us at the Inverse Complexity Lab! @invcomplexity.bsky.social We’re hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join our group at IT:U, Linz, Austria. skewed.de/lab/call.html Deadline is 30 Nov 2024. 1/8

Our new paper in #PLOSBiology is out! With Román Zapién-Campos and Arne Traulsen we worked on extracting maximum statistical information from microbiome time series data for parameter inference. Check it out!

Roli Roberts@roliroberts.bsky.social · 2y ago

How can we infer #microbiome dynamics parameters more accurately from time series data? This #PLOSBiology study uses stochastic models to improve parameter inference and so modeling/prediction... @florencebansept.bsky.social plos.io/3CU1RT1

🚨Job alert!🚨 Come join us at the Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de We’re hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join our group at IT:U, Linz, Austria. skewed.de/lab/call.html Deadline is 30 Nov 2024. (Next Saturday!) Spread the word. #networkscience #complexsystems

Open post-doc position at the Inverse Complexity Lab – Tiago P. Peixoto

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I recently read a paper by Kleshnina and others and used it to teach myself some evolutionary game theory techniques. This is a little obscure, so I'll thread below about why this topic matters for humans and the environment 🧵 nadiah.org/2024/11/20/k...

Check if an iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma strategy is a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium

I recently read a paper by Kleshnina et al. (2023), The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games, which provided an opportunity to teach myself about how to ...

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In a new paper published today, @yohm.bsky.social and I discuss a general framework to make sense of social norms and different indirect reciprocity models. Below is a 🧵, here is the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Modeller? Interested in linguistic diversity? *Postdoc* position on DYNAMICS OF MULTILINGUALISM available in my group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... 2 yrs working with an international & interdisciplinary team led by @justynaolko.bsky.social

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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There seem to be a lot of BlueSky users interested in evolutionary game theory and related areas of theoretical ecology and evolution. I made a preliminary starter pack for EGT and related topics. Please let me know if you would like to join or if you have any suggestions. go.bsky.app/N2SMwCN

📢 Please repost 📢 Applications for the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26 - Jun 20 2025) are now open. Brochure and more info: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul... Application form (deadline, Dec 15 2024): www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...