Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

wanna read the latest overview of “internal evolutionary conflicts” — scenarios where genes spread despite being organism-deleterious? and wanna learn how to model them? look at our new preprint! we introduce unifying ideas, and try hard to write accessibly. small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Has anyone tested the hypothesis that the brain has a 'code'?

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The human brain continues to defy the expectations of researchers. “It absolutely defied all of our expectations. This was so surprising that my whole project changed.” This phenomenon could have far-reaching implications, and is leaving neuroscientists baffled. go.nature.com/3RPAhhc

Articles written by people who know what they're talking about are always important to read.

Ricard Solé@ricardsole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Are LLMs intelligent, or are we misled by their success? In this essay @melaniemitchell.bsky.social reminds us that LLMs can display astonishing capabilities in some domains while failing unexpectedly in others. We need to understand this if we want to use them wisely. yalereview.org/article/mela...

Can we engineer ecosystems before they collapse? In our new perspective on "emergent bioengineering" we argue that the key challenge is not simply controlling living systems, but designing interventions that can adapt and sustain functional ecological networks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm not surprised that mutations are probably not as random as I might have expected... But still! It's fascinating! Nice article! :D www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I find this highly unlikely. What is missing from biology today is a good, actionable theory of the organism. This is a gaping hole in the midst of the discipline, and without it, we cannot understand the nature of life, no matter how many new methodologies we invent, and however many data sets […]

📢 Applications are open for the 4th INTP Autumn School “Syntheses in Theoretical Community #Ecology” A week-long school designed for researchers who want to step back and build a broader, more synthetic and critical view of the field. 👉 Full details & application: intp.science/en/autumn26.... 🌍🌐🧪

Life in the computer? Before the internet and Alife, John Conway was already watching strange digital creatures emerge from a few simple rules in his Game of Life. These are the notes he sent to Martin Gardner, who made it a famous one in @sciam.bsky.social Check here www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns...

Agreed! We need philosophy to ground our conceptions of causation, emergence, and mechanism in biological contexts. A good starting point is to conceive life as a process, rather than as a substance, as we have been doing for centuries. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Biology Needs Philosophy, But What Philosophy?

Abstract. Philosophy of biology has the potential to contribute to biology by improving scientific reasoning. However, this potential is largely unrealized

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We are definitely NOT machines... In _any_ way

Complexity Cat 🐱@amahury.bsky.social · 4mo ago

No, living systems are not machines. DNA is not a code, brains are not computers, and hearts are not pumps. This misconception arises from superimposing the different meanings the word "mechanism" can have, often confusing causal explanation with mechanicism. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The International Society for Artificial Life is offering 5$ memberships to a limited number of people located in low/middle income countries. If you have been interested in the membership benefits (alife.org/membership/) but cannot afford it, apply here: alife.org/2026/03/24/n... #ALife

New ISAL Global Membership Program Pilot

Overview ISAL has core values of being an inclusive and supportive community as well as making the field viable for junior and early career scholars to succeed and thrive in. We recognize that the cos...

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I haven't personally collaborated with the team, but from what little I know them, it will be a great great opportunity to have LOTS of fun and do some top tier science! Don't lose the opportunity ^^ Share and enjoy!

Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈@bramvandijk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Phd Position alert 🚨 Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution. It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Have you heard people identify as left-brained or right-brained? It’s a common myth that people’s personalities are tied to a dominant side of their brain, but the truth isn’t that simple. #BrainAwarenessWeek #BrainWeek

This semester, we will be reading selected chapters from "Everything flows", edited by @djnicholson.bsky.social and John Dupré in our Reading Group. All interested are welcome to join us at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de (room NDEF04/346). If needed, we can also arrange hybrid meetings. #HPBio #PhDSky

Anyone who can recommend a good book in #eco-evo #ecoevo or #ecology and #evolution? Preferably theoretical :) Thank you~ #science #sciencetalk

⏳ Two weeks left to apply to our Summer School, and benefit from the early-bird rate! Don’t miss this opportunity to join us for a week of inspiring lectures and discussions with an exceptional community of researchers - all set in the beautiful Pyrenees ⛰️ ☀️ We look forward to welcoming you! 🧪🌐

Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP)@intp-science.bsky.social · 6mo ago

☀️ 2026 Summer School in the Pyrenees - Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity Applications are now open! This school offers a state-of-the-art overview for interdisciplinary theoreticians. 🗓️ July 5-11 🎯 PhD students to senior researchers ℹ️ intp.science/en/summer26.... 📭 contact@intp.science 🌐🧪

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

I'm extremely grateful to have received the Anne Keymer prize for my oral presentation at the BES annual meeting 2025! A big thank you to the @britishecologicalsociety.org and everyone who came along to the talk—it was an absolute honour to have the chance to share my research with you all!

British Ecological Society@britishecologicalsociety.org · 6mo ago

The Anne Keymer prize is awarded for the best oral presentation by a postgraduate student.  Charlotte won the prize for delivering a talk on improving habitat connectivity analysis by combining individual-based modelling with network theory.

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115736486593447009 #39c3 Please help make this workshop happen! https://pretalx.c3voc.de/39c3-haecksen-workshops-2025/talk/QMYK3T All we need is one ticket for me, if someone has one to spare.... 🙏

Yogi Jaeger@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 8mo ago

Together with @ljrk, I'm running a #Haecksen workshop at #39c3. This was put together quite spontaneously after the un-invitation of Joscha Bach, so I didn't manage to get a ticket yet. I really want this workshop to happen! Would anyone have a spare ticket to sell to make that possible?

Perfectly said!

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Researchers are perfectly capable of summarizing our own work for non-experts. Many journals (e.g. PNAS) already require this, and peer-review the summaries to make sure they are accurate. No AI can summarize my own work better than I can.

🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨 We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info! Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :) tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9

I LOVE zines! I LOVE that people always find ways to share their ideas far and wide! Expression and worries and rising up should and can't be silenced :)

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 8mo ago

"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres." Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.

One of my favorite things in class - last day of term in my intro comics class, I do a whirlwind recap of every single thing we did over the term - then I have Ss each sketch out a main takeaway from the course & take turns explaining & sticking down to big sheet. It’s a blast! Some highlights 1/3

Hey fellow wizards, I'll be at the #BES Annual Meeting in #Edinburgh next week! If you're interested in food web and metacommunity models, emergence of self-organised patterns and eco-evo feedbacks, please join the >> Theoretical/Computational Ecology << session on Tuesday afternoon 🦊

C&B has been dying a slow death for months, and it seems that no one cares. Support articles like the one below; soon they won't be anywhere on the internet. For the last time, we are asking you to help us survive; please share this link with all your friends: cinephiliabeyond.org/donate2024/

Cinephilia & Beyond@cinephiliabeyond.org · last yr.

46 years of chestbursters, xenomorphs & pure cinematic terror! Ridley Scott’s Alien debuted on this day in 1979—and changed sci-fi horror forever. Dive deep into its creation with rare insights, interviews & more: 👉 cinephiliabeyond.org/alien-40th-a...

Hey, I know we're all trying to weather an idiotic societal collapse, but do you want to preorder my new book or buy the original cover art drawing? I'm looking for another job(s?) but in the meantime I'm selling off originals to try to keep the lights on.

Why is it that evolutionary biology these days is 99% bioinformatics and *omics and 1% everything else (more abstract, mathematical, even wetlab oriented)? :/ At least based on what I see anyway... Maybe I'm wrong. If I am please say so! :) It'll make me a bit happier :)

Being there was so so so so damn great!!! :D Highly encouraged to chill, be in a cool scientific atmosphere and talk with people who know a LOT on science, open to new ideas, cook AMAZING vegetarian/vegan food and are nerds to the bone (warhammer, games, manga, anime, BD)! (There's a donkey around)

Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP)@intp-science.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Last week, we were delighted to host the third edition of the Autumn School at INTP - a week dedicated to synthesizing theoretical community ecology and building bridges across different ecological theories. 🧪 💻🌐🌍 We look forward to the next Autumn School at INTP in 2026!