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Dimitris A. Nakos
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Scientist-in-the-making. Biologist. "Bioinformatics - Computational biology" MSc student. Trying to go theoretical. (Still a draft)
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jmarshallsmith.bsky.social
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.
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
nakdim.bsky.social
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 :)
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
nakdim.bsky.social
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)
intp-science.bsky.social Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP) @intp-science.bsky.social · Oct 20
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!
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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sinalana.bsky.social
A request for biologists (reposts appreciated): do you have any images of "reduction spots" like those in the Mars biosignature paper, but on Earth and 100% confirmed to be caused by life?
Also welcome: pic of any "leopard spots" patterns caused by colonies of organisms.
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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jmarshallsmith.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut. I've been enjoying drawing folks favorite writers.
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
nakdim.bsky.social
This is looking extremely promising! It just needs more and more people! Be one of them! \o/
odedrechavi.bsky.social Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Oct 15
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
Can a single cell learn? Even without a brain, some microbes show simple forms of cognition. Can this basal cognition be engineered? Check our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social on the minimal synthetic circuits & their cognitive limits. @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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louzula.bsky.social
What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies
doi.org/10.1002/oik....

#ecology #phdlife #phdchat
Schematic figure from Philipp et al. 2025: Top left panel shows a satellite photo of multiple ponds in a landscape, top right panel shows the plankton community within a single pond as scheme drawing; the bottom left panel shows how the habitat (pond) structure is abstraced to a habiat network; the bottom right panel shows how the local community structure is abstracted to an aggregated food web model. Altogether, this 'trophic metacommunity' can show self-organisation that appear as biomass differences between habitats (denoted as differently shaded nodes of green and blue in the bottom left panel)
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Tokyo
September 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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theramseylab.bsky.social
New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio
Book cover of “Modelling Evolution” by Walter Veit, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.
September 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
How can we build a general theory of mutualistic communities? After five years, we finally completed a new Neutral Theory of Cooperation that is fully solved analytically and displays remarkable properties @jordipinero.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2506.09737
June 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
Can synthetic biology help save endangered ecosystems?
Our new paper with @vmaull.bsky.social explores how engineered genes can spread through soil microbes.
We model how synthetic gene transfer can support biodiversity. @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @guimaguade.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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bramvandijk.bsky.social
Does anyone know a gene in E. coli that duplicated "fairly recently", as to compare and contrast it's sequence divergence with that found in mobile elements?

#sciencesky #microsky
September 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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amahury.bsky.social
Radboud University | PhD Position in Language Evolution using Swarm Robotics

Application deadline: August 14

#Community #PhD #language #evolution #robotics ./9

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Radboud University PhD Position in Language Evolution using Swarm Robotics
How and why did human language evolve? What are the social, cognitive, and environmental pressures that drive the emergence of language and shape its structure? As a PhD candidate, you will explore th...
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August 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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kostchristian.bsky.social
I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück
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August 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
Pleased to see the mention of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in @rboyle31.bsky.social’s delightful & engrossing book “Our Moon”! I talk about his influence on Copernicus in Unflattening & in this standalone piece for the Boston Globe. Our Moon is a great book! Check it out! spinweaveandcut.com/nytimes-glob...
Text from book: again over the course of the month. He knew that the Moon occasionally blocks the Sun, demonstrating that the Moon revolves around Earth. "In expounding on the Moon's motion, he wrote, apparently without irony, "I do not disagree with the ancients' belief that it takes place around the Earth." On March 12, 1529, Copernicus witnessed the Moon block the planet Venus from view: "I saw Venus beginning to be occulted by the Moon's dark side midway between both horns at one hour after sunset," he wrote in On the Revolutions. He used this occultation, and others from the star catalogs of antiquity, to deduce the motions of Venus. He was beginning to realize that Ptolemy was wrong about more than just the Moon's weirdly tilted deferent. He began to understand the truth: that the immobile Earth is not at the center of a whirling universe, but that we inhabit but one of many planets, which all revolve around the Sun. Historians have long tried to figure out why Copernicus was struck with this revelation, which was completely unique as far as he knew.* Some modern scholars suggest that Copernicus knew of research from thirteenth-century Islamic astronomers who were members of the so-called Maragha School. These astronomers worked at Maragha Observatory in what is now northern Iran, under the leadership of the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Text from book: Al-Tusi and others came up with planetary models that eased some of Ptolemy's especially strained notions, including detailed geometrical solutions for the orbit of the Moon. Some of the math behind these models also appears in Copernicuss treatise, suggesting Copernicus might have known of the Maragha School's work. Although scholars still debate this history, it seems reasonable to assume that if Bessarion and Regiomontanus introduced Almagest to Europe, then other people brought different geometrical and mathematical works from the Arab-speaking world, too.' We will probably never know; the chain of custody of such ideas may be all but impossible to recover. For his part, Copernicus writes that he was just bothered by Ptolemy's inelegance and, moreover, the system did not seem sufficiently divine. "After long reflection, I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most system atic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, he wrote in his book's dedication, Cover to Our Moon. Wolves howling at the moon which is above the title Single page comic - dealing with flatland, how we gain perspective and how learning from other cultures expands our perspective - in this case Copernicus learning from Al-Tusi across centuries and cultures
August 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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sfiscience.bsky.social
Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.

Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
July 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A Kindergarten of Squid
July 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
nakdim.bsky.social
It should not be STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)...

It should be STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ART and Mathematics).

Steam sounds much better, and art would improve and expand everyone's perception, creativity and ideas so so much more!
June 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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bramvandijk.bsky.social
Come join us at TBB in simulating the sh*t out of everything related to biology! :)

(in this case, evo-devo/ animal development in general!)
Screenshot of "The Martian" where the main protagonist says "I"m gonna have to science the shit out of this"
June 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
nakdim.bsky.social
Man I wish I was there!
binfutrecht.bsky.social Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU @binfutrecht.bsky.social · Jun 12
Today we celebrate over 40 years of research of Rob de Boer, chair Professor of Theoretical Biology.

Rob complemented his tremendous scientific career with a deep impact in multiple roles, as a dedicated teacher, an inspiring mentor, and a kind and generous colleague. Thank you, Rob!
June 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
Our Darwin-Wallace Medal is awarded to a person or group who have made major advances in evolutionary science.

Know of a worthy recipient? Nominate by 30 September. www.linnean.org/the-...
The Darwin–Wallace Medal
An award for major advances in evolutionary science research
www.linnean.org
June 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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c4computation.bsky.social
Through hourglass emergence, complexity begets complexity...is one of my favorite sayings.

A cell is a blob of cytoplasm with a few organelles floating about—or so the textbooks teach and you probably learned in school. More on Babel Blog at jessicaflack.wordpress.com

John Wheeler by R.P. Matthews
June 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM