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Sergi Valverde
@svalver.bsky.social
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#ComplexSystems scientist. Institute of Evolutionary Biology @csic.es, Barcelona| DySOC-UTennessee, Knoxville | ECLT, Venice. Girl dad. He/him. Lab: svalver.github.io #EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · Nov 12
A starter pack for researchers interested in #ComplexSystems. Complex system science investigates how interactions among multiple parts lead to collective behaviour, as well as how the system interacts and forms links with its environment - please add your name!

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 1h
Excellent opportunity at a fantastic institute with one of our best PIs.
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Ⓙⓐⓥⓘⓔⓡ🇵🇸 Ⓑⓤⓒⓔⓣⓐ🇺🇦🇪🇺 @javierbuceta.bsky.social · 21h
🚨JOB ALERT

Dr. Buceta at @i2sysbio.es welcome applications for 36-month postdocs on:

👉 Mechanical markers of tissue dysfunction due to ageing – digital twins & machine learning

Details here: fgcsic.es/convocatoria...
📩 Contact [email protected] to shape your proposal!

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ComFuturo Fourth Edition: ComFuturo iAGE Call - FGCSIC
The Fundación General CSIC (FGCSIC) launches the fourth edition of its ComFuturo programme: ComFuturo iAGE, a postdoctoral initiative co-financed by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme of...
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 20h
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
www.theatlantic.com
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Gourab Ghoshal @gghoshal.bsky.social · 1d
🚀 The University of Rochester is hiring in Complex Systems (Physics)!
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 4d
The Innovation Game: How Arcade Genres Evolve, Imitate, and Collapse
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The Innovation Game: How Arcade Genres Evolve, Imitate, and Collapse « News# « Cambridge Core Blog
What can Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat teach us about cultural evolution? In shopping malls of the 1970s, arcades were where people played digital games together, huddled around custom-bu...
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𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼 @complenet.bsky.social · 28d
📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference!

🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 12d
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 11d
My favorite second hand bookstore! Get lost in the stacks.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 12d
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91. Gift link: nyti.ms/48FOuUn
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 12d
Study is exploring what paleontologists and neontologists know about the punctuated equilibria, and how they perceive the dominant modes of evolution. As expected, there is a significant variance in views on evolution reflecting differing backgrounds.
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
Opinions of evolutionists on the prevalence of different modes of evolution.
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Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · 12d
We're hosting the 20th anniversary meeting of the Network Science Society at Northeastern University!

Follow our account as we announce speakers and join us in Boston this summer!
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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 13d
📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 19d
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.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 15d
Noted, but I prefer my own way of reading. Blocking now—books over bots any day.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 15d
Or we could just use social media less and rely more on other channels, including face-to-face interaction.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 15d
Fair enough. Immersion and reflection are exactly what I meant.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 15d
Fascism thrives on noise, confusion, and emotional manipulation. That’s exactly why I turn to books and history: to find clarity, and strength to resist.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 15d
If you want to dismiss reflection as ‘burying myself,’ that’s your view. I see it as refusing to be consumed by shallow outrage.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 15d
Stepping away from the noise is not self-indulgence; it is a way to regain clarity and strength. I believe there are many ways to serve one's country, including reflection and learning.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 15d
All of the noise and misinformation on social media, as well as the neverending celebration of stupidity, encourages us to seek refuge in books and old papers. See you soon.
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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 18d
In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.

He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.

Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.

Why?
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 19d
Very proud of this paper in BioScience :

« Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature »

🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife !

👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social · Jun 22
Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database
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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 25d
Prof. Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social will join us in Copenhagen on Wed, Sep 24, 12:30-13:15 to present at an exciting data science seminar!

Topic: Why Use An Evolutionary Perspective To Study Culture?

To attend, see: nerds.itu.dk/event/data-s...
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 27d
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!

400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"
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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · Dec 22
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."

- Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980)

Visualisation of our galactic cluster 💫😲💫✨💫🌌💫

NASA
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 13
@aaup.org has prepared materials for faculty who face these threats and harassment. 6/ www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
Targeted Harassment of Faculty
The AAUP has developed a toolkit to address the threat of targeted harassment of faculty.
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