Chaitanya Gokhale
@gokhalecs.bsky.social
Professor of Theoretical Biology at the University of Würzburg
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Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
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A huge present for my small contribution at the Game Theory Summer School in Kyiv arrived today! 🎁
The school was jointly organised by the Kyiv School of Economics and the Ukrainian Catholic University. The main work was carried out by the local organisers, who put together an excellent programme 🙏
The school was jointly organised by the Kyiv School of Economics and the Ukrainian Catholic University. The main work was carried out by the local organisers, who put together an excellent programme 🙏
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A huge present for my small contribution at the Game Theory Summer School in Kyiv arrived today! 🎁
The school was jointly organised by the Kyiv School of Economics and the Ukrainian Catholic University. The main work was carried out by the local organisers, who put together an excellent programme 🙏
The school was jointly organised by the Kyiv School of Economics and the Ukrainian Catholic University. The main work was carried out by the local organisers, who put together an excellent programme 🙏
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Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social
ECR feature: Axel Arango
Axel Arango is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Würzburg, Germany. He is a evolutionary biologist with special focus on Macroecology and Macroevolution. Here, Axel shares his recent wor…
biogeographynews.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social
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#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
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🌏 #ICSD2026 is on!
Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄
Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵
Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄
Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵
🎉 We're excited to announce that the #ICSD2026 (Jun 1-5, 2026)website is now live! sites.google.com/view/icsd2026
📅 Key dates
Nov 2025: Abstract submission opens
Dec 22, 2025: Submission deadline
Late Feb 2026: Acceptance notifications
Apr 3, 2026: Registration closes
Jun 1, 2026: Conference begins
📅 Key dates
Nov 2025: Abstract submission opens
Dec 22, 2025: Submission deadline
Late Feb 2026: Acceptance notifications
Apr 3, 2026: Registration closes
Jun 1, 2026: Conference begins
ICSD 2026
Welcome TO ICSD 2026
We are delighted to announce that the International Conference on Social Dilemmas will be held in Shimonoseki, Japan, on June 1-5, 2026, at the Shimonoseki Grand Hotel. The confer...
sites.google.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🌏 #ICSD2026 is on!
Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄
Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵
Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄
Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵
And we are off!!! Just kickstarted the Long Night Againt Procrastination! All the best to everyone and have fun!!! @gslsuniwue.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
And we are off!!! Just kickstarted the Long Night Againt Procrastination! All the best to everyone and have fun!!! @gslsuniwue.bsky.social
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We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching.
We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
October 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching.
We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
The program of our 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 is live! 🤩
📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025
📆 October 26, 2025
With:
Keynote by @chilbe.bsky.social
Sessions on Learning, Evolutionary Game Theory, & Applications
🔗 Full lineup tinyurl.com/2s4j56nz
📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025
📆 October 26, 2025
With:
Keynote by @chilbe.bsky.social
Sessions on Learning, Evolutionary Game Theory, & Applications
🔗 Full lineup tinyurl.com/2s4j56nz
EDAI 2025
Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI (EDAI) Workshop at ECAI 2025. Dates: 26 October 2025
tinyurl.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The program of our 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 is live! 🤩
📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025
📆 October 26, 2025
With:
Keynote by @chilbe.bsky.social
Sessions on Learning, Evolutionary Game Theory, & Applications
🔗 Full lineup tinyurl.com/2s4j56nz
📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025
📆 October 26, 2025
With:
Keynote by @chilbe.bsky.social
Sessions on Learning, Evolutionary Game Theory, & Applications
🔗 Full lineup tinyurl.com/2s4j56nz
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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."
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
September 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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."
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Some really fantastic work here on hammering down a viable path to endosymbiosis via genomic plasticity and the dependence evolution!
How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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!!
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
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
shorturl.at
August 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Highly recommend this great opportunity to develop #theory together with @kostchristian.bsky.social and group who are simply a wonderful bunch!!
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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.
elifesciences.org/articles/108...
TL;DR: The future of evolutionary theory is nonlinear, and our mathematical tools should reflect that.
July 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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.
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!
Amazing time at the Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School! 🤠🌵🌅📚🌌
Learnt a lot about network science, scaling laws, emergence, collective phenomena, ... and had a blast doing it. Thanks to everyone for such an unforgettable experience!
@sfiscience.bsky.social #ComplexSystems #Complexity
Learnt a lot about network science, scaling laws, emergence, collective phenomena, ... and had a blast doing it. Thanks to everyone for such an unforgettable experience!
@sfiscience.bsky.social #ComplexSystems #Complexity
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So glad you had a good time! It’s a magical place to be!
🎮🧠 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
1️⃣ Game Theory in the Uncanny Valley and
2️⃣ EcoSims: managing an ecosystem
July 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🎮🧠 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
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🧵👇
Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:
July 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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🧵👇
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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!
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!
July 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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!
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...
Writing is thinking - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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...
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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
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
July 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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
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
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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
June 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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
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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!
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!
June 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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!
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.
June 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thank you @wbarfuss.bsky.social for spearheading this !
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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.
June 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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.
Reposted by Chaitanya Gokhale
i made a new framework for modelling stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits !!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
i made a new framework for modelling stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits !!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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🚨 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
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
May 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨 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
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