Multicellularity has evolved independently at least 7 times! This has important implications not only in cancer biology, but also in cross-species extrapolation in pathway-based toxicity assessment. Check out Aktipis Lab's 2015 paper: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…! #CompTox Evolution & Medicine

Athena Aktipis is launching the Cooperation Scholars Program in Fall 2022, a program offered through the The Cooperation Science Network and Aktipis Lab at Arizona State University. We are accepting applications by July 24th here: forms.gle/uckn5KoM6waBaZ…

Looking for an opportunity to gain hands-on undergraduate research experience? Join the Cooperation Scholars Program and walk away with a professional portfolio, an introduction to cooperation science, and introductory methods experience. Apply before 7/24 forms.gle/uckn5KoM6waBaZ…

Cultivate your professional portfolio, learn methods in the exciting field of #cooperation #science, and grow your cv with collaborative #research projects all as a member of the Cooperation Scholars Program! Taking applications now until July 24th forms.gle/uckn5KoM6waBaZ…

Join the Cooperation Scholars Program in Fall 2022, to gain valuable research experience, benefit from mentorship within the field of cooperation science, and collaborate within a community of research scientists. Accepting applications until July 24th forms.gle/uckn5KoM6waBaZ…

Learn about cooperation across systems in biweekly seminar-style meetings with Athena Aktipis while gaining hands-on research experience in a collaborative research group The Cooperation Science Network! Cooperation Scholars Program is taking applications now until 7/24 forms.gle/uckn5KoM6waBaZ…

How do need-based transfers fit within the framework of #effectivealtruism? Very interested in your thoughts! Made my first post on the Effective Altruism forum today on the topic. Thanks to Geoffrey Miller for encouraging me to join the community and post! forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/r3eAcxo3…

Gain professional development mentorship, research methods mentorship, and an understanding of cooperation across systems in the Cooperation Scholars Program. Join this team of interdisciplinary researchers by submitting and application before July 24th forms.gle/uckn5KoM6waBaZ…

Today is the last day to get your application submitted! Join the Cooperation Scholars Program and transform your #undergraduate research experience! #ASUTwitter #research #cooperation #interdisciplinary #ASUstudent Barrett, The Honors College at ASU ASU Student Life ASU Student Success Center

Come chat with us ASU Emerge! Taking place today 12-7 pm in Mesa right across the ASU MIX Center! We’d love to hear about your relationship with hot dogs and chat about health, microbiome, and cancer Arizona Cancer Evolution Center Maley Lab Aktipis Lab

Cooperation + Food = Bingo! Pam Winfrey of the Aktipis Lab leading us through a social practice exercise ASU Emerge prompting great conversations around food sharing, human generosity and more!

Are you an Arizona State University undergraduate student looking to get involved in research and learn about cooperation theory, various methods, and professional development? We are recruiting students for the Cooperation Scholars Program for Spring 2023! Apply by Nov 30! aktipislab.org/cooperation-sc…

What are the links between microbes and cancer? Gissel Marquez Alcaraz & Athena Aktipis on how diet can help or hinder cell cooperation theconversation.com/microbes-in-yo… via The Conversation U.S.

No one is more skilled at communicating science than Athena Aktipis —Westmont College get ready to understand the future of education in whole new way!

One person’s apocalypse is another person’s salvation. At least they’ll have some company.

Great to be back at the ASU MIX Center, this time recording a series of short videos for thinkfour. a small @asu about how we survive (and thrive) in the apocalypse. Spoiler alert: with cooperation.

Theme issue, with articles by Leimar, McNamara, Parker, Kokko, Bshary, Noë, Brosnan, and many others: Half a century of evolutionary games: a synthesis of theory, application and future directions royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/…

Great work showing that erring on the side of sharing is a winning strategy! Really relevant to the work we're doing in The Human Generosity Project Human Generosity

Such a great book I blurbed it! “A refreshingly fun take on cheating and free riding in the natural world. From cuckoos and crabs to cheating bureaucrats, Sun paints a brightly colored world filled with innovative impostors, creative liars, and brilliant nervous-system hackers.”

This diagram, a model of costly signaling from Michael Spence's 1972 dissertation, pretty much won him the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics. I annotated the diagram for a 2005 TREE paper on what economics can teach evolutionary biology, and vice versa: cell.com/trends/ecology…