This thursday at 2pm we will be reading "Theropod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of telencephalic neurons" and asking if T-Rex was social and/or cultural. All welcome! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cn…

Shout out to grasses this #NoMowMay 💚🌿 Grasses are a hugely important food source for many moth caterpillars such as the Large Yellow Underwing, and provide breeding areas for butterflies such as the Gatekeeper and Meadow Brown. 📷: Tim Melling, Gilles San Martin Plantlife

A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or in your garden or community green spaces could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝

A couple of days ago this embankment on the edge to the Keele University 🐿️ sports field was full of wild flowers, now it's desolate. Why? It's a unused embankment! #greenkeele my arse. Makes of joke of their award for "sustainability university of the year".

Doing research on evolutionary systems? Interested in a funded research visit to Canada to work with us on evolutionary modelling of institutions on networks? ontariotechu is one of this year's SPECIES society hosts! More details👇 or DM me for a chat!👋 species-society.org/scholarship-ho…

One of the highlights of my year is the appearance of the Holly Blue butterflies on the holly behind my house. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #savebutterflies

Full Prof opening in AI University of Bristol Deadline: June 25th I'd be happy to chat about it to anyone interested... Please retweet! jobs.ac.uk/job/DAE953/pro…

Please don't turn your lawn into plastic. Plastic grass reduces food & shelter for wildlife such as bees & butterflies; has a high carbon footprint; sheds micro-plastics which wash into our rivers and seas. Create a wildlife-friendly space instead. More bit.ly/3wE67P8 🐝

Really proud of this paper. With a great group of collaborators. Feedback and thoughts greatly appreciated.

This thursday at 2pm: no reading, but a general meeting about directions and organization over the Summer period. Some socializing too! Come along if you'd like to have a say in organization matters, timing, and themes!

Just published in Artificial Life journal 29(2): "Emergence in Artificial Life" Can understanding emergence help us understand living systems? And vice versa? direct.mit.edu/artl/article/2… #OpenAccess

What fascinates me most is the rate of marking: 1 exam per hour. When modules have 200 students, that is 5 wks of constant marking at 8 hours per day. This is not in academic workloads, and only surfaces when they try to replace our effort. thetab.com/uk/bristol/202… #ucuRISING

Let me know if you want to do a PhD at Høgskolen i Østfold using methods in Artificial Life, Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence in the context of Digitalisation and Society jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Today is #NationalMeadowsDay! 🥳 The loss of our uplifting hay meadow habitats in the UK makes my heart hurt, so I want to share with you the secret for turning your lawn into a mini wildflower meadow for *free* 👊 🧵 (1/9)

Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝

Antarctic sea ice extent *today* is over 6 standard deviations below the mean and falling rapidly (red line is this year), but both the government & official opposition in Westminster are competing to be the ones most willing to cut climate-saving regulations. Prof. Eliot Jacobson

SANTA FE INSTITUTE POSTDOC CALL Oct 13 Emergence, new theories of computation, physics of information, scaling + micro-macro, collective intelligence, AI+AGI, robustness, evolvability, causality, consciousness. . . there is no better place to do a postdoc then Santa Fe Institute. I

Journal club is starting this week. Are you willing-and-able to come on Thursday 2pm (BST) to discuss the Homo naledi netflix documentary? All welcome! Join the discord for more details, general discussion, and other whatsits. discord.com/invite/2jRWRKW

The Santa Fe Institute seeks applications for postdoctoral fellows. This is the best postdoc position in the world for interdisciplinary scientists! More information and application link can be found at apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complexit… Application deadline: October 13, 2023.

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