shishi luo Tunneling on graphs
Grouping nodes by their degree
Countless graph structures

(Oana Carja, 'Understanding the adaptive properties of shape and structure in biological systems') #sciku Oana Carja

Small groups may lose skills
But this is not hard and fast
Need to know structure

(Nicole Creanza, 'Theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding social evolution') Creanza Lab #sciku

Hunting of big game
Spreads via social learning
Sealing the seal's fate

(Talia Borofsky, 'Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting') #sciku Talia Borofsky

Talia Borofsky Glass microblades spread
Stymied by conformity
and waves of disease

(Marc Feldman, 'North and South China: A Mathematical Analysis Incorporating Archaeology, Epidemiology, and Behavioral Evolution') #sciku

Social and sole learning
Accumulating culture
Novel free riding

(Kaleda Denton, 'Conditions that favor cumulative cultural evolution') #sciku Kaleda Denton

Kaleda Denton FAVA quantifies
composition variance
across replicates

(Maike Morrison, 'Quantifying compositional variability in microbial communities') #sciku Maike Morrison

'Early bird' effect
in serial dilution
may lead to collapse

(Jaime Lopez, 'The ecology of microbial communities in serial dilution culture') #sciku

Space and time affect
the Lyapunov exponent
Persist or vanish

(Sebastian Schreiber, 'Joint impacts of spatial and temporal variation in demography and dispersal on population growth') #sciku Sebastian Schreiber

With pure dissensus,
social behavior decays
to misanthropy

(Taylor Kessinger, 'Adaptive dynamics of indirect reciprocity') #sciku Taylor Kessinger 🐙

Opinion cascades
Long dissemination trees
Infodemic spread

(Heather Zinn-Brooks, 'An 'Opinion Reproduction Number' for Infodemics in a Bounded-Confidence Content-Spreading Process on Networks) #sciku @hzinnbrooks

@HZinnbrooks Biased gossip can
encourage good behavior
under stern judging

(Mari Kawakatsu, 'A mechanistic model of gossip, reputations, and cooperation') #sciku Mari Kawakatsu