James Borg retweeted
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/c…
Application deadline: October 13, 2023.
James Borg retweeted
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
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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 @sfiscience.
I did my postdoc at SFI years ago. To have had it as an option was life changing from an intellectual standpoint.
If you like to collaborate, have a complex systems research vision + want a postdoc that is basically a junior faculty position, please apply.
apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/c…
James Borg retweeted
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. @EliotJacobson – at Israel
James Borg retweeted
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 🐝
James Borg retweeted
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* 👊
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James Borg retweeted
Let me know if you want to do a PhD at @hiofnorge using methods in Artificial Life, Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence in the context of Digitalisation and Society
jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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Just published in @ARTL_journal 29(2): "Emergence in Artificial Life"
Can understanding emergence help us understand living systems? And vice versa? direct.mit.edu/artl/article/…
#OpenAccess – at Santa Fe, NM
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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/2023/0… #ucuRISING
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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!
Really proud of this paper. With a great group of collaborators. Feedback and thoughts greatly appreciated.
EARLY ONLINE "Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research"
By @JamesMBorg, Buskell, Kapitany, Powers, Reindl, Tennie. @mitpress @alifeofficial @alifecon
doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00406
James Borg retweeted
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 🐝
James Borg retweeted
Full Prof opening in AI @BristolUni
Deadline: June 25th
I'd be happy to chat about it to anyone interested...
Please retweet!
jobs.ac.uk/job/DAE953/profes…
One of the highlights of my year is the appearance of the Holly Blue butterflies on the holly behind my house. @savebutterflies #savebutterflies
James Borg retweeted
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/scholars…
A couple of days ago this embankment on the edge to the @KeeleUniversity 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".
James Borg retweeted
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 🐝
James Borg retweeted
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
@Love_plants
ALT Meadow of buttercups and mixed grasses
ALT Gatekeeper butterfly on Yorkshire Fog grass
ALT Meadow Brown larva on a grass stem
James Borg retweeted
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/…
