veniceevodevo.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Our teachers this year: Nicole King Nicole is an HHMI investigator at UC Berkeley who studies the genetic and developmental foundations of multicellularity and the origin of animals using choanoflagellates as a model system. At our school, she'll teach about the origin of multicellularity.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Our teachers this year: Ronald Jenner Ron works at the Natural History Museum London where he studies the evolution of animal venoms. He is the author (with Eivind Undheim) of 'Venom' & 'Ancestors in Evolutionary biology'. He will be talking about the role of conflict in the emergence of levels.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Our teachers this year: Zena Hadjivasiliou Zena is a mathematician with an interest in animal development and its evolution, who works at the Crick Institute in close collaboration with experimentalists. She will talk about biophysical modeling of morphogen-driven self-organization across scales.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Our teachers this year: Thibaut Brunet (@thibautbrunet.bsky.social) Thibaut studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at Institut Pasteur in Paris. He will be teaching us about this and also how multicellularity first arose in evolution.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Our teachers this year: Dan Brooks (@dsbrooks.bsky.social) Dan's research interests span the history & philosophy of the life sciences, concept usage in science & theory in biology. At our school, he'll have a thing or two to say about levels of organization, what they are & where they come from.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Remember: deadline for registration for our Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025 is on March 31, 2025. This week, we've introduced our organizers (and teachers). Next week: we'll start introducing the rest of our fabulous teaching panel. Details and registration link below.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Our teachers this year: Yogi Jaeger (@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy) Is interested in why organisms are not machines, and what that has to do with their multi-level organization. Will teach about the emergence of new levels of organization at the school.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Our teachers this year: Nicole Repina (@nrepina.bsky.social) Nicole is using quantitative imaging to study how complex tissue shape can emerge from cell interactions. In Venice, she will be speaking about how we can use imaging for multiscale analysis of multicellular systems.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Our teachers this year: James DiFrisco James is a philosopher of science and theoretical biologist working @crick.ac.uk on the evolution of gene regulatory networks, modularity and pleiotropy, vertebrate gastrulation, and the developmental basis of morphological homology/tissue organization.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It's #FollowFriday #FF Follow this year's #VeniceEvoDevo teachers: @bensteventon.bsky.social @dsbrooks.bsky.social @thibautbrunet.bsky.social @wallaceucsf.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social and organizers (James is extremely offline): @nrepina.bsky.social @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

*** Registration deadline approaching! Apply to our Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology in Venice before MARCH 31, 2025 Reflect on your science in a beautiful and inspiring environment! Food & accommodation for the whole week are included in the course fee. Registration link below.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

*** Registration deadline approaching! Apply to our Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology in Venice before MARCH 31, 2025 Reflect on your science in a beautiful and inspiring environment! Food & accommodation for the whole week are included in the course fee. Registration link below.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If you're interested in theory in biology, please consider applying for this EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course "Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems", organized by @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy, @nrepina.bsky.social, and James DiFrisco. meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... #philsci #evobio

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

A very Happy New Year from the #VeniceEvoDevo team! Don't forget: deadline for this year's edition is March 31... Application link below.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Aug 27-22, 2025 Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice Register at: meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... Deadline is March 31, 2025. #VeniceEvoDevo

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Do you know any cool papers about the multi-level nature of living and ecological systems? Especially papers that don't get enough attention? Modeling, experiments, philosophy, whatever. Let us know. We'd like to discuss them on here. #VeniceEvoDevo

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

It is super easy to allow members of the #Fediverse see and interact with your content. All you have to do is follow @ap.brid.gy. Your #BlueSky account will then appear on #Mastodon as: @[handle]@bsky.brid.gy It literally takes less than 10 seconds to set up... So why not do it?

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Great paper by Yogi Jaeger, Denis Walsh et al. A sweeping overview of the complex adaptive systems approach to organisms, arguing why their behavior & evolution defy computable models, while bridging open research issues in biology, cognitive science & AI frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

It is super easy to allow members of the #Fediverse see and interact with your content. All you have to do is follow @ap.brid.gy. Your #BlueSky account will then appear on #Mastodon as: @[handle]@bsky.brid.gy It literally takes less than 10 seconds to set up... So why not do it?

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

We shall build a new science for a world that is not a machine. A science built on true complexity, a wiser science that knows its limits. A science more rigorous than the modern one, free of woo and mysticism […] [Original post on spore.social]

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Do you know any cool papers about the multi-level nature of living and ecological systems? Especially papers that don't get enough attention? Modeling, experiments, philosophy, whatever. Let us know. We'd like to discuss them on here. #VeniceEvoDevo

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

I went to this summer school some 10 years ago and it was extremely inspiring. Highly recommended, especially for post-docs or young PIs who want a fresh thinking on evolutionary biology!

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

It's #FollowFriday #FF Follow this year's #VeniceEvoDevo teachers: @bensteventon.bsky.social @dsbrooks.bsky.social @thibautbrunet.bsky.social @wallaceucsf.bsky.social And our organizers (except James, who's extremely offline): @nrepina.bsky.social @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Shout out to #BlueSky users who are not (active) on #Mastodon: please activate bridge, so that the cool kids in the #Fediverse can also follow your content and engage with you! It's really easy to set up! Won't take a minute. fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Apply to join us in Venice next summer! Check out our wonderful lineup of teachers 👇👇👇

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Follow this year's #VeniceEvoDevo teachers on #BlueSky: @bensteventon.bsky.social @dsbrooks.bsky.social @thibautbrunet.bsky.social @wallaceucsf.bsky.social Our organizers are either extremely offline (how healthy is that!), or are bridging in form #Mastodon: @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Don't miss this opportunity to visit beautiful Venice to learn about the latest ideas in evolutionary systems biology! Deadline is March 31, 2025. Registration link below. #VeniceEvoDevo

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

While I love the recent Bluesky rally, I also want to remind everyone that Mastodon is the only properly decentralized, billionaire-proof and VC-free social media for now. I get that most people couldn't care less about protocols, but if you do, I recommend maintaining a presence there :)

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Aug 27-22, 2025 Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice Register at: meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... Deadline is March 31, 2025. #VeniceEvoDevo

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments