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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.

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A little teaser from the new book chapter: "The World is Not a Set." Working hard to get it published before the end of the month... #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines

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The shittiest people on Earth... https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c70wq044znxt

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If you're not alarmed by #COVID then you're not in touch with reality. https://archive.ph/g2SHk?s=09

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Somebody pinch me. I want to wake up from this nightmare. The bearded belly dancers are a nice touch though... #Idiocracy was nothing compared to this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/feb/26/donald-trump-shares-bizarre-ai-generated-video-of-trump-gaza-video

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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.

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Our latest #PushingTheBoundaries online discussion is out! Check it out at: https://youtu.be/0zeIlfv5srg?si=MZ169JtLbfK_2DeU We talk to Kate Nave about her book "A Drive To Survive." https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551328/a-drive-to-survive Bioenactivism and why the free-energy principle […]

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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.

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Our latest #PushingTheBoundaries online discussion is out! Check it out at: https://youtu.be/0zeIlfv5srg?si=MZ169JtLbfK_2DeU We talk to Kate Nave about her book "A Drive To Survive." https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551328/a-drive-to-survive Bioenactivism and why the free-energy principle […]

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DOGE seems designed to show that Trump is weak and that AI is ineffective.

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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.

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#intangible — an exhibition by The ZoNE playing with ideas from #BeyondTheAgeOfMachine an emerging book about a new science for the 21st century 28/3 - 3/5/2025 — gallerie rauminhalt, wien #3 the age of machines Text […] [Original post on spore.social]

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The fact that the US and Russia are now on the same side of an imperialistic war must be causing tankies to have aneurysms.

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Two people get deluded (or encouraged) into committing stabbings, and the general population sees that as a bigger threat than the Russian army with no US or British nuclear deterrent https://p.dw.com/p/4qqVB

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Honestly EU, it's long overdue for states to block and thus shut down X. The US is actively interfering in elections in plain sight. Shut the offending platform(s) down whilst you still can.

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Cartoon by Niklas Eriksson: The Trump-Vance Doctrine.

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No, generative AI isn’t human, and it’s bad for your health. www.ft.com/content/d595...

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Firing America’s senior military leadership overnight and replacing them with party loyalists is definitely dictatorship stuff, if anyone is under a rock right now.

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#intangible — an exhibition by The ZoNE playing with ideas from #BeyondTheAgeOfMachine an emerging book about a new science for the 21st century 28/3 - 3/5/2025 — gallerie rauminhalt, wien #2 12 theses Text […] [Original post on spore.social]

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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.

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That celebration with the hostage coffins today? That's exactly why I'm not "pro-Palestine." To take sides in a conflict where the worst of humanity are pitted against each other is a grave mistake, a mistake the contemporary left will regret for a long long time. It also was (and is) a […]

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Die Überreichen gehören abgeschafft. Und zwar sofort, wenn unsere Demokratie und Zivilisation eine Zukunft haben soll: https://youtu.be/uWhGdwLGUBo. @moment_magazin

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#intangible — an exhibition by The ZoNE playing with ideas from #BeyondTheAgeOfMachine an emerging book about a new science for the 21st century 28/3 - 3/5/2025 — gallerie rauminhalt, wien #1 manifesto Text: https://expandingpossibilities.org/1-manifesto.html Video: https://youtu.be/B_gfZXK8-Tw

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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.

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A good German word for you to memorize for the next few years: #Arschlochgesellschaft

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Mindestens zehn Jahre schon hätte man Zeit gehabt, sich auf diese Situation einzustellen. Jetzt ist es fast schon zu spät und die meisten europäischen Länder werden von Feiglingen oder gar Verrätern regiert […]

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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.

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Ein paar dringend gebrauchte Argumente gegen die Demokratiefeinde der österreichischen Industriellenvereinigung: https://www.moment.at/story/der-preis-macht-oesterreichs-wirtschaft-nicht-erfolgreich/?utm_source=morgen.moment.at&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=morgenmoment

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#intangible — an exhibition by The ZoNE playing with ideas from #BeyondTheAgeOfMachine an emerging book about a new science for the 21st century 28/3 - 3/5/2025 — gallerie rauminhalt, wien #1 manifesto Text: https://expandingpossibilities.org/1-manifesto.html Video: https://youtu.be/B_gfZXK8-Tw

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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.

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The age of machines is coming to an end. It's not politics, its physics. Animated short: https://youtu.be/j8KlhAMtJ4A Full-length video lecture: https://youtu.be/Bznl9e9uftU Full-text chapter: https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/3-the-age-of-machines.html #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines

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#SilentSunday #Donauauen

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„Wherever Law ends Tyranny begins“ John Locke (1689)

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I think it's a positive thing that more and more people seem to FINALLY wake up to the fact that the coup has been on its way for decades already, World War III is already happening, and this civilization is utterly finished. Things WILL get worse before they get better. Forget about […]

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A little teaser from the new book chapter: "The World is Not a Set." Working hard to get it published before the end of the month... #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines

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*** 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.

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Well, this is new. Mastodon has a new "Who to follow" feature. Pretty cool. (Although it should be "WHOM to follow" not "WHO to follow".) #DeSe #Discovery #Fediverse #FediverseUX #Mastodon #WhomToFollow #WhoToFollow

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Our online discussion with Kate Nave is happening TODAY (Thursday, Feb 13) at 5pm (CET). We'll be talking about her book "A Drive to Survive - the Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551328/a-drive-to-survive) and, in particular, why life is all […]

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“US officials are now unambiguously signalling that Russia’s invasion is primarily a European security issue. Europe’s response to this will reveal much about the future role of the continent in an increasingly multipolar world.” @mykolabielieskov.bsky.social

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Our online discussion with Kate Nave is happening TOMORROW (Thursday, Feb 13) at 5pm (CET). We'll be talking about her book "A Drive to Survive - the Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551328/a-drive-to-survive) and, in particular, why life is all […]

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Doch kein Volkskanzler 🇦🇹 ... vorerst. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000257095/kickl-kann-nicht-kanzler No fascist-Putinista government in 🇦🇹 ... yet.

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Artist/illustrator: Matias De Brasi

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There will never be life or sentience in a digital simulation. The idea is completely ridiculous. Wanna know why? Read my book. https://expandingpossibilities.org/an-emerging-book.html Also: it has amazing artwork by Marcus Neustetter.

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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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Das Volk hat gewählt. Und die Message ist klar: bessere Politiker müssen dringend her! Vielen Dank, @ArneBab, für die informative Umfrage.

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