Mathematical biologist studying evolution. Professor of Mathematics at Emmanuel College, MA. Queer, nonbinary (they/them). For social and ecological justice. Jewish as in Free Palestine. https://www.emmanuel.edu/emmanuel-mathematical-biology-research-embr
Reputation holds cooperation together - but not at the scale of global problems. See also "Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation" w/ Joe Henrich: 6/6
Michael Muthukrishna (@mmuthukrishna) on X🚨New paper on "The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation" in Annual Review of Psychology w/ @JoHenrich. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain human cooperation. How well do they explx.com🚨 PNAS paper: "Indirect reciprocity undermines indirect reciprocity destabilizing large-scale cooperation" w/ Eric Schnell How do we achieve global cooperation on climate or conflict reduction? The problem isn't selfishness as much as it is cooperation itself - at a smaller scale. 1/
Under what conditions can the evolutionary interests of a gene differ from those of their host organism? Very cool conceptual/mathematical synthesis here!
Gaurav Athreyawanna read the latest overview of “internal evolutionary conflicts” — scenarios where genes spread despite being organism-deleterious? and wanna learn how to model them? look at our new preprint! we introduce unifying ideas, and try hard to write accessibly. small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD
Big scoop: The solar permitting freeze is so bad a renewables developer — Clearway — asked Trump if they can swap an unpermitted solar farm in Nevada for a data center and gas power plant instead. My latest for @heatmap.news
Scoop: Clearway Asks Trump to Swap Solar Farm for Data Center and Gas PlantThe large renewables developer changes tack “in response to federal energy objectives.”heatmap.newsUpdate: the relationship between Shannon entropy and time to fixation does indeed scale to any number of alleles. Thorough investigation here: www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/14...
www.mdpi.comBen AllenThat is, suppose the two alleles have initial proportions p and 1-p. Then t_fix = (effective pop size) * H(p) where H(p) = - p ln p - (1-p) ln (1-p) is Shannon entropy of initial distribution. Idk if this holds for n≥3 alleles, but it would be a real shame if it didn't!