Chaitanya Gokhale
Professor of Theoretical Biology at the University of Würzburg
- Fantastic work by Amalia Bastos and @chriskrupenye.bsky.social on acknowledging and "going along" with shared imaginary realities in non-humans. If general, then it could push back some traits of the cognitive revolution from 60-70 K to 6-9 mya. Extremely exciting! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Fantastic! Congratulations!!! To you and to the Center!!! It’s great to see you will be closer!!
- Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...
- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleWe are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
- Amazing inaugural lecture double feature today by Kathi Zarnack @zarnack-group.bsky.social and Sabine Fischer! @cctb-wue.bsky.social. Here’s to formalising a core bioinformatics, computational and theoretical biology competence @uni-wuerzburg.de
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- Thanks a lot @hyejinpark.bsky.social , @elibbyscience.bsky.social and @llizana.bsky.social for organising such an amazing meeting in the Arctic on Adaptive Mechanisms! It was brilliant to be a part of the superb program! Thank you!
- A brilliant performance today by @vkulkarni.bsky.social from the group of Sylvia Cremer clearing her qualifying exam @istaresearch.bsky.social. I’m very excited to work with her in the future combining theory and experiments in social immunity.
- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleOur paper is out! Learning evolutionary parameters from genealogies using allelic trees url: academic.oup.com/genetics/art... With Aleksandra Walczak and @thierrymora.bsky.social Congrats to first author Antoine Aragon, well done Antoine!
- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleThe submission deadline (Jan 31st) for the 2026 Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Crete mceb2026.sciencesconf.org is getting closer!
- I highly recommend this fellowship, which offers the opportunity to work with th fantastic @tobiasgalla.bsky.social !
- The la Caixa Foundation is offering well-paid prestigious doctoral fellowships (deadline 28th January). Anyone interested in applying to do PhD with me at @ifisc.uib-csic.es please get in touch. Happy to help competitive candidates with their application. lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
- Cool work by @prateekverma.bsky.social, Oman Akbari, and John Marshall studying the use of Y-linked genome editors focusing on safer genetic biocontrol for invasive rodents on islands
- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleOrigins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
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- Reposted by Chaitanya Gokhale#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT
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- And we are off!!! Just kickstarted the Long Night Againt Procrastination! All the best to everyone and have fun!!! @gslsuniwue.bsky.social
- PhDs & Postdocs of @uni-wuerzburg.de struggling to finish a project? Join our Long Night Against Procrastination! ✅ Tips on motivation & writing ✅ Pizza & plenty of coffee ✅ Work through the night with peers from all disciplines 📅 Oct 23, 2025 | 5pm–midnight 📍 Graduate Schools Building
- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleWe're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching. We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
- The program of our 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 is live! 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 26, 2025 With: Keynote by @chilbe.bsky.social Sessions on Learning, Evolutionary Game Theory, & Applications 🔗 Full lineup tinyurl.com/2s4j56nz
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- Some really fantastic work here on hammering down a viable path to endosymbiosis via genomic plasticity and the dependence evolution!
- How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
- Highly recommend this great opportunity to develop #theory together with @kostchristian.bsky.social and group who are simply a wonderful bunch!!
- I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv
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- So glad you had a good time! It’s a magical place to be!
- 🎮🧠 Theory meets reality @uni-wuerzburg.de Informatics Expo. Our group collaborates with the GamesLab to ask two questions through interactive play: 1️⃣ Game Theory in the Uncanny Valley and 2️⃣ EcoSims: managing an ecosystem
- Very proud that @gauravathreya.bsky.social's brilliant work based on his Master's thesis is out as his first paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, evolutionary transitions in individuality, and some great theory to back it?...check out the🧵👇
- Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:
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- We discussed how writing IS thinking e.g. the benefits of writers block in our recent group meeting… this editorial puts it in the LLM context ! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleWe’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September
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- Thank you @wbarfuss.bsky.social for spearheading this !
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- This postdoc position will be a fantastic mix of computational and mathematical approach towards developing a fitness landscape of the Fabry disease. Hosted by @iimog.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy we will be collaborating intensively on this topic.
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- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleChoose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
- We are happy to announce the 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 25 or 26, 2025 🗞️ Submission deadline: 17 July 2025 23:59 CET 🔔 Workshop website: t.co/yiq4aWz75d
- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleApplications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g
- Reposted by Chaitanya GokhaleApply for an NSO grant until 1st May! Our grants can be used to support networking and education in ecology and evolution between the Nordic countries and beyond, such as workshops, courses or smaller meetings. Full guidelines and application form here: www.nordicsocietyoikos.org/grants
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