Stanford's 132nd Commencement ceremony 🎓 #Stanford2023

Thank you!!! 😊😊

Happy announce our special issue of Proc Roy Soc B Royal Society Publishing on

‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions'

royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/…

Coedited by me, Eörs Szathmáry, Ayelet Shavit & Yohay Carmel.

Get it while it's hot!!!

#cultevo #philbio

BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

Excited to announce that the Daru lab will be moving to Stanford University University Jan 2023, where I have accepted a faculty position in the Dept of Biology! We are hiring at all levels! Please get in touch (forms.gle/5LzY2WZLNixVKX…) for PhD & postdoc positions! darulab.org

As a reminder, applications for the Stanford Biology Preview Program (BPP) close on Aug 29! If you're interested in learning more about grad school and would like to receive mentoring on your application, this is the program for you! URM applicants are highly encouraged to apply!

Wonderful to see Marc ⁦Feldman honoured with the Lifetime Achievenent Award of ⁦SSE⁩! So we’ll deserved.

Excited to present my poster on models of conformity at #PEQG22 tonight 😊

so excited to present this tomorrow morning at #PEQG22 ! see you at 10:35 am 🌞

Jaehee Kim is not on twitter, so I'm posting on her behalf: she is looking for two postdocs to join her group at Cornell. Joint position w/ Andy Clark and Martin Wells. This is an *incredible* postdoc opportunity; I want to apply. Please RT! jaeheekimlab.github.io/join/openings/

#BAPGXIX Next up is our own Kaleda Denton from the Marc Feldman lab who will talk about theory of evolution under conformity and anti-conformity

#BAPGXIX is here! Looking forward to seeing everyone, to the talks and posters, the conversation and connection. PSA: Parking is free at Stanford on the weekends. Roth Way and Roth Way Garage are close to Sapp. All the details are here: sites.google.com/view/bapg-xix-…

2022 is the 50th anniversary of Lewontin’s “The apportionment of human diversity.' (L72 hereafter.) Today a special issue is published celebrating L72, appearing in Phil Trans B Royal Society Publishing (co-editors myself, Sohini Ramachandran, Noah Rosenberg) (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/377/1…

Such a huge collaboration between so many grad students (including Kaleda Denton, Amanda Robin, Sean O'Fallon, Conner S. Philson💛) and the awesome Dr. Peter Nonacs !!

Our paper on Major Evolutionary Transitions has been published! 🥳 We introduce new terminology (MST, MCT) to hopefully ease discourse among biologists on major transitions. A collaboration with Eva Sofia Horna Lowell, Peter Nonacs, Amanda Robin, and many more!!😊

New paper with Kaleda Denton and Marc Feldman on the *evolution of altruism under conformity and content-biased cultural transmission*.
doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.…

Shared a bit of my story as a Brazilian and 1st-gen PhD student in the US for the Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month at @USC_marine! Thanks for the invite Daniel Olivares-Zambrano!! Super excited to read all the cuentos/contos! (:
t.e2ma.net/message/veo1ie…

Honored to be named a 2022 Siebel Scholar for my PhD research with Jure Leskovec! Picture from print edition of NYTimes.

Our work on randomly changing conformity is in the Stanford news, by Adam Hadhazy! :) Check it out here:
news.stanford.edu/?p=40993