iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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EPL (Europhysics Letters) @epljournal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

EPL celebrates its 40th anniversary! 🎉 To celebrate, we launch a series of 40th Anniversary Highlights, written by our Editor-in-Chief Dr Richard Blythe, and revisiting key papers published in EPL. The first Highlight is now online and free to read: 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Passing the time on New Year’s Eve by watching Back to the Future 2 for the first time. I’m reminded of the horrors of resolving git merge conflicts.

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Interacting agents can create shared communication systems without ever knowing if signals are successfully received. The conventionalisation process involves a curious interaction between joint attention and individual behavioural differences. doi.org/10.1371/jour.... Work with Casimir Fisch.

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Exploiting individual differences to bootstrap communication

Author summary A fundamental question in the field of language evolution is how a communication system can emerge in a population that is initially unable to communicate. One theory is that human comm...

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Doing some housekeeping and found a talk I gave as a postdoc. 21 slides in one hour! I could barely manage five now…

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Zwicker Group @zwickergroup.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

There's one week left to submit an application to be a #postdoc in our group! The project is very flexible, so there is room for own ideas. The advertisement lists more details: www.ds.mpg.de/4078435/job_...

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Postdoctoral Position (m/f/d) | Biological Physics

For the independent research group “Theory of Biological Fluids” headed by Dr. David Zwicker we seek to fill a Postdoctoral Position (m/f/d) in Biological Physics.

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Giving a talk on “the physics behind our irreversible reality” in Kent next month. Expect grape juice, buttercream, starlings and grammar. research.kent.ac.uk/kent-physics...

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The physics behind our irreversible reality - Kent Physics Centre

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EPL (Europhysics Letters) @epljournal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🥳 EPL is now on Bluesky! 🥳

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EPL (Europhysics Letters) @epljournal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

FREE TO READ - OPEN ACCESS: Skyrmion soliton motion on periodic substrates by atomistic and particle-based simulations by J. C. B. Souza, N. P Vizarim, C. J. O. Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt and P. A. Venegas #FreeToRead #OpenAccess 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Suddenly a lot busier in here.

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

If you've read the docs and still can't get your C++ code to compile, chances are you need either to add or remove some consts. But you will never know which.

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Supplemental Information: Where science goes to die.

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Spent a _ridiculous_ amount of time chasing a bug that turned out to be an array index i mistyped as the numeral 1. Ouch.

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

📢Now out in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory🔓 "Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change" doi.org/10.1515/cllt... /Juan Guerrero Montero, myself, Kenny Smith, @dralgernon.bsky.social The method is general, applicable to also cultural, social etc data!

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Richard Blythe @dralgernon.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

If you post on a new social media platform, does it make it make any sound? (I have a feeling I made more-or-less the same 'joke' the last time I signed up to something like this)

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