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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

How will scientific knowledge evolve in human–AI systems? The Future of Research in the Age of Human–AI Collective Intelligence workshop will take place at the joint HCOMP / @acm.org 2026. Short papers/extended abstracts welcome. Deadline: July 31, 2026 sduyr.github.io/hai-ci-works...

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The Future of Research in the Age of Human–AI Collective Intelligence

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Anxo Sánchez @anxo.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026

The soon-to-be-launched new journal of the @cssociety.bsky.social is searching for associate editors that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of complex systems with diversity, equity and a high level of editorial commitment. Tto be considered, please write to us through forms.gle/2skCvqFwDue5...

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Thank you for your interest in joining the Editorial Board of the upcoming "Transactions of the Complex Systems Society." Our mission is to build a board that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of ...

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Short teaser for the talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsjR... In 4 minutes: why arcade genres can be studied as evolving cultural-technological niches — shaped by innovation, imitation, collaboration, and collapse.

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Do Video Games Evolve Like Species?

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Today I’ll be presenting online at @ces2026.bsky.social: Arcade games as a model system for cultural macroevolution 👾 Track B · Room B-K2-02 11:30–12:40 Sorry not to be in Rabat in person, but happy to share this work with the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social.

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ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

CES Conference 2026 at UM6P Rabat 📍 The Cultural Evolution Society (CES) Conference 2026 successfully kicked off today at the UM6P Rabat campus, hosted by the Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences (AIRESS) in collaboration with the School of Collective Intelligence (SCI).

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 12/05/2026

Sergey Gavrilets now on how tightness-looseness changes cooperative dynamics

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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Check out our (@sobchuk.bsky.social) special issue on the cultural evolution of the arts in Evolutionary Human Sciences, with papers from @mikekestemont.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social @svalver.bsky.social and more! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Being a part of this group of evolutionary theorists and thinkers makes me very happy. All for one and one for all!

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Had a wonderful meeting on the development of the hierarchical approaches in the evolutionary archeology, organized by Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social . Here is hierarchical evolution and network trio: Ilya Tëmkin, Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social and yours truly 🧪 ⚒️ #Archeology #Paleobio

Ilya Tëmkin, Sergi Valverde, Andrej Spiridonov

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Punctuated equilibrium of stalled cultural-evolutionary progress as a side effect of the emergence of accurate AI models. Reminds me ideas of Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social . Could we call it the ultimate imitation regime? When you loose the intellectual wandering. 🧪 www.nber.org/papers/w34910

Print screen of the article title and the abstract "AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse"

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Reproduction of multicellular organisms emerges as an exaptation of their ecology "...our results show that developmental regulation evolves through co-option of ecological interactions during the transition to multicellularity." CC: @svalver.bsky.social 🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Many thanks for sharing your work; I’ll definitely read your book.

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I believe that the best ideas emerge from a state of calm, as well as the freedom to explore without the external pressures of grant hunting and its risks. Enjoy!

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Demographic shifts, inter-group contact and environmental conditions drive language extinction and diversification. #linguistics

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Many thanks also to @elena-moos.bsky.social, who just joined bsky. Elena was the master knapper in the new study who made the application of the new method possible. Follow Elena, and I am sure you'll see amazing stone tools (and even dice!) made by her.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Friends in Edinburgh! Join me on June 27, as I unveil The Story of Birds at our wonderful local bookshop, Toppings. Get your tickets early here! www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

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Steve Brusatte for The Story of Birds at Pilrig St. Paul's / LARCH

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Thanks for the invitation — a very interesting synthesis. One angle for a commentary could be tinkering under ecological and network constraints, especially in software and technological systems. I’d be happy to contribute from a complex-systems perspective if useful.

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

For a more informal overview of the intuition — including the ecological implications — I also wrote a short Bluesky thread here: bsky.app/profile/sval...

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Nice to see “tinkering” being highlighted in cultural evolution. We recently published a chapter synthesizing our work on tinkering-based models of software and technological evolution. The growing convergence suggests this idea is now part of our shared toolkit. @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

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James Winters @replicatedtypo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

As a side point: the term "tinkering" is not even new in the context of cultural evolution -- Francois Jacob had a paper on this in 1977 called "Evolution and tinkering" and @svalver.bsky.social + colleagues directly refer to tinkering in their papers on tech evolution

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Interesting! Is there any connection between "Top Speed" and "Special Criminal Investigation" (both from Taito)? youtu.be/3Eal0mjjepE?...

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Special Criminal Investigation (Arcade) - SCI Longplay [With Commentary]

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Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"diversity peaked before a sharp decline, suggesting a possible link between ecological specialization and extinction risk..aligns with hypotheses proposing that overspecialization limits adaptability, leading to extinction under background conditions" doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio

Dactylioceratidae raw species richness (thick black line with square symbols), without temporal singletons (light gray line with triangle symbols), without geographic singletons (medium gray line with diamond symbols), comparedwiththecorresponding estimators Chao2 (bluelinewithcircle symbols) andincidence‐basedcoverage estimator (ICE; red line with square symbols).

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 21/12/2025

Happy #WinterSolstice ❄️ In Chaco Canyon in the US Southwest, ancient monumental roads align with the winter solstice sunrise over Mount Taylor. Features of both land and sky were (and still are) ritually important to the region's Indigenous people. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Sun rising behind a mountain. In the foreground, two strings demarcate the edges of an ancient monumental road that lines up with the sunrise.

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HESCOR - Human & Earth System Coupled Research @hescor.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📢 New Blog Post Achieving true interdisciplinarity is hard! @shumon.bsky.social makes an argument for accepting the transformative nature of #interdisciplinary research - even if that means researchers must revisit their standard methods and assumptions! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/YE4gx

Graphical summary of differences between disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity and some key conditions to achieve the latter.

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Imagine you have no clue that there is an entire universe of people with diverse capabilities centering on the generation of new ideas and the refinment of old ones.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I dislike that Time Magazine has chosen to conflate CEOs with the people who actually got their hands dirty making the technology work. I’m incensed that Fei Fei Li is half off the page. I’m sure she is too gracious to say it.

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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

In episode 1029, I talk with Dr. J. Doyne Farmer (@doynefarmer.bsky.social) about his great book, Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World. #Economics #Science youtu.be/h0Vfoz9n2kQ

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#1029 J. Doyne Farmer - Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I’d like to thank Stuart Newman for his editorial work in one of my favorite journals these days. Biological Theory is one of the few journals that takes seriously the intersection between empirical and theoretical approaches to biology. I wish the best to Kevin Lala in his new role as editor.

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Much of this work was developed during stays at the Santa Fe Institute. It provided a perfect environment to think about technology as an evolving system. It’s an honor to bring these ideas into this classic book series. Thank you.

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This research began years ago when I worked at Ubisoft Barcelona @ubisoft.com. Building Pro Rally 2002 for PlayStation 2/GameCube, I kept wondering whether complexity science could help us understand the challenges of large software projects. youtu.be/ZymLjhhccW0

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Nice and Games -- Pro Rally [Nintendo GameCube]

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

These ideas come from our forthcoming chapter in the @sfiscience.bsky.social volume The Economy as a Complex Evolving System, Part IV: “The Evolutionary Ecology of Software: Constraints, Innovation, and the AI Disruption.” 🔗https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02953

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The biggest risk perhaps isn’t “AI taking jobs," but the loss of software diversity. If we want innovative tools and resilient #opensource communities, we must treat software as what it is: A digital ecology shaped by evolutionary forces. english.elpais.com/technology/2...

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Adriana Groh: ‘The internet works thanks to a shared infrastructure that nobody owns, but that we must take care of’

The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Relying on AI-generated code without understanding it creates opaque logic, brittle debugging, and security risks. Fast today, fragile tomorrow. History shows what happens when imitation dominates: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Parasitism extends beyond biology. Languages like TypeScript build upon JavaScript, leveraging its ecosystem while diverting developer focus. Large language models introduce yet another layer, expanding upon existing human-generated code. arxiv.org/abs/2508.11359

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Can We Tell if ChatGPT is a Parasite? Studying Human-AI Symbiosis with Game Theory

This work asks whether a human interacting with a generative AI system can merge into a single individual through iterative, information-driven interactions. We model the interactions between a human,...

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Software grows by #tinkering. New modules copy, inherit, and modify old ones. Over time, this creates path-dependent architectures—making legacy systems persistent and hard to refactor. journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Real software networks are highly heterogeneous—a few large hubs, many tiny modules. This creates power-law structures that make systems both extensible and fragile. This is why “dependency hell” exists: hubs create symbiosis, but also systemic risk. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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