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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Amazing! An interactive 3D replica of the Antikythera Mechanism, straight out of GPT-6 Astra! With 407 downloadable parts to 3D print. antikythera-cosmos-in-bronze.alexandrosm.chatgpt.site

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 03/09/2026

I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Tip of the day: ask Codex to help you spot mistakes or issues in the print proofs you receive... In this Scientific Reports article of mine it picked up way more issues than I could ever have spotted myself by hand... Works like a charm, and took just half an hour...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I bet that AI reviewing manuscripts to check for technical issues will soon become routine in many fields... It will make it possible for the stats & data analysis to actually be redone to check for errors, which just isn't feasible by hand...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Really enjoyed the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE) meeting in Cork! If anyone missed my talk "Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality" (Tom Wenseleers, Viviana Di Pietro & Ricardo Caliari Oliviera), the PPT is here: lnkd.in/eGXBJRuq

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

An internal version of Astra, OpenAIs next major model, solved ten major open math problems, for a total cost of $2,000 at Sol API rates. Truly impressive! openai.com/index/ten-ad...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just got my son a new toy - a Sunfounder robot dog kit! With voice & face recognition, inbuilt text to speech & LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Deepseek) so it can talk back to you & it even has Openclaw to be able to perform entirely new behaviours! Very impressive for just 150 euros!

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

With minimal instruction & in just 13 mins, Codex wrote me a Python script to procedurally generate the STL of a piece of honeybee worker comb & I then had it 3D printed for just 8 euros by the great people at Fablab! Not allowed at KU Leuven, as it's agentic AI. But works great!

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Link to a presentation I gave earlier this year at the Biology Research Day about "Working Smarter with AI: Coding, Analysis and Scientific Writing" on how to productively use LLMs as part of your research workflow : www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ta9k3...

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

There are two new obituaries of Robert Trivers, though the mainstream media, to its shame, still hasn't published one. Steve Pinker has an excellent and long obituary in Quillette, and there's a shorter one in the Times of London. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/03/25/t...

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Some new obituaries of Robert Trivers. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/04/07/t...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Cool - first time I had a LLM produce correct code to calculate a Romanesco broccoli natural fractal mesh & display it in realtime in 3D in R using rgl... ChatGPT 5.4 Extended Thinking R code here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrmqo...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

First time that a vision model, GPT 5.4 Pro (Vision), now gets the best score on the Mensa Norway IQ Test - IQ 145, 33 / 35 questions correct, just by visually looking at the IQ test! Or IQ 130 (15/16 correct) in the offline test. Amazing how far we have come!

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Now that the Epstein files are apparently also bringing up the old Nowak inclusive fitness controversy - here a fun challenge: show me how to derive our recent eusociality model www.researchgate.net/publication/... using inclusive fitness methodology! A crate of Belgian beer awaits those who can!

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(PDF) Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality

PDF | The evolution of eusociality, characterized by cooperative brood care, reproductive division of labor, and overlapping generations, represents a... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

From the Epstein Files, the stated goals of Nowak's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics: "curing the world of cancer, infectious disease, selfishness, and inclusive fitness theory." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

OpenAI just released Prism, prism.openai.com, an Overleaf replacement to collaboratively edit Latex documents. Any ChatGPT subscriber can use it & freely invite as many collaborators as you like. Below it typeset a ChatGPT generated paper for me. With inbuilt Zotero integration!

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Merry Christmas to you all! As a nerdy Christmas card I had Google Gemini Canvas code a Christmas-themed Galton board, to entertain my stats students (it is 1000 lines of JavaScript code)! :-) gemini.google.com/share/15f33a...

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The @iussi-nwes.bsky.social that we organised this week in Leuven (18-19 December, www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings) was a success! @rmash.bsky.social and @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social delivered fantastic keynote talks and there was a great set of contributed talks and posters.

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Talk I gave about our recent Evolution Letters paper, in which we quantified the benefits of helping at the origin of eusociality using a combination of experiment & theory, at the @iussi-nwes.bsky.social winter meeting in Leuven this week! Powerpoint here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4w3hw...

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

POSTDOC ALERT🚨 Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today! We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January. Collaboration with @dustinrubenstein.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social talks about so many fun social evolution dramas at @iussi-nwes.bsky.social winter meeting #wasplove

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Elegant experiment-theory mix, showing increasing returns from helping in a cooperative wasp

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Early-season helping in Polistes wasps shows increasing returns - more helpers lead to convex gains in sexual productivity, resolving a key paradox in the origins of eusociality. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... @ricaliari.bsky.social @twenseleers.bsky.social

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Super handy! Upload your photo in Chatgpt and write "Use /Photoshop to remove XXX from background" and you get a .png back in original resolution. Works really well!

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Happy to see yet another article from our lab come out: "Deformed wing virus affects foraging success and foraging specialization of honeybee workers"! Check it out! Congrats to my coauthors @HelenaMFerreir2 Kristof Benaets Lina De Smet & Dirk de Graaf www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Open postdoc position in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, focusing on mathematical models of social traits. Details: tinyurl.com/37uhtbne #postdoc

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️ Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown! Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵

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IUSSI-NWES @iussi-nwes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Still 2 weeks left to register for our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪! Register here: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings Date: 18-19 Dec Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution @KU Leuven (@twenseleers.bsky.social) We have an exciting programme, incl. Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Independently evolved supergenes control colony social organization and queen reproductive strategies in several ant lineages. Sigeman et al. uncover a novel 9 Mb supergene controlling queen size and social organization in Myrmica ruginodis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf255 #evobio #molbio #ants

MBE | A Novel Supergene Controls Queen Size and Colony Social Organization in the Ant Myrmica ruginodis

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

In our new study we were the first to experimentally simulate the origin of sociality! By controlling how many wasp 🐝daughters could help their mom, we found that early helpers don't just add to colony success—they multiply it!

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Deadline to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in Leuven, 18-19 December is fast approaching! Please come and join us & submit your abstract before the 31st of October! Will be great fun & excellent lineup of speakers, with plenaries by Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social!

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🚨 Deadline to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in beautiful Leuven, 18-19 December has been extended to 31st October 2025 🚨 Please register at: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings Come and join us - will be great fun & great lineup of speakers! Plenaries by Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Very happy to see our new study on the evolution of eusociality come out in Evolution Letters! Our study is the first to experimentally manipulate the proportion of females that stay and help to simulate incipient sociality & assess fitness impact of helping. 🧵

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IUSSI-NWES @iussi-nwes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We are delighted that our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪 is approaching! Abstract submissions now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings Date: December 18-19 Abstract deadline: October 15 Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution at KU Leuven Plenary: Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Free PDF of a highly recommended book: "High-Dimensional Regression Modeling" (2024) by Patrick Breheny and Jian Huang. myweb.uiowa.edu/pbreheny/7240/s25/book.pdf with reproducible R code at github.com/pbreheny/hdrm. Accompanying lecture notes & R scripts here: myweb.uiowa.edu/pbreheny/724....

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IUSSI-NWES @iussi-nwes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

📌North-West European IUSSI Winter Meeting 2025 We are happy to announce that our next meeting on the 18–19 December 2025 will be in Leuven, Belgium, hosted by @twenseleers.bsky.social and his team. Plenary speakers: Ido Pen & Rahia Mashoodh @rmash.bsky.social More details to follow 🐝🐜🪳🪲

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