Richard Watson
@RichardWatson90
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I am a scientist investigating big questions about life, learning, evolution, cognition and love.
Southampton
Joined September 2021
Im teaching a new online course, starting May 14th: "Love and the Music of Life: Who leads the dance - the evolution of your genes or the song in your heart". All welcome! .
richardawatson.com
What’s love got to do with it? - From ‘survival of the fittest’ to compassionate connection. A course on the new science of connections, adaptation and intelligence - and its implications for how to...
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RT @JamesMelville: They did this to our children. Never forget. Never ever let it happen again.
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RT @CultEvolFunding: Are you someone who learns by seeking the unknown and discovering new knowledge?. Or do you thrive more by refining an….
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RT @DrAseemMalhotra: Unless we understand and tackle the root of the problem head on any solution will be flawed & ultimately fail. ‘We h….
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RT @DrYohanJohn: The biggest problem with reductionism might be that it paints a wildly misleading picture of scientific history as well as….
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Excellent! And let me add my voice to concern over gossip trap of social networks. oh no, what am I doing!? . argh!.
1. Over the weekend I took 1st place in Scott Alexander's anonymous book review contest. My entry was about the Sapient Paradox, which asks: since humanity is over 200,000 years old, why did civilization take so long to get started? A 🧵
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I just subscribed to The Intrinsic Perspective
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Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities. Click to read The Intrinsic Perspective, by Erik Hoel, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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New application deadline Sept 25th.
Seeking postdoc to join my lab for exciting project modelling evolutionary transitions in individuality at Southampton UK - with @drmichaellevin at Tufts and Chris Buckley at Sussex. Deadline Sept 12. Please feel free to got in contact and retweet!.
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RT @Project_Telos: New job! Postdoc in Southampton, UK, working on "The Scaling-up of Purpose in Evolution (evo-ego): Connectionist approac….
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Seeking postdoc to join my lab for exciting project modelling evolutionary transitions in individuality at Southampton UK - with @drmichaellevin at Tufts and Chris Buckley at Sussex. Deadline Sept 12. Please feel free to got in contact and retweet!.
richardawatson.com
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RT @_SethBullock_: 📢Come join us at Bristol❕👀👀👀 .This lectureship would suit someone doing collective behaviour simulation/math modelling r….
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Top tip: Check the natural frequency of your roof rafters by crouching a little bit less than necessary to walk underneath them next time you're in the loft.
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RT @Project_Telos: Richard Watson, at @unisouthampton & part of the #PurposeProject, recently contributed to the “Design for an Individual:….
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The truly surprising thing about evolution is not how it makes individuals better adapted to their environment, but how it makes individuals. All individuals...
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What do you do with list of 'papers I must finish someday'? i.e. its been 'on back burner' for multiple years (since that student left). the result is too good to bin. but other new work keeps getting in front of it. and its not finished enough for arXiv. [sigh].
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'Had a fantastic meeting at KLI w brilliant people that I love doing science that I love. So glad to be doing science connection in-person again xx.
Next up, we have Richard Watson @Richard86234208 on "A working model for transitions into agency at higher levels of organisation" #BioAgency #AltenbergWorkshop
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Course: A new explanatory framework for creative adaptation in biological systems turns the ‘survival of the fittest’ worldview on its head and offers an antidote to the short-term self-interest that fuels our biggest global challenges. register:
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RT @okw: Our third speaker is @Richard86234208 on "Natural Induction: Conditions for spontaneous adaptation in dynamical systems", first po….
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A new explanatory framework for creative adaptation in biological systems turns the ‘survival of the fittest’ worldview on its head - as antidote to our biggest global challenges. Online course starts 17 May 2022.(3 min intro).
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