Protected learning is a biological mechanism in which adult animals create staged, risk-mitigated developmental spaces, allowing offspring to safely acquire essential survival skills without facing immediate lethal consequences.
#ComputationalBiology #TheoreticalBiology #Ethology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/bs03022601.html
Survival training in a safe space

To improve their chances of survival, animals must learn – and that can be dangerous.

The latest from @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #BiologyInNumbers: @math.onco's own Ranjini Bhattacharya, working with Joel Brown to study the role of #tumor cell-cell interactions in the context of #metabolism with #TheoreticalBiology #MathOnco

https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/biology-in-numbers/d431ebf0-fd91-013b-f558-0acc26574db2/s3-ep4-ranjini-bhattacharya/48d7cb25-e896-4290-bb0b-6fa3acf37296

As well as her research I was impressed by @pbiwan's questions and Ranjini's focus on science policy as complement to science #outreach and #scicomm

S3 Ep4: Ranjini Bhattacharya

...where we talk foraging cancer cells, science policy and dancing.Ranjini is a final-year PhD student in the IMO Department at Moffitt Cancer Center. She uses evolutionary game theory to study…

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What a day: my first Moffitt/USF PhD student, Dr. Gosia Weh, defending her work on mutations and cancer from a #theoreticalBiology perspective. Congrats Gosia, well deserved!
ISE483/SSIE583: 5 - Reality is Stranger than Fiction - Luis M. Rocha

Updated Chapter 7 of my #EvolutionarySystems and Bio-Inspired Computing course: Modeling Evolutionary Systems. This is the last chapter for this year's course.
#Evolution #complexity #multilevelSelection #Development #ArtifialLife #TheoreticalBiology

https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec07.php

The entire package is available as a pdf as well: https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/pdfs/ibic_lecnotes.pdf

ISE483/SSIE583: 7. Modeling Evolutionary Systems - Luis M. Rocha

Awesome time visiting my PhD co-advisor and #legend Howard Pattee. #Respect for foundational work on #complexsystems #theoreticalbiology #hierarchytheory #multilevelcomplexity
ISE483/SSIE583: 6. Von Neumann and Natural Selection - Luis M. Rocha

Chapter 5 of my #EvolutionarySystems and Bio-inspired Computing course have been updated for 2024 edition. #ArtificalLife #TheoreticalBiology #ComplexSystems
"Reality is Stranger than Fiction"
https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec05.php
ISE483/SSIE583: 5 - Reality is Stranger than Fiction - Luis M. Rocha

A friend sent me this yesterday:

"Mapping Theories of Life into Cell Biochemistry - An interview with Jannie Hofmeyr

Part II: The Self-Manufacturing Cell"

I'm glad that I have such a friend!

https://youtu.be/56iNXZmAqZI?t=1152

#life #math #hofmeyr #rosen #theoreticalbiology #complexity

Mapping Theories of Life into Cell Biochemistry, Part II: The Self-Manufacturing Cell

YouTube

I need papers on rules how trees grow. Things like ratio from branch to subbranch in lengths and positions on the parent branch. Or that needle trees don't tend to split into even subranches. Also their angles etc.

Basically rules to use in Lindenmeyer Systems to make plausible trees.

I want to make an open source speedtree alternative.

#theoreticalBiology #plantScience #treeScience #science #research #helpWanted