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Joshua B. Plotkin

@jplotkin

Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

Joined September 2010
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🚨 Out in @Nature! 🚨 How to judge someone when we have lots of info about their behavior? Our study shows that "looking twice and forgiving once" builds informative reputations that sustain cooperation—no complex norms or public institutions needed🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4158…

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"Look twice, forgive once" – a simple and effective way of judging each other's social behavior.... ...thanks to new work from Sebastián Michel-Mata et al.

🚨 Out in @Nature! 🚨 How to judge someone when we have lots of info about their behavior? Our study shows that "looking twice and forgiving once" builds informative reputations that sustain cooperation—no complex norms or public institutions needed🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4158…

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The City of Philadelphia is committed to improving the region’s trail network for pedestrians and cyclists. The Christian to Crescent trail segment will connect the existing Schuylkill River Trail, which ends at Christian Street, to the Grays Ferry Crescent Trail.

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I am excited to share that I will be starting a lab at @EmoryUniversity this September. We will aim to understand evolution by studying genomes of things ranging from viruses to humans. Looking for talented students and postdocs to do computational genomics. Get in touch! 1/2


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Hey y’all! We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology @RiceUniversity! Great place to work, excellent students & colleagues. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/152527


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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined the faculty at @BrynMawrCollege as an Assistant Professor of Math! I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to join a department full of incredibly kind and talented people.


Philadelphia Watch Company, E. Paulus Patent (swiss made).

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Corina Tarnita @Princeton EEB and I have started to discuss the connection between evolutionary game theory and theoretical ecology two years ago - now the resulting manuscript is available as a preprint, biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/3


When a lab member returns from Tokyo. @bearpond

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Developed & led by (old-grad-school-mate, friend & fantastic theoretician) Jeremy Draghi, w/ @LuisZaman, Todd Parsons, & k.a.n.e *Relaxed selection can speed the evolution of complex adaptations* biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


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Some updates on my side: Ant Harvester is going to study harvester ants! I am going to defend my PhD 🪰🎶 on July 16th at 3 PM EDT I will graduate in August and then, I will join Deborah Gordon’s lab at Stanford as a postdoc to study the neurophysiology of ant social behavior!


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