News Archive
Conversation about AI (2023-07-04)
My conversation with Prof. Shimon Ullman about the implications of AI is now availble on Youtube.
Podcast appearance (2023-02-02)
I was interviewed for Haaretz’s scientific podcast on the discovery of the DNA double helix structure. Available on all major platforms.
Human Evolutionary Transitions (2023-02-02)
Our new special issue (co-edited with Yohay Carmel, Ayelet Shavit, and Eörs Szathmáry is out! Be sure to check it out. Many thanks to all the amazing contributors!
New talk for download (2023-02-02)
MP3 of recent talk on conspiracy theories is available for download on the talks page.
Mastodon (2022-11-30)
Please note that I am now on Mastodon. Find me @ehud@scholar.social
ENCODE (2022-11-24)
Check out our new paper on ENCODE, where we explain how to think about it in the context of understanding what genomes are.
ISH !!! (2021-07-11)
Be sure to come and say hi at ISH! I’ll be speaking about populations as memory systems.
Lewontin (2021-07-1)
Check out our new paper on Richard Lewontin’s models of chromosomes . We are greatly saddened by his passing. May he rest in peace.
Supervised Reading (2020-10-1)
This semester’s text: Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance (1990).
Online Talks (2020-10-1)
Several popular talks in Hebrew were added to the Talks page. Check them out.
Oh Man, Oh Machine (2017-07-06)
Videos from the conference (including my talk) are now online
Data Mining (2016-09-11)
Boaz Miller will be presenting our work on history of data mining at HSS 2016 (November).
IHPLS (2016-09-11)
IHPLS opening event and public lecture (to be given by Alfred Taber): November 30th. Save the date.
Teaching (2016-09-11)
Next year teaching: Cultural Evolution, Cognition and the Baldwin Effect; Models and Simulations in Philosophy; Philosophy of Biology.
ISF (2015-08-12)
Apply for PhD fellowship! Post-doc also possible.
LCLS (2015-06-10)
Landcapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences. Starting next Sunday!!
Teaching (2015-06-09)
Next year teaching: Models and Simulations in Philosophy; Levels of Selection; Narratives and Imagination; Fringe Science. Stay tuned.
News (2014-05-12)
Next year teaching: Philosophy of Biology (advanced seminar); Reading Darwin; Fraud and Hoaxes in Science. Stay tuned.
News (2013-08-28)
We were awarded a Safra grant for studying the intellectual history of data mining algorithms. Stay tuned for more information soon.
Two seminars next year will have a strong formal facet, and include discussion of simulations and analytic models. Students from CS and theoretical biology are welcome to attend.
A new academic year is about to begin. Please make sure you know when the philbio group is meeting and are on the mailing list!
Teaching (2012-07-16)
See courses page for next year’s offerings.
Pubs (2012-01-5)
SEP entry on inheritance systems in up. Wiener/von Neumann article available for download.
Slides (2011-08-5)
Slides for Biological Computation now available.
Course notes & Journal Club (2011-08-5)
Course notes on Price equation and random variables are online. Comments very welcome!
Consider joining the history and philosophy of biology club.
Social Origins (2011-01-8)
Uploaded my abstracts for Social Origins of Language workshop.
travel (2010-11-20)
I’ll be participating in the workshop Social Origins of Language at UCL, Feb. 14-17. Looking forward to the discussion!
site update (2010-09-1)
This is version 0.1 of this website. Please let me know if something is not working correctly.
