2025-04-16

When AI learns to talk - what it reveals about us

How does language emerge - and can a robot really understand what we say? We spoke to Anna Jon-And, a researcher at the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University, who uses AI to understand how grammar can emerge spontaneously - and what it says about our own intelligence.

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2025-04-01

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

DEEP seeks PhD student in Ecology and Evolution – apply by 22 April!

The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences invites applications for a four-year PhD position in the framework of the project “Harnessing evolutionary transitions, machine learning, and genomics to decode pollen evolution and unravel sexual selection mechanisms shared across kingdoms” led by Prof. Tanja Slotte in close collaboration with co-investigators Prof. John Fitzpatrick, Prof. Catarina Rydin, and Dr. Allison Hsiang at Stockholm University.

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2025-02-21

Genetic diversity is key to restoring nature

People and governments are recognising that the world faces a biodiversity crisis. Nature is struggling in the face of new diseases, climate change and other human pressures. However, animals, plants and fungi have a powerful tool to adapt these pressures: the variation within their genes.

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