Athena Aktipis

29 Aug 2025 - 30 Oct 2025

Writer who I heard of from The Cheating Cell but she does a lot of interesting things. This is all from like 3 months of her twitter feed.

Cancer related

Life history trade-offs in cancer evolution | Nature Reviews Cancer

Pan-cancer analysis of the extent and consequences of intratumor heterogeneity | Nature Medicine

Evolutionary foundations for cancer biology - Aktipis - 2013 - Evolutionary Applications - Wiley Online Library

Agency/cooperation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5400238_Modularity_and_the_Social_Mind_Are_Psychologists_Too_Self-ish

Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting

Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence | Nature Human Behaviour

Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame | PNAS on shame ok she didn't author his one, just plugged it on X

Adapted for the Apocalypse: An Interview with Athena Aktipis

The Ecology of Entrainment: Foundations of Coordinated Rhythmic Movement | Music Perception | University of California Press

Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms - Alcock - 2014 - BioEssays - Wiley Online Library

Cooperation—The Ancient Technology That Never Goes Obsolete - John Templeton Foundation Templeton Foundation