Joshua B. Plotkin

The paper investigates how interactions between two public tasks influence the evolution of division of labor, showing that specialists can coexist only when tasks interact and that bistability and hysteresis can occur.

This study shows how group size, assortment, and payoff curvature influence the evolution of division of labor through public-good production.

This study incorporates stochastic environmental dynamics into eco-evolutionary game theory, showing how noise can alter social outcomes and eco-evolutionary outcomes.

This study models division of labor in species producing multiple public goods using adaptive dynamics, showing three potential evolutionary outcomes with varying fitness and payoff variance.

This paper introduces PAWS, a machine-vision tool for automated pain measurement in mice, showing it can distinguish painful from non-painful stimuli and quantify pain severity.

The paper shows that synonymous codon usage affects bacterial fitness through translation-independent RNA toxicity, identifying mRNA sequence determinants and suppressor strains.

The paper introduces riboviz, a tool for analyzing and visualizing ribosome profiling datasets, providing both a backend pipeline and a web-based interface for comparison with public datasets.