FWO fellow @ KU Leuven studying the origin and evolution of human language
@vandenberglab.bsky.social
winner of the 2025 LAVA Scholarship for autistic researchers
pedagoog, bioloog en ervaringstaalkundige
Kat Van der Poorten (キャット)
Nieuwe blogpost :)
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Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley about what the technology is doing to us – for better and for worse
Kat Van der Poorten (キャット)
New Scientist
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#paper How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Through plasticity, evolution, or a combination of both?
Find out in our new paper by Alger Jorritsma, where we show which strategies evolve under different environmental conditions. @journal-evo.bsky.social
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Today, we would like to introduce our PhD student, Kat Van der Poorten!
Back in Belgium after traveling the world! She is an autistic evolutionary biologist intrigued by all things ‘language’.
Follow her on Bluesky to learn more about her work: @kathetgedacht.bsky.social
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
I have again been given the opportunity to speak out loud. This time a little louder…
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Forced sterilisation for disabled people? Still happening
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Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
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"The evolutionary role of mutational robustness: theoretical insights"
by Pieter van den Berg & co
"Here, we categorize and critically discuss the main approaches for modeling the evolutionary causes and consequences of mutational robustness."
FREE till Jan 18:
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Kat Van der Poorten (キャット)
Kat Van der Poorten (キャット)
Kat Van der Poorten (キャット)
Trends in Genetics
kathetgedacht.com
Over het verschil tussen communicatie en taal, en waarom we nooit Protulees zullen spreken.
Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley about what the technology is doing to us – for better and for worse
How we interpret genetics shapes how we view people. In her lecture for 'De universiteit voor iedereen', LIGAS member Kat Van der Poorten showed how quickly genetic explanations can derail when divers...
During an event organized by Metaforum (KU Leuven), I had the opportunity to reflect and speak, drawing on my own experience, about how we can make the university more accessible to everyone. I off…
We develop evolutionary models to understand how living organisms adapt - from antibiotic resistance to human language evolution.
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How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Do they respond plastically or evolve through genetic alterations? We present a large-scale simulation stu
