008: Tamara van der Does

This week, Alien Crash Site AND SFI’s Complexity podcast bring SFI post-doc Tamara van der Does, to talk about her alien artifact, her work at SFI, and a very interesting speculative project she spearheaded, along with 13 other SFI post-docs, having received an extraterrestrial transmission from a tri-parental species.

This week, Complexity Podcast host, Michael Garfield, comes into the Zone to co-host an interview with SFI Program Postdoctoral Fellow Tamara van der Does (who models belief change using techniques inspired by statistical physics) for a three-headed conversation totally befitting the subject matter: a work of speculative "sci-fi science" produced by SFI's postdoctoral researchers during a 72-hour lock-in complex systems charette.

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

• • Tamara’s Website, Google Scholar Page & Twitter

  • In 72 hours of sci-fi, postdocs transmit parental model of alien civilization [video]
  • Greetings from a Triparental Planet 72 Hours of Science Pre-Printby Gizem Bacaksizlar, Stefani Crabtree, Joshua Garland, Natalie Grefenstette, Albert Kao, David Kinney, Artemy Kolchinsky, Tyler Marghetis, Michael Price, Maria Riolo, Hajime Shimao, Ashley Teufel, Tamara van der Does, and Vicky Chuqiao Yang
  • Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution by Jaeweon Shin, Michael Holton Price, David H. Wolpert, Hajime Shimao, Brendan Tracey, and Timothy A. Kohler
  • SFI’s VP for Science Jennifer Dunne Remembers Ecologist Bob May

  • IPFest 2019 Worldbuilding Panel with Rebecca Roanhorse, Ty Franck, Daniel Abraham, Michael Drout, and Cris Moore
  • Anathem by former SFI Miller Scholar Neal Stephenson
  • Dark Integers by Greg Egan
  • Aliens comic series by Dark Horse