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Natalia Fedorova

@natyfedorova.bsky.social

Assistant Prof @ Social Resilience Lab, Aarhus University | human decision-making and settlement landscapes | anthro data with lots of computational sauce | ABMs, Bayesian inference |

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The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André

📢 Here is my commentary about the pitfalls of taking an impoverished evolutionary approach to culture, which include 'the limitations of a unidirectional model of evolution' and 'the neglect of niche construction theory'. #ehbea #evolution #psychscisky 🧪

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Who has/has seen an internal llm usage policy for researchers that they think is good? Please share!

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A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

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Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"

Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!

400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

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Amazing! Many, many congratulations!

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Part of an exciting special feature celebrating 50 years of quantitative cultural evolution!

Check out the rest here: bit.ly/CulturalEvolution

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Illustration of a computational workflow for cultural evolution that connects abstract theory to real-world data. The arrows indicate logical and computational dependencies among theoretical, statistical, and scientific elements of a project. For example, an effective inferential model depends upon generative models, a question about those models (estimand), and the structure of the available evidence (sample).

Illustration of a computational workflow for cultural evolution that connects abstract theory to real-world data. The arrows indicate logical and computational dependencies among theoretical, statistical, and scientific elements of a project. For example, an effective inferential model depends upon generative models, a question about those models (estimand), and the structure of the available evidence (sample).

Theorist bridge trolls barking at you to formally connect theory to data? Wondering how, without troll magic? We can help! "Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution" With @dominikdeffner.bsky.social @natyfedorova.bsky.social Jeff Andrews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Great! Please add me :)

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