Toby Handfield

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The evolution of scientific credit: when authorship norms impede collaboration Abstract. Scientific authorship norms vary dramatically across disciplines, from contribution-sensitive systems where first author is the greatest contribu

Some fields list authors alphabetically. Others use norms like "senior last". Others use order to signify relative contributions. In a new paper with @kevinzollman.com, we model the evolution of these norms, and then look at which type of norm is best for science. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Highly highly recommended! The place is great and @cmolho.bsky.social is fabulous to work with!

Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences Application Application to the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences taking place from May 25th to June 19th, 2026 in Toulouse, France Application deadline: December 15th, 2025 Applicants will be...

Happy #WplusEBSWednesday, folks!

This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr .

Applications due Dec. 15!

Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :)
www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

Max Noichl | Philosophical Easter Eggs Some eggsamples from the recent philosophical literature.

Some philosophical easter eggs... 🌷🌼🐇https://www.maxnoichl.eu/blog/2025/easter-eggs/

Reluctant Altruism: Underlying Mechanisms and Global Variations Altruistic decisions are central to civic engagement and humanitarian efforts. However, altruistic behavior is often context-dependent rather than con…

"reluctant altruism represents a fundamental aspect of human social behavior... the evidence points to reluctant altruism being guilt-driven"

“widely adopted practices like senior-last positioning and alphabetical ordering may function as institutional frictions that impede valuable scientific collaborations rather than neutral organizational conventions, potentially reducing overall scientific productivity across affected disciplines”

The Evolution of Scientific Credit: When Authorship Norms Impede Collaboration Scientific authorship norms vary dramatically across disciplines, from contribution-sensitive systems where first author is the greatest contributor and subsequent author order reflects relative input...

New preprint from @tobyhandfield.bsky.social and me!

We analyze authorship order norms from two perspectives: (1) why do disciplines have different norms and (2) do those different norms affect what kinds of collaborations take place.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.07364

Big iff true.

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The Evolution of Scientific Credit: When Authorship Norms Impede Collaboration Scientific authorship norms vary dramatically across disciplines, from contribution-sensitive systems where first author is the greatest contributor and subsequent author order reflects relative input...

Here's the aforementioned paper.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.07364

Dave Chalmers and the best argument for dualism #ASSC28

Here's a start to a mathematical philosophers starter pack. I'm having a hard time keeping track of who is here these days. Apologies if I missed you. Let me know if you want to be added or removed, or if you know anyone else who should be on here.

Undergrads interested in philosophy of science? Please share that applications are open for our summer development program! lpssdp.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Abstract: There is by now a considerable amount of theoretical research on the evolutionary foundations of human motivation, or preferences. In the first part of this talk I will present a result which points to a particular class of preferences, which under general conditions combines a certain kind of pro-social concern (a Kantian moral concern) with a certain kind of anti-social concern (spite). The result further suggests that these two motivations go hand in hand. In the second part I will present experimental evidence based on simple designs that enable disentangling these motivations.

Cooperation Colloquium this week:

Ingela Alger (@ingelaalger.bsky.social)

On the co-existence of morality and spite: Evolutionary theory and experimental evidence

Friday Feb 28, 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 9 am NYC

Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

"Sure, the last 1000 grad students failed to solve the problem of induction, but that's no reason to think I can't do it."

Ever the cheery one! 😉

Here is my start! I'm having a hard time keeping track of who is here these days. Apologies if I missed you. Let me know if you want to be added or removed, or if you know anyone else who should be on here.