Ed Seabright

Macron's meglomania is usefully adaptive in certain circumstances.

French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

That's awesome, congratulations!!

Seven Decades An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden

Your next Fall read, my new book: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER

Longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden.

Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 for 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Connections – edseab#2 Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times

Another homemade Connections:
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Why you should swap hectic Marrakech for authentic and laidback Rabat Unesco-listed Rabat is fast becoming a favourite among those seeking a different Moroccan experience, Kate Wickers discovers as she indulges in north African cuisine, explores the medina and wanders t...

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Looking forward to seeing everyone in Rabat next year!

I’m going to keep shouting this from the rooftops 📣📣📣

Does promising facilitate children’s delay of gratification in interdependent contexts? | Royal Society Open Science For cooperation to succeed, individuals must often ‘delay gratification’ and forego an immediate reward for a larger delayed reward that is co-produced through the cooperative act. This experiment asked whether a promise to wait increased children’s ...

New Paper!

We ran an online (Zoom) interdependent marshmallow test with British 5- and 6-year-olds. A stooge partner either promised to eat his treat or expressed uncertainty. We found that children waited longer in the promise condition than in the social risk condition.

Congratulations!

Huge congrats Cody! Excited to have you join us!

Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified

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One of the core tenets of academic freedom is that you must not discuss ideas that Mr Greg Weiner believes to be extraneous to your class

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Are humans naturally monogamous? Why is one partner usually the norm for humans around the world?

About 20% of us *admit* to cheating. Which left one CrowdScience listener wondering - are humans meant to be monogamous? 👩‍❤️‍👩👩‍❤️‍👨👨‍❤️‍👨

I speak to the experts to find out: @kstark8.bsky.social and @kitopie.bsky.social.

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Bonding with my son over his hobbies

YouTube video by UM6P Officiel UM6P - WEBINAR - Master's Degree in Collective Intelligence

This Thursday come learn about our Masters program in Collective Intelligence at this live seminar hosted by UM6Ps School of Collective Intelligence: youtu.be/Kg66WtAV4A0

Should vaccine scientists say things like "well a lot of people think the question of the link between vaccines and autism isn't settled, so we should acknowledge that they have a point"? It's not a one-to-one comparison, but worth thinking about imo.

Sure, that makes sense. I do think, however, that a lot of the blame for the mistrust in science goes to deliberate campaigns of anti-institutional-science propaganda, and there's the risk that too much mea-culpa-ing will play into that propaganda.

Anyway I found the CES and EHBEA statements to be pretty mild, and I think it's being unreasonably gracious towards the trump administration to suggest that the anti-DEI purge is being conducted with anything like a concern for scientific integrity

Yeah, it just feels to me that concerns about losing jobs for being nuanced about certain left-coded ideas were much less grounded in concrete reality than the current deliberate purge of these ideas by the US government. Maybe I'm underestimating or misevaluating.

Hi Luke! Are you saying that, prior to this past election, you would have been worried about losing your job if you wrote a letter like this? Do you know of anyone who lost their job for expressing similar opinions? Where is this fear coming from?

Bit of a belated post, but hopefully still new exciting news for some! We are delighted to announce that the next Cultural Evolution Society Conference will be in Rabat, Morocco, provisionally 11-13 May 2026, at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

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Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times

Going to try my hand at making Connections
connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ODMhGS...

Who's coming to Morocco? Come check out our beautiful UM6P campus in Rabat for the next Cultural Evolution Society meetings -- May 2026. More details to come.

Extremely excited for this!

That's 1st of July! Not 7th of January.