Sylvain Estebe

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

Abstract: Most research on social media considers them as supports for transmission of information, explaining online success (and pathologies) by focusing on consumers’ biases and interests. This article takes a different perspective, applying ideas from an ecological approach to culture to social media informational dynamics. It argues that success online depends both on the intrinsic appeal of content to receivers and on how well content serves producers’ strategic goals within the constraints and affordances of specific platforms. These goals include reputation management, coalition building and identity management, and coordination or participation in shared activities. Transmission is often a by-product of these motivations, and replication fidelity plays a limited role compared with transformations that adapt content to local incentives. Finally, the article suggests that platforms and communities can be understood as distinct ecological niches, each characterised by different audience structures, affordances, metrics, and algorithmic pressures. This perspective offers novel insight to persistent debates on social media dynamics, such as misinformation, radicalisation and polarisation, and the reasons behind online success.

New preprint: "The Cultural Ecology of Social Media"

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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!

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Are there ways to fit agent-based models (ABMs) to empirical data and compare models, as we do in computational (cognitive) neuroscience?

Congrats!

Would love to! 📮

Congratulations 🙌

Just graduated! 🎓✨
Thanks @AarhusUni_int Cogsci

I highly recommend this summer school to anyone looking to deepen their knowledge at the intersection of machine learning and probabilistic modeling — and to meet wonderful, kind people. Huge thanks to the organizers and to everyone I had the pleasure of meeting!

I had the chance to explore the work of fellow participants and to dive deeper into inference algorithms I’ve been using over the past few years.

Last week, I was in
#Trondheim at Norwegian University of Science and Technology for the #Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI) summer school. It was a fantastic experience

Some photo from the trip ☀️🔵

Then I’ll be in Oslo the 23.

I will be in Trondheim until June 20th for the probAI summer school. If you are interested in computational/cognitive science, free to reach out.

Very proud to have run my first 5km 🏃‍♂️ 😊

Having previously attended the workshop, I can warmly recommend it :)

Cover of the textbook used in the workshop

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

I’ll be in Paris next week and would love to connect with people in cognitive science, AI, or photography :)

What are some equations or modeling approaches that are from different communities and are applied to different phenomena but you find them similar, the same, or very similar?
Example: a paper showed how replicator dynamics in evolutionary models are somewhat isomorphic with Bayes equations.

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students.
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If you could recommend a book or article from your discipline/specialty in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, or evolutionary anthropology for 2024 trends, what would it be? Looking forward to your suggestions!

My internships at RITMO, associated with the University of Oslo, gave me hands-on experience in various research methods, including mobile and stationary eye-tracking and motion capture. Before my academic journey, I dabbled in music production and collaborated with artists.