It's hiring season at @iast.fr!
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
20.09.2025 09:15 β π 62 π 50 π¬ 0 π 4
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!
16.09.2025 14:04 β π 106 π 46 π¬ 2 π 9
Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society
Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanismsβsuch as vertical, horizontal, and obli
πNew paper!π
How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?
With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
14.09.2025 07:52 β π 161 π 66 π¬ 4 π 5
Fees and Funding - Durham University
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
11.09.2025 09:12 β π 69 π 84 π¬ 0 π 5
Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.
23.07.2025 11:41 β π 62 π 28 π¬ 0 π 3
π¨ New preprint π¨
Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations
arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741
with team members @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Ann-Marie Nussberger, @maximederex.bsky.social, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov
27.06.2025 10:33 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Seeking Behavioral Science PhDs @cuboulderibs.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @nathumbehav.nature.com @maximederex.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social
09.06.2025 16:53 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan
05.06.2025 19:23 β π 11 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0
It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
04.06.2025 11:15 β π 12 π 16 π¬ 1 π 1
OECS thematic collections.
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
30.05.2025 00:18 β π 417 π 183 π¬ 10 π 7
3 days left until the deadline for these @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social grants
27.05.2025 09:54 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
Do you teach a course on cultural evolution?
The @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social is offering Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards
Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
$4000 award. Apply for up to 3 courses. Less than 30min per course submission.
14.05.2025 20:00 β π 12 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity
20.05.2025 05:09 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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π’ CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! π $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content.
Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants
14.05.2025 10:39 β π 13 π 18 π¬ 1 π 2
Don't forget to put in your application for our 2025 awards!
05.05.2025 18:30 β π 3 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n
29.04.2025 02:46 β π 22 π 24 π¬ 2 π 2
decision trees in human play in the game of go before and after the arrival of superhuman AI, showing gradual change rather than revolutionary disruption
π¨ New preprint! π¨
I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution.
Check out these decision trees!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
09.04.2025 17:35 β π 60 π 25 π¬ 3 π 2
ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory
culture, evolution, cooperation, and sustainability
Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management!
Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG...
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com
10.03.2025 13:01 β π 34 π 31 π¬ 1 π 2
A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
07.02.2025 11:48 β π 843 π 218 π¬ 24 π 27
Postdoktor i berΓ€kningspsykologi/kognitionsvetenskap med fokus pΓ₯ social inlΓ€rning och kulturell evolution
Vill du bidra till medicinsk forskning av toppkvalitet? Gruppen Mechanisms of Social Behavior vid Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm sΓΆker en hΓΆgt kvalificerad postdoktoral forskare fΓΆr att ingΓ₯ i
π₯Postdoc Opening! π₯We (@lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Piet van den Berg) seek a postdoc to study social learning and cultural evolution. We are looking for someone with math/computational modeling skills & interest in human behavior. Get in touch if you have any questions! shorturl.at/W6Qsb
30.01.2025 07:39 β π 26 π 40 π¬ 2 π 1
6/ These results challenge the idea that arbitrary solutions persist only when they are intuitive or efficient. Instead, social learning shapes what people even consider as a possibility β impacting how traditions, technologies, and scientific ideas persist over time. β³
29.01.2025 09:34 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1
5/ Why did people stick to their theory? Because social learning canalises exploration. Participants were less likely to test configurations that could challenge their received theory, reducing their chances of discovering the effects of variables not emphasized by that theory. π
29.01.2025 09:34 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
4/ Our main finding: Even when people had incentives to improve their solutions, they stuck to the theory they receivedβeven if it was wrong.
29.01.2025 09:34 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
3/ Some participants received a "theory" about what makes the wheel roll fasterβeither correct, partially right, or misleading. We then compared their exploration to participants who received no theory at all.
29.01.2025 09:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
2/ We designed an experiment where participants had to optimize a physical system: a wheel rolling down a track. Their goal? Adjust the weights to make it roll as fast as possible. π
29.01.2025 09:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
1/ Learning from others is a superpowerβ‘. It allows us to build on knowledge accumulated over generations. But does it come at a cost? Can it limit our ability to explore new, better solutions? π€
29.01.2025 09:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd.
We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! π§΅π
29.01.2025 09:34 β π 106 π 47 π¬ 1 π 3
PostDoc at University of Oxford.
Scientist interested in Ants / Molecular Evolution / Population genomics / Phylogenomics
Psychologist who studies and writes about human natureβincluding morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
Director, Applied Cooperation Initiative
Co-author, Hidden Games
Research focus: How to motivate people to do good
Our research explores how & why non-human animals invent new behaviours by studying their play.
The project is led by Mathilde Tahar & Alecia Carter.
We are by the Leverhulme Trust and hosted by UCL.
https://www.animalinventiveness.com
Professor & Author
Auckland & UCL
Books: THE SOCIAL INSTINCT (2021) || THE THINKING ANIMAL (2027, βπΌ)
Likes cycling.
Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School (U-M). If you are looking for a book titled "Fair Enough?" here it is π
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366038
https://a.co/d/b6yL5d3
Interested in human behavior. Experimental economics. Professor at emlyon. Member of GATE. Living in France.
Professor of Economic History at London School of Economics. Works on Economic History of Identity and Historical Political Economy. Website: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/People/Faculty-and-teachers/Dr-Mohamed-Saleh
Evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, cultural evolution. Research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse. Dog owner and animal lover.
Research Scientist | Max Planck Institute for Human Development | Understanding and shaping the dynamics of the Human-Machine Society
Runs Open Philanthropyβs Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
A digital magazine about everything human, told through the stories of anthropologists.
Assistant professor at Cornell Psychology Department. CoCoCo Lab (Cornell Computational Cognition Lab) @co3lab.bsky.social. I am recruiting!
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse π«π·
Interdisciplinary research hub aiming to understand fundamental determinants of human behaviour. #IASToulouse #FriendsOfIAST @tse-fr.eu
Researcher at Inria. Simulating the origins of life, cognition and culture. Using methods from ALife and AI.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=rBnV60QAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Prev. posts still on X same username
History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science,Experimental Philosophy, distinguished Prof at Pitt, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science
Research director @Inria, Head of @flowersInria
lab, prev. @MSFTResearch @SonyCSLParis
Artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, sciences of curiosity, language, self-organization, autotelic agents, education, AI and society
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
Prehistoric Archaeology / Cultural Evolution / Osseous Technology