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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 26d

We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...

Colloque inaugural du Grand programme de recherche CultureLab | PSL

Recherche, CultureLab inaugure ses travaux le 22 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet avec une journée consacrée aux sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles et à l’évolution culturelle. , Le Gra...

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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · Jul 28

🎊 New paper out! In this @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Forum, we (with @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social) summarize how reward learning can lead to adaptive social learning. We also explore the broader consequences for cultural evolution:
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🚄

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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · Jul 23

💥 Our new paper (with ‪@lucasmolleman.bsky.social and ‪@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social‬) is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com‬ 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 Here, we advance a novel RL account—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—that explains how people learn to learn from others! 🤝

🧵👇

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · Jul 22

Postdoc in agent-based human-earth system modelling

We are looking for a modeller with experience in agent-based or human earth system modelling and with interest in transdisciplinary sustainability science as part of the Anthropocene navigator project in a two-three year position in Stockholm.

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · Jun 11

The second @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social poster from the lab is by fantastic PhD student Shen Tian. Using modeling and experiments, he investigated the key role of semantic knowledge in a complex innovation task (originated by @maximederex.bsky.social). On Thursday, poster #86

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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm presenting a poster at #RLDM2025 this Thursday in Dublin!

I'm on Poster Session 3:
Poster #14: Language allows culture to improve mental models 💭

Please find me if you want to talk cultural evolution & language!

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Harin Lee @harinlee.info · Jun 4

Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social

Highlights ⬇

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Mathieu Charbonneau @matcharbonneau.bsky.social · Jun 2

New paper out in Topics in Cognitive Science! "Open-Ended Technological Evolution: The Co-Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies" 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Open‐Ended Technological Evolution: The Co‐Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies

Open-ended technological evolution is the result of the co-evolution of invention and cognitive technologies that enhances our cognitive capabilities and generates a feedback loop of ever-expanding t....

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · May 28

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.

shorturl.at

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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social · May 21

Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”.
Good academics acknowledge this.
I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.

Illustration showing a graduation ceremony, with speaker addressing graduates: “Let the example of my fluke success guide nearly all of you to crushing disappointment”.

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Apr 30

One way to pass on our own causal understanding about how a physical system works is to provide a verbal explanation about it. Read in American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3. @neurogiovanni.bsky.social @blubludoesscience.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/arti...

Cover of the American Journal of Psychology, Volume 137, Issue 3, Fall 2024
Red background with abstract wavy lines crossing the middle of the cover and list of editors in the bottom left corner.

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · Apr 11

With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social

#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quote: " In sum, leader-directed teaching of opaque cooperative norms would be a mutually beneficial strategy, where the costs incurred by influential teachers are, at least partly, outweighed by the long-term benefits of cultivating cooperation within the group."

Mosaic plot illustrating the relationship between evidence for teaching and non-teaching social learning, based on a binary researcher-coded measure of teaching.

"Although instrumental cultural transmission frequently occurs through both teaching and non-teaching social learning, opaque cultural information is predominantly transmitted through teaching, with relatively fewer instances of non-teaching social learning."

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Apr 10

Announcing American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3! Featuring contributions from @neurogiovanni.bsky.social , @blubludoesscience.bsky.social , & more! Plus, book reviews, including review & response on "Smart Management" @mitpress.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/issu...

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Apr 7

CE postdoc alert 🚨

Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 7

Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven

Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o

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

shorturl.at

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 7

Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven

Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o

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

shorturl.at

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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · Apr 8

Great opportunity to study social learning and cultural evolution within a wonderful team & lab at the @ki.se in Stockholm!
You can contact me (or @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
directly) if you have any questions!

Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 7

Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven

Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o

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

shorturl.at

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 5

post doc position on "affective social learning" in Andreas Olsson's group at Karolinska Institute. Recommended! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in affective learning and decision-making

Do you want to contribute to better health for everyone? Our research group, led by Andreas Olsson at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, is seeking a qualified and motivated postdoctoral researcher.

ki.varbi.com

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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · Apr 4

pudding.cool/2025/04/musi...

How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music

Songs have a far more complex and concealed musical history, spanning genres, cultures, and even centuries.

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · Mar 13

Pleased to see our work published:

The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance

We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.

Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.

doi.org/10.1017/S095...

A circular dendrogram (phenetic tree) of knots, made using the ggtree package in R. A text-readable and high-resolution PDF-version of the tree is available as a supplementary material.

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io

COSMOS

The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)

cosmossummerschool.github.io

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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · Mar 11

🚨 New preprint out! 🚨

How do people make moral judgments as third parties? 👀 We show how two motivations—inequality aversion (fair = moral) ⚖️ and the common-is-moral heuristic (frequent = moral 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧—interact to shape evaluations 🧵👇

📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · Feb 24

📝New paper in iScience (@cp-iscience.bsky.social) by myself and a wonderful cast of co-authors (sadly not on bluesky). We investigated the neural circuit involved in watching other people build tools! 🧵 (1/8) [link: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111870]

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · Feb 25

Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share!
bit.ly/3QCXUFS

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · Feb 25

It happened to Hob on the last game last boss of a Dark souls trilogy no-hit run
clips.twitch.tv/DrabQuaintZu...

The_Happy_Hob - RIP Follow this guy

Watch The_Happy_Hob's clip titled

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