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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 2h

Full photo album here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCwsat

South Africa 2025

Explore this photo album by Daniel Conroy-Beam on Flickr!

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 2h

Saw some real nice birds in South Africa #birds

An African Paradise Flycatcher, facing right

An African Penguin kicks up some sand on the beach

A Lilac-Breasted Roller perches on a bare tree, facing right

A Secretarybird carrying nesting material back to its nest

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 1d

For the record, this is not (as far as I'm aware) a popular hypothesis among evolutionary psychologists. It's the first I'm hearing of it, for example

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 21d

Released today!
SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER
Now available at your favorite bookseller.

Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can.

Please help spread the word!

#sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · 29d

This week, Language and Communication (and the Lindy Hop) with @thomscottphillips.bsky.social!

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Language and Communication with Thom Scott-Phillips

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · 28d

I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science.

Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org

Colorado Social Vision & Mind Lab

The Social Vision & Mind Lab (Director: Youngki Hong, Ph.D.) at the University of Colorado Boulder explores how people perceive and make sense of the physica...

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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Sep 2

This week: The evolutionary psychology of humor with @davidpinsof.bsky.social! An account of why the mind finds things funny, and why "funny" has the features it has.

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The Evolutionary Psychology of Humor

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David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social · Sep 5

"people are sensitive to the amount of population variance on a trait, and flexibly adjust their partner preferences to focus on traits which vary more among others" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable

Organisms benefit from choosing partners who are willing and able to provide them with benefits (e.g., choose based on warmth, competence, wealth). Bu…

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · Aug 28

Annie Wertz plants a flag for plan and learning research!

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Aug 26

This week, @anniewertz.bsky.social talks about her ground-breaking work exploring what infants know, and come prepared to learn, about 🌱plants🌿! (Annie gets credit for all plant-based puns in this episode).

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Plants, Infants, and the Evolution of Social Learning with Annie Wertz

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · Aug 21

BBS just announced a call for commentaries on @manvir.bsky.social's target article, "Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the origins of the cultural manifold"
Deadline is Sep 10!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Commentary Proposals - Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the

Call for Commentary Proposals - Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the origins of the cultural manifold

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · Aug 19

Great episode! Pat is one of my favorite psychologists out there today. And it was super interesting to hear from the Daly and Wilson lineage for the first time on the podcast

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Aug 19

This week, we discuss the evolution of cooperation with Pat Barclay.

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Cooperation with Pat Barclay

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · Aug 15

Always love a chance to hear Ed Hagen's perspective on...anything

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Aug 13

This week, Drugs, Delusions, and Depression with @edhagen.net A wild ride!

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Drugs, Delusions, and Depression with Ed Hagen

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · Aug 14

📣From Kyle Landrum:

Good Explanations and the Causal Metasemantics of Inductive Concepts

Good Explanations and the Causal Metasemantics of Inductive Concepts

Abstract. A metasemantic theory tells us why a particular concept has its particular content, for example, why the concept orang-utan has orang-utans as it

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · Aug 12

Late on this one but really enjoyed this conversation.

Let it be known that @dpietra.bsky.social feels affection toward flat earthers

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Aug 5

This week with Cristina Moya (UC Davis) we discuss conspiracy theories, ethnolinguistic boundaries, and if we would ever eat at a flat earth restaurant.

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Conspiracy Theories and Group Boundaries with Cristina Moya

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · Aug 4

Job announcement 📢

@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction!

Interested? If you’ll be at #rlc2025 (or I missed you at #cogsci2025) feel free to reach out with any questions!

apply.interfolio.com/165809

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tadegquillien.bsky.social @tadegquillien.bsky.social · Aug 2

Our new #cogsci2025 paper led by @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social is a task analysis of agent representation under resource constraints:
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Max Taylor-Davies @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social · Aug 1

At #CogSci2025 and curious about resource-rational models of social cognition? Come to Nob Hill A at 11:14 tomorrow to hear me talk about work with @tadegquillien.bsky.social where we use the information bottleneck to study stereotype use and the outgroup homogeneity bias!

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tadegquillien.bsky.social @tadegquillien.bsky.social · Jul 28

New short paper with @kevingoneill.github.io and Paul Henne: We re-analyse data from a recent study on causal judgment, and find that a counterfactual model explains why temporal order influences people's intuitions.
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A counterfactual explanation for recency effects in double prevention scenarios: Commentary on Thanawala and Erb (2024)

Many cognitive scientists and philosophers take cases of double prevention to be one of the primary motivations for accepting causal pluralism, the vi…

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · Jul 22

I keep looking forward to these conversations every Tuesday

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Jul 22

Next episode is up! Egalitarianism with @chrisvonrueden.bsky.social.

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Egalitarianism in the Amazon with Chris Von Rueden

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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Jul 15

New episode is up! We talk to Deb Lieberman about morality, disgust, and kinship. Had a blast!!

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Disgust, Morality, and Kinship with Deb Lieberman

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets.

This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Jul 8

A new episode is up! In this one, we talk to @mikemoncrieff.bsky.social about terrorism, his studies of ethnic conflict, and the drag queen phenomenon.

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Terrorism, Drag Queens, and International Humanitarian Law with Michael Moncrieff

From offering the UN insights into the psychology of terrorists to interviewing victims of war-torn Croatia, guest Michael Moncrieff has seen a lot of life and yet remains hopeful. Dave wonders aloud ...

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · Jul 9

Man, even Phineas Gage doesn't replicate?!

Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · Jul 9

An important corrective to the famous case of Phineas Gage, as well as details about Eadweard Muybridge, also a brain injury survivor, who made the famous movie of a galloping horse in 1878, a few years after murdering his wife's lover 🧪 #AcademicSky
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How the ‘myth of Phineas Gage’ affects brain injury survivors | Aeon Essays

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors

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tadegquillien.bsky.social @tadegquillien.bsky.social · Jul 9

New paper from Qi, Vul and Powell introduces a clever way to measure a participant's Welfare-Tradeoff Ratio in a single trial: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · Jul 4

Nobelist: U.S. Scientists Took Support ‘For Granted’ Before Trump Cuts

Frances Arnold, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. science is “paying the price” for not explaining the...

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Nobelist: Scientists Took Support “For Granted” Before Trump

Frances Arnold, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. science is “paying the price” for not explaining the benefits of research funding for “far too long.”

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · Jul 2

A great conversation in which the Davids talk about what they think makes for good evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Jul 1

Next Episode is up! Dave and David discuss examples of good evolutionary psychology.

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Examples of Good Evolutionary Psychology | Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)

Dave and David move beyond the controversies to explain—and give examples of—evolutionary psychology done well. Topics covered include the science of racial categorization and why we get angry. If you...

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