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Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social · 22d

I wish I could have joined you! Feeling the FOMO from California pretty hard...

Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 New paper alert! (slightly belated)

We (with @joshcjackson.bsky.social) suggest that complex technologies, as they need several (often many) people to use them, require innovations that distribute cognition to help regulate cognitive load and coordinate.

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Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition

Over the last decade, new research has shown how human collectives can develop technologies that no single individual could discover on their own. How…

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · Sep 5

@helenamiton.bsky.social and I have a new paper out:

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Past theories focus on how we evolve complex technologies (jet engines), but neglect cultural innovations that help us operate these technologies (pilot checklist)

Paper has tons of examples and new theory!

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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Check out this excellent new article by Ekstrom et al., "The Phoneme as a Cognitive Tool", in the special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science, "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories", which I'm co-editing with @helenamiton.bsky.social.
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The Phoneme as a Cognitive Tool

Phonemes—the basic sound units of language—function as cognitive tools that shape and extend human thinking. This article explores how phonemes are biologically grounded yet culturally variable, play...

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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out Penelope Scott's great new article, "Medical Recipes in Early Medieval English" part of the special issue I'm co-editing with @helenamiton.bsky.social in Topics in Cognitive Science, "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories".
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Medical Recipes in Early Medieval English: A Cultural Linguistic Perspective on the Cognition of Health and Illness

An exploration of an Early Medieval English medical text, Bald's Leechbook, from a Cultural Linguistic perspective. An overview of cultural schemas for medical ailments and recipes, including those w...

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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · May 4

In 'Cosmovision as cognitive technology', @helendecruz.net and Johan de Smedt analyze the Cruz-Badianus (Nahua / Aztec) herbarium as a tool to scaffold knowledge of a distinctive cosmology of the body. 3/3
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Cosmovision as Cognitive Technology: The Case of Mesoamerican Medicinal Knowledge

We examine the use of cognitive technologies in botanical knowledge for medicinal purposes in the Nahua (Aztec) Cruz-Badianus codex. The Mesoamerican cosmovision, especially the association of human ...

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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · May 4

In 'Time Tools', @kensycoop.bsky.social investigates the concepts, practices, and artifacts we use to concretize, coordinate, and measure time. 2/3
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Time Tools

Humans understand time in a way no other animal does. This is not because of our evolved biology, however—it is because we have developed a diverse and powerful toolkit of ideas, practices, and artif...

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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · May 4

Two new articles came out this week in the special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories", edited by @helenamiton.bsky.social and me: 1/3

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality.
Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

Rep2SI: Reputation & the Reproduction of Social Inequality. A Leverhulme-funded project based at the LSE, combining ethnography, economic games, and modelling. We're looking for a modeller to join our core team as a two-year postdoctoral research officer.

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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · Mar 13

The CultureLab at PSL, Paris, is recruiting a research engineer in #dh, computational social sciences and cultural evolution.
We're looking for skills in data science, machine learning and programming.
4 years position.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323661

Ingénieur de recherches en sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles

Project context and objectives:

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · Mar 5

I'm hiring a new lab manager!

Deadline to apply is April 1st. More details here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

I formed some of my deepest and most impactful partnerships as a lab manager, and it's a position that I highly value.

If you are a PI, please circulate to possible applicants!

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · Feb 28

"Information Architectures: A Framework for Understanding Socio-Technical Systems" is in press at npj Complexity. Normally I might wait until publication to share, but given the relevance to our rapidly-changing world, it seemed worth sharing now. osf.io/preprints/so...

A sequence of technological inventions over several centuries has dramatically lowered the cost of producing and distributing information. Because societies ride on a substrate of information, these changes have profoundly impacted how we live, work, and interact. This paper explores the nature of information architectures (IAs)—the features that govern how information flows within human populations. IAs include physical and digital infrastructures, norms and institutions, and algorithmic technologies for filtering, producing, and disseminating information. IAs can reinforce societal biases and lead to prosocial outcomes as well as social ills. IAs have culturally evolved rapidly with human usage, creating new affordances and new problems for the dynamics of social interaction. We explore societal outcomes instigated by shifts in IAs and call for an enhanced understanding of the social implications of increasing IA complexity, the nature of competition among IAs, and the creation of mechanisms for the beneficial use of IAs.

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Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social · Feb 24

We might not have kept in touch as much as we should have since our last model, Alberto! You might like the papers we published (with @dansperber.bsky.social) on cognitive (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & environmental (royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....) constraints

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Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 If you use a writing system and/or a language with sounds (which, come on, if you're reading this, you do!), and are curious to learn more about how these systems encode information (you should be), please enjoy our latest paper - fresh off the press!

Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨 New paper! 🚨 by Yoolim Kim, @helenamiton.bsky.social, Marc Allassonnière Tang, & myself, in Journal of Memory and Language. We tried to do for letter shapes what phonologists did for speech sounds. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... A 🧵 (1/14)

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Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social · Feb 10

Alberto said it all - it's a pretty fantastic opportunity for a Junior researcher in Computational Social Sciences, go apply! Deadline is March 20th, 2025.

Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · Feb 10

PSL CultureLab "Chaire d’excellence" - five years Junior research fellow in Computational Social Sciences in Paris. Fantastic position, research still ongoing, the new deadline is March 20, 2025. More info at: cognition.ens.fr/en/job/junio...

Offers: Junior Excellence Chairs in Computational Social Sciences (five years) at PSL university (Paris) | DEC Département d'études cognitives

PhD student : Position

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · Jan 30

💥Postdoc Opening! 💥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

Postdoktor i beräkningspsykologi/kognitionsvetenskap med fokus på social inlärning och kulturell evolution

Vill du bidra till medicinsk forskning av toppkvalitet? Gruppen Mechanisms of Social Behavior vid Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm söker en högt kvalificerad postdoktoral forskare för att ingå i

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Eddie Lee @spintheory.bsky.social · Feb 3

For our junior colleagues in the US looking for opportunities, Europe is a great place to do science 🧪 We have a #postdoc call open right now! #complexity

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PostDoc Program * Complexity Science Hub

Education

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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · Feb 3

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰

Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg!

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