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not a misconception, but this yt video has stuck with me over the years from a class on evolution taught by kenny smith at Edinburgh. really nice visual of evolution in progress www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk...

maybe the same person w the chalkboard skillz

If you'd like to learn more about network-based diffusion analyses and how to use STbayes, we will host a workshop at the upcoming 2026 Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social. Registrations: culture-conference.com/registration/

Detailed vignettes demonstrate basic and advances use cases github.com/michaelchime....

in addition to previous extensions of NBDA, STbayes allows users to include network edges as distributions (fit by generative network models), varying effects by ID & trial, complex transmission functions, and dynamic transmission weights (e.g. to test which cues are important for social learning).

oh it older than 17 years :( iirc the flash animation was up on the weebl and bob site in 2003 or 2004

if you need more frameworks for fighting this good fight, @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I have you covered: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SCC in suburban Sydney have learned how to open bins, residents have innovated protection mechanisms, and cockatoos have innovated solutions. defence costs in the model are arbitrary, but assumed to scale with complexity (e.g. it's costly in time/money to modify a bin and maintain that protection)

thanks for your interest in the study! there are many more details in the paper, which is open access. but briefly:

whoops, seems like the DOI isn't working yet. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... here's the direct link