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Sylvain Estebe
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31 yo, computational cognitive science 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 @AarhusUni_int
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New preprint: "The Cultural Ecology of Social Media"

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Abstract: Most research on social media considers them as supports for transmission of information, explaining online success (and pathologies) by focusing on consumers’ biases and interests. This article takes a different perspective, applying ideas from an ecological approach to culture to social media informational dynamics. It argues that success online depends both on the intrinsic appeal of content to receivers and on how well content serves producers’ strategic goals within the constraints and affordances of specific platforms. These goals include reputation management, coalition building and identity management, and coordination or participation in shared activities. Transmission is often a by-product of these motivations, and replication fidelity plays a limited role compared with transformations that adapt content to local incentives. Finally, the article suggests that platforms and communities can be understood as distinct ecological niches, each characterised by different audience structures, affordances, metrics, and algorithmic pressures. This perspective offers novel insight to persistent debates on social media dynamics, such as misinformation, radicalisation and polarisation, and the reasons behind online success.
December 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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fusaroli.bsky.social
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!

international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
sylvainestebe.bsky.social
Are there ways to fit agent-based models (ABMs) to empirical data and compare models, as we do in computational (cognitive) neuroscience?
October 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
sylvainestebe.bsky.social
Just graduated! 🎓✨
Thanks @AarhusUni_int Cogsci
June 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
sylvainestebe.bsky.social
Last week, I was in
#Trondheim at Norwegian University of Science and Technology for the #Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI) summer school. It was a fantastic experience
June 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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I will be in Trondheim until June 20th for the probAI summer school. If you are interested in computational/cognitive science, free to reach out.
June 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
sylvainestebe.bsky.social
Very proud to have run my first 5km 🏃‍♂️ 😊
May 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/
Cover of the textbook used in the workshop
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
sylvainestebe.bsky.social
I’ll be in Paris next week and would love to connect with people in cognitive science, AI, or photography :)
April 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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neuroai.bsky.social
What are some equations or modeling approaches that are from different communities and are applied to different phenomena but you find them similar, the same, or very similar?
Example: a paper showed how replicator dynamics in evolutionary models are somewhat isomorphic with Bayes equations.
November 26, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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fusaroli.bsky.social
We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students.
international.au.dk/about/profil... Get in touch if interested!
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
sylvainestebe.bsky.social
If you could recommend a book or article from your discipline/specialty in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, or evolutionary anthropology for 2024 trends, what would it be? Looking forward to your suggestions!
June 12, 2024 at 9:04 AM