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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 3h

🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award.

If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply!

DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025

Here is the form👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EHBEA-2026-New-Investigator-Award-nomination-form.docx

2026 NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Self-nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary [email protected]. Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 2026 ...

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Georgina Török @georginatorok.bsky.social · 1d

COSMOS was such a great summer school! The perfect environment to learn about research on different aspects of collective life from social learning to decision-making- I had a lot of fun. Can only recommend COSMOS to any PhD student or postdoc interested in the computational modeling of collectives!

Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 2d

And huge thanks again both RIKEN CBS-Toyota Collaboration Center (btcc.riken.jp/en/) and @eslr.bsky.social for your generous support! And thanks a lot @tatsushi-usui.bsky.social for the stunning logo design and local organisations!

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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 3d

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 2d

And huge thanks again both RIKEN CBS-Toyota Collaboration Center (btcc.riken.jp/en/) and @eslr.bsky.social for your generous support! And thanks a lot @tatsushi-usui.bsky.social for the stunning logo design and local organisations!

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 3d

Me and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social want to thank everyone who attended, presented at, and helped organize #COSMOS2025! If you weren't able to make it, all teaching materials are already online and we'll be uploading videos of all talks soon cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/

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Suet Lee @suetl.bsky.social · 3d

Today is #alife2025 day 1! Workshops under way... We have our own workshop tmw on Cultural Evolution of Planet X, 13.30-16.30, room 4F. Exciting keynotes from James Borg and @uchiyama.bsky.social. Join us!

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 4d

Had a great time meeting and learning from researchers in the fields of cultural evolution, collective intelligence and psychology in the COSMOS summer school held in the beautiful city of Tokyo. Thanks a lot to the amazing duo @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social & @thecharleywu.bsky.social for organizing!

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 5d

#COSMOS2025 in Tokyo concluded last night with the epic farewell party with DJ Thèque Cachée (@mchimento.bsky.social)! Thank you all brilliant COSMOnauts for coming from all over the world and creating this wonderful community. Have a safe trip back home. See you again soon!

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · 5d

Best summer school ever!! Thanks so much to @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for being amazing organizers and for cultivating such a lovely community 💗

Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 7d

Mentorship sessions are one of my favorite parts of #COSMOS2025 Discussing science and academic careers, while exploring what Tokyo has to offer! With @liang-lee.bsky.social @mohsen-raoufi.bsky.social @wasita.bsky.social @shannonyasuda.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @davidschultner.bsky.social

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 7d

Mentorship sessions are one of my favorite parts of #COSMOS2025 Discussing science and academic careers, while exploring what Tokyo has to offer! With @liang-lee.bsky.social @mohsen-raoufi.bsky.social @wasita.bsky.social @shannonyasuda.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @davidschultner.bsky.social

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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 7d

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 7d

Here are the general recipe of computational modeling-minded behavioural experiments! #cosmos2025

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 7d

Tutorial 3 of #cosmos2025 given by @thecharleywu.bsky.social, walking through good practices and tips in model fitting and recovering with giving a hands-on tutorial with R. As always all codes available here: cosmossummerschool.github.io/notebooks/tu...

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 7d

@lazytenuredprof.bsky.social talking about MCMC algorithms with people! Cool overlaps between cogsci and cultural evolution. #cosmos2025

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 8d

Using social reinforcement learning to figure out which japanese konbini (convenience store) is superior. Where are you getting your strong zero, onigiri, or egg sandwich?
Last #COSMOS2025 talk of the day by Shinsuke Suzuki sites.google.com/view/szklab/...

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 9d

Tatsuya Kameda giving the opening keynote at #COSMOS2025 (photo care of @henrivdd.bsky.social)

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 8d

A small selection of #COSMOS2025 participants hard at work on their group projects @lazytenuredprof.bsky.social @damienfarine.bsky.social @lucymaplin.bsky.social Thanks to all of the instructors for providing code/data for hands-on experience with modeling cosmossummerschool.github.io/projects/

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 8d

Mayuko Nakamaru pointed what if gossips, a said-to-be key mechanism of human indirect reciprocity, have lies. Her evo. models seem to have many rooms to be addressed by cognitive models too! #cosmos2025

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henrivdd.bsky.social @henrivdd.bsky.social · 8d

The first lecture of the day at #COSMOSTokyo is on various social and strategic learning scenarios and their underlying neurocomputational mechanisms, by Lusha Zhu (www.lushazhu.com)

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 9d

@thecharleywu.bsky.social is giving our second tutorial explaining how we can study complex social behaviour through computational models. As always, code and demo are available in the website! cosmossummerschool.github.io/notebooks/tu...

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 9d

The first lecture of #COSMOSTokyo given by @lucymaplin.bsky.social showing a variety of innovations in birds reported in the citizen science app! www.spotteron.net/apps/regiona...

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 9d

Key dimensions of social learning problems. @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social giving the first tutorial of #COSMOS2025 As always, course materials are opening available on our website cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 10d

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now.

"Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes."

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

Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less

www.nature.com

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 10d

COSMOS2025 kick started!! And we’ve got the generous support from #ESLR community for the ESLR travel award!! Join ESLR if you are interested in social learning, cultural evolution, collective behaviour, and beyond!!

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 14d

Can’t wait to meet up with all fantastic COSMOnauts!!!

henrivdd.bsky.social @henrivdd.bsky.social · 14d

🚀👩‍🚀 COSMOS 2025 is coming to Tokyo in less than a week! Organized by @thecharleywu.bsky.social &
@watarutoyokawa.bsky.social with an amazing faculty👇 can’t wait to welcome everyone to RIKEN.
📣 Attendees: check your inbox for info
cosmossummerschool.github.io

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