Scholar
LightNews

Olivier Morin

Videos
H-index: 16
Psychology 28%
Sociology 19%
more

by Olivier Morin

oliviermorin.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social l who defended his PhD thesis today!! with his co-supervisor @sblldtrch.bsky.social and jury members @simonkirby.bsky.social @gboleda.bsky.social Paula Rubio Fernandez & Benjamin Spector.
5 2 17

by Olivier Morin

oliviermorin.bsky.social
also with @kakapitan.bsky.social @sobchuk.bsky.social @artjomshl.bsky.social @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & many others
acerbialberto.com
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · Sep 12
Looking forward to be in Paris for the launch of the CultureLab!
jbcamps.bsky.social
Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · Sep 12
We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...
1 1 9

by Alberto Acerbi — Reposted by Olivier Morin, Ruth Mace

acerbialberto.com
Looking forward to be in Paris for the launch of the CultureLab!
jbcamps.bsky.social
Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · Sep 12
We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...
Colloque inaugural du Grand programme de recherche CultureLab | PSL
Recherche, CultureLab inaugure ses travaux le 22 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet avec une journée consacrée aux sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles et à l’évolution culturelle. , Le Gra...
psl.eu
2 3 12

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, Alberto Acerbi

jbcamps.bsky.social
We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...
Colloque inaugural du Grand programme de recherche CultureLab | PSL
Recherche, CultureLab inaugure ses travaux le 22 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet avec une journée consacrée aux sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles et à l’évolution culturelle. , Le Gra...
psl.eu
1 12 21

by Olivier Morin

oliviermorin.bsky.social
Amazing Oleg!
sobchuk.bsky.social
Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · Sep 4
Great news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥

www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...
Charting the evolution of European literature
Oleg Sobchuk has received an ERC Starting Grant to study 200 years of European literary evolution
www.eva.mpg.de
1 6

Reposted by Olivier Morin

sobchuk.bsky.social
Great news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥

www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...
Charting the evolution of European literature
Oleg Sobchuk has received an ERC Starting Grant to study 200 years of European literary evolution
www.eva.mpg.de
31 10 120

Reposted by Olivier Morin

goldyoshi.bsky.social
enshittification definition covered in ads
58 2.3K 6.9K

Reposted by Olivier Morin

replicatedtypo.bsky.social
🚨🚨 New preprint 📜 with Mathieu Charbonneau (@matcharbonneau.bsky.social‬): Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution (arxiv.org/abs/2508.04828). Feedback welcomed! #Evolution #Technology #Culture #OpenEnded #TechnologicalEvolution #CulturalEvolution 🧵: 1/29
Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution
Humans stand alone in terms of their potential to collectively and cumulatively improve technologies in an open-ended manner. This open-endedness provides societies with the ability to continually exp...
arxiv.org
1 9 20

by Olivier Morin

oliviermorin.bsky.social
I'd join the class action if I were US-based.
ruthejbooth.bsky.social
Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · Aug 14
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
2 2

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Charles West, Philip Nel , and 5 more

ruthejbooth.bsky.social
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
78 1.2K 1.2K

by Hugo Mercier — Reposted by Olivier Morin

hugoreasoning.bsky.social
From ancient Greece to the Arabic golden age, scholars have been driven by their curiosity to investigate astronomy, history, philosophy, and sundry other disciplines. Is there a structure to that curiosity? Are astronomers as likely to also be historians or to also be philosophers?
1 13 24

Reposted by Olivier Morin

sobchuk.bsky.social
Rohan Kapitany launches a fun pop sci podcast: about games & behavioral sciences. In one of the later episodes @oliviermorin.bsky.social & myself will be discussing our recent paper on monsters 👹

Really cool idea – and very well executed! Great work for our community and beyond
neogliberal.bsky.social
Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · Feb 27
Excited to announce Mind Games. A podcast where insufferable D&D/TTRPG fandom intersects with psychological and behavioral science. Please subscribe to get our episodes as they drop.

www.mindgamespodcast.com

iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7I5F3qu...
1 2 9

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, Jean‐Baptiste André

edgardubourg.bsky.social
We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...
5 30 100

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Joanna Bryson

adamjkucharski.bsky.social
Adding AI watermark to latest paper...
3 59 250

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Paul E. Smaldino

acerbialberto.com
buzzkill www.maps.com/snow-mistake...
Snow Mistake: Correcting Myths in the Mapping of Cholera
What if the famous map of Broad Street played no role in determining how cholera spread? Or if John Snow didn't make the storied map?
www.maps.com
1 4 5

by Olivier Morin

oliviermorin.bsky.social
one of my favorite science stories got debunked...
acerbialberto.com
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · Jun 9
buzzkill www.maps.com/snow-mistake...
Snow Mistake: Correcting Myths in the Mapping of Cholera
What if the famous map of Broad Street played no role in determining how cholera spread? Or if John Snow didn't make the storied map?
www.maps.com
2 6

by Hugo Mercier — Reposted by Olivier Morin, Eric Hehman, Jean‐Baptiste André

hugoreasoning.bsky.social
We have a lovely new paper out, showing that even ignorant people can be very good at recognising who's knowledgeable based on minimal cues
edgardubourg.bsky.social
Edgar Dubourg @edgardubourg.bsky.social · Jun 2
We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...
5 21 73

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Thomas Arnold, Duncan Bell , and 2 more

dailynous.com
Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has died.
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Daily Nous
Alasdair MacIntyre, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, well-known for his work on moral and political philosophy, has died. Professor MacIntyre wrote...
dailynous.com
2 70 140

Reposted by Olivier Morin

cognitionens.bsky.social
PUBLICATION I 🐻 Les ours en peluche ont-ils évolué culturellement pour devenir plus mignons ? Un projet étudiant @psl-univ.bsky.social @normalesup.bsky.social explore l'impact de la perception de la mignonnerie sur l'évolution des artefacts culturels et débouche sur une publication 👉 bit.ly/3YUZnw5
Actualités: Les ours en peluche ont-ils évolué culturellement pour devenir plus mignons ? Quand un projet étudiant débouche sur une publication. | DEC Département d'études cognitives
Recherche: Une étude menée sous forme de projet collectif impliquant des étudiantes et des étudiants du Master de sciences cognitives de PSL a débouché sur la publication d’un article dans Journal of ...
bit.ly
1 3

Reposted by Olivier Morin

calthalas.bsky.social
My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:
Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673
22 140 570

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Michelle L. Mazurek, Jelena Subotić , and 2 more

pardoguerra.bsky.social
$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget.

When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.
vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · May 5
We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.

As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.

We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
18 340 970

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Tanja Gabriele Baudson, James O’Sullivan , and 3 more

vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.

As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.

We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
22 200 670

Reposted by Olivier Morin

kensycoop.bsky.social
How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete.

My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more.

(link 👇)
3 34 89

Reposted by Olivier Morin

acerbialberto.com
"Literary Fiction Indicates Early Modernization in
China Prior to Western Influence"
sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...
1 3 11

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Eric Hehman

mariusmercier.bsky.social
"What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at midday, and three feet in the evening?"

This riddle is thousands of years old, but why does it stick with us?

In our new paper, we argue that the feeling of insight might explain the lasting success of some cultural products: tinyurl.com/4j756h9a
2 13 35

Reposted by Olivier Morin

jessgraves.bsky.social
Sick of being taken advantage of by OTHER PACKAGES?!

Use python package {tariff} to show those packages WHO IS BOSS.

Make Reinventing The Wheel Great Again!

pypi.org/project/tari...
10 32 100

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Fotis Jannidis, Christophe Benavent

tedunderwood.com
15 positions in AI at Paris Sciences et Lettres, computational social science and ethics very much included. I believe these are four-year "fellow" positions requiring some teaching during that term. #MLSky recrutement.psl.eu/en/pnp8wd2rbs
Fellow in Artificial Intelligence - Paris School of AI | PSL
Contract : 4 years fixed term Start of contract : September, 1st, 2025
recrutement.psl.eu
2 35 35

Reposted by Olivier Morin, Simon Kirby, Arthur Geßler

berthetmelissa.bsky.social
🚨New in @science.org🚨
With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...
www.science.org
5 55 140

Reposted by Olivier Morin

elisewang.bsky.social
On the subject of, you know, all *this* I came across a poem about the end of the world crammed into the flyleaf of a 10th century manuscript. Wanna hear it?

Of course you do. Buckle up.

Listen, earth. Listen, edge of the great sea.
4 53 140

Reposted by Olivier Morin

cognitionens.bsky.social
La 24ᵉédition du Forum des Sciences Cognitives aura lieu le 29 mars 2025 à l'@normalesup.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social ! Le thème 👉 Cognition, Art et Créativité. Le forum sera suivi d'une soirée festive ! Programme et inscription sur fsc2025.heysummit.com. Venez découvrir les #SciencesCog !
1 3 7

References

Fields & subjects

Updated 1m