The next Asian Cultural Evolution seminar is happening next Monday!! Come join the talk & discussion if you are interested in philosophy + agent-based modelling!

🔔ACE Seminar: We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Siyang Luo from Sun Yat-sen University! 🗓 Mon, Sep 22 at 7:00 PM JST (18:00 (Perth/Singapore/Beijing), 19:00 (Tokyo/Seoul), 20:00 (Sydney)) ✉️ To receive the Zoom link, send a blank email to: [email protected]

🚨 Excited to share a new paper 📃, years in the making, with Zach Wood. We propose that human evolution is characterized as an Evolutionary Transition in Inheritance and Individuality (ETII). Explainer and OA paper below:

The Publish or Perish Game is the perfect retreat entertainment!

Our article "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience" (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marc Feldman) is now published online. We describe five factors that contribute to the spread of racism and suggest strategies for countering them. doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵 🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards. 🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

For any 🇩🇪 speakers who follow me: die @maxplanck.de hat ein Erklärungsvideo zu meinem Minecraft-Artikel erstellt. Link zum Open-Access-Artikel: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper out in Mind & Society! Human reinforcement learning processes and biases: computational characterization and possible applications to behavioral public policy 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A cool workshop on cultural evolution in ALife, happening right after the #COSMOSSummerSchool in Tokyo! Stretch your stay in Japan to attend ALIFE in Kyoto too!!

📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪

I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself. The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The University of Vienna launches #ViCAS to foster innovative, interdisciplinary #research and to create a space where ideas thrive beyond borders - #academic, disciplinary, and national. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Find out more about ViCAS and its #fellowships: ⤵️🔍 vicas.univie.ac.at #AcademicSky #edusky #PhDSky

We are pleased to announce our newly elected committee members of the Cultural Evolution Society: Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social & Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social Welcome and congratulations!!

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.

最近色んなところで見かける雪花啤酒を飲んでみた🍺満州時代に大日本麦酒とキリンビールの合弁で奉天（現在の瀋陽）に設立された満洲麦酒（満洲ビール）が始まりとのこと。そんな歴史が…今のところ中国で一番飲まれているのだとか。かなり濃いめのラガーで、たしかに味もパンチも強い中華にはこれくらい必要かも、と思わされる。食中酒だなこれは😋

In this new article on scientific racism (coauthored with @kevinlala.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social and Marcus Feldman), we present five impediments to countering racist pseudoscience and suggest strategies for containing its spread. #ehbea #philsci #histsci #ishpssb2025 🧪 tinyurl.com/4ptyt6w2

Online Now: Reward is enough for social learning

A dream coming true. Read this great thread by Ralph focusing on our study of New York Rats. Look at those cute NYC rats running around :D @cbehav.bsky.social

The CES officer elections have now launched! Active members of the society should have received an email from Election Runner with the title "Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025", so pls check your inbox. Voting closes on 29th July at 23:59 BST. culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

💥 Our new paper (with ‪@lucasmolleman.bsky.social and ‪@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social‬) is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com‬ 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠 Here, we advance a novel RL account—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—that explains how people learn to learn from others! 🤝 🧵👇

"Individual differences in speed–accuracy trade-off influence social decision-making in dyads" 🚨Our paper has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi.org/10.1098/rspb... w/ Alan Tump @alantump.bsky.social, Ralf Kurvers @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org 1/ 🧵👇

I'm hiring 2+ 2.5-year postdocs over the next few months. Job 1: looking for someone with deep expertise in computational modelling (reinforcement learning, agent based modelling) on real-world/complex data (closing: 18 August, starting: October-December), www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52059/

Have 15 mins spare? One of our MSc students from UCL Anthropology is investigating global attitudes to breastfeeding. Anyone can take part, from anywhere in the world! Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box) 日本語バージョンもあります！ Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss

Call for applications for the International Writing Workshops from the @britishacademy.bsky.social Aimed for developing skills and networks of early-career researchers with a connection to the Global South DEADLINE: September 17th More info 👇

One of the best places to study/work on the computational basis of human cognition and culture! And most importantly, Charley is such a fantastic mentor, collaborator, and friend. You should apply right now!

The deadline has been extended until July 16th! 👉 PhDs: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

Check out our new work with @xallysie.bsky.social, @erichehman.bsky.social, and my student Ruoying on a tutorial for Representational Similarity Analysis! Thanks for the fun collaboration!!

In the next seminar for the Asian Cultural Evolution (ACE) Seminar Series, Dr Ryutaro Uchiyama will speaking on "Motor-environment exploration in the human development niche". July 29, 7pm Tokyo time, more details including how to access the zoom link below:

So there is a type of aubergine you can eat raw – mizunasu (a Japanese water aubergine?). Incredible.

【🚨ACE Seminar Alert🚨】We're excited to have Dr Ryutaro @uchiyama.bsky.social joining from Singapore on Tuesday 29th July at 7pm in Tokyo (6pm in Singapore/12am in Berlin)! You can sign up for the mailing list to get the zoom link by sending a blank email to [email protected]

Don't forgot to nominate for positions in our Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025! Nomination period now closes July 11th, see the nomination form below for more information: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

💥New postdoc position! 💥 Join us to explore how people learn from each other—and how that drives cultural evolution. Run experiments, build computational models & collaborate across Europe w. @lucasmolleman.bsky.social 📍 Stockholm More info: shorturl.at/CY4wk

📢 now out @natrevpsychol.nature.com In a new perspective w/ @davidnagy.bsky.social & @gergoorban.bsky.social, we reconcile a glaring problem in applying rate-distortion theory as a framework for human memory, integrating empirical findings across a host of human memory research 🧵👇

Excited to announce I'll be giving a workshop on creating Bayesian models of social transmission at @royalholloway.bsky.social Centre for Decision Sciences Summer School taking place from Sept 8-12th (center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s...)

🚨 CE PhD/Postdoc Opportunity! Prof. Charley Wu and the Human & Machine Cognition Lab are looking for PhDs & Postdoc to join their ERC project "C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture" at TU Darmstadt. 3 PhD positions: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

🚨 CE PhD opportunity! @onicatam.bsky.social is looking for PhD applicants interested in projects related to cultural evolution or language evolution for a fully funded scholarships at the School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH532/s...

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀 I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales 👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.

Only ONE WEEK until #RLDM2025 ☘️ We can’t wait to welcome brilliant minds from AI, neuroscience, psychology & beyond for cutting-edge talks on reinforcement learning & decision making. Spaces are disappearing quickly so grab your spot before it’s gone! Register now 👉 rldm.org

The new edition of 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour', co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social , is available! Get 30% off (promotion code ASPROMP8): global.oup.com/academic/pro... Ebook is available on Kindle. Thank you to Prof. Clark Barrett for the endorsement! 🧪

Positivity bias in social learning? Check our latest preprint! Great work by @alexthewitty.bsky.social and @thecharleywu.bsky.social, amazing collaborators!

New in Nature MentalHealth! with Vrizzi, Najar, Lemogne, and @mael-lebreton.bsky.social We tested whether behavioural and RL-based model parameters are test-retest reliable and predict mental health traits. The result? Not really. A cautionary tale for comp. psychiatry doi.org/10.1038/s442...

I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the great privilege to learn and collaborate with throughout my career. @uni-konstanz.de @maxplanck.de

Which software/platform to use for interactive (online/lab) group experiments these days? I used oTree (www.otree.org) in my PhD and also know of LIONESS (lioness-lab.org), any other recommendations? 👥💻

The Publish & Perish Game arrived!! Can’t wait to play with this

The 4th Asian Cultural Evolution Seminar is coming soon on 20 May! Sign up for the mailing list to get the zoom link, by sending a blank email to [email protected]

I'm super happy that Michelle Maldonado and I have both won awards for "best acting" in Osseily Hanna's film The Last Bee, at the Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival

We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓