Interacting agents can create shared communication systems without ever knowing if signals are successfully received. The conventionalisation process involves a curious interaction between joint attention and individual behavioural differences. doi.org/10.1371/jour.... Work with Casimir Fisch.

Doing some housekeeping and found a talk I gave as a postdoc. 21 slides in one hour! I could barely manage five now…

There's one week left to submit an application to be a #postdoc in our group! The project is very flexible, so there is room for own ideas. The advertisement lists more details: www.ds.mpg.de/4078435/job_...

Giving a talk on “the physics behind our irreversible reality” in Kent next month. Expect grape juice, buttercream, starlings and grammar. research.kent.ac.uk/kent-physics...

🥳 EPL is now on Bluesky! 🥳

FREE TO READ - OPEN ACCESS: Skyrmion soliton motion on periodic substrates by atomistic and particle-based simulations by J. C. B. Souza, N. P Vizarim, C. J. O. Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt and P. A. Venegas #FreeToRead #OpenAccess 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Suddenly a lot busier in here.

If you've read the docs and still can't get your C++ code to compile, chances are you need either to add or remove some consts. But you will never know which.

Supplemental Information: Where science goes to die.

Spent a _ridiculous_ amount of time chasing a bug that turned out to be an array index i mistyped as the numeral 1. Ouch.

📢Now out in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory🔓 "Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change" doi.org/10.1515/cllt... /Juan Guerrero Montero, myself, Kenny Smith, @dralgernon.bsky.social The method is general, applicable to also cultural, social etc data!

If you post on a new social media platform, does it make it make any sound? (I have a feeling I made more-or-less the same 'joke' the last time I signed up to something like this)