In our latest free teaching resource, we explore #AI and #socialsciences with researchers from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the UK. futurumcareers.com/the-future-o... @michael.muthukrishna.com @eugeniedugoua.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social

Starting the countdown to Christmas with Besample's very own Advent Calendar of Insights from Beyond the West — 24 daily reminders that the world is bigger, more diverse, and far less WEIRD than many behavioral scientists assume. This one was gifted to us by our advisor @michael.muthukrishna.com

If you want to do a PHD in social psychology at New York University, I strongly urge you to apply to Michael Muthukrishna! He does fantastic research at the interface of culture, economic decision making, & cooperation and is looking to build a brand new lab.

I’m recruiting PhD students at NYU (start Sept 2026). Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development. Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon. I’ll share more about the move & new work soon. Please share with students & retweet!

"A timely, fundamentally humane book that points the way to a more honest, forgiving, and principled society." — @michael.muthukrishna.com "The Hypocrisy Trap" by @mhallsworth.bsky.social is available now: bit.ly/3KPISNK #BehavioralScience 📚💙

Policy applications, by @schimmelpfennig.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com Charles Efferson and others Chapter: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats to all involved in the production of the massive Oxford Handbook of cultural evolution. You can read our paper The Cultural Evolution Of Science here: cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/u...

This thicc 71-chapter book (academic.oup.com/edited-volum...) arrived just in time to use as the textbook for my new "Cultural Evolution" class I've just started teaching! Featuring this chapter from @cailinmeister.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social & Jingyi Wu as well as much more including...

What is innovation and why is it one of the laws of life? @michael.muthukrishna.com explains in my latest podcast episode. Thanks to @templetonrelig.bsky.social for sponsoring this season on the beauty and burdens of innovation. www.beautyatwork.net/p/the-laws-o...

Redefine how the world measures progress! 🌍🧑‍🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵‍♀️🍄🌐👍 Join the Global Expert Consultation to develop The Nature Relationship Index (NRI) @undp.org <15 mins to make a difference anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... > Deadline: Oct 15, 2025 > Background: rdcu.be/etpiQ

In this weekend’s read from the archive, Evan Nesterak and @michael.muthukrishna.com plumb a sweeping “theory of everyone,” a possible key to advancing social and behavioral science.

Human aspirations for better lives can be mobilized to ensure that the natural world thrives along with people. Says Pedro Conceição @undp.org Read his op-ed in the Financial Times, which builds on the paper published in Nature in June ⬇️Proud to be working alongside the @undp.org & others on this

👩‍💻 AI has the power to revolutionise education, but tech alone is not enough @michael.muthukrishna.com and several brilliant PBS students explore how AI can transform learning - but only if embedded in human-centred, culturally adaptive systems. #OpenAccess #Research #AI #Education #Teaching

Any recommendations for a good evolution oriented intro psych textbook? Gray & Bjorkland's Psychology isn’t being renewed.

🌎 An aspirational new approach to planetary futures This new paper, co-authored by @michael.muthukrishna.com & published in 'Nature', proposes an innovative new framework - the Nature Relationship Index (NRI) - for addressing planetary environmental challenges. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Just out in @nature.com: Oxford Uni, UNDP‬ & others propose a 'Nature Relationship Index', a bold new metric to track how well people & nature thrive together. A hopeful framework to reimagine progress beyond GDP. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09080-1 #NatureRecovery @ox.ac.uk @undp.org

Today's LSE Festival highlight is our closing event: Can we be optimistic about the future? @rogerhighfield.bsky.social, Suhair Khan, @isabel-losada.bsky.social & @michael.muthukrishna.com share some of the ideas, innovations & discoveries to give us hope 💡 FREE tickets (in person/online) 👇

LSE Festival is taking place 16-21 June, with global leaders, experts & innovators exploring the near & distant future & what a better world could look like. @michael.muthukrishna.com will join a discussion on 'Positive futures' on 21 June: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-F... Full schedule & tickets 👇

It's May! Which means #LSEFestival is coming up next month. Browse the programme & save the date for events you don't want to miss. What are the possible worlds to come? 🌎 How will AI, tech & innovation shape society? 💻 How will we confront global challenges? 🌊 Will our political reality change? 🗳️

New paper Mutual benefits of social learning and algorithmic mediation for cumulative culture In this pure modeling paper, we attempt to explore how recommendation algorithms might alter the dynamics of social learning and cumulative cultural evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The @financialtimes.com on our recent @naturehumbehav.bsky.social study on SES and genetics 🧬🌃 ft.pressreader.com/v99c/2025040... (by @anjahuja.bsky.social) (thread on the study itself is quoted below)

"I wanted to have that be clear — that he’s not on my team and I’m not on his" - me on Emil Kirkegaard in this great piece from @undark.org: undark.org/2025/03/26/u...

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽

Delighted to be part of this paper on the relationship between social economic status and genetics. Led by @dr-appie.bsky.social and co-authored with @hilarycmartin.bsky.social @martinkolk.bsky.social @adamrutherford.bsky.social @fctropf.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social

📣 We are delighted to share that @michael.muthukrishna.com has been promoted to Professor of Economic Psychology! 👏 Congratulations Michael! We are exceptionally proud to have you in our department! 💥 #Professor #EconomicPsychology #PartofLSE #LSEPBS #Promotion

Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management! Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG... @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com

At least 9 out of 10 children are already using AI with little to no guidance or support. It’s great to see this government recognize the need to support teachers, parents, and students in using these new technologies safely, ethically, and effectively to enhance learning and address inequalities.1/

New post on the Return of Realpolitik (thoughts on Friday's Zelensky-Trump-Vance Whitehouse meeting) www.lab.muthukrishna.com/p/the-return...

Does cultural experience shape visual perception? New research finds "profound differences in visual phenomenology, with rural Namibian participants often failing to see percepts obvious to UK/US participants and vice versa." Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Our Evolution of Evolvability work is finally* out! *technically it has been out for a bit, but all of ~this~ bullshit was happening www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Reminder of this #culturalevolution starter pack go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

A timely reminder that we are all related. From "A Theory of Everyone", by @michael.muthukrishna.com

Very enjoyable and stimulating evening with @michael.muthukrishna.com discussing his great book ‘A Theory of Everyone’ at the inaugural IGP Book Club at The Gilded Acorn bookshop. Thank you Michael.

I'm giving the last public book talk & signing of the year tomorrow (Thursday Dec 5) at the Institute for Global Prosperity Book Club, Gilded Acorn at 6:30pm. The discussion will be hosted by Angus Armstrong. Hope to see you there! @angusarmstrong.bsky.social fastforward2030.com/events/2024/...

The reactions to the Biden pardon on Bluesky vs the other place are revealing. Anyone got a proper analysis?

My review of Michael Muthukrishna (@mmuthukrishna.bsky.social)’s book for the journal Behavioural Public Policy. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/a-theory-o...

Hey @bsky.app, first week here, love the features. One suggestion: I'm not sure why you're giving up like 2% of the device width for an arguably useless profile pic margin? #design

Simulating Ourselves: The Promise of AI and Behavioral Science: www.electrictwin.com/updates/simu...

The first foreign translation book cover is... Korea! Blends elements of the US and UK covers. What do you think?

Here is @mmuthukrishna.bsky.social discussing multiculturalism on The Dissenter Michael Muthukrishna is lined up on the CCE seminar series for Jan 2025 🥳 Come to London or join online to hear more then! Full interview: youtu.be/ijYK-NITkeU

In other science reform implosion news, the contested article including OSF & Data Colada authors on how preregistration & other rigor-enhanching practices led to high observed replicability (the one that couldn't produce its own preregistration) was just retracted www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We start off the new year 🎇 with @mmuthukrishna.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at LSE on the 15th Jan.

Causal salad, causal design, causal inference. I did a 3 hour workshop in Leipzig yesterday on causal inference, aka why your regressions are garbage lolsob. Here below a recording of me covering the same content, I promise it's not boring #stats 🧪 (Link to slides/code github.com/rmcelreath/c...)

The rise of The One Thing That Explains Everything (TOTTEE) books. Of course you & I know–& so too do the authors–that the world is complicated. Arrows of causality point in multiple directions, & even feed back on each other. No one thing explains everything. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/d...

I totally slept on the fact that today was my book’s UK (and EU?) release date! It should be available worldwide now. Get your snarky advice about modeling right here!

Fo shiz. What "sustainability" means in a more evolutionary approach to adaptation (in the human-ecology sense) is, I think, an open question. Not going extinct seems a reasonable place to start -- certainly better than any notion of "carrying capacity."

New paper with Cody Moser. Builds on previous work on innovation/cumulative cultural evolution on networks, but also shows that the structures that enhance rapid innovation can also amplify inequality. Innovation-facilitating networks create inequality royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Just finished a fascinating and thought-provoking A Theory of Everyone by @mmuthukrishna.bsky.social I can highly recommend it!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐