Roll up, roll up: @riadsala.bsky.social did some more thinking about our model of visual foraging: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... It now has some shiny new parameters (absolute direction!) and it's not bad at distinguishing individual differences in strategies too. #PsychSciSky #VisionScience

@ehbea.bsky.social develops different grants to support its community’s research 🔬 We fund them mainly by our membership fees, but we are also open for donations of any amount 😌 Help us keep doing our work and support the evolutionary human sciences 🙌 More info👇 www.ehbea.org/pages/donate

🚨Next week's talk at ARC Join us for a talk presented by Dr. Jan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology). 📅 21 May 11:00 (Local Time Germany) @mpib-berlin.bsky.social or online See the link for details👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/45727...

Joe Henrich emphasizing the importance of formal models at #CES2026

Really enjoyed running this workshop with @alexschakowski.bsky.social. More sessions in our ESLR skill-sharing series are coming soon!

Join us at 2pm today at the @eslr.bsky.social skill-sharing session for a basic introduction to Bayesian modelling using Stan and brms! 🧑‍🎓

There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

It was a great honor to speak at such an interesting and creative community.

Great talk by @jingyux.bsky.social bringing the collective behaviour vibe to #ehbea2026 ! Stay tuned to her beky account for the upcoming preprints on her talk on social learning + social networks

Using simulations, we investigated whether Value-Shaping imitation was always a good thing. And it's not (or is it ?? *gasp*) 🧵

📄 New preprint: The blessing and curse of Value-Shaping imitation (by @isabellehoxha.bsky.social) osf.io/preprints/ps... Imitation is central to human learning: but not all imitation processes are equally adaptive. We study their computational properties using reinforcement learning models.

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10

📘 Excited to share that Decision Making: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) is now available online (PDF for subscribers): doi.org/10.1093/9780... What is it about? Understanding how humans (and other agents) make choices. Below a bit more information👇

I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure. Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3

Thrilled to share that our new paper is now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social: "Who knows what? Bayesian Competence Inference guides Knowledge Attribution and Information Search," with @oliviermorin.bsky.social , @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & @tadegquillien.bsky.social! Link: tinyurl.com/ykyhxcc6

How spatial configuration shapes memory and cognitive load: A behavioural and EEG study of simultaneous spatial and associative memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 TODAY at 2pm CET online: Workshop - Code review in practice: A checklist for computational reproducibility and collaborative research in ecology and evolution with @fhillemann.bsky.social Join at: calendar.app.google/3gjfLpKW4mW2...

📣 Check out the ESLR Skill-Sharing Sessions schedule for Spring 2026! A series of workshops by the ESLR community on reproducibility, Bayesian modeling, accessibility, and more 🌱 The first one is happening TODAY! 🔗 See the full schedule: www.eslrsociety.com/events

Join the ESLR skill-sharing session on computational reproducibility tomorrow. Open to anyone who is interested. Details below 👇

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Join the first @eslr.bsky.social skill-sharing online workshop next week to learn more about computational reproducibility from @fhillemann.bsky.social! Details below 👇

New paper out today! When baby zebra finches are tutored with manipulated songs with shuffled syllables, they transform them to be consistent with linguistic laws 🐥 Reanalysis of data from James and Sakata (2017) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨Last week to apply for a 3 year postdoc with me and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social, embedded in theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de Focus is on developing innovative experiments and computational models to understand social & cultural learning. Deadline is March 30th 👉 hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni...

Very happy to share that the first project of my PhD journey has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience 👩🏼‍🔬 Give it a read 📖 and let me know what you think! direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Migrated to Bluesky as I'm excited to share our new paper on collective route memories in homing pigeons: rdcu.be/e73Qk We found flocks remembered old routes better than pigeons flying alone, likely because different birds remembered different parts of the route!

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Join the first @eslr.bsky.social skill-sharing online workshop next week to learn more about computational reproducibility from @fhillemann.bsky.social! Details below 👇

🚨ESLR Workshop: 🗓 March 26, 2026 ⏰ 2pm CET Online Code review in practice: A checklist for computational reproducibility and collaborative research in ecology & evolution by @fhillemann.bsky.social Our first skill-sharing session of the spring! 🐣 🔗 Join: calendar.app.google/3gjfLpKW4mW2...

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

My colleague, Charles Perreault, has published cool new paper documenting impact of culture on human capacity for adaptation: http//www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2523038123

New paper in TREE co-led w @jennakohles.bsky.social: We explore how resource variability shapes the value of social information for maximizing resource gain & minimizing variance. This eco-evolutionary lens helps us explain why collective sensing emerges in dynamic ecosystems! 🧪 tinyurl.com/2rurcry7

Come work with us! And get in touch with any questions you might have about the position, our labs or living/working in Germany #PostdocWanted

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

✨New Perspective out w/ Wenning Deng and @fearbrain.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social ! We argue that social foraging gives us a unifying, and ecologically grounded way to study how decisions unfold across levels — from individuals and dyads to collectives. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

It was an honour to welcome Ralf Kurvers, who beautifully kicked off this conference with a keynote talk on collective human foraging in ice fishing. @ralfkurvers.bsky.social

Come work with @tsawallis.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and myself! 3 yr Postdoc on category learning w/ structured, program-like representations. Funded by the www.theadaptivemind.de Excellence Cluster! Deadline is Mar 15th, details 👇 Please share widely 🙏

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Join us in June at @iast.fr Toulouse for a 2-day workshop on social influence and its large scale implications!

Hello! My name is Gabriella and in April '26 l will graduate with my PhD in compcog from VetMedUni Vienna🤩👩🏻‍🎓🦜🐒🐕🇦🇹 With this in mind, I am excited to soon extend my passion for animal behavior/cognition in a post-doc/job position, so any recs/ connections would be greatly appreciated!! Website below☺️

OK, it finally happened! My new article, "Gradience as a cognitive principle for evaluating numerical notations", is now out today in @pnas.org. By focusing on numerals' use for communication instead of arithmetic, we have a new tool to assess their efficiency. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In today's modeling class I had a lot of fun trying to reconduce a bunch of different models to the update rule from rescorla wagner :-) it turns out that - at least for RL, bayesian update, kalman filters and hierarchically gaussian filters - it's "all" in the learning rate definition.

We have published the second short video of our series on hybrid collective intelligence. This time, @nikoz.bsky.social from @mpib-berlin.bsky.social presents how combining human expertise with AI insights can lead to better diagnostic accuracy in the medical domain. youtu.be/Xz8wBkDzjjQ

📢 New Paper 🚨 Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life. In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus. bit.ly/4kvLOwA

🎉 New paper in Nature Communications 🎉 rdcu.be/e24jT Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?

The Culture Conference 2026 programme is out! 🎉 From keynotes to talks and posters, we are excited to share a diverse and interdisciplinary lineup. A big thank you to all contributors. With the conference coming up in two weeks, we’re very much looking forward to welcoming you in Utrecht 🙌

📣 Applications for the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! ✨Join us in Berlin @arc-mpib.bsky.social June 08–16, 2026, to explore the topic of “Decision Making in the Age of AI”. ✏️ More details + application form (deadline: March 16): www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

It's out: the first ever podcast interview with Richard B. Lee! 🥁 We discuss the 60 year legacy of Man the Hunter conference, including: The Original Affluent Society The Dawn of Everything The choice of the term "Man" in the conference name. Enjoy!

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

💡 Our new #preprint is available online! How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change? In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments. 🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf... It's a thread 🧵

🚨New preprint! 🚨 "Boosting metacognition in entangled human-AI interaction to navigate cognitive-behavioral drift" arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01959 Happy to see this new work coming to the surface alongside @cabels18.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social 🧵

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the mechanisms of learning from social interaction. Read articles for free: buff.ly/K8v43YM

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko