Last week, I attended the first-ever Summer Academy of the Cooperative Futures Institute. It was a mind-expanding week of stimulating talks and workshops by experts on the frontier of AI and behavioral science. I left feeling hopeful about the future of human-AI interaction and excited for next year

What makes religious fasting prosocial? Hunger usually makes people more selfish, impulsive, and aggressive — so why does fasting seem to do the opposite? That was the question at the heart of my talk at the 37th meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Rabat, Morocco last week.

We’re kicking off #HBES2026 with opening remarks! 🌍 Welcome to the 37th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Rabat, Morocco. Stay tuned for our first plenary with Brooke Scelza at 11:30.

Saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Trivers, a giant in evolutionary biology. www.skeptic.com/article/robe...

Legendary psychologist Paul Ekman passed away www.paulekman.com/blog/the-pas...

And ZAMM 2025 kicks off in Eureka Springs! Excited to hear talks by unique, creative minds

World’s first behavior transplant between species achieved newatlas.com/biology/unkn...

Check out the June installment of Steve Stewart-Williams’ linkfest: substack.com/@stevestewar...

Solving intelligence requires new research and funding models www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/solv...

Good article from The Transmitter: Males and females show different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions. Ignoring these differences does us all a disservice. www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...

Just presented a poster at SPSP based on work I did with colleagues a couple years ago. We investigated how Openness to Experience and values like open mindedness predict support for woo beliefs. People seemed really interested!

Great short article by Iris Berent in which she argues that people’s tendency for dualism and essentialism make them skeptical of claims about innateness. academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...