Prestige bias drives the viral spread of content reposted by influencers in online communities https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05448

We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics […] songs characterized by sorrowful plots and endings receive higher scores than those with more joyful emotional themes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Calling all autistic UK comics folks! Join a Cambridge Uni project exploring the link between autism & comics. Help create new guidance for a more neurodivergent-friendly comics world! cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #autism #comics #neurodiversity

Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

🚨 New paper! 🚨 by Yoolim Kim, @helenamiton.bsky.social, Marc Allassonnière Tang, & myself, in Journal of Memory and Language. We tried to do for letter shapes what phonologists did for speech sounds. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... A 🧵 (1/14)

Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...

The #cultural #evolution Society published the recordings from their conference Sept 24 free to watch https://underline.io/events/456/library/809

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Traditional Methods of Black Magic traditionsofconflict.substack.com/p/traditiona...

We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science. Deadline January 6: international.au.dk/about/profil...

A new Lecturer position to join our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social A preference for candidates with expertise in functional neuroimaging in relevant areas (e.g. cognitive, social, affective, clinical neuroscience), but all other areas will also be considered. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...

Funded PhD position at NTU: Using imaging spectroscopy to measure individual differences in facial expressivity in human and non-human primates www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

I'm very happy to see my article "Genes, Culture and Scientific Racism", coauthored with Marc Feldman, published in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (see rb.gy/x0e4lw). We explain why people wrongly believe race is a biological classification.

🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you. cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...

🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?! www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan... Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.

The Specials on the continuity between humans and non-human primates www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Ou...

The British Academy has just published an interactive map that tracks the UK's subject 'cold spots', which suggests subjects such as anthropology might soon be the preserve only of students with higher grades or able to travel further from home to study www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Our paper on Human-AI coevolution is now published on the Artificial Intelligence journal! At the crossroads of #AI and #complexity to better understand how humans and AIs influence each other on online platforms sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Big thanks to all coauthors!

New paper led by Lidya Yurdum (PI: @mehr.nz )—we studied people in 52 countries in an experiment translated into 31 languages, testing a core set of intuitions about music—for at least these intuitions, they were highly consistent! t.co/vys4n7b49o

"We are looking for applicants with scientific expertise in: behavioural science anthropology human geography engineering medical science political science economics artificial Intelligence migration fraud and democratic/state threats public safety"

Extended deadline to 12/15/24! Postdoc position on creativity/innovation in culture with an interdisciplinary team at @stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...

I'm recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-... Apps due Nov 17!

Gökhan Gonul, @karrineldner and I are editing a special issue in Acta Psychologia on innovation and creativity in children and nonhuman animals - we encourage submissions from diverse perspectives (empirical, theoretical, methodological). Please share widely: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🚨New in @PNASNews, led by @DSchultner & Ben Stillerman: In 8 studies, we test a mechanism through which exposure to societal stereotypes—even those we know may be false—can implicitly transform into individual-level prejudice and then spread across a community. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Next Wednesday I'll be talking about how Dracula and vampire folklore reflects the appeal of disgust and morbid curiosity, alongside other academics from the Uni of Winchester who will share their own perspectives on the novel at Dissecting Dracula: www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk/whats-on/dis...

Potentially a fascinating database for cultural evolution people. Please share

We are recruiting parents/parents-to-be for a co-produced survey on perinatal mental health. If interested please email Alexandra Lautarescu ([email protected]) for a link to the survey. Thanks and please disseminate 😊 #psysky #reprosky #neurodiversity #clinpsy #academicsky 🌈🎓

So my survey got attacked by some bots, and now I've lost 50% of my data. Please help me get to 1,000 real humans who actually meet my survey criteria? This sad PhD candidate thanks you in advance.

New publication on content-based learning biases in the Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior: doi.org/10.1007/978-... Let me know if you're interested in reading it but don't have access.

ICYMI postdoc available on creativity in music and language, w/our interdisciplinary team at Stony Brook! Looking for ppl w/experience building agent-based models and running online experiments. Due 11/15, start 1/1(ish)! @cogscisociety.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social bit.ly/creativity_d...

Are you on the academic job market? Our psychology department held a job market panel where 4 faculty (Ashwini Ashokkumar Mark Ho Eric Knowles and I) answered questions about navigating the job market from PhD students & postdocs Listen to the entire discussion here www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CXG...

New paper out, a long time in the making, with a stellar list of co-authors journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The second social learning strategies tournament, finally out! Legendary work by @drelenamiu.bsky.social to get this over the line, I'll be in the corner being sheepish that I started this project in 2012 😳 - 12 years later I still think it's cool! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🧪

I am looking for an ambitious, computationally-minded postdoc to study the mechanisms of human social learning and cultural evolution! Join our thriving, ERC-funded group ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

The "immigrants eat pets" is a perfect example of cognitively attractive misinformation I talk in this paper: negative, disgust-eliciting, out-group denigrating, etc. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD and Postdoc to join @arc-mpib.bsky.social and work with me on using LLMs to improve the generalizability in the behavioral and social sciences. The positions are fully funded for three years. Apply by October 13! Thank you for sharing!

If you’re an early career researcher who enjoyed #CES2024Durham, check out the ESLR (society for early career social learning researchers) upcoming workshop!

I could never find a good, short "how to" guide for academic reading/writing to share with my students, so I wrote my own. I hope you and/or your students find it useful! osf.io/preprints/ps...

@stephengadsby.bsky.social and I wrote this new piece, discussing the role of 'aha' experiences in propagating belief in conspiracy theories. psyche.co/ideas/the-su...

Deadline extended! There is time until September 20 to submit your abstract to CS2Italy, the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science. Send your best work and join us in Trento! More info ➡️ cs2italy.org

Our team at @stonybrooku.bsky.social got a grant to study creativity!! 🥳 We're hiring a postdoc to start on 1-1-25 w/deadline of 11-15-24. Great salary near NYC. Brief description, w/official listing soon: bit.ly/creativity_d... 📨 @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Associate Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford 😍!! 👉Deadline for applications is Monday 7th October at 12 noon. check the job description 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Now out in MCS 🎯 In two experiments (N = 2735), we show that exposure to false news erodes trust in the news and fuels overconfidence in one’s ability to discern true from false news – without affecting news discernment 📰 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🔓

New draft of a modeling paper I really love, by me and Zack Dunivin. "Dynamics of covert signaling: Modeling the emergence and extinction of identity signals." Methods! We got coupled differential equations, agent-based modeling, random forest classifiers. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Really excited to share this one with y'all! "Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief", a new preprint with Ryan McKay, Jazi Brown-Iannuzzi, Rob Ross, Gord Pennycook, Jon Jong, and Jon Lanman osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇

Mark the date: March 7th. Go ahead and register for free; this will be a cool symposium: Critical Perspectives on the Metascience Reform Movement www.cos.io/critical-per...