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Alejandro Pérez Velilla

@apvelilla.bsky.social
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PhD in Cognitive and Information Sciences | Postdoc @ NUS CompSci | Using anthro & game theory to study the cultural evolution of beliefs, cooperation and institutions, and their applications for cooperative AI. anthrocult.org

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Joshua B. Plotkin @jplotkin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happy to share a new paper led by the terrific Anzhi Sheng. We find that allocation policies that promote cooperation tend to concentrate benefits among the well-connected. And so structured societies must weigh collective success against the inequality it generates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cooperation conflicts with equality when allocating public goods

Anzhi Sheng, Qi Su, Alex McAvoy, Long Wang & Joshua B. Plotkin 
Nature  655, 1217-1225 (2026)

Cooperation is typically seen as the ideal outcome in a social dilemma. Because cooperators are vulnerable to exploitation, much of the literature has focused on mechanisms, such as spatial structure, that support prosocial behaviour and the production of public goods1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11. Yet the rules for distributing these goods also shape behaviour and long-term prosperity. Here we study policies for allocating public goods, comparing equitable allocation, in which returns are proportional to potential contributions, with uniform allocation, in which all individuals receive equal shares. For most social networks, we find that uniform allocation facilitates the spread of cooperation compared with equitable allocation. But this success comes with a cost. Uniform allocation concentrates resources in a small number of highly connected individuals12, whereas peripheral individuals receive fewer benefits and may even be worse off than in a non-cooperative society. We develop a theoretical analysis of the tension between cooperation and equality, and we identify this conflict across diverse empirical social networks. Our results show that inequality may be an unavoidable consequence of allocation policies designed to foster cooperation in spatially heterogeneous populations. The question of how to promote cooperation is therefore incomplete: because policies that facilitate cooperation can also generate social stratification, we must weigh the benefits of cooperation against the inequality that accompanies it.
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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Learning from the most successful people makes sense? We show that social learning, and especially payoff bias, is bad when choice outcomes are dependent on prior success💰 As such "rich-get-richer" dynamics are everywhere, this shows fundamental boundary conditions for the benefits of SL!
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Jeff Yoshimi @jyoshimi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I first learned dynamical systems theory from “Dynamics: the Geometry of Behavior” (1992), a collaboration between mathematician Ralph Abraham and artist Chris D Shaw. The book is over 600 pages long, and the visualizations stay strong and groovy the whole time.
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A Demographic Theory of Similarity-Biased Social Learning. Now out in PNAS, led by the incomparable @apvelilla.bsky.social . We use modeling to explore conditions for the (cultural) evolution of parochial (and anti-parochial) learning biases. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Humans adapt by learning from others, but risk acquiring maladaptive behaviors when learning from individuals facing different conditions. We present an evolutionary model exploring how individuals use social identity markers to select learning targets in diverse populations. Learners evolve biases that track reliable information sources: preferring similar individuals when in-group knowledge is adaptive, and dissimilar individuals when in-group behaviors are disadvantageous. Our framework demonstrates that this adaptive bias makes social learning viable even when it is costlier than individual learning. Additionally, we show that a minimum threshold of reliable cultural information is required for social learning to spread, providing a mathematical explanation for how demographic diversity drives population-level patterns of cultural segregation and assimilation.
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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Out now in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thank you to all peers and colleagues who provided invaluable feedback during the process!
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A demographic theory of similarity-biased social learning | PNAS
We develop a demographic theory of similarity-biased social learning that formalizes our understanding of when and why individuals should preferent...
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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I wasn't able to attend #CogSci26 this year, but happy to share that a paper I presented there two years ago is now published in journal-length form 😊 The paper studies how people can rationally infer others' goals in open-ended spaces, and yet do so rapidly and spontaneously.
Topics in Cognitive Science
Original Article
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Infinite Ends From Finite Samples: Open-Ended Goal Inference as Top-Down Bayesian Filtering of Bottom-Up Proposals
Tan Zhi-Xuan, Gloria Kang, Vikash Mansinghka, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Open-ended goal inference as top-down Bayesian filtering of bottom-up proposals. We model inference in open-ended goal spaces as the combination of two processes: (a) Bottom-up sampling—you (observer) see your friend (agent) enter the kitchen and come up with several plausible goals (making tea, getting a snack, grabbing drinks, checking the pot, and so on) based on the context cue that your friend is in the kitchen. (b) Top-down filtering—your friend opens the fridge, which would be irrational if they were making tea or checking the pot; these goals are hence filtered out as poor explanations. By repeating these processes as actions unfold, we can model how people draw broadly rational inferences about others' goals even when the space of possibilities is infinite or just too large for explicit enumeration.
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I really like this paper I did with @nathan-gabriel.bsky.social and @avbell.bsky.social, now out in EHS. It's an unusual paper because we tried to model the emergence of complex, multidimensional and intersectional identity structures from a signaling perspective. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The evolution of identity signals for co-ordination in diverse societies
Individual social identities indicate group affiliations and are typically associated with group-typical preferences, signals that indicate group membership, and the propensity to condition actions on the social signals of others, resulting in group-differentiated interaction norms. Past work modelling identity signalling and co-ordination has typically assumed that individuals belong to one of a discrete set of groups. Yet individuals can simultaneously belong to multiple groups, which may be nested within larger groupings. Here, we introduce the generalized Bach or Stravinsky game, a co-ordination game with ordered preferences, which allows us to construct a model that captures the overlapping and hierarchical nature of social identity. Our model unifies several prior results into a single framework, including results related to co-ordination, minority disadvantage, and cross-cultural competence. Our model also allows agents to express complex social identities through multidimensional signalling, which we use to explore a variety of complex group structures. Our consideration of intersectional identities exposes flaws in naive measures of group structure, illustrating how empirical studies may overlook some social identities if they do not consider the behaviours that those identities function to afford.Figure 1.
(a) Ancient Sumerian cities used throughout the paper as a motivating example. (b) Diagram of relationships between the different Mesopotamian identities along with shapes used to represent each of them throughout the paper.Figure 11.
Proportion of simulations that resulted in (a) the intersectional structure, optimal when 𝛼 =2, or (b) either of the two mere conjunction structures, optimal when 𝛼 =0. The trio of stick figures at the top represent the optimal strategy profiles used by non-Kishus in all cases.Acknowledgements
We thank the members of the MODSOC lab at UC Merced for helpful comments. We are grateful to the NSF for funding foundational research on social identity, inequality, and intersectionality.
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Want to do a PhD to work on models of opinion dynamics and the inequalities of information flow, with an emphasis on climate change and climate policy? Apply by October 15 to work with Ago Merico and myself, based at @leibniz-zmt.de in Bremen, Germany. www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/vacancies...
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Doctoral candidate (gn) - WG Systems Ecology
Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) erforscht tropische und subtropische Küstenökosysteme und ihre Bedeutung für Natur und Menschen erforscht.
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!
Job announcement of two positions at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt: postdoc (Macroevolution of European Literature) and PhD student (Computational Literary Studies). Successful candidates will be affiliated with the research group Cultural Evolution of the Arts.
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I had a paper accepted and learned that PNAS got rid of their free, “closed access” (preprint ok) option - they now charge at least $3K to publish because they are greedy little pigs who have no shame.
PNAS charges $5575 for immediate access at $3925 for delayed open access, because they are greedy pigs without shame.
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Watch out, he's got a PhD! Congrats man!
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I couldn’t be prouder of the stellar work @apvelilla.bsky.social did for his PhD. A phenomenal set of work on social learning, cooperation, and risk. Keep on eye on this guy, he’s one to watch.
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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I am happy to announce that I have successfully defended my dissertation --- under the supervision of my mentor @psmaldino.bsky.social --- for the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced.
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Ketika Garg @ketikagarg.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...
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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
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Zebra finches transform manipulated songs with shuffled syllables to exhibit linguistic laws - Animal Cognition
Animal Cognition - Linguistic laws are increasingly used as markers of efficiency in non-human communication, but it remains unclear how rapidly these patterns can emerge. In this re-analysis of...
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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Great thread by @apvelilla.bsky.social about our new paper: "A Demographic Theory of Similarity-Biased Social Learning." We use mathematical modeling to explore the functional role played by identity markers in how we learn from others, and in the evolution of social learning more generally.
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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New preprint with @psmaldino.bsky.social on the evolution of similarity-biased learning: osf.io/preprints/so... This mathematical treatment both simplifies and extends our previous simulation treatment of the subject: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New preprint out with @elspethready.bsky.social : "The emergence of sharing networks through indirect signaling". osf.io/preprints/so...
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Super proud of this paper with @apvelilla.bsky.social and @babeheim.bsky.social, now out in Psych Review. Non-paywalled version (preprint) here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/capita... #smbc
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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This week we talk to @babeheim.bsky.social about culture, change, modeling, running red lights, and the game of go. youtu.be/nqTkSK-qtJM www.podbean.com/eas/pb-hrn9v...
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Cultural Dynamics with Bret Breheim
YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Happy to see this work published in Psych Review. It's an impressive and important bit of theory/modeling about how we learn about decision-making under risk. Here's a slide with the super-coarse-grained summary of our results. Read the paper for (much) more. osf.io/preprints/so...
Modeling the evolution of peer and vertical/oblique learning strategies for gambles under uncertainty
We recover many empirical results and generate new hypotheses:
Worse conditions lead to more pessimistic behavior
Younger people are overly optimistic
Wealthy people can afford to take more risks
Payoff-biased learning for the rich, parochialism for the poor
Poor people may be slower to adapt to environmental change, creating the appearance of “poverty traps”
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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I am happy to announce that our project on risk and social learning is now in press at Psychological Review. Several new additions and revisions thanks to detailed feedback from colleagues and anonymous reviewers. osf.io/preprints/so... @psmaldino.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"
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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!
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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society
Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New preprint w/ Nathan Gabriel & @avbell.bsky.social: The Evolution of Identity Signals for Coordination in Diverse Societies The model tackles multiple nested/overlapping identities and complex signaling structure. Recovers lots of old results and adds several new ones osf.io/preprints/so...
Individual social identities indicate group affiliations and are typically associated with 3 group-typical preferences, signals that indicate group membership, and the propensity to condition actions on the social signals of others, resulting in group-differentiated interaction norms. Past work modeling identity signaling and coordination has typically assumed that individuals belong to one of a discrete set of groups. Yet individuals can simultaneously belong to multiple groups, which may be nested within larger groupings. Here, we introduce the generalized Bach or Stravinsky game, a coordination game with ordered preferences, which allows us to construct a model that captures the overlapping and hierarchical nature of social identity. Our model unifies several prior results into a single framework, including results related to coordination, minority disadvantage, and cross-cultural competence. Our model also allows agents to express complex social identities through multidimensional signaling, which we use to explore a variety of complex group structures. Our consideration of intersectional identities exposes flaws in naive measures of group structure, illustrating how empirical studies may overlook some social identities if they do not consider the behaviors that those identities function to afford.
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Elspeth Ready @elspethready.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned 
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Here's the stable link to the most recent version 👀 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 New preprint! 🚨 I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution. Check out these decision trees! osf.io/preprints/ps...
decision trees in human play in the game of go before and after the arrival of superhuman AI, showing gradual change rather than revolutionary disruption
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Maven's Notebook @mavensnotebook.com · 24/02/2025
Merced River, Yosemite National Park
Merced River, Yosemite National Park
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Week 7 of my Bayes stats course, now deep in multilevel models, correlated effects, centered and non-centered parameterizations, diag(σ)LZ ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (link to lectures: github.com/rmcelreath/s...)
meme with escalating multilevel priors, from fixed to simple random to correlated random effectsComplex generalized linear multilevel model with an image of a monster emerging from the ocean behind it
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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We are gutting EIS and our general capacity to respond to novel infectious threats right as bird flu is ramping up. What could possibly go wrong? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Bird Flu Is a Big Threat. The US Needs to Start Acting Like It.
Scientists suspect a new strain is spreading via dust from bird droppings, carried by the wind.
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Christian Hilbe @chilbe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In game theory, we often assume that people only interact in one game at a time. In a new paper, we explore theoretically and experimentally how people cooperate when they engage in two games concurrently, either with the same partner or with different partners, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies? Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵 w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Looking for a first intro to theoretical models in cultural evolution? For yourself or your students? 🔍 In our chapter for an upcoming @ehbea.bsky.social textbook, we outline what models are for, what questions they address, and how they can be coded in R! Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Postdoc position available in our team! We are testing a computational model explaining the decision-making process during in normative/moral situations while incorporating the formative role of culture in this process. www.muni.cz/en/about-us/... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #cogpsyc
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Postdoctoral researcher in social cognition | Masaryk University
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
💥Two 💥 post-doc positions open in my @erc.europa.eu ERC-funded group. In an interdisciplinary, collaborative setting, we use different types of modeling (e.g., reinforcement learning) and human experiments to understand social learning and cultural evolution. Get in touch if you have any questions!
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Benoît de Courson @bdecourson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Does poverty lead to risk taking or risk avoidance? Turns out, to both. Our new paper (with D. Nettle & W. Frankenhuis) in @royalsocietypublishing.org explains why, and conducts preregistered tests of our ‘desperation threshold’ model. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... A 🧵
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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Andy Whiten and I wrote a @science.org perspective about a cool new study from @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social et al! They found humpback whale song has language-like statistical structure, using methods inspired by infant language learning 🐋🎶 Links below ⬇️
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Lovely blog post about our recent paper in Ornithology (@amornith.bsky.social)! We applied agent-based models and machine learning to 36 yrs of mourning warbler song, and found evidence that males have a learning bias for more complex syllables: americanornithology.org/cultural-evo...
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Cultural evolution in song of Geothlypis philadelphia (Mourning Warbler) - American Ornithological Society
We used a long-term database of songs recorded over 36 years from throughout the breeding range of Geothlypis philadelphia (Mourning Warbler) to answer questions about the current and historical patte...
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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Language-like efficiency in whale communication
Whale vocalizations follow efficiency rules seen in human language, revealing striking similarities in communication systems.
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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...
a schematic depiction of a trend line and several causal forces that give it its shape
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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🏰 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)
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"It's us vs them." Is it always? …and if it isn’t, when might it be them = us, or even them > us?? In a new paper, Cody Ross and I find that perceived cooperativeness and need can flip the equation. Here’s a thread 👇🏻 and here’s the paper: doi.org/10.1017/ehs.... /1
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Perceived inequality and variability in the expression of parochial altruism | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Perceived inequality and variability in the expression of parochial altruism - Volume 7
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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Good words to remember when things are falling apart...
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