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Simon Carrignon

@carigol.bsky.social
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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We need entry-threshold grant lottery systems with easy-to-estimate and easy-to-write basis - plus a basic-incoming grant basis. The latter will be very efficient in its use, the former will be just as 'good' as the current systems in its decisions, but far less wasteful in writing and reviewing.
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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New tutorial preprint about simulation-based inference! Shows how to fit a cultural evo model to baby name data using approx Bayesian computation, random forests, and deep learning. Wrote for @eslr.bsky.social but wanted to share with others in @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social! :) osf.io/preprints/so...
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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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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Yay! This week I started working at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt as a group leader. Lots of work ahead, but super exciting kind of work 🔥
Happy me in front of the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
You are interested in Archaeology but feel more at ease behind the CLI? You love linux, dockers & databases? join us at @ugiatucl.bsky.social with @mt-genes.bsky.social, we are looking for a part time database manager (3 days a week), remote work welcome : www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
yesterday we opened up this bottle of marzemino we brought from Trento when I visited @acerbialberto.com. We loved every bottle of marzemino we tried there, this one was no exeption!Glad Alberto introduced us to this grape and the good wine it makes - Trentino is an awesome region for wine and food.
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
He beh, sacrée poursuite!
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Andy Walton @andyjmwalton.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Out today, we present high quality ancient DNA data for Beachy Head Woman for the first time. Hers is a story about changing interpretations, science communication, and cutting-edge genetic technology...🧵 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists
Exclusive: DNA advances show Roman-era skeleton, once hailed as first black Briton, came from southern England
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CAA UK @caa-uk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We’re into the final stretch of Session 3 at #CAAUK2025! We’ve heard Adrian Timpson & Simon Carrignon on inequality modelling and Doudou Cao on body-size change in ancient China — now Anastasia Nikulina is presenting her work on modelling Mediterranean agriculture. #DigitalArchaeology #CAAUK
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I remember in 2008-2010 thinking "future of internet is mesh networks, everyone storing a bit of internet, maximum redundancy, robustness, decentralisation..." Did it finally happened? missed the memo ..
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Fees and Funding - Durham University
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Received my version yesterday, it's beautiful! (and yes, very big!) .
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
That's was a super nice episode of many minds! This is a fascinating topic, presented by two great researchers. Hard not to want to explore more in depth kids culture after listening to that :D
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Dr. Liz Fischer @lizfischer0.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳 #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky
Four copies of a book titled "Network Analysis for Book Historians"
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Awesome dive into the concept of panmixia & the reasons of its wide adoption in evolutionary biology (it's not just a convenient mathematical simplification!) And a great example of a fruitful collab between science & history of sciences, two communities that sadly are way too far from panmixia :)
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 09/07/2025
Btw what I’m finding endearing in an (appropriately) old-fashioned way is that the entirety of our collaboration happened over one 100-message email thread spanning about three months.
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
never been a mac user but super fun to read and a lot to learn!
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.
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Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management
The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.
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Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Is archaeology a science? 🧪 Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
First page of the journal articleFig 1 boxplotFig 2 scatter plot panelFig 3 ridgeplot panel
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
c'est a partir de quelle age que t'es obligé de parler à tes voisins de tablé dans le train quand t'es assis a une table de 4? genre au dessus de 60 ans? ou c'est just basé sur le pourcentage de cheveux blanc?
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thanks @durhamdcerc.bsky.social for the opportunity to present work I have been doing on ABM & archaeology. It was a great pleasure to be in Durham again and chat with you all. I made it through the flood, and I'm now on my way back with plenty of things to think about!
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
that's it! all in one :D @sheinalew.bsky.social
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
M'colleague Mark Thomas has a new position in our lab, in European pre-history evolution, exploring patterns of co-variation in genetic, archaeological and environmental data using a range of statistical method. Come and join us. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 06/03/2025
Calling all cultural evolution researchers in Asia
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Dan Mirman @danmirman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
My colleague is hiring a post-doc for a very cool project using text-mining and stats techniques to study the cultural evolution of archaeological information. You'd get to do interesting work with a very fun team and live in the best city in the world! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 25/02/2025
Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share! bit.ly/3QCXUFS
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
If you are still not sure why you should switch to linux in 2025, here is the video you should watch right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Cy... (I'm a bit subjective as it involve a live demo of debian+KDE, the system i uses too, but still! thanks @siestes.bsky.social )
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Why You Should Think About Switching To Linux.
YouTube video by Andrea Borman
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
@samsonduran.bsky.socialah ouai la pp fashiono-cloonesque!
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 21/09/2024
Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My reading got a bit disturbed and delayed by new job and stuff but I am glad I grab and finished sianmgilbert.bsky.social's book yesterday! it was great! definitely recommand it , and waiting for Sian next one :)
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
pdfpc is such a GREAT tools. If you still think 'linux isn't bad but, mehh, pdf are not as good as PPT, video never really works, etc"... just check it pdfpc.github.io
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pdfpc: PDF presenter console with multi-monitor support | pdfpc Commands | Man Pages | ManKier
pdfpc is a GTK-based presentation viewer which uses Keynote-like multi-monitor output to provide meta information to the speaker during the presentation.
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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New paper on PNAS led by @carigol.bsky.social and written with Anne Kandler and Stephen Shennan, where we explore the impact of post-marital residence rules and resocialisation in cultural hitchhiking - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
matchincroyable UESA EUROPA. une fin tellement dommage
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 15/11/2024
Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...
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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference Announced - Cultural Evolution Society
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
that's it! the beginning of my new Cambridge-London commuter's life... lucky one so far, train is 'only' 15 minutes' late so far and I found space for my bike ❤️
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
awesome initiative from Will! #CES2024Durham, you should just hit 'follow all' without hesitation!
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Sounds like not much activity hear yet sadly :/ I guess for now will keep posting on 'the other place' #CES2024Durham
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
We are excited to announce that we are collaborating with Nature Human Behaviour!! We will mass reproduce/replicate their papers from 2023 onwards. We need your help conducting computational reproducibility + sensitivity analysis OR replication with new data. Correspondence here: rdcu.be/dwUGX
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
If I had any doubt that I arrived in a department of sociology :) @albertoacerbi.bsky.social
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Slowly making my way to Trento ! (was a gif, but looks like still no gif around here...)
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
I’ll be giving a talk at the @CDAL Seminar Series at @UCamArchaeology on the 5th of Feb 🤩. I’ll mainly discuss work done with @jblinkhorn.bsky.social and Prof Matt Grove on Central African archaeology! Come by if you you’re interested in the ecological drivers of cultural dynamics 🤗
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
I am very happy to finally share the last talk of our Garrod Seminar Series about Cultural Evolution & Archaeology! Sadly @amesoudi.bsky.social couldn't make it on the day of his talk but he kindly accepted to record it to allow us to share it online! here it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyve...
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Archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution - Prof. Alex Mesoudi
“Archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution” by Prof. Alex Mesoudi, Professor of Cultural Evolution at the University of ExeterThis talk was ...
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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
The year is coming to an end and holidays are coming up soon. We hope you had a successful year and wish you and your family happy holidays and a prosperous New Year 2024.
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
A plot showing prestige (impact factor) on vertical axis and fees charged by journals on horizontal axis.
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Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre @durhamdcerc.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
We are really excited to be hosting the CES2024 conference here in Durham in September! What are some questions you have for us? #CES2024Durham
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Very interesting and challenging reflections about modelling here at the first day of Barcelona workshop on Social Modelling and Simulation organised by @h3uristica.bsky.social ! Why are we modelling social phenomena? can it really work? how should we do it?
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
That's it, last post for this term, the Garrod Seminar Series is finished! We want to warmly thank all the speakers: Fiona Jordan, Mike O'Brien, Felix Riede, @amesoudi.bsky.social, Stephen Shennan, Ruth Mace & Valentine Roux!
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HEURÍSTICA @h3uristica.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
The Social Modelling and Simulations Barcelona Workshop #SMSBCN23 is coming. An occasion for joint reflection for those who investigate social behavior applying the tools of physical, mathematical, and computational sciences👇🧵 heuristica.participa.cloud/conferences/...
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SMS-Social Modelling and Simulations - Asociación Cultural Heurística
The first Barcelona workshop on Social Modelling and Simulations will be an occasion for joint reflection and a space for exchange for those who investigate social behavior applying, from different pe...
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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
📣 The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse seeks applications for POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS and VISITING FELLOWS. More information and application links can be found at iast.fr/apply 🚨 Application deadline: November 15, 2023 🚨
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