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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ahah that's exactly what I say to people when they ask where in France I am from "about 1h30 from Lyon - Ah Lyon, never been, what's nice there? - it's 1h30 away from the best places on the planet"

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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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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Sad not to be able to join CES from start but will see you for the Wednesday overlap with HBES!

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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

👏👏👏well done Oleg! hope I can visit you sooner than later!

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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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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hi Zach! having a few issues with abstract submission etc.. the website for HBES says the thing below ; but I haven't finished to fill all information and it just stopped at some point with a 500 internal error and lot of weird php logs 😬 sorry if I have done something wrong!

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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

(I realise how very "I'm in my early forties" is to post picture of wine you brought back from travel... sorry about that, was very much bored by science and political stuff :'D)

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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 · 06/01/2026

une clean plate qui n'a pas duré bien ltp

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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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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Totally missed the live on this account!! But now I follow you, wont miss it next time. I Had a great time, lot of wonderful talks from a very diverse range of speakers!

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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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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

(if you look for my chapter in the table of content, I have been anglo-saxonified as Simon Carrington ;D)

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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

Interestingly, people applying cultural evolution to archaeology (evolutionary archaeologists 😅?), probably closer to fields like geostatistics and so on, have been using null model similar to IBD models for a while (cf early 2010s papers from @ercrema.bsky.social, Shennan, etc.)

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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The authors argue that isolation by distance would be a much more reasonable null model for evolutionary biology to build on, now that we have more computing power, and I can't agree more with them (also can't wait for a follow up article on that ;), hopefully they will be one)

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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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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...

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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"academic-hard-workout" one of my highlight of 2024 tbh :) We need a cultural evolution meeting in Trento soon, @oliviermorin.bsky.social I'm sure you can convince Alberto to do that!

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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

definitly! I mentionned it in a talk in Durham last week after seeing the version in Alife! wanted to chat about it with @missdaffodil.bsky.social but I didn't realized she was back in Germany :)

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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 · 19/03/2025

and thanks you all for linking cultural evolution and alife! <3

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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

staruday c'est samedi on s'entend

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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 · 11/03/2025

Note that in the paper the author do not link the ABM to the data showed this picture. It's more of a (very week imo) qualitative comparison ; they don't actually test if the link can actually be made.

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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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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

develop their own project so they can apply for future job/grants, 'be involved in the dpt', 'show leadership' , teach whenever possible, finish papers from past jobs... Incentives and recognition are a solution yes, but asking ECR to be the ones that will crash test/implement that... not sure

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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

hmm ECR do already review for all the reasons you list in your post, no? and until they got these 'badges' -- hoping they'll be worth something-- they still have to work for the project they're being paid for on top of:

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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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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

(sorry just realised that youtube RSS feeds won't provide the media so you sadly will have to click to open the video forum.antennapod.org/t/cant-add-y.... :( )

forum.antennapod.org

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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

for people who use podcast readers that support RSS (like AntennaPod dose -- best app, fully open source available on F-Droid) you can simply add the RSS of the youtube channel which is this: www.youtube.com/feeds/videos...

print screen showing how to add a podcast using RSS feed with AntennaPod (best podcast app ever)

print screen showing view of Cultural Evolution Society from AntennaPod (best podcast app ever, did I mention it?)

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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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Simon Carrignon @carigol.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

ohoh! 🤞you'll enjoy your new environment before the end of the year 🙈

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