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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...

Postdoc and PhD positions at MPIAE in Frankfurt

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 20/07/2026

When you ask a category theorist why you need to use category theory specifically for any specific thing.

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Linnéa Gyllingberg @gyllingberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 31/05/2026

I know the conversation around peer review revolves around pay and the personal benefit of doing it, but frankly every once in a while you get to review something great and think, "agh why didn't I think of that!" and this is worth at least half the bullshit we deal with in peer review.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

How to kill your global science leadership, Chapter 23

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 23/05/2026

I think Stanley is the Platonic ideal we all want to be.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 23/05/2026

I really hate Claude at this point with a passion. I spend way more time these days trying to figure out usable, but extremely dense, intractable code from Claude outputs than back when we just built everything from scratch.

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School of Collective Intelligence @um6p-sci.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Throwback to #ScienceWeek26 From the "Predictive Brain" to social evolution, Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social, Karim Fifel, Manal El Akrouchi & Cody Moser @culturologies.co showed that AI must converge with biology & sociology to truly succeed. Breaking walls for global impact 🤝

A transdisciplinary panel at UM6P Benguerir where neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI converge. The scene captures a deep dialogue on the social evolution of intelligence, arguing that AI must not be an isolated tech field but a convergence of biology, sociology, and ethics. It serves as a reminder that while technology is a powerful tool, human insight remains the essential core for breakthroughs that happen when the walls between disciplines are removed.

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 30/04/2026

Conference update emails for #HBES2026 and #CESRabat will be sent soon. In the meantime, updated programs are live on both conference websites: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026 airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 Check them out! @ces2026.bsky.social @hbes2026.bsky.social

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 30/04/2026

No one needs to cancel their talks. It's getting dealt with now. My note is that if individuals were upset enough they were considering skipping their talks, having written polite emails to conference organizers would have been more helpful (I know Paul reached out) than silent protest campaigns.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 01/01/2026

In Japan for the next two weeks, Tokyo and Kyoto, if anyone in my network is available to meet up!

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 31/12/2025

While this work is currently theoretical and highly preliminary, we are conducting work on formalizing these measures to apply to real-world collectives and forms of emergence. @ketikagarg.bsky.social @grf.bsky.social Open access link below: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Collective intelligence as collective information processing

Collective intelligence research spans multiple disciplines and focuses on a broad range of collective behaviors, including group problem-solving, flo…

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Ketika Garg @ketikagarg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

🚨Excited to share our new theoretical framework to classify and spark mechanistic inquiries into various forms of collective intelligence! Soon to be published in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social Thanks to @divintelligence.bsky.social Thread by Cody Moser @culturologies.co 👇🏽

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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Thrilled to see this paper out, two years after starting our collaboration at @divintelligence.bsky.social

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 30/12/2025

Such decompositions can be applied invariant to a given system's goals or end-states: using a recently published "piano mover" task comparing groups of ants and humans at the same task, we show that forms of information processing are a more useful means for decomposing collectives than their goals.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 30/12/2025

Tying these different intelligences into known concepts of emergence, we argue integrated information decomposition can help classify behavior of collectives into different emergent regimes; in aggregate systems, upward causation dominates; while in structural systems, downward causation dominates.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 30/12/2025

Viewing these systems across these axes, we classify different collective phenomena into separate forms of collective intelligences: high IP, low GP aggregate intelligences; low IP, low GP statistical intelligences; low IP, high GP structural intelligences; and high-high synergistic intelligences.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 30/12/2025

Using Wimsatt's rules of aggregativity, we propose consilience between these phenomena is possible by examining their information processing capabilities across two dimensions: individual processing of group-level information (IP) and group-level sensitivity to individual arrangements (GP).

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 30/12/2025

A core issue with this emerging discipline is a lack of underlying principles for theoretical unification. While multiple phenomena are classified as collective intelligence (flocks, swarms, human organizations, and culture), it's unclear what theoretical binding such disparate systems have.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 30/12/2025

My co-authors and I are happy to present our framework "Collective Intelligence as Collective Information Processing (CIP)." Here we propose decomposing different information processing mechanisms to unify disparate phenomena traditionally classified as "collective intelligence."

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 03/12/2025

Gave what I thought would be objectively my most boring lecture for my students last week and they absolutely loved it. I had no idea students would be so passionate about contract theory! Fast forward to what I thought would be my most interesting lecture this week ... and I saw heads nodding off.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 01/12/2025

You can check out the pre-print here: Moser, C., & Smaldino, P.E. (2025). Limit Cycles in Opinion Dynamic Networks with Competing Stubborn Agents. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 01/12/2025

Several implications emerge regarding online information architectures: the space of analytic solutions is constrained by networks with these cycles. Second, in an increasingly connected world, more leverage points exist for nefarious actors to disrupt our online ecosystems.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 01/12/2025

Importantly, the length and complexity of these cycles is dependent on the path length of the network: in centralized networks, centrality is devalued such that multiple optimal positions emerge and agents spend more time chasing optimal positions in these cycles.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 01/12/2025

Known as the counter-optimal stubborn agent placement problem, previous research has looked at the use of greedy algorithms for finding optimal positions in this NP-hard task. We find that as agents attempt to disrupt each other certain network configurations lead to limit cycles in agent position.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 01/12/2025

We examine agent positioning strategies with repeated iterations: once a node has established its optimal influence over a network, we ask how counter-stubborn agents with opposite opinions can "disrupt" the influence of their counterpart.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 01/12/2025

New pre-print with @psmaldino.bsky.social on an agent-based model of propaganda in online spaces. Using the voter model from physics, we simulate networks with stubborn agents (zealots) who do not change their opinions, asking about their optimal positioning for influencing the network.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 25/07/2025

Cognitive scientists and computer science PhDs talking about David Marr:

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 14/07/2025

Not to resurrect overtrodden "AI art" discussions, but I think I'm closer to viewing the image on the left as AI-generated art than the image on the right. The fact the journal editors and authors missed it feels like a tremendous statement in itself.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 18/06/2025

Are the laws of nature subjective or Platonic revealings of our world? What does it mean to know what one cannot articulate? What is the connection between scientific theory and riding a bike? In this episode we tackle the work of Michael Polanyi in Personal Knowledge: m.youtube.com/watch?v=d1gs...

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 08/05/2025

Theories of organizational structure emphasize different dimensions of managerial design, including span of control (Simon 1947), decision-making speed (Aswamenakul et al. 2025), task delegation (Moser & Smaldino 2022), and managerial monitoring (Zefferman 2023).

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Congrats to Dr. Cody Moser (@culturologies.co)! Cody successfully defended his dissertation today, and is off to Morocco to start a faculty position at UM6P’s School of Collective Intelligence!

Cody and his committee: Tyler Marghetis, Alex Petersen, me, Cody, Justin Yeakel.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/04/2025

Mega congrats to Dr Cody Moser @culturologies.co who passed his thesis defense at UC Merced Cody was one of my first students at @themusiclab.org, co-leading work on the sounds of infant-directed vocalizations in our species doi.org/10.1038/s415... He is starting a lab in Morocco soon! Woo!

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

I appreciate these comments, by the way, this is good for tightening up the text in the paper to specify what we are doing. Thank you!

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Ketika Garg @ketikagarg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

New preprint! 🚨How do groups process information? What does it mean for part of a network to "explore" and part to "exploit"? How do we move beyond phenomenological correlation in our analyses of networks to a causal theory of collective intelligence? Here, we try to answer these questions:

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

I agree we can't judge accuracy, hence we don't use it as a benchmark. We're looking for convergence in the Collins dataset and merely used inter-rater reliability to see if the two came to similar classifications. Sure, they probably used the same texts, but I don't see this as a problem.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

It probably could have helped increase the accuracy, but I am skeptical it had anything close to the edge lists from the book given we had to manually reconstruct them ourselves.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

In recent months, I’ve been working to quantify the history of philosophy utilizing tools developed in science of science. Our goal is to lay the groundwork for a science of philosophy, complementing meta-philosophy, meta-science, and philosophy of science. Check it out here:

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

This work aims to move beyond the traditional boundaries of philosophy of science and science of science, proposing here an emerging "science of philosophy". Preprint here: Moser, C. J., Ortega, A., & Marghetis, T. (2025). The network science of philosophy. osf.io/ep3ub_v1

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

What are the distinguishing factors of vital and static periods of philosophy? Vital communities are marked by the emergence of highly central figures who compress conversational space. These thinkers reorient the structure of debate, reinventing periods through synthesis, integration, reformation.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

Vital and static communities do not differ in overall levels of disagreement, neither in static structure over time. What sets vital communities apart is not amount of disagreement, but its organization. In vital periods, disagreement is restructured into productive and generative conversation.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

We also ask how productive philosophical communities emerge? We find that while vital and static eras start with similar structure, vitality is marked by centralizing debate drawing diverse communities into a shared core of discussion.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

We distinguish between "vital" periods, marked by exploration, synthesis, and the emergence of new ideas, and "static" periods, which emphasize maintenance and repetition, finding that these are marked significantly by increased community integration in vital communities relative to static ones.

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Cody Moser @culturologies.co · 24/04/2025

Examining philosophical networks compared to null models of similar structure, we find that networks of philosophical interaction have more centralizing figures, are more sparse and modular, and exhibit more hierarchy.

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