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Ed Seabright

@edseabright.bsky.social
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Anthropologist. Research and education fellow, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence. Community organisation and leadership in rural Bolivia and Morocco. edseab.github.io

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Phil Trans Roy Soc B theme issue ‘The evolution of collective intelligence’ is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
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Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
CES will give out at least seven travel awards of up to $4000 per person for researchers from low-and-middle income countries to attend the upcoming @ces2026.bsky.social CES 2026 Rabat conference. Applications must be submitted via this form by 20 February 2026, 9:00 AM AoE, to be considered.
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ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Post 1/13 📢🧵 Call for activities proposals ! You are invited to submit proposals for three activities to be held during the upcoming CES2026 conference:
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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 16/01/2026
We received a TON of submissions for @ces2026.bsky.social ! This is definitely a trend you'll want to conform to. If you didn't submit, still come for the amazing speaker lineup. Registration will open soon. @hbes2026.bsky.social abstract submission closes today!
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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 08/01/2026
One week left to submit your abstracts to #HBES2026 16 Jan deadline! @hbes2026.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social We’re scouting banquet locations. Hope to see you in Rabat!!
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New article in Hunter Gatherer Research! Foraging societies practice consensus-based politics. We conduct a xc review and argue that it helps to boost collective intelligence. Consensus, cooperation and collective intelligence in foraging societies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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Consensus, cooperation and collective intelligence in foraging societies | Hunter Gatherer Research
Consensus-based collective decision-making is a common feature of political life in hunter-gatherer (forager) societies. In this paper, we ask why. Synthesising evidence from anthropology and experimental social psychology, we argue that consensus-based ...
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This will be screened, along with a Q and A with the director and Hrdy herself, at the 2026 HBES meeting at UM6P in Rabat! Deadline for applying: January 15th @hbes2026.bsky.social
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social and I are working on a letter regarding the archiving of #NSF #DDRIGs in the #SBE Directorate and impacts on our fields. What did you/your students discover as a result of a DDRIG award? What other impacts resulted from the award? Post here or DM. Please repost for viz.
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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is a mammoth piece of measurement work for evolutionary psychiatry, that hopefully triggers more rigorous testing of evolutionary theories of mental health. Camila et al. have spent several years(!!!) developing this vital piece of work, so do check it out and share
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
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Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust
Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Guys this meeting is going to be fantastic, you have 2 more weeks to submit a talk, poster, or session!
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ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November. 🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Which processes underlie collective intelligence in naturalistic human groups? In new work led by Valerii Chirkov, we show that payoff selectivity is key in transforming a group of individuals into an intelligent collective 🤝🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7n... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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First-Person Perspective of the Voluntary Payoff-Sharing (VP) Condition
YouTube video by Valerii Chirkov
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...
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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 22/09/2025
#HBES2026 abstract submissions are live! More exciting details to come soon. Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social
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ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We’re delighted to share that the CES2026 Conference website is now live! We warmly invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their presentation proposals by November 16th through the submission portal on the website.
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It's not meant to be used for things you are good at, it's meant to help learn tasks or skills you don't currently have.
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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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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 15/09/2025
Abstract submission now open for the next Cultural Evolution Society conference in Rabat, Morocco next May @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social
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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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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The problem with this conversation is that people dont distinguish between "sex" and "sexual phenotype". The first, as Ed explains, is not actually a property of an individual, but rather a set of options in an evolutionary game theory setup. There are indeed only two of these sexes (in mammals)
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Sean Prall @sprall.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Very disappointed that we were forced to cancel our field season and return early, following the suspension of our NSF grant as part of Trump’s attacks on UCLA. Particularly sad for our students, who spent significant time and effort to join us this year.
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The great Jane Lancaster has passed away. She was a titan and very kind to me all the years I was at UNM. See a tribute from her friend and mine, Bob Hitchcock here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Jane Lancaster and Human Nature - Human Nature
Human Nature -
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Jane was a force of nature, a brilliant mind, and a lovely person. Human behavioural ecology owes her so much.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Macron's meglomania is usefully adaptive in certain circumstances.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/07/2025
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
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French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Your next Fall read, my new book: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden. Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 for 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Seven Decades
An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Another homemade Connections: connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OT45IK...
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Connections – edseab#2
Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Rabat next year!
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Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I’m going to keep shouting this from the rooftops 📣📣📣
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi
When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?
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Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New Paper! We ran an online (Zoom) interdependent marshmallow test with British 5- and 6-year-olds. A stooge partner either promised to eat his treat or expressed uncertainty. We found that children waited longer in the promise condition than in the social risk condition.
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Does promising facilitate children’s delay of gratification in interdependent contexts? | Royal Society Open Science
For cooperation to succeed, individuals must often ‘delay gratification’ and forego an immediate reward for a larger delayed reward that is co-produced through the cooperative act. This experiment asked whether a promise to wait increased children’s ...
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Huge congrats Cody! Excited to have you join us!
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
One of the core tenets of academic freedom is that you must not discuss ideas that Mr Greg Weiner believes to be extraneous to your class
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Caroline Steel @carolinesteel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
About 20% of us *admit* to cheating. Which left one CrowdScience listener wondering - are humans meant to be monogamous? 👩‍❤️‍👩👩‍❤️‍👨👨‍❤️‍👨 I speak to the experts to find out: @kstark8.bsky.social and @kitopie.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Are humans naturally monogamous?
Why is one partner usually the norm for humans around the world?
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Bonding with my son over his hobbies
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This Thursday come learn about our Masters program in Collective Intelligence at this live seminar hosted by UM6Ps School of Collective Intelligence: youtu.be/Kg66WtAV4A0
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UM6P - WEBINAR - Master's Degree in Collective Intelligence
YouTube video by UM6P Officiel
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Bit of a belated post, but hopefully still new exciting news for some! We are delighted to announce that the next Cultural Evolution Society Conference will be in Rabat, Morocco, provisionally 11-13 May 2026, at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...
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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference Announced - Cultural Evolution Society
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Going to try my hand at making Connections connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ODMhGS...
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Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator
Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times
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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 15/11/2024
Who's coming to Morocco? Come check out our beautiful UM6P campus in Rabat for the next Cultural Evolution Society meetings -- May 2026. More details to come.
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Ed Seabright @edseabright.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Extremely excited for this!
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