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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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Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Surprising that this government-commissioned report don't include deflationary contributions from people like Williams, Acerbi, Mercier and Altay.

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 12/03/2026

Did you know that the spinning top is one of the most common forms of traditional play worldwide? Our research found tops to be nearly universal across human cultures. Wherever you come from, your ancestors probably spun tops. New preprint: Top of the World osf.io/preprints/so... Thread:

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Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Italian Inquisition was so worried about people publishing bad science, they set up their own laboratories to repeat experiments and censor studies that failed to replicate. Some very contemporary concerns in the 1600s.

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Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 03/02/2026

I reviewed an earlier version of this paper. I think it's interesting, because you can tell by reading it that evolutionary psychology still lacks a loyal opposition and a healthy error culture. It's a defensive paper, targeted at people who believe evolution stops at the neck, YouTubers, _others_

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Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Agreement with "I look forward to going to school" crashes from 7/10 aged 8 to 2/10 aged 13 in England. 😥

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Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I was surprised to see many friends habitually lie to their kids for convenience ("the sweet shop is closed today"). Not in our household: theconversation.com/parents-lie-...

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Parents lie to children all the time – but they should think twice about it

We don’t casually lie to adults, and we should afford children the same respect.

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Brick Experiment Channel gives such great physical examples of cumulative problem-solving innovation using nothing but legos.

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Making Lego Car CROSS Narrow Bridges

YouTube video by Brick Experiment Channel

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Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Abandonment of Bloodletting in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Medicine: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...

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Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Get in touch if you are interested in a funded PhD on the cultural evolution of health behaviour (doi.org/10.1093/emph...) or communication (doi.org/10.1093/phe/...). Deadline 10th Jan www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Res...

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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Fully-funded PhD position available on the cultural evolution of tea! With me, Sabine Parrish, and David Burslem at the University of Aberdeen (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿), come combine anthropology and biology to think about why people drink tea and how that may change in the future. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 09/09/2024

I’m sadly not at #CES2024Durham but a ton of these rockstars are! go.bsky.app/8yXwjAn

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Martin Neugebauer @neugebauer.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

New (open access) article in #ESR with #A_Patzina, #H_Dietrich, #M_Sandner Key finding: Young people’s life satisfaction strongly declined due to the pandemic. Particularly burdensome were travel restrictions, and the closure of bars/clubs. Mask wearing not so much. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Do people undergo medical treatments to demonstrate the legitimacy of their illness? New paper here: academic.oup.com/emph/article...

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