iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

46 | Are we thinking about stress the wrong way? Nida Ali joins to talk about autonomic and endocrine stress responses, their relationship to the subjective experience of stress, gender differences, and long term impacts of both psychological and physiological stress. youtu.be/Z78iZeWNq-8

youtu.be

46 | Are we thinking about stress the wrong way?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

020

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ola Ali joins the podcast to chat about modeling the legal journey of persons who migrate across borders. We unpack the dynamics of migration, how long it takes to gain legal stability in a new country, and the differences in the legal journey based on nationality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P50R...

youtube.com

45 | Human migration as a complex system

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

030

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Corruption is difficult to track, but there are also plenty of folks working hard to build better tools for exposing it. Irene Tello Arista joins to chat about the systemic pressures that facilitate corruption and what is being done about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZU...

youtube.com

10 | Anticipating systemic corruption

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

On the evolution of cooperation: in 2024 Nikhil Chaudhary joined to chat about everything from the formation of the self, to collaboration between human beings throughout history, societal structures, cultural narratives, and a whole bunch of other fun tangents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGte...

youtube.com

5 | How did cooperation evolve?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

120

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Was so much fun having @neilcohn.bsky.social on the podcast last year and diving into his work. Excited to check out the book! youtu.be/ibfyl1VtNFM?...

youtu.be

26 | How does the brain understand comic books?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

041

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Should democrats vote in autocratic elections? Zoltan Miklosi discusses the political obligations of democrats who live under autocratic regimes, exploring the consequences both of voting despite the odds and of refusing to participate in protest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpVb...

youtube.com

44 | Voting under autocracies

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

020

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Niraj Kushwaha joins the podcast to talk about modeling instances of armed conflict using fine grained datasets to better understand the emergence of conflicts and how they might be related. We also chat about statistical physics and its broader applications. youtu.be/KFn1Bc4iqbQ?...

youtu.be

43 | What makes a war?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

011

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

From the Archive: On Fairness We sit down with Angarika Deb to chat about the fundamentally relative nature of fairness. This takes us to notions of equality, equity, and justice, and then to political movements, access to information, and outside options. www.youtube.com/watch?v=soj-...

youtube.com

4 | Can anything ever really be fair?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Lena Riemer joins the podcast to talk about the legal basis for granting every human being the same fundamental rights, how this applies to cases of migration, and the deliberate erosion of human rights and obfuscation of violations by governments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xE...

youtube.com

42 | Who deserves human rights?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

David Cerero Guerra joins to talk about the equilibrium local gangs have reached with the government of Colombia in the city of Medellin. While the gangs primarily sell drugs, they also step in to provide services like water and electricity to underserved communities. youtu.be/JXabli-DJ_Q?...

youtu.be

41 | Gangs providing services

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Emese Havadtői joins to talk about the structure and emergence of moral frameworks and whether morality can be understood in terms of behavior. We also chat about how evolution might play a role and what it means to be "good". Plus @mariafedor.bsky.social joins to co-host. youtu.be/dYaOz0ILr_M?...

youtu.be

40 | Where does morality come from?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

020

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

@francescopoli.bsky.social joins to talk about the brain, the mind, and the individual differences in curiosity. We talk about adaptivity, how our experiences shape our relationship to information, dealing with uncertainty, and the importance of a good learning environment. youtu.be/eVUE-fwRyqg

youtu.be

39 | How to make a curious mind

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We're biased not only in our interpretation of information, but also in our gathering of information.

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

How do we choose which norms to follow, and how do we change them to build a more equitable society? Camilo Martinez joins to talk about the coherence of beliefs and the evolution, function, and overturning of norms. cohost: @pelinkasar.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXq...

youtube.com

38 | How do we change norms?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

011

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"The 'Authoritarian Stack'—a network of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms. Based on an open-source dataset of over 250 actors, thousands of verified connections, and $45 billion in documented financial flows." www.authoritarian-stack.info

authoritarian-stack.info

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

030

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

How can we make sense of the variety of beliefs that are prevalent in society? Peter Steiglechner talks to us modeling belief networks: the importance of including biases related to one's social identity and the groups they belong to, and how to reach consensus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyD...

youtube.com

37 | Why do people disagree?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Hannah Metzler joins the podcast to talk about the role of emotions and personal identity when investigating the spread of misinformation, what makes certain beliefs appealing to people, and why negative content seems to be more engaging than positive content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cE_...

youtube.com

36 | What makes us engage with content?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

000

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Barbora Valik came on to talk about the factors that lead to the violent mobilization of resistance movements, particularly as a strategy to call attention to their cause, and what needs to change for the violence to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJO7... For podcast links www.monkeydancepod.com

youtube.com

35 | Why do some conflicts become violent?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

020

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Do not let Gavin Newsom redraw California's maps. All of a sudden the party that was campaigning on democracy is eager to suspend it. Newsom and Pritzker are asserting that the preservation of democratic values is naive, and accusing their detractors as attempting to take the moral high ground. 🧵

100

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New paper! Takeaways: Social goals modulate the efficiency of information search in children and adults. The motivation to obtain social rewards can outweigh the drive for accuracy. The valuation of information is context-dependent and emerges in childhood. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

Motivated information search: Context-dependent efficiency in children and adults

While the motivation to gather accurate information emerges early in childhood, social motivations can modulate the drive for accuracy. Across two stu…

000

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

How do infants treat information they come across? I sit down with Velisar Manea to chat about how the infant mind develops, the types of biases evolution might have built in, and how they manage to be so adaptive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=etGL...

youtube.com

34 | How do infants process information?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

000

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Sat down with Nicolas Goupil to chat about his work his work on early childhood memories, visual cognition, and hierarchies in groups. It's a wide ranging conversation and we cover a good bit of ground, from developmental cognitive neuroscience to social cognition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-t1...

youtube.com

33 | Early childhood memories and visual cognition

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

000

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Pelin Kasar and Juliette Vazard both return to the podcast for a chat at the intersection of beliefs, biases, and curiosity. The conversation covers a lot of ground as we work through definitions and reach mutual understandings of each of the terms www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7am...

youtube.com

32 | When curiosity is limited by our biases

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

000

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Had sociologist Arev Papazian on to chat about resource distribution and access! We get into the politics of these decisions, the winners and losers, and of course the environmental cost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NOk...

youtube.com

31 | Who has the rights to resources?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

021

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Professor Melissa Koenig explains how we learn from others: from the strategies we use to the biases we lean on when making epistemic decisions. We also chat about the role of science in society and the importance of not separating work and activism. youtu.be/4ver5ls0Tdc?...

youtu.be

30 | How do we decide who to learn from?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

000

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Sitting down with Reto Schneider, veteran science journalist who has dealt with everything from the science of opinion formation to the origins of land ownership and seemingly everything in between. youtu.be/8UYBY5CPb94?...

youtu.be

29 | Exploring curiosities

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Making sense of a series of graphic representations is not simple, but our brains manage to do it with little effort. We sit down with cognitive scientist Neil Cohn and chat about rethinking language, comic books, children's books, and a bunch of other fun stuff. youtu.be/ibfyl1VtNFM?...

youtu.be

26 | How does the brain understand comic books?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

000

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

There has been a massive student movement in Serbia over the past 5 months to put an end to the authoritarian government. What the students have accomplished in terms of organization in the past five months is incredible. Aleksandra Knežević joins to explain the situation. youtu.be/dommlfCsmhQ?...

youtu.be

27 | Student protests in Serbia

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

000

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Episode 25 is out! How does toxicity shape conversations? Gabriela Juncosa joins us to explain how political discourse unfolds in online spaces and whether toxic interactions shut conversations down or keep them going. And Phyllis Pearson joins to co-host! www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Qc...

youtube.com

25 | How does toxicity shape conversations?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Reposted by Ohan Hominis

Vienna Cognitive Science Hub @viennacogscihub.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 Don't miss the chance to apply for the interdisciplinary graduate conference "From Minds to Movements - Foresight in Cognition and Activism" in Vienna!

154

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Episode 24 is out! Phyllis Pearson joins Juliette Vazard and I to chat about what it means to be open minded, the difference between honest dialogue and gaslighting, and what it means to have epistemic agency and to ascribe that agency to others. youtu.be/El6zmByYrpw?...

youtu.be

24 | What does it mean to be open minded?

YouTube video by The Monkey Dance

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We've been running The Monkey Dance podcast for a year now and it has been a blast. 23 episodes and counting. If you're based in Vienna (or passing through) and are interested in coming on then please reach out! www.youtube.com/@themonkeyda... Anywhere you get your podcasts www.monkeydancepod.com

youtube.com

The Monkey Dance

Everything society: from science and philosophy to politics and art. Cognitive scientists, philosophers, political scientists, anthropologists, and more sit down to make sense of the world. Find us o...

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

How can we take a multidisciplinary approach to tackling gender inequality? With my co-authers Angarika Deb and Tamara Kusimova we focus on the economic, cultural, and cognitive processes underlying the perpetuation of inequalities within heterosexual households. brill.com/view/journal...

brill.com

010

Ohan Hominis @ohan.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I'm really interested in the hierarchy of beliefs we maintain. Especially their impact on how we perceive information, how we gather information, and how the information impacts the beliefs themselves. I like to work in the overlap between social, developmental, and affective cognition. Let's chat!

050