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Monica Tamariz

@onicatam.bsky.social

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Cultural evolution, language evolution

Monica Tamariz @onicatam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We're raising the €30k minimum endowment required to register the Juan Tamariz Foundation, dedicated to preserving Juan's legacy and supporting the promotion, training, and research of Magic. Donors who consent will be named permanently on the site. Gratefully, Mónica

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Monica Tamariz @onicatam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The world could use a little Magic, wonder, and hope right now. My father, Juan Tamariz (1942–2026), gave his life to Magic. We're fundraising to create a foundation in his name (fundacionjuantamariz.org/EN). Any amount donated can make you a Founding Benefactor. 🪄 www.gofundme.com/f/make-the-j...

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Monica Tamariz @onicatam.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Amazing plenary— thank you Nicole!

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Monica Tamariz @onicatam.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Experiment participation - Will you do our 10-minute fun experiment? If you are over 18, can do the study in a computer (not phone) and want to help, we will be very grateful!!! tinyurl.com/4f9jk2yd

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Grid Game: Follow-Up Questions and Debrief

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Monica Tamariz @onicatam.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Unpublished 2011 results rescued from oblivion!⏳ osf.io/preprints/ps.... Effects of systematicity and frequency distribution (uniform, skewed) on artificial language learning. With Barbora Skarabela, @andrewdmsmith.bsky.social and @simonkirby.bsky.social

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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INTRODUCTION

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Nicely done. Also, this is a cool paper (by @mdrelichman.bsky.social, @jvoth.bsky.social, and J Vidal-Robert). www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

PNAS significance statement: From Imperial Rome to North Korea, religious persecution entwined with various degrees of totalitarian control has caused conflict and bloodshed for millennia. In this paper, we ask the following: Can religious persecution have repercussions long after it has ceased? Using data on the Spanish Inquisition, we show that in municipalities where the Spanish Inquisition persecuted more citizens, incomes are lower, trust is lower, and education is markedly lower than in other comparable towns and cities. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to still matter today, but it does.

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Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I have run a version of the drawing experiment from my paper with Monica Tamariz in class before. Transmitting an abstract drawing that is covered up before drawing versus not covered up. The “from memory” version evolves to be more compressible! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Culture: Copying, Compression, and Conventionality

Through cultural transmission, repeated learning by new individuals transforms cultural information, which tends to become increasingly compressible (Kirby, Cornish, & Smith, ; Smith, Tamariz, & Kirb...

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Historical moment as @peetertinits.bsky.social defends his PhD, on "Cultural Evolution in Language and Art". Opponents/discussants @garicgymro.bsky.social & Monica Tamariz turned the public defense into a very interesting discussion too! Thesis: www.ester.ee/record=b5702...

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