iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Putting together this whole special issue has been an adventure, but one of the most rewarding parts has been the opportunity to write with one of my very favorite cognitive anthropologists - I'll let @schrisomalis.bsky.social sell it for us below!

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Emily M. Sanford @emilymsanford.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

science.org

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs

The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

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Julian Jara-Ettinger @julianje.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Our paper in annual review of dev psych is out! It's a big-picture look at the development of social cognition from a computational perspective: compdevlab.yale.edu/docs/2025/an...

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

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codec lab

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 10/09/2025

🤖After a fantastic debut in 2025, the Theory of Mind in AI workshop at AAAI is back for 2026! We invite submissions on ToM in artificial & biological intelligence—across comp sci, cog sci, comp psych, psychiatry & more. CFP 👉 tom4ai.github.io/AAAI2026/cal... 2025 procs 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.03770

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Call for Papers - ToM4AI Workshop@AAAI 2026

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

leuphana.de

Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology

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Elizabeth Mieczkowski @emiecz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We often assume that specialized roles improve performance in multi-agent systems, but when does specialization emerge based on a given task and environment? 🧵👇 ⭐️ New preprint w/ Ruaridh Mon-Williams, @neilbramley.bsky.social, Chris Lucas, @natvelali.bsky.social & @cocoscilab.bsky.social

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 06/03/2025

This year marks 360 years since the first edition of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We are excited to advertise the Asian Cultural Evolution (ACE) seminar series! It's organized by Kenji Itao, Xinyue Pan & Wataru Toyokawa, and seminars will take place on the third Tuesday of odd-numbered months at 19:00 JST (18:00 Perth/Singapore/Beijing, 19:00 Tokyo/Seoul, 20:00 Sydney).

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io

cosmossummerschool.github.io

COSMOS

The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)

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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

US version. thank you very much @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I like the black cover more!

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We are please to release Transmissions Ep 1, featuring Dr Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social in conversation with Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social Cristina and Feryl chat about Cristina's work in Peru and discuss CE in human and non-human societies: youtu.be/2otT0PkhPkw?...

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Transmissions Episode 1 with Dr Cristina Moya

YouTube video by Cultural Evolution Society

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

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Jobs and vacancies - Faculty of Social Sciences

Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🚨 Calling from #RoyalSocietyPublishing! 🚨 We are excited to share that the #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is open for submissions until April 30, 2025! Grand prize: £1000 2 runners-up: £500 each. 🔗 More details: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...

royalsociety.org

Biology Letters early career researcher Competition | Royal Society

Open for entries to early career researchers until 30 April 2025.

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

durham.taleo.net

Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research %26 Education) (ANT_01)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

String figures have been part of human culture for millennia, perhaps since the Pleistocene. But why do we find them so captivating? What explains their universal appeal? Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @roope.bsky.social! Listen: manyminds.libsyn.com/string-theor...

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

New paper in Psychological Review! In "Causation, Meaning, and Communication" Ari Beller (cicl.stanford.edu/member/ari_b...) develops a computational model of how people use & understand expressions like "caused", "enabled", and "affected". 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps... 📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor... 🧵

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Alex Hyafil @alexhyafil.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025

bambschool.org

BAMB!

Course philosophy Our goal is to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...

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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Amazing opportunity to explore social learning and cultural evolution within a beautiful team & lab at the @ki.se in Stockholm! You can contact me (or @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social directly) if you have any questions!

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Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

check this out: new postdoc program for AI-related research in Catalunya! our group is looking to hire within this program, ideally to work on topics related to RL theory. in case you're interested, pls DM or email me. (retweets appreciated!) ramonllull-aira.eu/application

ramonllull-aira.eu

Ramon Llull AIRA Open Calls

Open Calls In our inaugural call scheduled for December 2024, we aim to select up to 17 exceptional postdoctoral fellows, with an additional 16 to be chosen in Call 2 in 2025. 20 December 2024 ...

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

New episode!! 🎙️🎙️ A conversation w/ @tanialombrozo.bsky.social about "learning by thinking." We often learn from others or from the outside world. But other times new understanding bubbles up from inside our own minds. When does this happen? And how does it work? Listen: disi.org/a-paradox-of...

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

An incredible opportunity for the right person: The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels For me, this has been the best possible job ever. More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

santafe.edu

sfiscience

SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Researchers in France! 🇫🇷 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social France Fund is calling for proposals for seed money! All fields are welcome to apply. There are so many opportunities for collaboration that such grants can open!

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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If you're interested in working on multimodal understanding and generation — including things like understanding or generating figures with text — and work with my awesome collaborator Ishita Dasgupta & others, check out this job! boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

boards.greenhouse.io

Research Scientist, Media Fusion

Mountain View, California, US

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Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!

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Natasha Jaques @natashajaques.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Even though the Social RL lab only got started ~1 year ago, I’m super excited to announce that we have 10 people from the lab presenting their work at #NeurIPS2024. Delighted to officially introduce our lab: socialrl.cs.washington.edu! Thread with all our NeurIPS work below 👇

socialrl.cs.washington.edu

SocialRL Lab

We are the Social Reinforcement Learning Lab at the University of Washington.

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 04/12/2024

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A huge phenetic tree visualising our global string figure dataset.

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

CogSci2025 poster has landed, in both “wow the future looks bright for CogSci” mode, and also “our theories will make you think and possibly write poetry mode”. @neilbramley.bsky.social @carenwalker.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 15/11/2024

Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

culturalevolutionsociety.org

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference Announced - Cultural Evolution Society

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

If you want to do work at the intersection of deep learning from raw sound and linguistic theory, apply to our PhD program and be part of our lab! Finding symbolic representations in deep learning models trained on speech is a lot of fun! Deadline: December 1!

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Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We have a postdoc position available in my lab at UC Berkeley, 2 years+, flexible start date, research focus is social reasoning and cultural evolution from a computational perspective. Deadline = November 29th. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04639

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - The Computational Cognitive Science Laboratory -Psychology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 14/11/2023

Hi all! We have TWO tenure track open positions in psychology available at the University of Melbourne (equivalent to assistant and associate professor). Come join us and please share widely. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/mob/en/job/9...

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Prospective graduate students interested in biological and artificial language! 🧠🐳🤖 Apply to Berkeley PhD (Linguistics or CS program) Berkeley is awesome (see photo) Also: amazing connections with neuroscience, CS, CogSci, linguistics, great fieldwork program and much more

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Remember, you have until 10/31 to apply to the Assistant/Associate search at Berkeley Psychology—Culture, Context, and Diversity Influences on Psychopathology and Mental Health. See link below for details (including salary range). I look forward to reviewing your app! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04093

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant/Associate Professor - Culture, Context, and Diversity Influences on Psychopathology and Me...

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Julie Golomb @juliedgolomb.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Hi all! A bit late to the Bluesky game, but spreading the word that we have 4 open faculty positions at Ohio State University Psychology Department! Initial deadlines are today, but late applications are still welcome. #psychscisky #academicsky #neuroskyence psychology.osu.edu/current_facu...

psychology.osu.edu

Current Faculty Searches | Department of Psychology

Decision Science-Open Faculty Search Diversity Science-Open Faculty Search Fellow to Faculty-Psychological Science and Racial and Health Disparities

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Brad King @bradking.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Assistant Professor position in cognitive / computational neuroscience at U of Montreal. #neurojobs #neuroskyence fas.umontreal.ca/public/FAS/f...

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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Updated ESLR jobs board! Big highlights: 10 PhD positions in bioacoustics + AI (bioacousticai.eu), 6 postdocs in human/earth systems at U of Cologne, (imfess.uni-koeln.de/hescor/posit...), complexity fellows at SFI (apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complex...) 🦜🌍💻 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs

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ESLR Jobs Board

Masters Deadline,Added,Topic/Dept/Title,Institution,Link NA,02-14-2023,People and Nature,University College London,<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/studying-ucl-people-and-nature-lab">https...

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