I really hate that AI has turned the internet into a pit of suspicion. It used to be a place where you could go to marvel at the weirdness of the world and now we have to evaluate every single thing that seems wondrous.
🎭 Adile Yasar
@adileyasar.bsky.social
doctoral researcher experiments on cooperation Opinions expressed are my own. Website: https://adileyasar.github.io
Please share! The Rijeka Cognitive Sciences Symposium 2026 is open for registrations and talk/poster submissions by Masters and PhD students! 13 and 14 July - This year's topic is Social Cognition The event is free!
RiCogSci-Symposium-2026
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Any good books on experimental methods in social psychology? Looking for something that works for a master’s-level course but also goes deep enough for a proper methods rabbit hole 🐰
Excited to launch the website for our EASP pre-conference on Prosocial & Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods 📅 June 30 | Strasbourg ⏰ Early bird deadline: April 14 Program: sites.google.com/view/prosocial-and-antisocial/ @easp2026.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social
New paper out in Evolutionary Human Sciences (unformatted early access): Testing Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation via Meta-Analysis of Microfinance Repayment with Dougie Foster, Shakti Lamba & @erikpostma.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Testing Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation via Meta-Analysis of Microfinance Repayment | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Testing Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation via Meta-Analysis of Microfinance Repayment
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Not sure if anyone really still uses starter packs, but just in case: Animal Behaviour Researchers is officially full! This is a selection of colleagues, speakers I've seen at conferences, and generally awesome scientists working to understand the animal world 🐒🐺🦁🦓🐘🐓🦅🐬🦎🐍🐙🐜 go.bsky.app/9CV3PAd
My colleague, Charles Perreault, has published cool new paper documenting impact of culture on human capacity for adaptation: http//www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2523038123
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Can we all just agree that if your evolutionary theory of humans posits we all evolved to have the social values of 1950s American it’s probably wrong? Thanks.
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution
Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...
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Are there any new papers on cooperation/ social behavior which are a must read? :)
Favorite article on how evolution and culture (sociocultural, not CET) aren't at odds with each other. Go!
Manipulating the activity of these immune cells could provide a way to reduce the severity of heart attacks go.nature.com/4jtQNxr
Putting immune cells into ‘night mode’ reduces heart-attack damage
Drugs that limit the activity of cells called neutrophils could make heart attacks less severe without compromising the immune system.
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Birds lay eggs in a diverse array of colors, patterns, sizes, and shapes. After looking at nearly 50,000 eggs from more than 1400 bird species, researchers in Science found that egg shape is related to flight ability. Learn more on #NationalBirdDay: https://scim.ag/3YUZkQc
Wenn Dir das Völkerrecht zu komplex ist, ist eine Kanzlerschaft vielleicht nicht das richtige für Dich.
What do my fellow researchers in cooperation research think of this?https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ceq1000742go
Killer whales and dolphins seen hunting together in rare video
Researchers say the footage, captured near the North-West Pacific coast, is the first recorded evidence of the two working together.
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today I learned: Es gibt in Hamburg eine Poliklinik die Menschen ohne Versicherung behandelt, mit komplett ehrenamtlichen Mitarbeitenden, modernen Geräten und verschiedenen Fachrichtungen! Komplett spendenfinanziert. Traurig dass es das braucht, aber Respekt! www.praxisohnegrenzen-hh.de
Praxis ohne Grenzen - Unsere Praxis
Die Praxis ohne Grenzen Hamburg – betreut Patienten ohne Krankenversicherung in 10 medizinischen Fachrichtungen einschließlich einer kompetenten Sozialberatung.
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A feature in Nature outlines how researchers are using artificial intelligence to decode the speech of animals, and the technology may enable humans someday to talk back to them. 🧪
AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?
The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.
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Why AI could make people more likely to lie Coverage of our recent paper by THe Independent, with nice commentary by @swachter.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Why AI could make people more likely to lie
A new study has revealed that people feel much more comfortable being deceitful when using AI
independent.co.uk
We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake. But it wasn’t. And we know it.
UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/467N16m
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Nature - Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
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📣 New registered report in @nathumbehav.nature.com with Ivan Soraperra, @jonathanschulz.bsky.social, and Shaul Shalvi: rdcu.be/eAcMA With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries
Nature Human Behaviour - This Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries found that guilt and information about consequences drive prosocial behaviour. Guilt-prone individuals gave more when...
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On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
Too often, I see people talk about a replication as if the first study has established something, and the replication study is a double-check. What people often fail to understand is that we do not do replication studies to *check* a finding, but to *establish* a finding. 1/x
Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social @lucasmolleman.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Feature-based reward learning shapes human social learning strategies - Nature Human Behaviour
This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments and simulations, it shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shapin...
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Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience
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Arthur has written a wonderful, clear, super helpful introduction to contractualism as a foundation for moral psychology. Perfect for getting up to speed, teaching, a desk reference, or a sunny day at the beach. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Contractualist Moral Cognition: From the Normative to the Descriptive at Three Levels of Analysis
Visual summary of the paper. Taking inspiration from the contractualist tradition in moral philosophy is helpful to better understand morality at three interrelated levels of analysis: Its evolutiona...
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