We're hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology in my department at the university of Houston @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social Come be my colleague careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant or Associate Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Houston, Texas, United States

Department: Biology and Biochemistry Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston seeks to hire an evolutionary biolog...

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If you’re giving a % chance that “AI destroys humanity” you need to show your working or shut up

New paper w/ @verwirrt.bsky.social and @lottybrand.bsky.social. We use agent-based modeling w/ NK landscapes to help theorize about role of analogies in language/cultural evolution, and how they solve problems associated with the transmission of complex information. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Analogies evolve by increasing transmission fidelity in the communication of complex information | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Analogies evolve by increasing transmission fidelity in the communication of complex information - Volume 8

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🚨JOIN the Civic Discourse Mediator Competition🚨 In 1st week of August, create & test a prompt-based AI mediator that helps people have more thoughtful, productive conversations about important public issues. Win $400! Get started here: forms.gle/HkbhEk4hELQE...

Of all the professions AI might make obsolete, mathematician is the one I’m most relaxed about. But i’m biased, I know a lot of mathematicians.

This is good (more about Manchester(ism) than Burnham)

The Economics of Andy Burnham

Podcast Episode · Ones and Tooze · July 24 · 35m

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New preprint: Strategies for preventing and reversing polarized online discourse arxiv.org/abs/2606.18226

Strategies for preventing and reversing polarized online discourse

Political polarization poses a variety of challenges for modern democracies. Entrenched disagreements on policy can prevent constructive discourse and compromise, and high levels of affective polariza...

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I see no problems with the incentives here

Hans Hassell@hjghassell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@thejop.bsky.social announces the right to refuse consideration of manuscripts of those who have declined to review 3+ times. Careful who you co author with!

The vibe today is Forster

Should we trust reputations?

Joshua B. Plotkin@jplotkin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Amazon and eBay give star ratings for seller trustworthiness — but should we trust eBay? Institutions that publicize reputations, from e-commerce to religious authorities, benefit from user participation. Hiro Okabe studied how such institutions will behave. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Today's Cooperation Colloquium!

Simon Columbus@simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A special Cooperation Colloquium this week: Shuxian Jin @shuxianjin.bsky.social The cultural logic of honor in cooperation and punishment across societies Date: Friday, May 22 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

New paper with the brilliant @ewanflintham.bsky.social How fast does recombination suppression evolve among sex chromosomes? We show that even weak sexual antagonism (so hard to detect) makes this fast, often via inversions fixing on X/Z depending on mating system: doi.org/10.1093/evle...

I don’t enjoy the future

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 5mo ago

Oh good grief no they don't.

"It is time to demand that our courts open the black boxes of algorithmic decision-making. We need to shift the burden of proof to the party that actually has access to the algorithm, and design procedural rules for effective systematic redress." #AIEthics #AIAct #AILaw #digitalGovernance #RuleOfLaw

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives, says Charlotta Kronblad of the University of Gothenburg

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What a Guardian list

The 100 best novels of all time

The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

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Yuzu negroni

Exited to see how the British pivot from “it couldn’t happen here because something something Orwell”

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This pair of episodes (Mandelson and New Labour as a five act history play) is so so so so good. I kinda want to write an essay about how we should fund academia properly just so these two people can meet and talk to each other

Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David & Helen Thompson explore the tortured relationship between Peter Mandelson & the New Labour project that he helped to create and now seems finally to have destroyed. Has the whole history of New Labour been shaped by ideas of betrayal? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Aron Szekely @aronszekely.bsky.social Measuring social norms with surveys Date: Friday, April 24 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Excitedly headed to Vienna for this

Online Social Identities And Collective Action * Complexity Science Hub

This workshop aims to unite experts from diverse fields—social scientists, computational scholars, and mathematical modelers working in areas such as game

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NEW on @indicator.media: I found a group of X accounts that worked together to remove Community Notes from British Conservative Party accounts during the 2024 UK general election.

Inside a pro-Conservative influence operation on Community Notes

Inside a pro-Conservative group effort to influence X's Community Notes

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New paper published today in @pnas.org with @filippozimmaro.bsky.social Mirta Galesic and @jacrickets.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We use evolutionary game theory to study when populations will fracture into groups that differ in their beliefs, behaviors and preferences.

New paper published today in @pnas.org with @filippozimmaro.bsky.social Mirta Galesic and @jacrickets.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We use evolutionary game theory to study when populations will fracture into groups that differ in their beliefs, behaviors and preferences.

Heard a talk on this last year. Very cool paper

Charles Mullon@charlesmullon.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Many organisms, including humans, reshape their environments in ways that influence the conditions faced by future generations. We ask whether this can favour biological variation with @irisprigent.bsky.social in our new paper. Thanks to @dee-unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

New paper out in @science.org! We unveil the online manipulation market with the Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI). We show in real time the cost of purchasing fake accounts across every social platform around the world - so they can be held accountable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mapping the online manipulation economy

A market perspective on digital manipulation may help improve online trust and safety

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Even though our website is down, registration for our next OSoMe Awesome Speaker is open! 📅 Dec 3 @ 12pm ET 🎤 James Evans (UChicago) 📖 Information Laundering: How Misinformation Gets Cleaned and Dirty Across Digital and Policy Ecosystems Register directly through Zoom: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions url: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions

Abstract. In the digital age, hate speech poses a threat to the functioning of social media platforms as spaces for public discourse. Top-down approaches t

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