a few shots of the #DH2026 venue - what a great conference, congrats to the local organizers

@peetertinits.bsky.social crushed it today with the Price-equation based decomposition plots of linguistic change in early modern Europe. #dh2026

@peetertinits.bsky.social at the last session of #DH2026 talking about using huge harmonized bibliographic datasets to study the diffusion of information and patterns of language adoption across Early Modern -> Modern Europe. V. cool!

@babeheim.bsky.social showing how Go opening strategies changed over time and what happened after AI joined the game @ #DH2026

@artjomshl.bsky.social and @tonyamart.bsky.social compare the evolutionary dynamics of poetry and lyrics over the last few centuries #dh2026

#booksky

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the video Musk is quote-tweeting when he says he'll deliver a feature length version of The Odyssey, just in case you were curious how dogshit it is

Just sent my ex-wife the feature length film of The Odyssey I made using Grok. It stars me defeating a series of monsters including her current lover, her divorce lawyer, and Jeremy Corbyn.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the video Musk is quote-tweeting when he says he'll deliver a feature length version of The Odyssey, just in case you were curious how dogshit it is

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

reading @apvelilla.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social paper and realizing this is the kind of thing I say to my kids when they hurt each other. maybe i need new word choices. doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

"We are in the fafocene now, good and proper" 😐

All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4w ago

Broecker had been on the case since the early 1970s. We are in the fafocene now, good and proper

Yoshida Hiroshi (Japanese, 1867–1950) "Sailing Boats in the Morning, Inland Sea", 1926. Woodblock, 40 × 55 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

A 5-year PDRA position in "Statistical Modelling in Archaeology" is available @cam-archaeology.bsky.social as part of the FORAGER project. Deadline: 21/8/2026 tinyurl.com/muhcjkfy www.forager-erc.eu

Remember xkcd 1132, xkcd.com/1132/? Prompted by some recent discussion over at www.patreon.com/betanalpha/p..., I ended up implementing frequentist and Bayesian analysis of the setup and writing up the subtle issue what I think the example really illustrates, www.patreon.com/betanalpha/p....

Explaining The Joke Ruins The Joke | Michael Betancourt

In discussion about my recent Bayesian analysis of a xkcd comic over on the Discord server (open to all!), someone asked if I've never analy

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Somewhere in the Marshes

Cool new paper by @kenjiitao.bsky.social on universal patterns in the demographic transition www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

To help a student understand how to handle right-censored data, I built this survival (and recurrent-event) analysis explorer that demonstrates the approach and provides some basic derivations. Applications to compartmental models from epidemiology too. tpavlic.github.io/topic_visual...

Survival & Recurrent-Event Analysis Visualizer

Interactive visualizer for survival analysis, recurrent-event survival analysis, exponential transition rates, censoring, and state-transition models.

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Watch out, he's got a PhD! Congrats man!

Alejandro Pérez Velilla@apvelilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am happy to announce that I have successfully defended my dissertation --- under the supervision of my mentor @psmaldino.bsky.social --- for the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced.

This came across my IG feed and it's too good to not share here

Nature Efforts. A classic. Featuring “Epic Fail of 2010”

🚨 ACE Seminar We’re excited to host Dr. Patrick Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social in our upcoming ACE Seminar! 🗓 Tuesday, Jun 16, 2026 🕖 2:00 PM JST (UTC+9) 💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 To receive the Zoom link, please send a blank email to ace-seminar+subscribe@googlegroups.com

More @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference talks! @babeheim.bsky.social on norm psychology, and in particular escalator standing norms in Japan

it's crazy that I now have a real life mana bar and it's the codex weekly usage meter.

Cherry trees in Kyoto. Not a subtle signal.

I recently learned about the Great Giana Sisters, the German video game answer to the Super Mario Brothers. Absolutely epic box art

Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data. Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

New preprint with Rafael Leite, Sandro Reia and Paulo Campos Cumulative Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In which we take an old model of cumulative cultural evolution of mine and see what happens if you add social networks

@babeheim.bsky.social, Waterhouse and I describe how widespread vocal mimicry is in corvids and what might drive its evolution. Evidence is presented in 39 corvid species (30%). Using modelling approaches, we show that mimicry is likely underestimated (9/15) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Vocal mimicry in Corvids - Animal Cognition

Vocal mimicry, the copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, is commonly described in vocal learners, such as songbirds. Understanding the functions of vocal mimicry can help t...

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