Matt Zefferman
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Honestly, I don't think it's impossible to find all the cats.
ACE Research Grant Alert 🚨! CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support early career research projects in cultural evolution. The award is open to applicants worldwide, with an application deadline of October 9th 2026, 9:00 AM AoE. Applications: forms.gle/dsLdKQuNBH4W...
ACE Early Career Research Grants
CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support research projects in cultural evolution. To learn more about the Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) initiative, see here. Deadline: Appli...
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If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"
“What’s more?” said the Lorax (his dander was up) “Let me say a few words about the Gluppity-Glupp Your machinery chugs on, day and night without stop Making Gluppity-Glupp, also Schloppity-Schlopp
My department is hiring. It's a rare department that prides itself on massive interdisciplinarity. Our students are all graduate students, typically mid-career military officers, currently ~30% international.
Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Security Studies - Monterey, California (US) job with Naval Postgraduate School | 38024811
Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Security Studies in the Department of Defense Analysis, The Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
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My department is hiring. It's a rare department that prides itself on massive interdisciplinarity. Our students are all graduate students, typically mid-career military officers, currently ~30% international.
Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Security Studies - Monterey, California (US) job with Naval Postgraduate School | 38024811
Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Security Studies in the Department of Defense Analysis, The Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
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Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
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I guess now is the time to post my favorite movie since I was, like, 10 years old:
9-to-5 is my five year old's all time favorite song.
Can we please make the "graphical abstract" a requirement for an accepted, as opposed to a submitted, article?
Me? I always start with the methods section. If the methods are bad, I typically don't read anything else. Crazy how many journals bury the methods section at the end in tiny font or in an appendix.
Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!
If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students
1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...
PhD Position on "Mental disorders as harmful stable states"
PhD Position on “Mental disorders as harmful stable states” The departments Clinical Psychology and Methodology & Statistics, at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden Univers...
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Well this is a fun* game! *horrifyingly dystopian
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo agoIt’s going great.
We're looking for a junior specialist to work on a fun project exploring seagrass local adaptation across the whole state of California! It should be a good mix of field and molecular work. Please share with folks you think would be interested! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605
Jr. Specialist - Stachowicz/Bay Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Agent-based Human–Earth System Modelling at the Anthropocene Laboratory at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: June 15. @brunelcce.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com
Postdoctoral Fellow in Agent-based Human–Earth System Modelling
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is a leading international centre in sustainability science at Stockholm University. The Centre advances scientific understanding of the dynamic interactions between
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If Meow Wolf ever opens a location in the US Southeast, they could do worse than an interdimensional teleportation breakfast house.
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /
We're pleased to announce the call for the 2026 Richerson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research, for a recent PhD dissertation that significantly contributes to the field of CE. Recipients receive a $300 award, a 3-yr CES membership and CES conference registration. forms.gle/p4MqcskCs2Yz...
Might have actual nightmares about Matthew Broderick doing a Jonathan Pruitt by like asking a bot to “do the spreadsheet”
I watched Crazy Rich Asians over the holidays. Why didn't any of you tell me that the protagonist is a game theorist?
My brain keeps trying to interpret the new "food pyramid" as a ternary plot.
Excited for the new Transmissions episode on ASU's Sarah Mathew on how human warfare evolved, and her fieldwork in Kenya. Watch here: youtu.be/eUqEcxf5uBQ?... New Episodes monthly! Created by @ferylbadiani.bsky.social and @ahnisnaahsi.bsky.social CC: @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
Transmissions Episode 2 with Dr Sarah Matthew
YouTube video by Cultural Evolution Society
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