We need entry-threshold grant lottery systems with easy-to-estimate and easy-to-write basis - plus a basic-incoming grant basis. The latter will be very efficient in its use, the former will be just as 'good' as the current systems in its decisions, but far less wasteful in writing and reviewing.

Bart Penders@penders.bsky.social · 3w ago

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

New tutorial preprint about simulation-based inference! Shows how to fit a cultural evo model to baby name data using approx Bayesian computation, random forests, and deep learning. Wrote for @eslr.bsky.social but wanted to share with others in @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social! :) osf.io/preprints/so...

📣 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!

Yay! This week I started working at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt as a group leader. Lots of work ahead, but super exciting kind of work 🔥

You are interested in Archaeology but feel more at ease behind the CLI? You love linux, dockers & databases? join us at @ugiatucl.bsky.social with @mt-genes.bsky.social, we are looking for a part time database manager (3 days a week), remote work welcome : www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

yesterday we opened up this bottle of marzemino we brought from Trento when I visited @acerbialberto.com. We loved every bottle of marzemino we tried there, this one was no exeption!Glad Alberto introduced us to this grape and the good wine it makes - Trentino is an awesome region for wine and food.

He beh, sacrée poursuite!

Out today, we present high quality ancient DNA data for Beachy Head Woman for the first time. Hers is a story about changing interpretations, science communication, and cutting-edge genetic technology...🧵 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists

Exclusive: DNA advances show Roman-era skeleton, once hailed as first black Briton, came from southern England

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We’re into the final stretch of Session 3 at #CAAUK2025! We’ve heard Adrian Timpson & Simon Carrignon on inequality modelling and Doudou Cao on body-size change in ancient China — now Anastasia Nikulina is presenting her work on modelling Mediterranean agriculture. #DigitalArchaeology #CAAUK

I remember in 2008-2010 thinking "future of internet is mesh networks, everyone storing a bit of internet, maximum redundancy, robustness, decentralisation..." Did it finally happened? missed the memo ..

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Received my version yesterday, it's beautiful! (and yes, very big!) .

Jeremy Kendal@jeremykendal.bsky.social · last yr.

Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

That's was a super nice episode of many minds! This is a fascinating topic, presented by two great researchers. Hard not to want to explore more in depth kids culture after listening to that :D

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄@mu-peter.bsky.social · last yr.

Varieties of childhood 🏺🧪 disi.org/varieties-of... Dr. Dorsa Amir & Dr. @sheinalew.bsky.social discuss different ways childhood differs, in terms of parents’ attitudes toward risk, in terms of social structures and activities in which kids are embedded, and in terms of freedom children are granted.

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳 #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

Awesome dive into the concept of panmixia & the reasons of its wide adoption in evolutionary biology (it's not just a convenient mathematical simplification!) And a great example of a fruitful collab between science & history of sciences, two communities that sadly are way too far from panmixia :)

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New paper klaxon! 🚨 The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics Quite niche admittedly, one for the historians of evolutionary thought, and population geneticists. doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

Btw what I’m finding endearing in an (appropriately) old-fashioned way is that the entirety of our collaboration happened over one 100-message email thread spanning about three months.

never been a mac user but super fun to read and a lot to learn!

Marcin Wichary@aresluna.org · last yr.

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management

The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.

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Is archaeology a science? 🧪 Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...

c'est a partir de quelle age que t'es obligé de parler à tes voisins de tablé dans le train quand t'es assis a une table de 4? genre au dessus de 60 ans? ou c'est just basé sur le pourcentage de cheveux blanc?

Thanks @durhamdcerc.bsky.social for the opportunity to present work I have been doing on ABM & archaeology. It was a great pleasure to be in Durham again and chat with you all. I made it through the flood, and I'm now on my way back with plenty of things to think about!

that's it! all in one :D @sheinalew.bsky.social

Pickled Entropy@pickledentropy.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is the sustainable microtransit we could have if our politicians weren't cowards

M'colleague Mark Thomas has a new position in our lab, in European pre-history evolution, exploring patterns of co-variation in genetic, archaeological and environmental data using a range of statistical method. Come and join us. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Calling all cultural evolution researchers in Asia

Cultural Evolution Society@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2y ago

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).

My colleague is hiring a post-doc for a very cool project using text-mining and stats techniques to study the cultural evolution of archaeological information. You'd get to do interesting work with a very fun team and live in the best city in the world! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share! bit.ly/3QCXUFS

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!

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If you are still not sure why you should switch to linux in 2025, here is the video you should watch right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Cy... (I'm a bit subjective as it involve a live demo of debian+KDE, the system i uses too, but still! thanks @siestes.bsky.social )

Why You Should Think About Switching To Linux.

YouTube video by Andrea Borman

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@samsonduran.bsky.socialah ouai la pp fashiono-cloonesque!

Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

My reading got a bit disturbed and delayed by new job and stuff but I am glad I grab and finished sianmgilbert.bsky.social's book yesterday! it was great! definitely recommand it , and waiting for Sian next one :)