📣 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!
Surprising that this government-commissioned report don't include deflationary contributions from people like Williams, Acerbi, Mercier and Altay.
European Digital Media Observatory@edmo-eu.bsky.social · 4mo ago🇪🇺🤝🇬🇧 Pleased to see the new rapid evidence review led by @sheffielduni.bsky.social @behaviourresuk.bsky.social. Drawing on EDMO data, it synthesises latest evidence on false & misleading information – definitions, harms, and what actually works to reduce impact. Take a look: osf.io/8ckdy/files/...
Did you know that the spinning top is one of the most common forms of traditional play worldwide? Our research found tops to be nearly universal across human cultures. Wherever you come from, your ancestors probably spun tops. New preprint: Top of the World osf.io/preprints/so... Thread:
Italian Inquisition was so worried about people publishing bad science, they set up their own laboratories to repeat experiments and censor studies that failed to replicate. Some very contemporary concerns in the 1600s.
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."
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I reviewed an earlier version of this paper. I think it's interesting, because you can tell by reading it that evolutionary psychology still lacks a loyal opposition and a healthy error culture. It's a defensive paper, targeted at people who believe evolution stops at the neck, YouTubers, _others_
William Costello@williamcostello.bsky.social · 8mo agoOut now and open access for four weeks as the editor's choice Topic in Focus in American Psychologist. Contrary to popular belief, evolutionary psychology hypotheses are testable and falsifiable. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
1/ 🧵 New PNAS paper by CCE’s @michealdebarra.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social with Angel V Jiménez and Nachita Rosun🎉 📄 Why do people turn to religious or supernatural cures? 🧪🏺 #evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolution
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Agreement with "I look forward to going to school" crashes from 7/10 aged 8 to 2/10 aged 13 in England. 😥
UCL News@uclnews.bsky.social · last yr.Pupils in English secondary schools are among the least emotionally engaged with school compared to 31 other countries, with a particularly steep drop in engagement since the pandemic, finds Prof @johnjerrim.bsky.social who analysed data from the #TIMSS2023 study @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
I was surprised to see many friends habitually lie to their kids for convenience ("the sweet shop is closed today"). Not in our household: theconversation.com/parents-lie-...
Parents lie to children all the time – but they should think twice about it
We don’t casually lie to adults, and we should afford children the same respect.
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Brick Experiment Channel gives such great physical examples of cumulative problem-solving innovation using nothing but legos.
Making Lego Car CROSS Narrow Bridges
YouTube video by Brick Experiment Channel
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Abandonment of Bloodletting in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Medicine: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...
Get in touch if you are interested in a funded PhD on the cultural evolution of health behaviour (doi.org/10.1093/emph...) or communication (doi.org/10.1093/phe/...). Deadline 10th Jan www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Res...
Fully-funded PhD position available on the cultural evolution of tea! With me, Sabine Parrish, and David Burslem at the University of Aberdeen (🏴), come combine anthropology and biology to think about why people drink tea and how that may change in the future. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
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I’m sadly not at #CES2024Durham but a ton of these rockstars are! go.bsky.app/8yXwjAn
New (open access) article in #ESR with #A_Patzina, #H_Dietrich, #M_Sandner Key finding: Young people’s life satisfaction strongly declined due to the pandemic. Particularly burdensome were travel restrictions, and the closure of bars/clubs. Mask wearing not so much. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Do people undergo medical treatments to demonstrate the legitimacy of their illness? New paper here: academic.oup.com/emph/article...