Join our online @eslr.bsky.social skill-sharing session by @masonyoungblood.bsky.social this Thursday, 4PM CET to learn more about Bayesian likelihood free inference. Details below 👇

ESLR@eslr.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 ESLR Workshop coming up next week! 🗓 July 23, 2026 ⏰ 4pm CET Online Using bayesflow for likelihood free inferences by @masonyoungblood.bsky.social 🔗 Join at: calendar.app.google/RKMwxPeaGveM...

Sharing our latest endeavour here. How reproducible is your paper? @philipjakobbln.bsky.social and I built rigor.me to ease the burden of computational reproducibility. If you provide a paper, data and code, we execute it and tell you what works (and what fails). Beta is available now: rigor.me

RigorLabs@rigorlabs.bsky.social · last mo.

AUTOMATING COMPUTATIONAL REPRODUCIBILITY My colleague @philipjakobbln.bsky.social and I are currently engaged in a research project where we reproduce scientific results en masse. To that end, we built rigor.me, a platform for automatically reproducing papers using agents 🧵

My latest story for @knowablemag.bsky.social is a Q&A with the one and only @iyadrahwan.bsky.social on the moral psychology of AI, illustrated by his own art! knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

How will AI make moral decisions for you and me?

There’s an urgent need to study how artificial intelligence makes ethical choices because it soon will make many such decisions in our stead, says computer scientist Iyad Rahwan

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New preprint led by @lucasmolleman.bsky.social investigates social information use across the human lifespan. Testing >40,000 participants aged 6-80 in museums in Berlin and Japan. psyarxiv.com/hec96

🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's the short version. 1/9 1/10

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy

Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.

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I'm teaching an online workshop on ABM and model-based thinking through ICPSR next month. Details linked below in case you or someone you know is interested.

ICPSR Summer Program@icpsrsummer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interested in building models? 🤔🖥️ During "Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling and Model-Based Thinking" you will learn to understand, design, and build agent-based models of complex social systems! Register now: https://myumi.ch/3R7q1 #ICPSR #SumProg26 #AgentBasedModeling #ModelBasedThinking

Tips for becoming a better mentor/supervisor, based on survey of 2,600 early-career researchers; eg. regular meetings are super-important Includes tips for institutions and funding bodies to promote good supervision doi.org/10.64898/202... #AcademicSky HT @science.org

My Working Life article @science.org - When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived

This professor learned “to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel,” he writes

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Here is @alexschakowski.bsky.social on social learning strategies in Finnish fishing competitions

New paper out today in Nat Ecol Evol! On how within- and between-group competition jointly shape ranging in wild capuchins, and how the environment tips the balance. Thread below 🐒

Ecology of Animal Societies@livingingroups.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Behavioral Clones Workshop - Join us online! A one-day workshop on behavioral clones — 🤖 AI systems that model human decision-making and social behavior — following the Machine Behavior conference. Join online via Zoom (no remote Q&A). Register at: www.eventbrite.ch/e/behavioral...

Excellent opportunity for researchers in computational humanities and AI: a 3-year Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher position in Helsinki focusing on trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversity. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please spread the word!

Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities

Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities

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There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!

🚨ESLR Workshop tomorrow: 🗓 April 23, 2026 ⏰ 2pm CET Online Bayesian modeling of cognition and behavior using brms and Stan @alexschakowski.bsky.social and @lucahahn.bsky.social Join at: calendar.app.google/mNSksgpimmrs...

Online Now: How developing prosocial motivations shape children’s altruism

How developing prosocial motivations shape children’s altruism

Developmental perspectives are crucial to harnessing the human potential for altruism. We synthesise and highlight recent research on the motivations underlying children’s (costly) prosocial behaviour. The order in which children develop intrinsic, extrinsic, and strategic motivations to benefit others has implications for efforts to positively impact young people’s lives.

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Phil Trans Roy Soc B theme issue ‘The evolution of collective intelligence’ is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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In which I’m a bit contributing in this paper led by Mehdi Moussaid @fouloscopie.bsky.social and Ralf Kurvers @ralfkurvers.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Asymmetrical social copying drives behavioural cascades following a shock event

Abstract. When facing disruptive events, such as epidemics, terrorist attacks or financial crises, individuals often exhibit protective behaviours, includi

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New For the Love of Science vlog on creativity in science: How to Have New Ideas www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVD...

How to Have New Ideas

YouTube video by For the Love of Science

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🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Join the first @eslr.bsky.social skill-sharing online workshop next week to learn more about computational reproducibility from @fhillemann.bsky.social! Details below 👇

ESLR@eslr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨ESLR Workshop: 🗓 March 26, 2026 ⏰ 2pm CET Online Code review in practice: A checklist for computational reproducibility and collaborative research in ecology & evolution by @fhillemann.bsky.social Our first skill-sharing session of the spring! 🐣 🔗 Join: calendar.app.google/3gjfLpKW4mW2...

🚨Last week to apply for a 3 year postdoc with me and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social, embedded in theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de Focus is on developing innovative experiments and computational models to understand social & cultural learning. Deadline is March 30th 👉 hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni...

Charley Wu@thecharleywu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

📣 Call for Applications: The University of Vienna invites applications for more than 40 fully funded doctoral positions across a broad range of disciplines in Life Sciences and Natural Sciences. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 #PhDSky #PhD #univie 📅 Application period: 2 March – 27 March 2026, 12:00 CET More information: ⤵️

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

Check out this recent @nature.com paper reporting a field experiment on X. It shows X's algorithm boosts conservative content and downranks traditional media—shifting users’ views on key issues. Switching to chronological doesn’t reverse the effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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✨New Perspective out w/ Wenning Deng and @fearbrain.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social ! We argue that social foraging gives us a unifying, and ecologically grounded way to study how decisions unfold across levels — from individuals and dyads to collectives. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

We have published the second short video of our series on hybrid collective intelligence. This time, @nikoz.bsky.social from @mpib-berlin.bsky.social presents how combining human expertise with AI insights can lead to better diagnostic accuracy in the medical domain. youtu.be/Xz8wBkDzjjQ

Human-AI collectives produce the most accurate differential diagnoses

YouTube video by HACID Project

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📣 Applications for the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! ✨Join us in Berlin @arc-mpib.bsky.social June 08–16, 2026, to explore the topic of “Decision Making in the Age of AI”. ✏️ More details + application form (deadline: March 16): www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

Delighted that a #trumpetfish has made the 🌟cover🌟 of @royalsocietypublishing.org journal #ProceedingsB. Read about how these predatory #fish hide against similarly coloured non-threatening species to #camouflage on the move in our #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #behaviour #marine