I'm reading Steve Gergley's story collection, and "A Face to Put On Top Your Face" is the first one to hit me hard (it's the third in the book). It's painfully, beautifully direct. web.archive.org/web/20211005...
A Face to Put on Top of Your Face by by Steve Gergley -
When you were twelve you made a new face to put on top of your face. As far as you could tell there was nothing wrong with your face—it looked completely normal, just like everyone else’s—but for some...
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💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias@ceciliapad.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨NEW SPECIAL ISSUE SERIES OF HUNTER-GATHERER RESEARCH🚨Celebrating and critically reflecting on the history and methodologies of the field, co-edited by @haneuljang.bsky.social and I. More info, check the submissions page of our website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr or get in touch!
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Schools haven’t changed all that much in 4000 years. In this post I argue that’s a good thing. I discuss evolution, evolutionary psychology, culture and make the claim that schools are the first — and most important — educational technology. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
Why schools exist
How evolution and culture explain how school have been shaped over time
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NEW POST Conceptual understanding is a myth Transfer is a better focus fillingthepail.substack.com/p/conceptual...
Conceptual understanding is a myth
Transfer is a better focus
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Registration is now open for the Explicit Teaching Institute NYC 2026! Join me in New York City for 5 days of deep dives into the science of learning, explicit instruction, video study, and deliberate practice. No fluff. Just better teaching. 🎟️ educationrickshaw.com/2026/05/15/b...
Book your tickets for the Explicit Teaching Institute NYC 2026
Schools and districts that have caught the bug for Direct and Explicit Instruction know that meaningful implementation requires meaningful professional learning. Registration is now open for the Ex…
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Egor Lappo telling us about social learning in chess playing (not in cats sadly, despite the photo)
My Fractions Lesson 1 idea (outline): start with whole numbers. I'll try to have some more soon.
🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉 Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ? We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)
PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 4mo agoAdopting novel food is vital to colonize novel environments, but what is the role of social learning? Study of urban #cockatoos by @clevercockierp.bsky.social shows them to rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq
A new episode of Transmissions is out! We feature Dr. Aiyana Willard, Reader in Psychology at Brunel University London. We talk about the adaptiveness of religion, including alternative beliefs such as witchcraft, tarot reading and other local healing practices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2m5...
Transmissions Episode 5 with Dr. Aiyana Willard
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How did language evolve? We ran some experiments in Minecraft to find out! youtu.be/7vgS8s6MhSk?... And link to paper: academic.oup.com/jole/article...
How does language evolve?
YouTube video by Science Animated
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Human memory and learning I have added an overview to my website for my 20 years of research into memory, Indigenous knowledge systems and archaeology. www.lynnekelly.com.au?page_id=6978 #memory #memorycode #MemoryCraft #knowledgegene #indigenous #firstnations www.lynnekelly.com.au?page_id=6978
40,000 years of knowing
The following is an overview of the last twenty years of research and writing, building on my previous 40 years in education. These ideas led to a PhD and six books, The Knowledge Gene, Memory Craft, The Memory Code, Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies, Songlines: the power and promise and Songlines for younger readers. ...
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Built environment is a key driver of cardiometabolic health in two indigenous groups undergoing rapid lifestyle change [Turkana pastoralists of northwest Kenya (n = 3692) and Orang Asli mixed subsistence practitioners of Peninsular Malaysia (n = 1119)] academic.oup.com/emph/advance...
Built environment is a key driver of cardiometabolic health in two indigenous groups undergoing rapid lifestyle change
AbstractBackground. Globally, subsistence-level societies are experiencing rapid urbanization and concomitant increases in cardiometabolic diseases. Genera
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Content opens doors, but only if we teach it well. Less overload, more clarity, a core of explicit instruction. educationrickshaw.com/2026/04/19/s...
S5E24: Olivia Mullins on Content, Curriculum, and Coherence in Elementary Science
Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. I am you host, Zach Groshell. My guest today is Dr. Olivia Mullins, Founder and Executive Director of Science Delivered and lead developer of the Learning S…
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What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share
🧬 Which “Darwin” do we mean — the one focused on competition, or the one open to cooperation? Later interpretations narrowed his ideas, but Darwin himself explored relationships and social selection. 🔗 www.prosocial.world/posts/which-... #Darwin #Evolution #Darwinism #History #History
Which Darwin for Darwinism? Charles Darwin, Neo-Darwinism and the Question of Cooperation, by Denis Noble
What did Darwin really mean — and how did neo-Darwinism narrow his legacy?
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Back when I made things. This one is one of my favorites. sineof1.github.io/geo_transfor...
Geometric Transformations
Dilations, rotations, reflections, and translations.
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Two great opportunities to join a superb research group & work on a cool project 👇🧪
Evolutionary Cognition Group@evocoggroup.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"
The preliminary programme for @ces2026.bsky.social is now out. What a fabulous line up! airess.fgses-um6p.ma/CES2026?__cf...
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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🧠 What drives high-performing education systems? Montserrat Gomendio (former OECD Deputy Director of Education) joined me to unpack why some countries excel, what PISA reveals, and why reform is so hard even when we know what works. 🎧 #ChalkandTalk #PISA
