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Daniel Conroy-Beam
@dconroybeam.bsky.social
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Associate professor at UCSB. Evolutionary and computational perspectives on human mating. Occasional nature photos. He/him.

https://www.danconroybeam.com/
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mgurven.bsky.social
Looking forward to this!
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 5d
Tomorrow (Nov 6) at 6:00 pm PST, join Chaucer's Books in hosting @mgurven.bsky.social, author of Seven Decades, for a talk and a signing! Come explore the unique evolutionary path that led to human longevity and challenge how we think about aging.

Learn about this in-person event: buff.ly/tKzGDn1
Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer by Michael D. Gurven Michael D. Gurven
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
dconroybeam.bsky.social
An especially good episode against even a strong background
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Come work with my colleague, @anniewertz.bsky.social. She's awesome, our department is awesome, and if you come here, you'd be awesome, too.
anniewertz.bsky.social Annie Wertz @anniewertz.bsky.social · 15d
I’m recruiting #PhD students to join my Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social! We study how infants learn about the natural world from others 🌱 If you’re interested in #devpsych, #EvPsych, and #infantstudies, please reach out and apply! More info below (1/2)
October 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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epthepod.bsky.social
This week, we talk to Keelah Williams about Evolutionary Psychology and the Law.
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Evolutionary Psychology and the Law with Keelah Williams
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October 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
dconroybeam.bsky.social
Saw some real nice birds in South Africa #birds
An African Paradise Flycatcher, facing right An African Penguin kicks up some sand on the beach A Lilac-Breasted Roller perches on a bare tree, facing right A Secretarybird carrying nesting material back to its nest
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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mgurven.bsky.social
Released today!
SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER
Now available at your favorite bookseller.

Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can.

Please help spread the word!

#sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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epthepod.bsky.social
This week, Language and Communication (and the Lindy Hop) with @thomscottphillips.bsky.social!

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Language and Communication with Thom Scott-Phillips
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September 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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youngkihong.bsky.social
I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science.

Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org
Colorado Social Vision & Mind Lab
The Social Vision & Mind Lab (Director: Youngki Hong, Ph.D.) at the University of Colorado Boulder explores how people perceive and make sense of the physica...
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September 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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epthepod.bsky.social
This week: The evolutionary psychology of humor with @davidpinsof.bsky.social! An account of why the mind finds things funny, and why "funny" has the features it has.

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The Evolutionary Psychology of Humor
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September 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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psychoschmitt.bsky.social
"people are sensitive to the amount of population variance on a trait, and flexibly adjust their partner preferences to focus on traits which vary more among others" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable
Organisms benefit from choosing partners who are willing and able to provide them with benefits (e.g., choose based on warmth, competence, wealth). Bu…
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September 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
dconroybeam.bsky.social
Annie Wertz plants a flag for plan and learning research!
August 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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patrickesavage.bsky.social
BBS just announced a call for commentaries on @manvir.bsky.social's target article, "Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the origins of the cultural manifold"
Deadline is Sep 10!
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Call for Commentary Proposals - Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the
Call for Commentary Proposals - Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the origins of the cultural manifold
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August 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
dconroybeam.bsky.social
Great episode! Pat is one of my favorite psychologists out there today. And it was super interesting to hear from the Daly and Wilson lineage for the first time on the podcast
August 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Always love a chance to hear Ed Hagen's perspective on...anything
August 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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socphilpsych.bsky.social
📣From Kyle Landrum:

Good Explanations and the Causal Metasemantics of Inductive Concepts
Good Explanations and the Causal Metasemantics of Inductive Concepts
Abstract. A metasemantic theory tells us why a particular concept has its particular content, for example, why the concept orang-utan has orang-utans as it
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August 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
dconroybeam.bsky.social
Late on this one but really enjoyed this conversation.

Let it be known that @dpietra.bsky.social feels affection toward flat earthers
August 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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markkho.bsky.social
Job announcement 📢

@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction!

Interested? If you’ll be at #rlc2025 (or I missed you at #cogsci2025) feel free to reach out with any questions!

apply.interfolio.com/165809
August 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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tadegquillien.bsky.social
Our new #cogsci2025 paper led by @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social is a task analysis of agent representation under resource constraints:
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maxtaylordavies.bsky.social Max Taylor-Davies @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social · Aug 1
At #CogSci2025 and curious about resource-rational models of social cognition? Come to Nob Hill A at 11:14 tomorrow to hear me talk about work with @tadegquillien.bsky.social where we use the information bottleneck to study stereotype use and the outgroup homogeneity bias!
August 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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tadegquillien.bsky.social
New short paper with @kevingoneill.github.io and Paul Henne: We re-analyse data from a recent study on causal judgment, and find that a counterfactual model explains why temporal order influences people's intuitions.
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A counterfactual explanation for recency effects in double prevention scenarios: Commentary on Thanawala and Erb (2024)
Many cognitive scientists and philosophers take cases of double prevention to be one of the primary motivations for accepting causal pluralism, the vi…
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July 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
dconroybeam.bsky.social
I keep looking forward to these conversations every Tuesday
July 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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epthepod.bsky.social
New episode is up! We talk to Deb Lieberman about morality, disgust, and kinship. Had a blast!!

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Disgust, Morality, and Kinship with Deb Lieberman
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July 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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johnsakaluk.bsky.social
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Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets.

This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials.

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July 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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epthepod.bsky.social
A new episode is up! In this one, we talk to @mikemoncrieff.bsky.social about terrorism, his studies of ethnic conflict, and the drag queen phenomenon.

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Terrorism, Drag Queens, and International Humanitarian Law with Michael Moncrieff
From offering the UN insights into the psychology of terrorists to interviewing victims of war-torn Croatia, guest Michael Moncrieff has seen a lot of life and yet remains hopeful. Dave wonders aloud ...
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July 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Man, even Phineas Gage doesn't replicate?!
edhagen.net Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · Jul 9
An important corrective to the famous case of Phineas Gage, as well as details about Eadweard Muybridge, also a brain injury survivor, who made the famous movie of a galloping horse in 1878, a few years after murdering his wife's lover 🧪 #AcademicSky
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How the ‘myth of Phineas Gage’ affects brain injury survivors | Aeon Essays
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors
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July 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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tadegquillien.bsky.social
New paper from Qi, Vul and Powell introduces a clever way to measure a participant's Welfare-Tradeoff Ratio in a single trial: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
July 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM