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Mathieu Charbonneau
@matcharbonneau.bsky.social
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Phil of tech/science, cultural/tech evo, distributed cognition, and interdisciplinary integration. Associate professor at UM6P-FGSES.
https://mcharbonneau.com/
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👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November.

🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
ces2026.bsky.social ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social · Sep 19
We’re delighted to share that the CES2026 Conference website is now live!

We warmly invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their presentation proposals by November 16th through the submission portal on the website.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November.

🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
matcharbonneau.bsky.social
Looks great! ToC here: mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/conten...
September 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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adrian-currie.bsky.social
Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci
September 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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ces2026.bsky.social
We’re delighted to share that the CES2026 Conference website is now live!

We warmly invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their presentation proposals by November 16th through the submission portal on the website.
September 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Find out more on the new conference website: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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September 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Presentation submissions are open until November 16, with four submission formats: standard talks (15-20 minutes), lightning talks (5 minutes), poster presentations, and thematic sessions.
September 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.

Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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September 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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🚨🚨 New preprint 📜 with Mathieu Charbonneau (@matcharbonneau.bsky.social‬): Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution (arxiv.org/abs/2508.04828). Feedback welcomed! #Evolution #Technology #Culture #OpenEnded #TechnologicalEvolution #CulturalEvolution 🧵: 1/29
Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution
Humans stand alone in terms of their potential to collectively and cumulatively improve technologies in an open-ended manner. This open-endedness provides societies with the ability to continually exp...
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August 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
matcharbonneau.bsky.social
New paper out in Topics in Cognitive Science! "Open-Ended Technological Evolution: The Co-Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies" 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Open‐Ended Technological Evolution: The Co‐Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies
Open-ended technological evolution is the result of the co-evolution of invention and cognitive technologies that enhances our cognitive capabilities and generates a feedback loop of ever-expanding t....
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June 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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shumon.bsky.social
There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie...

Deadline 25.05.2025

Please distribute widely!
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May 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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zhgarfield.com
With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social

#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quote: " In sum, leader-directed teaching of opaque cooperative norms would be a mutually beneficial strategy, where the costs incurred by influential teachers are, at least partly, outweighed by the long-term benefits of cultivating cooperation within the group." Mosaic plot illustrating the relationship between evidence for teaching and non-teaching social learning, based on a binary researcher-coded measure of teaching. "Although instrumental cultural transmission frequently occurs through both teaching and non-teaching social learning, opaque cultural information is predominantly transmitted through teaching, with relatively fewer instances of non-teaching social learning."
April 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates!

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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference Announced - Cultural Evolution Society
culturalevolutionsociety.org
November 15, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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emmasmcewen.bsky.social
Very pleased to announce that the first study from my PhD thesis is out now 🥳 with thanks to @ConstableMerryn
and all my other wonderful co-authors!
Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 29, 2024 at 10:27 AM
matcharbonneau.bsky.social
I am very excited to share with you the news that our book ‘The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation’ is coming out in exactly 2 months.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254780...

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January 19, 2024 at 9:44 PM
matcharbonneau.bsky.social
"As we move into 2024, time for some shameless self-promotion. Check out our paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science:

""Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination""

Paper: http://tinyurl.com/v39xtx5s
Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/ahrgs/

🧵👇"
January 9, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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mmwozniak.bsky.social
Our new study on cultural evolution of group identity!

What happens if people play a Chinese whispers game about their ingroup and outgroup?

See our new preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...

Interactive dashboard link below

Great collaboration with Mathieu Charbonneau & Guenther Knoblich
October 17, 2023 at 5:27 PM