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30% academic discourse; 15% games; 3% misc; 52% skeets I wrote but deleted immediately.
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3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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📢 Here is my commentary about the pitfalls of taking an impoverished evolutionary approach to culture, which include 'the limitations of a unidirectional model of evolution' and 'the neglect of niche construction theory'. #ehbea #evolution #psychscisky 🧪
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The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André
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November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📢 Here is my commentary about the pitfalls of taking an impoverished evolutionary approach to culture, which include 'the limitations of a unidirectional model of evolution' and 'the neglect of niche construction theory'. #ehbea #evolution #psychscisky 🧪
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Four interesting methods & stats winter courses at Leiden University also open to researchers and PhD candidates who are not affiliated with us.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Four interesting methods & stats winter courses at Leiden University also open to researchers and PhD candidates who are not affiliated with us.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/social-be...
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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!
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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
👉 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!
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
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The latest in a series of papers that redefine and, in this case, corrects what we think about the evidence for early wooden weapons.
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
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November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The latest in a series of papers that redefine and, in this case, corrects what we think about the evidence for early wooden weapons.
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
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Evolutionary psychology makes a big to-do about their finding that sexual selection favors a "feminine body type" that "signals fertility/reproductive potential", including some rather... silly research. Turns out, those traits don't seem to signal reproductive success. Oops! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Evolutionary psychology makes a big to-do about their finding that sexual selection favors a "feminine body type" that "signals fertility/reproductive potential", including some rather... silly research. Turns out, those traits don't seem to signal reproductive success. Oops! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
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Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
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Wow. There's a lot of hidden moderation on bsky.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Wow. There's a lot of hidden moderation on bsky.
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Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
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A great opportunity for ECRs studying ritual!
Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
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The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PRIO invites applications for a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in evolutionary, cultural or social anthropology, or a closely related field, ...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A great opportunity for ECRs studying ritual!
Let's go one step further. When you go to a book store to buy a book you want, you should be forced to take home another book you didn't want, and won't enjoy.
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Let's go one step further. When you go to a book store to buy a book you want, you should be forced to take home another book you didn't want, and won't enjoy.
I mean, sure, the term 'useful idiot' is obviously valid here.
The data viz crime here is a little more subtle than most, and while generally good, it still contains at least one major, awful and unjustified practice.
The data viz crime here is a little more subtle than most, and while generally good, it still contains at least one major, awful and unjustified practice.
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I mean, sure, the term 'useful idiot' is obviously valid here.
The data viz crime here is a little more subtle than most, and while generally good, it still contains at least one major, awful and unjustified practice.
The data viz crime here is a little more subtle than most, and while generally good, it still contains at least one major, awful and unjustified practice.
Any social psychologists or identity theorists ever look at folks who go on informal pilgrimages to 'find themselves' (like travelling to India, etc)? Ideally in comparison to those who form values/identities through non-deliberate or passive means?
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Any social psychologists or identity theorists ever look at folks who go on informal pilgrimages to 'find themselves' (like travelling to India, etc)? Ideally in comparison to those who form values/identities through non-deliberate or passive means?
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >
But here's, the thing, p values and significance become useless at such large sample sizes. When you're dividing the coefficient by the SE and the sample size is in the tens of thousands, EVERYTHING IS SIGNIFICANT. All you're testing is whether the coefficient is different than zero.
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >
Airports should have barbers.
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Airports should have barbers.
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There are less than two weeks left to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships. The scheme supports senior researchers in the humanities and social sciences towards the completion of a major piece of research. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
There are less than two weeks left to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships. The scheme supports senior researchers in the humanities and social sciences towards the completion of a major piece of research. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
Out of Office: ON.
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Out of Office: ON.
The Mamdani 'Auntie' thing is funny as there's a meme in conservative circles derived from a Waytz et al (2019) paper, which is used mocks liberals for 'caring for trees'. While the 'Autie' claim is a useful rhetorical device, conservatives are also probably unlikely to extend kin-terms to non-kin
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The Mamdani 'Auntie' thing is funny as there's a meme in conservative circles derived from a Waytz et al (2019) paper, which is used mocks liberals for 'caring for trees'. While the 'Autie' claim is a useful rhetorical device, conservatives are also probably unlikely to extend kin-terms to non-kin
Broke: LLMs permeate academia and rot it from the inside.
Woke: LLMs permeate academia, leading to reform and the abandonment of grades.
Bespoke: LLMs permeate academia, a new grading system is established, reflecting whether the work is better than whatever industry standard for LLM exists.
Woke: LLMs permeate academia, leading to reform and the abandonment of grades.
Bespoke: LLMs permeate academia, a new grading system is established, reflecting whether the work is better than whatever industry standard for LLM exists.
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Broke: LLMs permeate academia and rot it from the inside.
Woke: LLMs permeate academia, leading to reform and the abandonment of grades.
Bespoke: LLMs permeate academia, a new grading system is established, reflecting whether the work is better than whatever industry standard for LLM exists.
Woke: LLMs permeate academia, leading to reform and the abandonment of grades.
Bespoke: LLMs permeate academia, a new grading system is established, reflecting whether the work is better than whatever industry standard for LLM exists.
I'd happily make my genie wish 'Get rid of [this form of] AI', but I skimmed the lengthy entry on Grokopedia for 'ritual', my topic of academic expertise .... and it's pretty good?
I mean, there's some strange decisions about what to include, but it's not *wrong* (as far as I can tell)
I mean, there's some strange decisions about what to include, but it's not *wrong* (as far as I can tell)
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I'd happily make my genie wish 'Get rid of [this form of] AI', but I skimmed the lengthy entry on Grokopedia for 'ritual', my topic of academic expertise .... and it's pretty good?
I mean, there's some strange decisions about what to include, but it's not *wrong* (as far as I can tell)
I mean, there's some strange decisions about what to include, but it's not *wrong* (as far as I can tell)
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Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025.
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Deadline: November 15, 2025.
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This train is the most feral train I've been on in a long-time. Children screaming, old folks coughing, people watching tiktok at full volume. What the hell?
No lads drinking tinnies though, at least not on this carriage.
No lads drinking tinnies though, at least not on this carriage.
October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This train is the most feral train I've been on in a long-time. Children screaming, old folks coughing, people watching tiktok at full volume. What the hell?
No lads drinking tinnies though, at least not on this carriage.
No lads drinking tinnies though, at least not on this carriage.