Marco Smolla
@msmolla.bsky.social
Developing software at DB Systel for tomorrow‘s rail traffic management.
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For all our early career cultural evolution scientists - I highly recommend joining the ESLR (as well as joining the CES, of course!) 👇
If you like what we do, don't forget to renew your membership for 2024. Members receive our bimonthly newsletter, job ads and membership grants you access to the 7th Annual ESLR Workshop in 2024!
opencollective.com/eslr
opencollective.com/eslr
January 15, 2024 at 10:19 PM
For all our early career cultural evolution scientists - I highly recommend joining the ESLR (as well as joining the CES, of course!) 👇
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The year is coming to an end and holidays are coming up soon. We hope you had a successful year and wish you and your family happy holidays and a prosperous New Year 2024.
December 22, 2023 at 4:40 PM
The year is coming to an end and holidays are coming up soon. We hope you had a successful year and wish you and your family happy holidays and a prosperous New Year 2024.
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Bringing in 2024 w/an update to the @eslr.bsky.social jobs board! Highlights: several PhD positions in language development at MPI Psycholinguistics , postdoc in sociality/cooperation in chimps + bonobos with @lirsamuni.bsky.social, and group leader position at MPI Evo Anthro 🙊🙈🙉 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs
ESLR Jobs Board
Masters
Deadline,Added,Topic/Dept/Title,Institution,Link
1/15/2024,12/11/2023,Behavior and Breeding in Raptors,Universität Bielefeld,Contact email: nayden.chakarov@uni-bielefeld.de
NA,2/14/2023,Peop...
bit.ly
January 2, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Bringing in 2024 w/an update to the @eslr.bsky.social jobs board! Highlights: several PhD positions in language development at MPI Psycholinguistics , postdoc in sociality/cooperation in chimps + bonobos with @lirsamuni.bsky.social, and group leader position at MPI Evo Anthro 🙊🙈🙉 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs
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We are thrilled to announce that the Call for Abstracts for #EHBEA2024 is now open! Come join us in the picturesque and sunny city of Montpellier! To submit an abstract and/or register for the conference go to our dedicated website ehbea2024.com #BioAnth #CuluralEvolution #EvPsych
October 17, 2023 at 10:57 AM
We are thrilled to announce that the Call for Abstracts for #EHBEA2024 is now open! Come join us in the picturesque and sunny city of Montpellier! To submit an abstract and/or register for the conference go to our dedicated website ehbea2024.com #BioAnth #CuluralEvolution #EvPsych
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I'm reminded that I need to update my interactive teaching modules on cultural evolution, which may be useful to those wanting to understand some of the basic questions of the field
kalia.anthro.utah.edu/module_intro/
kalia.anthro.utah.edu/module_intro/
kalia.anthro.utah.edu
October 16, 2023 at 2:25 PM
I'm reminded that I need to update my interactive teaching modules on cultural evolution, which may be useful to those wanting to understand some of the basic questions of the field
kalia.anthro.utah.edu/module_intro/
kalia.anthro.utah.edu/module_intro/
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The Cultural Evolution Discord Server is now on Bluesky. Follow for weekly readings and discussion.
Join the discord server here: discord.gg/hmVSe6fdD8
Join the discord server here: discord.gg/hmVSe6fdD8
October 16, 2023 at 10:31 AM
The Cultural Evolution Discord Server is now on Bluesky. Follow for weekly readings and discussion.
Join the discord server here: discord.gg/hmVSe6fdD8
Join the discord server here: discord.gg/hmVSe6fdD8
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Also check out a tutorial I made for simulation models of cultural evolution in R, all free on github:
github.com/amesoudi/cul...
and as a bookdown version with outputs:
bookdown.org/amesoudi/ABM...
github.com/amesoudi/cul...
and as a bookdown version with outputs:
bookdown.org/amesoudi/ABM...
October 16, 2023 at 11:20 AM
Also check out a tutorial I made for simulation models of cultural evolution in R, all free on github:
github.com/amesoudi/cul...
and as a bookdown version with outputs:
bookdown.org/amesoudi/ABM...
github.com/amesoudi/cul...
and as a bookdown version with outputs:
bookdown.org/amesoudi/ABM...
Using Small-World networks based on Watts and Strogatz? Me too, and here is the problem. I have generated SW networks in Julia (using Graph.jl) and R (using igraph), and found differences in the path length of networks. 👇
October 13, 2023 at 8:24 AM
Using Small-World networks based on Watts and Strogatz? Me too, and here is the problem. I have generated SW networks in Julia (using Graph.jl) and R (using igraph), and found differences in the path length of networks. 👇
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Been a steady flow of evol people arriving lately (yay)
@drboothroyd.bsky.social made an Evol & behaviour feed for EHBEA/HBES/cultural evolution
To post to it, hashtag #ehbea, #hbes, #evpsych, #bioanth, or just mention cultural evolution!
Pin it 📌🩷
@drboothroyd.bsky.social made an Evol & behaviour feed for EHBEA/HBES/cultural evolution
To post to it, hashtag #ehbea, #hbes, #evpsych, #bioanth, or just mention cultural evolution!
Pin it 📌🩷
October 13, 2023 at 6:04 AM
Been a steady flow of evol people arriving lately (yay)
@drboothroyd.bsky.social made an Evol & behaviour feed for EHBEA/HBES/cultural evolution
To post to it, hashtag #ehbea, #hbes, #evpsych, #bioanth, or just mention cultural evolution!
Pin it 📌🩷
@drboothroyd.bsky.social made an Evol & behaviour feed for EHBEA/HBES/cultural evolution
To post to it, hashtag #ehbea, #hbes, #evpsych, #bioanth, or just mention cultural evolution!
Pin it 📌🩷
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Job offer! 2-year postdoc on analysis of social media from a cultural evolution perspective. More details at the link. Contact me if interested - please share!
#CulturalEvolution #cssky
acerbialberto.com/post/2023_po...
#CulturalEvolution #cssky
acerbialberto.com/post/2023_po...
Postdoc position | Alberto Acerbi
Interested in analysis of social media data from a cultural evolution perspective?
acerbialberto.com
October 11, 2023 at 12:27 PM
Job offer! 2-year postdoc on analysis of social media from a cultural evolution perspective. More details at the link. Contact me if interested - please share!
#CulturalEvolution #cssky
acerbialberto.com/post/2023_po...
#CulturalEvolution #cssky
acerbialberto.com/post/2023_po...
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“The more uncomfortable truth is that academic science has never been a trade that selects for or supports the best scientific minds in the world.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-debate-misses-the-mark-on-the-real-culprits-ignoring-scientific-merit/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-debate-misses-the-mark-on-the-real-culprits-ignoring-scientific-merit/
Nobel Prize Debate Misses the Mark on the Real Culprits Ignoring Scientific Merit
The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system
www.scientificamerican.com
October 5, 2023 at 7:58 PM
“The more uncomfortable truth is that academic science has never been a trade that selects for or supports the best scientific minds in the world.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-debate-misses-the-mark-on-the-real-culprits-ignoring-scientific-merit/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-debate-misses-the-mark-on-the-real-culprits-ignoring-scientific-merit/
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Lots of folks are pinging me for codes over at the bad place and we've now RUN OUT of donated codes.
1. Please donate codes here if you can: t.co/c8tQpnC0Wy
2. Please share the tweet below with underrepresented folks in your networks so we can make sure bskp.app grows diversely 🙏
1. Please donate codes here if you can: t.co/c8tQpnC0Wy
2. Please share the tweet below with underrepresented folks in your networks so we can make sure bskp.app grows diversely 🙏
Tweet by @jeremyvancleve
Help us diversify Science Bluesky and share your codes with folks from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds.
DM or tag me to sign up for a code and see the form in tweet below for donating a...
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August 23, 2023 at 6:10 PM
Lots of folks are pinging me for codes over at the bad place and we've now RUN OUT of donated codes.
1. Please donate codes here if you can: t.co/c8tQpnC0Wy
2. Please share the tweet below with underrepresented folks in your networks so we can make sure bskp.app grows diversely 🙏
1. Please donate codes here if you can: t.co/c8tQpnC0Wy
2. Please share the tweet below with underrepresented folks in your networks so we can make sure bskp.app grows diversely 🙏
Looking at 🐍Python with a background in R? I found this Primer (from the reticulate package) super helpful in figuring out similarities and differences in the different schemes and names cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
October 5, 2023 at 8:23 AM
Looking at 🐍Python with a background in R? I found this Primer (from the reticulate package) super helpful in figuring out similarities and differences in the different schemes and names cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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So excited about this hackathon-like workshop that'll take place in Leiden in Jan. We'll work in groups to develop & computationally implement cognitive models of complex behaviors (turn-taking, reading, word acquisition, etc.). Registration still open: lorentzcenter.nl/cognitive-mo...
October 4, 2023 at 9:35 AM
So excited about this hackathon-like workshop that'll take place in Leiden in Jan. We'll work in groups to develop & computationally implement cognitive models of complex behaviors (turn-taking, reading, word acquisition, etc.). Registration still open: lorentzcenter.nl/cognitive-mo...
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The Association of Early-Career Social Learning Researchers (ESLR) is on Bluesky now! Follow for research, job listings, etc. related to social learning and cultural evolution 🐝🦜🐙🐵🐳 bsky.app/profile/eslr...
bsky.app
October 3, 2023 at 3:24 PM
The Association of Early-Career Social Learning Researchers (ESLR) is on Bluesky now! Follow for research, job listings, etc. related to social learning and cultural evolution 🐝🦜🐙🐵🐳 bsky.app/profile/eslr...
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Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.
PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
AMZN: www.amazon.com/dp/069122414...
PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
AMZN: www.amazon.com/dp/069122414...
October 3, 2023 at 1:47 PM
Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.
PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
AMZN: www.amazon.com/dp/069122414...
PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
AMZN: www.amazon.com/dp/069122414...
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It's that time of the year again, RESEARCH FELLOWS and VISITING FELLOWS apply to the IAST, best place to visit or do a post-doc, believe me!
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
October 2, 2023 at 8:56 PM
It's that time of the year again, RESEARCH FELLOWS and VISITING FELLOWS apply to the IAST, best place to visit or do a post-doc, believe me!
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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Happy to share (a little belatedly) a new paper in Evolutionary Human Sciences with Marco Smolla (now at MPI Leipzig), in which we show that the coevolution of cumulative culture and social structure is beset with a conflict between group and individual level payoffs. doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.21
Pathways to cultural adaptation: the coevolution of cumulative culture and social networks | Evoluti...
Pathways to cultural adaptation: the coevolution of cumulative culture and social networks - Volume 5
doi.org
September 27, 2023 at 6:44 PM
Happy to share (a little belatedly) a new paper in Evolutionary Human Sciences with Marco Smolla (now at MPI Leipzig), in which we show that the coevolution of cumulative culture and social structure is beset with a conflict between group and individual level payoffs. doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.21
Agent-based modelling in R, Julia, Python? I have tried each of these languages and if you are interested, here are some code examples for a simple Rock, Paper, Scissor ABM: tinyurl.com/rpsinr, tinyurl.com/rpsinjulia, tinyurl.com/rpsinpython
GitHub - marcosmolla/rockpaperscissors: A simple rock paper scissors simulation in python
A simple rock paper scissors simulation in python. Contribute to marcosmolla/rockpaperscissors development by creating an account on GitHub.
tinyurl.com
October 2, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Agent-based modelling in R, Julia, Python? I have tried each of these languages and if you are interested, here are some code examples for a simple Rock, Paper, Scissor ABM: tinyurl.com/rpsinr, tinyurl.com/rpsinjulia, tinyurl.com/rpsinpython