There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting!
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
It was a great honor to speak at such an interesting and creative community.
Great talk by @jingyux.bsky.social bringing the collective behaviour vibe to #ehbea2026 !
Stay tuned to her beky account for the upcoming preprints on her talk on social learning + social networks
Using simulations, we investigated whether Value-Shaping imitation was always a good thing. And it's not (or is it ?? *gasp*) 🧵
📄 New preprint: The blessing and curse of Value-Shaping imitation
(by @isabellehoxha.bsky.social)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Imitation is central to human learning: but not all imitation processes are equally adaptive. We study their computational properties using reinforcement learning models.
🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇
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📘 Excited to share that Decision Making: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) is now available online (PDF for subscribers):
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
What is it about?
Understanding how humans (and other agents) make choices.
Below a bit more information👇
I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure.
Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations.
osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3
Thrilled to share that our new paper is now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social: "Who knows what? Bayesian Competence Inference guides Knowledge Attribution and Information Search," with @oliviermorin.bsky.social , @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & @tadegquillien.bsky.social!
Link: tinyurl.com/ykyhxcc6
How spatial configuration shapes memory and cognitive load: A behavioural and EEG study of simultaneous spatial and associative memory
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨 TODAY at 2pm CET online:
Workshop - Code review in practice: A checklist for computational reproducibility and collaborative research in ecology and evolution with @fhillemann.bsky.social
Join at:
calendar.app.google/3gjfLpKW4mW2...
📣 Check out the ESLR Skill-Sharing Sessions schedule for Spring 2026!
A series of workshops by the ESLR community on reproducibility, Bayesian modeling, accessibility, and more 🌱
The first one is happening TODAY!
🔗 See the full schedule: www.eslrsociety.com/events
Join the ESLR skill-sharing session on computational reproducibility tomorrow.
Open to anyone who is interested.
Details below 👇
🚨 Save the date! 🚨
Join the first @eslr.bsky.social skill-sharing online workshop next week to learn more about computational reproducibility from @fhillemann.bsky.social!
Details below 👇
New paper out today! When baby zebra finches are tutored with manipulated songs with shuffled syllables, they transform them to be consistent with linguistic laws 🐥 Reanalysis of data from James and Sakata (2017) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🚨Last week to apply for a 3 year postdoc with me and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social, embedded in theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de Focus is on developing innovative experiments and computational models to understand social & cultural learning. Deadline is March 30th 👉 hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni...
Very happy to share that the first project of my PhD journey has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience 👩🏼🔬
Give it a read 📖 and let me know what you think!
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Migrated to Bluesky as I'm excited to share our new paper on collective route memories in homing pigeons: rdcu.be/e73Qk
We found flocks remembered old routes better than pigeons flying alone, likely because different birds remembered different parts of the route!
🚨 Save the date! 🚨
Join the first @eslr.bsky.social skill-sharing online workshop next week to learn more about computational reproducibility from @fhillemann.bsky.social!
Details below 👇
🚨ESLR Workshop:
🗓 March 26, 2026
⏰ 2pm CET Online
Code review in practice: A checklist for computational reproducibility and collaborative research in ecology & evolution
by @fhillemann.bsky.social
Our first skill-sharing session of the spring! 🐣
🔗 Join: calendar.app.google/3gjfLpKW4mW2...
I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social
Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments.
📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026
Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)
My colleague, Charles Perreault, has published cool new paper documenting impact of culture on human capacity for adaptation: http//www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2523038123
New paper in TREE co-led w @jennakohles.bsky.social: We explore how resource variability shapes the value of social information for maximizing resource gain & minimizing variance. This eco-evolutionary lens helps us explain why collective sensing emerges in dynamic ecosystems!
🧪 tinyurl.com/2rurcry7
Come work with us! And get in touch with any questions you might have about the position, our labs or living/working in Germany #PostdocWanted
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
✨New Perspective out w/ Wenning Deng and @fearbrain.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social ! We argue that social foraging gives us a unifying, and ecologically grounded way to study how decisions unfold across levels — from individuals and dyads to collectives.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
It was an honour to welcome Ralf Kurvers, who beautifully kicked off this conference with a keynote talk on collective human foraging in ice fishing. @ralfkurvers.bsky.social
Come work with @tsawallis.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and myself! 3 yr Postdoc on category learning w/ structured, program-like representations. Funded by the www.theadaptivemind.de Excellence Cluster! Deadline is Mar 15th, details 👇 Please share widely 🙏
We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...
Join us in June at @iast.fr Toulouse for a 2-day workshop on social influence and its large scale implications!
