New preprint with @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Julian Garcia @iyadrahwan.bsky.social: Group Selection as a Safeguard Against AI Substitution. arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03541

Overview | EHBEA2026 The upcoming conference of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 14th-17th of April 2026. EHBEA conferences bring together researchers applyi...

We have already received many wonderful abstracts, thank you all! 🌟
For those who need a little extra time, we have good news: the #EHBEA2026 deadline has been extended to 9 Jan. ✍️✨
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🚨 New preprint 🚨

Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations

arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741

with team members @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Ann-Marie Nussberger, @maximederex.bsky.social, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov

A picture of Torun oldtown at night in winter

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
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New preprint: "Expertise elevates AI usage: experimental evidence comparing laypeople and professional artists"
with @andreskarjus.bsky.social as shared first author, who did a nice summary below ⏬

New preprint of an upcoming book chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution with Limor Raviv: "Communication Games: Social Interaction in the Formation of Novel Communication Systems"
osf.io/preprints/os...