New book by SFI Press: The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV, a two-volume collection of contributions from leading scholars examining the unprecedented complexity of the global economy.
You can download PDF chapters for free, or purchase physical copies here: sfipress.org/books/eecs-iv
Main dialog of the plugin
I built a Zotero plugin to fix inconsistent author names in your library. (J. Smith, John Smith, Smith John… we're all familiar.)
Mendeley had this for years. @zotero.org didn't. 500+ cases in my library alone.
Now you can batch-review and normalize all at once: github.com/milekpl/zote.... Free.
Just published open access at Field Methods! Uncertainty and ethnographic methods! @djsmith90.bsky.social @bgpurzycki.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....
No question, this is the most original paper I have ever written
It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading
Thread coming soon!
New paper out!
We test a simple question: Do people judge the exact same action differently when it’s framed as a ritual rather than something ordinary?
Spoiler: yes!
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"these features of punishment have been largely ignored by evolutionary social scientists and psychologists, leading to misleading assumptions about the evolution of punishment and cooperation"
A copy of The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution by a windowsill.
Chapter 66 of the book, on applying cultural evolution research to climate and environmental change.
Received my copy of this formidable doorstopper.
A thousand pages on how cultures change.
In Chapter 66, with @twaring.bsky.social and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, we consider how the science of cultural change can be applied to...
...change culture more, and climate less. Or so we hope.
"we argue cultural ecosystems should be studied through the same mechanisms as other ecosystems—ecological modifications, phenotypic responses, legacy effects & ecological cascades. Different ecosystems may require specific methods or concepts, but not fundamentally different theoretical frameworks"
Previously undescribed human gut bacteria that aid in the digestion of plant cellulose are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes, according to a 2024 Science study. scim.ag/4j0GEqE #ScienceMagArchives
New episode!! 📣📣
A conversation w/ @kevinlala.bsky.social about his new (co-authored) book, ‘Evolution Evolving'!
Ideas about evolution have changed a lot in recent decades. An emerging view—synthesized by Lala et al.—puts developmental processes front and center.
Listen: disi.org/the-developm...
Cultural Attractors by Dan Sperber: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.61e20c82
1/ 🧵 ✨ BRAND sparkling new CCE paper on how beliefs in witchcraft enforce social norms 🧙♀️✨
What role does witchcraft play in regulating social behavior? New research from @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and Co examines how beliefs in witchcraft and envy shape norms around social conduct in Mauritius👇
Sorry for the late reply. Visual iconic memory, I'm not sure. I would say I can't consciously visualise this way. My aphantasia is deep in the sense that it also covers other modalities. I can't recall the smell or sounds. Neither any smell or sound automatically triggers my memories.
Thanks! This PP hypothesis is plausible but things are even more interesting as in aphantasia you can still have a dream with visual content. So it seems that voluntary access to imaginary visualisation is somehow denied when awake.
I would say...I have semantic knowledge of the shape but I don't "see" any shape. I know what it is. It's difficult to explain this phenomenology 🙂
Drawing helps me to struggle with #aphantasia. Sometimes I will share some of my drawings here...
The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers: cognitionandculture.net/index.html
Maybe a useful information: you can go on skyfeed.app and create a custom feed. As an example, this uses a regex "cultural evolution | social learning" and shows all posts that contain one or the other expression (not the most sophisticated one I guess, but I experimented for one minute!)
Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one
go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq
Welcome new Bluesky friends!
Come get your culture and evolution nerds here:
go.bsky.app/8yXwjAn
