Working Memory and Consciousness — Text Savvy "As far as we know, prior to the emergence of stories the universe contained just two levels of reality. Stories added a third."

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How Consciousness Shapes Culture, Communication, and Shared Meaning

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What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/

Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet

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Which Darwin for Darwinism? Charles Darwin, Neo-Darwinism and the Question of Cooperation, by Denis Noble What did Darwin really mean — and how did neo-Darwinism narrow his legacy?

🧬 Which “Darwin” do we mean — the one focused on competition, or the one open to cooperation? Later interpretations narrowed his ideas, but Darwin himself explored relationships and social selection.

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Huh

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Back when I made things. This one is one of my favorites.

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Two great opportunities to join a superb research group & work on a cool project 👇🧪

The preliminary programme for @ces2026.bsky.social is now out. What a fabulous line up!

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🧠 What drives high-performing education systems?

Montserrat Gomendio (former OECD Deputy Director of Education) joined me to unpack why some countries excel, what PISA reveals, and why reform is so hard even when we know what works. 🎧
#ChalkandTalk #PISA

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‘My head feels clearer’: how citizen science can improve people’s health Citizen science offers people something simple but powerful: a reason to step outside, pay attention, and reconnect with the living world around them.

CITIZEN SCIENCE - Two excellent articles on how good it is!

‘My head feels clearer’: how citizen science can improve people’s health theconversation.com/my-head-feel...?

theconversation.com/there-may-be...?

All Damian's birding goes into e-bird - I go with him but he's the one with the knowledge.

The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans

I was honored to give a colloquium talk at the KLI last week on the Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans. There's a lot to cover, so it's a dense talk.

NT rock art thousands of years old sheds new light on the mysterious Tasmanian tiger The rock art reveals the Thylacine’s deep significance to Aboriginal peoples.

ROCK ART as knowledge - as it should be portrayed!

NT rock art thousands of years old sheds new light on the mysterious Tasmanian tiger theconversation.com/nt-rock-art-...?

"These variations ... more likely they relate to different ways paintings were used to pass on information about the animal."

Differentiated Instruction My role in its downfall

NEW FREE POST Differentiated Instruction

My role in its downfall

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Join me on Friday, April 10th! euromathsoc.org/news/ems-lec...

Climate, Not Weather — Text Savvy If knowledge building is the weather, then cohesion is the climate.

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New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation?

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Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.

Rediscovering Knowledge as the Key to Reading Two champions of knowledge-rich instruction reflect on its current momentum

New article from E. D. Hirsch and me on (1) the evidence for the importance of knowledge in reading; (2) why it’s taken so long for people to acknowledge the evidence; (3) what we predict if the role of knowledge is taken seriously. www.educationnext.org/rediscoverin...

Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We’re All Living In A Collective Consciousness YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder

Chris Frith in conversation about his life and work.
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John Sweller developed cognitive load theory. He is my guest in the next episode of Chalk & Talk! Coming tomorrow, March 20. Don’t miss it!

Archaeology of Rapa Nui’s moai Share on

British archeologist and writer Mike Pitts recently argued that the Easter Island statues were meant to be where they are - not all heading for the platforms.

I argued this way in The Memory Code. I compare our different approaches reaching the same conclusion:

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Peculiar Satisfaction - Melissa Adler How Thomas Jefferson’s vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it—and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Ind...

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The Fordham University Press Publisher Collection offers access to more than 60 new titles in 2026 & more than 1,250 backlist works, including more than 60 #OpenAccess books.

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Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.

“findings offer original insights into the social organization of craft production and the rise of symbolic practices at the dawn of sedentism, which ultimately shaped the Neolithic transition in Southwest Asia” 🧪
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Interested in the Big Questions of human evolution, culture and society? In the Vienna area?

Come join my colloquium at the Konrad Lorenz Institute on March 26 at 15:00. I will be speaking on:

The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans

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These interviews with psychopaths always end the same in my emotional-support imagination. Dude pulls out a ragged copy of The Fountainhead: "Read it. I think it's a book you'll enjoy, but make sure you return it; I have notes in the margin."

Art or Scribbles? – a book review Share on

Art or scribbles? In the Eye of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Emergence of Visual Communication by Iain Davidson (Springer, 2025)

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At last we have an authoritative book on the story of art from its first emergence as human mark-making to contemporary works.