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OLP meets Descartes meets Leibniz: When one is really angry, it is possible to lose one's mind. But when one is really angry, it's not possible to lose one's body. By the principle of identity of indiscernibles, the mind is therefore distinct from the body.

Great talk by Ramón Alvarado on why computer simulations are not totally unlike telescopes! What we need is now a way to test and vet simulations, much like we did in the early days of the telescope.

Excited that my first postdoc paper with PennMindCORE is coming out! Big thanks to @upennedenlab for the support and a fantastic collaboration. And thanks to @adriennerwood for the laughter stimuli!

Great talk by Yoav Ram on the co-evolutionary puzzle of social assortment and cooperation! Assortment favors the cultural evolution of cooperation but assortment itself can't evolve. Happy that @akcayerol, Gareth Roberts, and I could host you at the SCEW seminar today.

Mind-blown by Cassidy R. Sugimoto's talk today at the SCEW seminar! Unfortunately, the answer to all three questions is "no" and the pandemic only made things worse. So glad @akcayerol, Gareth Roberts, and I were able to host you.

"The current tenure system prizes early productivity. That’s a real killer for mothers, who suffer a productivity shock through pregnancy, birth and the lion’s share of the work of caring for young children". timeshighereducation.com/news/progress-… przez Times Higher Education

Thank you for organizing this, it was a pleasure to be part of it!

"Recruitment from working-class families has declined and for most recent birth cohorts almost ceased. The scientific elite is thus now more homogenous as regards the social origins of its members than it was in the second half of the twentieth century". osf.io/preprints/soca…

Stop funding research (the way you do) Because it is wasteful, unethical and unscientific A thread (1/16)

New PGR just came out: philosophicalgourmet.com. Dept size seems to have a strong effect. If this is a feature of the ranking, why not make it transparent? If it's a bug, why not fix it?

Structural Inequality in Collaboration Networks dlvr.it/SQNlY9

If you're a philosophy or a computer science student with an interest in research on the interplay between technology and social norms, please consider joining us at KU. Generous funding, great placement, superb faculty. Message me for more details.

New paper from Mitchell Newberry! Measuring conformity and anti-conformity in culture… …and how they drive dynamics and diversity of baby names and dog breed preferences, over a century. nature.com/articles/s4156…

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The Cultural Evolution of Methods in Philosophy of Science: Model & Data dlvr.it/STr9bR

Publish without Bias, or Perish without Replications dlvr.it/SWdm8Z

Joint work with Rafael Ventura and Joshua B. Plotkin

New paper showing that reducing publication bias can increase the share of replications. Many thanks to @akcayerol, Paul Smaldino, Kevin J.S. Zollman, Remco Heesen, and non-Twitter people for help at different stages! doi.org/10.1016/j.shps…

Very cool!

Reliability models in cultural phylogenetics link.springer.com/article/10.100…