Now at BlueSky dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social.bsky.social

This tribute to the late John Tooby, one of my intellectual heroes, written by another one of my intellectual heroes, Steven Pinker, brought tears to my eyes. Well worth a read. nautil.us/psychology-los…

Voici une trentaine de petits films que Dominique Dubosc avait tournés pendant la Seconde Intifada en Cisjordanie et à Gaza. HISTOIRES PALESTINIENNES : vimeo.com/showcase/10804…

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Watch “for Refaat Alareer” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/890258497?ref=…

Marchons contre la loi immigration le 21 janvier 21janvier.fr

I am very excited to share with you the news that our book ‘The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation’ is coming out in exactly 2 months. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547802/… 1/5

Whoever recruits Denis Tatone will be doing themselves a huge favour!

Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson (preprint 2024) "Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective" osf.io/preprints/psya… via Center for Open Science

Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world aje.io/08arr7 via Al Jazeera English

Tim Lewens "Cultural selection" - free to downloads for two weeks. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

In the just lauched Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclope…), our (Nicolas Claidière and me) short article on Cultural Attractors oecs.mit.edu/pub/mfsrxxgb

Bernard Lortat-Jacob, ami chaleureux, formidable ethnomusicologue (lortajablog.fr), est mort. Il m'avait accompagné chez les Dorzé en 1974, avait étudié leurs polyphonies, et produit un disque exemplaire

Read: theguardian.com/world/article/…

Helena Miton's tought-provoking Aeon essay on how cultural knowledge is archived in human bodies aeon.co/essays/how-do-…

Nathan Sperber, The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural?, NLR 148, July–August 2024 newleftreview.org/issues/ii148/a… via @newleftreview