Are you interested in evolution of human cumulative culture, social networks and social cognition of hunter-gatherers? 5 new PhD positions 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 👇 -Deadline November 30 migliano-uzh.com/phd

📢 IAST is looking for research fellows! Applications from researchers within a large range of disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences are welcome. iast.fr/research-fello… Deadline: 15th November 2022

***JOB KLAXON*** I’m recruiting *multiple* PhD & Postdoc researchers to join my group BirthRites in 2023. Thematic umbrella is cultural evolution, reproduction, demography. Methodologically, we’re diverse: current members range from polisci, compsci to soc/culanth. Core Qs:👇

Historical Psychology Post-doc at Harvard: Open to folks from any field with the right tools and interests in cultural evolution Patrick J. Burns Jonathan Schulz Walter Scheidel Edward Slingerland Max Posch bsky.social Steven Heine Lera Boroditsky Peter Turchin David Sloan Wilson Coren Apicella

🚨 POSTDOC JOB ALERT 🚨 I’m recruiting a 2y postdoc to conduct lab-in-the-field experiments on social learning and cumulative culture. 🗓️Applications close March 17, 2023. Please RT! 📢 Full job details at iast.fr/postdoctoral-p…

New funding call: "Advancing cultural evolution (ACE)" grants -- applications due Mar 10. 1. ACE Small grants for early career researchers forms.gle/BLHYXbHFZzFK6i… 2. ACE Outreach award forms.gle/9DjFHXLoLuyUa1… 3. ACE Building Research Capacity Award forms.gle/y7tfGHkmCELjpD…

Just a few more days left to apply! Job details here: iast.fr/postdoctoral-p…

👉Job call! 👈We are looking for a 3-year postdoctoral researcher in computational modeling to join our efforts to understand how capacities for human symbolic behaviour evolved ~150 – 15 k years ago. See the call here: au.dk/om/stillinger/…

#MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 call ➡️ NOW OPEN! €260.47 million to enhance the creative & innovative potential of researchers wishing to acquire new skills and experience whilst carrying out their own research project abroad. Apply by 13 September 2023 ⬇️

📢The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse seeks applications for POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS and VISITING FELLOWS. More information and application links can be found at iast.fr/apply 🚨Application deadline: November 15, 2023.

New Paper: "Machine Culture" nature.com/articles/s4156… AI systems are increasingly integrated into the human cultural fabric. What can we learn from human cultural evolution to anticipate the impact of intelligent machines on culture (socially transmitted information)? [1/9]

📣We are hiring!! We are looking for two tenure-track assistant professors, one in Human Evolutionary Social Science and one in Computational Social Science. 🚨Deadline Jan 31st Please retweet! Details are here: tse-fr.eu/groups/departm…

We are happy to announce our fee waivers and Cultural Evolution Society ACE Travel awards #CES2024durham. You can apply for both here ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/inclusivity-aw… The deadline is 20th April at 9 am BST and you will hear back before the deadline for early bird registration on 20th May 4pm BST

What can LLMs bring to the study of cultural evolution? 🤔 In this preprint, we present a framework for simulating cultural evolution using LLMs 🦜 We study how the dynamics depends on social structure, simulated personalities👥, and whether it has potential attractors🧲🔍 1/17

What drives innovation? The Collective Brain Hypothesis (Michael Muthukrishna,Maxime Derex) argues that innovation arises from the recombination of ideas that occurs when diverse minds interact and share ideas... Matt Ridley tylercowen royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

I have a postdoc position available on our 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory' grant: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… ... working at the intersection of archaeology, ancient DNA, computational modelling and stats

What happens when LLMs play the Telephone game? ☎️ In this new preprint, we analyse the evolution of texts as they are transmitted between LLM agents 🤖💬🤖💬🤖💬 Do text properties converge to attractors? 🧲 How is this influenced by the task📝 and model⚙️? 1/13🧵

We are looking for two PhD students interested in cumulative culture in great apes. By using observational, experimental and computational methods, we aim to test whether precursors of human culture are present in chimpanzees and bonobos. uu.nl/en/organisatio…