Our lab is recruiting a new PhD student for Fall 2025. Please share! If you're interested in adaptationist/computational approaches to human social reasoning, esp. mate choice, I'd love to see your application. More information here: danconroybeam.com/join-the-lab

Our new paper on what works in climate policy now out in Science Magazine: "Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades" Climate Econometrics UVic Social Sciences Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK INET Oxford science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Brown has a faculty search, and the cool part of it is that they are looking for people who work on "collective cognition and behavior." This is the first time, as far as I know, that collective psychology is a focus of a search! May there be more. apply.interfolio.com/151973

There's a big disconnect between popular beliefs about the prevalence and impact of online fake news and what the scientific research shows. I explore this and related issues in this new post 👇 conspicuouscognition.com/p/debunking-di…

In episode 457, I talk with Dr. Michael Strevens about his fantastic book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science. #Philosophy #Science Full interview: youtu.be/xkvpYRDi2OY

Struck by how much this new piece I've written on the Black Death combines so many of my interests. Infectious diseases, mortality statistics, research methods, and history of science. ̶C̶o̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶o̶o̶n̶ Here it is: press.asimov.com/articles/black…

Le médialab recrute un·e chargé·e de projet pour développer et animer un réseau d’ingénieur·e·s au sein de @SciencesPo et Université Paris Cité Candidatez avant le 31/08 pour rejoindre l’équipe du projet Résin ; toutes les infos sur medialab.sciencespo.fr/actu/offre-dem…

🚨 Job alert ! I am recruiting a 2-y postdoc as part of a research project on international climate justice. I am looking for an English native speaker with experience in qualitative research / semi-structured interviews, for a mixed methods project. ➡️[email protected]

"When two cars crash, a 1,000lb increase in the weight of one vehicle raised the fatality rate in the other by 47%." Externalities. economist.com/interactive/un…

🗞️ New piece in MIT Technology Review by Keegan McBride, Sacha Altay and me: We argue that AI’s current impact on elections is being overblown, and it's distracting us from deeper and long-lasting threats to democracy. Long version: technologyreview.com/2024/09/03/110… Short summary ⬇️

Excited to announce the Johns Hopkins Natural Philosophy Symposium, May 29-31 2025 in Baltimore. An all-star list of speakers discussing issues at the intersection of science and philosophy. naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-philos…

Very excited that the UCLA Social area is hiring. The search is broad (social influence to social cognition to morality) and open-rank (a rarity for UCLA). The search is being led by our newest member of the team, Jaimie Arona Krems. Please spread the word or apply yourself!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 OPEN-RANK, tenure-track job in SOCIAL INFLUENCE. Come be my colleague UCLA Psychology! Full ad 👉 recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09739 Please RT + spread!

Vaccines account for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years. Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years. Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today. A recent study — published in The Lancet

Dartmouth Cognitive Science continues to grow and we are now hiring an assistant professor in artificial and natural intelligence: apply.interfolio.com/152809! DMs are open if have questions about the position--review starts Oct 1. Please share with anyone who would be interested!!

New post: Wokeism is not a "mind virus". conspicuouscognition.com/p/there-is-no-…

I'm out. Easy to find on the bleu ciel site.

Lots of famous findings about human behavior are built on the results of economic games - tasks where participants allocate resources or make choices with different payoffs. A new study finds that up to 70% of participants don't understand the instructions of these games.