Evolution of Similarity-Biased Social Learning. New preprint with Alejandro Pérez Velilla. A long time in the making. Feedback welcome! Here’s a short summary thread. osf.io/preprints/soca…

Very much enjoyed the book modeling social behavior by Paul Smaldino . Highly recommended for anyone who is interested in understanding the landscape.

Excited to talk about research from my dissertation!

Incredible opportunity!

Our brand new 2-year international Evolutionary Biology MSc program here in Mainz*) starts in October. Apply by May 15th ...or why not today or tomorrow? blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-biologie-… *) a city that our today's visitor Audrey Proenca called "adorable". See how happy she looks with us😍

Currently working through Paul Smaldino's "Modeling Social Behaviour" book. Such an approachable text for someone who wants insight into Agent Based Models! Just what I needed coming from a different field, great recommendation by Richard McElreath 🦔 during his 2024 course!

I don’t have much use for these academies, but I’ll take this opportunity to say that every year that goes by I find more and more to be inspired by in the work of Rob and his collaborators. Absolutely field-defining.

Super interesting and insightful paper on the role and evolution of #play in the animal kingdom by Paul Smaldino and colleagues: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My book with Scott Hotton on Braitenberg Vehicles was published today 🥳. The result of thousands of backyard meetings and zoom calls, the book confirms what I'll call Braitenberg's dictum: even the simplest systems contain great wealths of complexity. 1/

🚨 Starting in July 2024, I am the author of a new (~) monthly column for Undark Magazine, called SELECTIVE PRESSURE. In it, I explore "the collisions of science, culture, and belief." undark.org/group/selectiv…

"Long ties accelerate noisy threshold-based contagions" — our long-in-the-works paper on how network structure affects social contagion appeared this year in Nature Human Behaviour. My hope is that is triggers a reevaluation of ideas about "complex contagion" nature.com/articles/s4156…

Researchers should stop paying to publish their papers. Tom Morgan and I wrote a short piece about it. 1/3 osf.io/preprints/osf/…

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06705 We are recruiting two postdocs for a new interdisciplinary NSF-funded project in collective behavior, working w/ me (UC Davis), Nori Jacoby (Cornell University), Dalton Conley (Princeton University), and Ofer Tchernichovski (The City University of New York). We look forward to your application!

Information Architectures: A Framework for Understanding Socio-Technical Systems New paper tackling a big topic that came out of a workshop I co-organized at Santa Fe Institute in May 2023 with a large interdisciplinary group. osf.io/preprints/soca…

This was a very generative workshop and a fun collaboration. Big kudos to Paul Smaldino for the excellent leadership on this position piece!

"The speed at which information architectures are implemented is much faster than the speed which human societies can respond to them. Systems that were once opt-in scale rapidly, becoming requirements for human integration into networks...." osf.io/preprints/soca…