Marco Smolla

Congrats!

For all our early career cultural evolution scientists - I highly recommend joining the ESLR (as well as joining the CES, of course!) 👇

The year is coming to an end and holidays are coming up soon. We hope you had a successful year and wish you and your family happy holidays and a prosperous New Year 2024.

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Bringing in 2024 w/an update to the @eslr.bsky.social jobs board! Highlights: several PhD positions in language development at MPI Psycholinguistics , postdoc in sociality/cooperation in chimps + bonobos with @lirsamuni.bsky.social, and group leader position at MPI Evo Anthro 🙊🙈🙉 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs

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We are thrilled to announce that the Call for Abstracts for #EHBEA2024 is now open! Come join us in the picturesque and sunny city of Montpellier! To submit an abstract and/or register for the conference go to our dedicated website ehbea2024.com #BioAnth #CuluralEvolution #EvPsych

I'm reminded that I need to update my interactive teaching modules on cultural evolution, which may be useful to those wanting to understand some of the basic questions of the field

kalia.anthro.utah.edu/module_intro/

The Cultural Evolution Discord Server is now on Bluesky. Follow for weekly readings and discussion.

Join the discord server here: discord.gg/hmVSe6fdD8

Also check out a tutorial I made for simulation models of cultural evolution in R, all free on github:
github.com/amesoudi/cul...

and as a bookdown version with outputs:
bookdown.org/amesoudi/ABM...

Just to be clear, I’m not saying igraph’s implementation is wrong. Just be aware that there is a difference between rewiring one endpoint of an edge and rewiring an entire edge.

I created the function based on the implementation in Graph.jl for Julia (see juliagraphs.org/Graphs.jl/de...)

Returns a Small-World network based on Watts and Strogatz algorithm (which considers each edge only ... Returns a Small-World network based on Watts and Strogatz algorithm (which considers each edge only once for rewiring). - wattsStrogatzGame.r

It seems that igraph is considering each edge for rewiring twice (causing the shorter average path length). See this discussion github.com/igraph/igrap.... I have implemented an alternative version, which you can find here: gist.github.com/marcosmolla/...

Using Small-World networks based on Watts and Strogatz? Me too, and here is the problem. I have generated SW networks in Julia (using Graph.jl) and R (using igraph), and found differences in the path length of networks. 👇

Been a steady flow of evol people arriving lately (yay)

@drboothroyd.bsky.social made an Evol & behaviour feed for EHBEA/HBES/cultural evolution

To post to it, hashtag #ehbea, #hbes, #evpsych, #bioanth, or just mention cultural evolution!

Pin it 📌🩷

Postdoc position | Alberto Acerbi Interested in analysis of social media data from a cultural evolution perspective?

Job offer! 2-year postdoc on analysis of social media from a cultural evolution perspective. More details at the link. Contact me if interested - please share!
#CulturalEvolution #cssky
acerbialberto.com/post/2023_po...

Nobel Prize Debate Misses the Mark on the Real Culprits Ignoring Scientific Merit The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system

“The more uncomfortable truth is that academic science has never been a trade that selects for or supports the best scientific minds in the world.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-debate-misses-the-mark-on-the-real-culprits-ignoring-scientific-merit/

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Lots of folks are pinging me for codes over at the bad place and we've now RUN OUT of donated codes.

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Looking at 🐍Python with a background in R? I found this Primer (from the reticulate package) super helpful in figuring out similarities and differences in the different schemes and names cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

poster of the workshop

So excited about this hackathon-like workshop that'll take place in Leiden in Jan. We'll work in groups to develop & computationally implement cognitive models of complex behaviors (turn-taking, reading, word acquisition, etc.). Registration still open: lorentzcenter.nl/cognitive-mo...

that's a good first post ;)

I agree. I’m pleasantly surprised how many familiar faces I found here.

The Association of Early-Career Social Learning Researchers (ESLR) is on Bluesky now! Follow for research, job listings, etc. related to social learning and cultural evolution 🐝🦜🐙🐵🐳 bsky.app/profile/eslr...

Cover of Modeling Social Behavior

Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.

PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
AMZN: www.amazon.com/dp/069122414...

It's that time of the year again, RESEARCH FELLOWS  and VISITING FELLOWS apply to the IAST, best place to visit or do a post-doc, believe me!

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Let me know what you think. I should probably publish some more of these that I have slumbering on my computer.

Pathways to cultural adaptation: the coevolution of cumulative culture and social networks | Evoluti... Pathways to cultural adaptation: the coevolution of cumulative culture and social networks - Volume 5

Happy to share (a little belatedly) a new paper in Evolutionary Human Sciences with Marco Smolla (now at MPI Leipzig), in which we show that the coevolution of cumulative culture and social structure is beset with a conflict between group and individual level payoffs. doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.21

GitHub - marcosmolla/rockpaperscissors: A simple rock paper scissors simulation in python A simple rock paper scissors simulation in python. Contribute to marcosmolla/rockpaperscissors development by creating an account on GitHub.

Agent-based modelling in R, Julia, Python? I have tried each of these languages and if you are interested, here are some code examples for a simple Rock, Paper, Scissor ABM: tinyurl.com/rpsinr, tinyurl.com/rpsinjulia, tinyurl.com/rpsinpython