Simon Carrignon

All good thanks!

Hi Zach! having a few issues with abstract submission etc.. the website for HBES says the thing below ; but I haven't finished to fill all information and it just stopped at some point with a 500 internal error and lot of weird php logs 😬 sorry if I have done something wrong!

(I realise how very "I'm in my early forties" is to post picture of wine you brought back from travel... sorry about that, was very much bored by science and political stuff :'D)

yesterday we opened up this bottle of marzemino we brought from Trento when I visited @acerbialberto.com. We loved every bottle of marzemino we tried there, this one was no exeption!Glad Alberto introduced us to this grape and the good wine it makes - Trentino is an awesome region for wine and food.

une clean plate qui n'a pas duré bien ltp

He beh, sacrée poursuite!

Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists Exclusive: DNA advances show Roman-era skeleton, once hailed as first black Briton, came from southern England

Out today, we present high quality ancient DNA data for Beachy Head Woman for the first time. Hers is a story about changing interpretations, science communication, and cutting-edge genetic technology...🧵
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Totally missed the live on this account!! But now I follow you, wont miss it next time. I Had a great time, lot of wonderful talks from a very diverse range of speakers!

We’re into the final stretch of Session 3 at #CAAUK2025!

We’ve heard Adrian Timpson & Simon Carrignon on inequality modelling and Doudou Cao on body-size change in ancient China — now Anastasia Nikulina is presenting her work on modelling Mediterranean agriculture.

#DigitalArchaeology #CAAUK

I remember in 2008-2010 thinking "future of internet is mesh networks, everyone storing a bit of internet, maximum redundancy, robustness, decentralisation..."
Did it finally happened? missed the memo ..

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

(if you look for my chapter in the table of content, I have been anglo-saxonified as Simon Carrington ;D)

Received my version yesterday, it's beautiful! (and yes, very big!) .

That's was a super nice episode of many minds! This is a fascinating topic, presented by two great researchers. Hard not to want to explore more in depth kids culture after listening to that :D

Four copies of a book titled "Network Analysis for Book Historians"

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳
#dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

Interestingly, people applying cultural evolution to archaeology (evolutionary archaeologists 😅?), probably closer to fields like geostatistics and so on, have been using null model similar to IBD models for a while (cf early 2010s papers from @ercrema.bsky.social, Shennan, etc.)

The authors argue that isolation by distance would be a much more reasonable null model for evolutionary biology to build on, now that we have more computing power, and I can't agree more with them (also can't wait for a follow up article on that ;), hopefully they will be one)

Awesome dive into the concept of panmixia & the reasons of its wide adoption in evolutionary biology (it's not just a convenient mathematical simplification!) And a great example of a fruitful collab between science & history of sciences, two communities that sadly are way too far from panmixia :)

Btw what I’m finding endearing in an (appropriately) old-fashioned way is that the entirety of our collaboration happened over one 100-message email thread spanning about three months.

never been a mac user but super fun to read and a lot to learn!

Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

First page of the journal article

Fig 1 boxplot

Fig 2 scatter plot panel

Fig 3 ridgeplot panel

Is archaeology a science? 🧪

Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...

nameless but blessed by god!

mutt?

"academic-hard-workout" one of my highlight of 2024 tbh :)
We need a cultural evolution meeting in Trento soon, @oliviermorin.bsky.social I'm sure you can convince Alberto to do that!

definitly! I mentionned it in a talk in Durham last week after seeing the version in Alife! wanted to chat about it with @missdaffodil.bsky.social but I didn't realized she was back in Germany :)

c'est a partir de quelle age que t'es obligé de parler à tes voisins de tablé dans le train quand t'es assis a une table de 4? genre au dessus de 60 ans? ou c'est just basé sur le pourcentage de cheveux blanc?

and thanks you all for linking cultural evolution and alife! <3

staruday c'est samedi on s'entend