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Maxime Derex

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CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation

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🚨 The application deadline has been extended to 27 Feb 2026.
Apply at this link: forms.gle/wbUG5WfTRSvh...

24.02.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Poster of 13th Econ and Bio workshop on 'social influence and it's macro consequences'

Poster of 13th Econ and Bio workshop on 'social influence and it's macro consequences'

Travel grants πŸ“£

For the 13th Toulouse Economics & Biology Workshop (June 1–2, 2026, @IAST) we have travel fellowships for PhDs & early-career researchers presenting a poster. Apply by Feb 27! Details: www.iast.fr/conferences/...

18.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Apply at this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

13.02.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Come and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution

"Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics"

www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr...

More details here:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

14.11.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz

files.newsletter2go.com/l3slzozn/s_i...

17.11.2025 09:27 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

🚨Only 2 days left to apply

13.11.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details πŸ‘‰ hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... πŸ™Please share!

05.11.2025 10:24 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience : College of Natural Sciences : UMass Amherst Engage in research centered on fundamental theoretical questions about cognitive function using multiple experimental methods and data analysis.

I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

27.10.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Research Fellowships Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers.β€―Fello...

πŸ“’ Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr

Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

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

22.09.2025 07:44 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! πŸ™

20.10.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone?

Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. πŸ§ πŸ“˜ arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837

16.10.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

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

20.09.2025 09:15 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"

Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!

400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

16.09.2025 14:04 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 9
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Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanismsβ€”such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

πŸ’™New paper!πŸ’™

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

14.09.2025 07:52 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5
Fees and Funding - Durham University

@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/...

11.09.2025 09:12 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.

23.07.2025 11:41 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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🚨 New preprint 🚨

Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations

arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741

with team members @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Ann-Marie Nussberger, @maximederex.bsky.social, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov

27.06.2025 10:33 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seeking Behavioral Science PhDs @cuboulderibs.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @nathumbehav.nature.com @maximederex.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social

09.06.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan

05.06.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.

04.06.2025 11:15 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
OECS thematic collections.

OECS thematic collections.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

30.05.2025 00:18 πŸ‘ 414 πŸ” 184 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 7

3 days left until the deadline for these @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social grants

27.05.2025 09:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

Do you teach a course on cultural evolution?

The @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social is offering Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards

Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

$4000 award. Apply for up to 3 courses. Less than 30min per course submission.

14.05.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity

20.05.2025 05:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

πŸ“’ CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! πŸŽ‰ $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content.

Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants

14.05.2025 10:39 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Don't forget to put in your application for our 2025 awards!

05.05.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n

29.04.2025 02:46 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
decision trees in human play in the game of go before and after the arrival of superhuman AI, showing gradual change rather than revolutionary disruption

decision trees in human play in the game of go before and after the arrival of superhuman AI, showing gradual change rather than revolutionary disruption

🚨 New preprint! 🚨

I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution.

Check out these decision trees!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

09.04.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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ACE Outreach Awards CES will give out two awards of up to $2500 each to support activities that translate cultural evolution research for a non-academic audience or for students outside of the field of cultural evolution...

The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications!
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...

11.04.2025 09:19 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 6
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ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory culture, evolution, cooperation, and sustainability

Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management!

Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG...
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com

10.03.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2