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New paper, "When norm change hurts," w/ @s_ehret, @lukas_vonfluee, and @sb_vogt. Special issue of PTRSB on norm change edited by @giulia_ndr, @seregavr, @MicheleJGelfand, @tavitonst, and @VriensEva. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2… doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy is finally out … it looks great!! Yes, five copies stacked on each other come in at 9.5” Jeff (@jaj7d) and I our so proud of how it turned out. Thank you to all the contributors for helping to make a wonderful volume!!

The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics @Journal_EHS @EffersonCharles and Sonja Vogt | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/42VRzNw

Does twitter still exist? Just in case, I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on the evolution of human cognition and behavior @heclausanne. Begin fall 2025. Big lake, pretty mountains, Swiss largesse, and science to boot! tinyurl.com/yfkr2yzs

Une nouvelle recherche de la @heclausanne délie les relations complexes entre culture et survie de l’espèce humaine. Des résultats amassés grâce au "Röstigraben" au travers des votations fédérales. À lire dans l'#uniscope👉 go.unil.ch/CKmPL

Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are like chainsaws: used well, they slice through heavy tasks; used poorly, and you might lose a limb. Here's the first of four tutorials in @Journal_EHS for human scientists new to causal inference: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Tips: -…

Big congratulations to Dr. @lukas_vonfluee! Yesterday, he successfully defended his PhD research @heclausanne on social learning under cognitive load + the unanticipated consequences of recruiting cultural evolutionary processes for social good. 🔥🇨🇭🗻

Succeeding to @ingelaalger, @JFBonnefon senior Researcher @CNRS_Toulouse has been appointed as director of @IASToulouse and the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at @TSEinfo . He builds upon the interdisciplinary vision established in 2011 by @JeanTirole.

UPCOMING WEBINAR: Causal Inference from Evolutionary Human Sciences Join us October 3rd 2PM BST | 3PM CEST Register Now > cambridge-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Great to see this 'in print'...

Yesterday, Dr Lisa Faessler (@LisaFaessler) successfully defended her PhD thesis on cultural evolution with an emphasis on organizational applications. Congratulations, Lisa! Thank you to @mmuthukrishna and Christian Zehnder. @heclausanne

Our (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) edited volume Human Evolutionary Demography is now published by @OpenBookPublish 🎉 32 chapters completely free to read, including an impressive line-up of researchers working in this area 😊

With spatial RDD, @LisaFaessler, @rlalive, and I examine how cultural variation within Switzerland shapes support for policies affecting fertility and health. Special issue of @Journal_EHS on causal inference. tinyurl.com/2pmyuwfn

Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Parents in Soviet-era Russia | Evolutionary Human Sciences - bit.ly/3POlnnL By Matthias Schief, Charles Efferson et al #AcademicTwitter #Anthropology #Psychology #Cultural_Evolution

New paper in @Journal_EHS. With archival data from the final Soviet census of 1989, we use the epidemiological approach to isolate the causal effect of a son-biased culture on behavior. Schief, @sb_vogt, Churilova, Efferson. doi.org/10.1017/ehs.20…

#takingtomachines talkingtomachines.org has an opening for Oxford-based Project Engineer - join our group of researchers in AI, data science and experimental methodology building an open-source platform for intelligent & ethical experimental design. nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/jo…

Have you felt that after hundreds of papers published on the evolution of cooperation, there’s nothing surprising left to discover about it? Turns out there is.

New paper, "Super-additive cooperation," out in Nature. Coauthored with Helen Bernhard, Urs Fischbacher, and Ernst Fehr. Also a great News & Views piece by @SarahMathew1. nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/d4158…

New paper w/ Sirio Lonati and @rlalive in Evolutionary Human Sciences. Guide to formidable empirical challenges when isolating culture as one among many potential reasons people differ. bit.ly/3OLaDWz

I'm recruiting a PhD student to conduct interdisciplinary research on evolution, human behavior, and computational social science @heclausanne. The successful candidate will go through PhD program in economics or management. 🏔️🚠🇨🇭 urlz.fr/pmQS