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

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 (Jeff Jenkins) and I our so proud of how it turned out. Thank you to all the contributors for helping to make a wonderful volume!!

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

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

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.

#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…

New paper in Evolutionary Human Sciences. 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…

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

With spatial RDD, Lisa Faessler, Rafael Lalive, and I examine how cultural variation within Switzerland shapes support for policies affecting fertility and health. Special issue of Evolutionary Human Sciences on causal inference. tinyurl.com/2pmyuwfn

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

Yesterday, Dr Lisa Faessler (Lisa Faessler) successfully defended her PhD thesis on cultural evolution with an emphasis on organizational applications. Congratulations, Lisa! Thank you to Michael Muthukrishna and Christian Zehnder. HEC Lausanne

Great to see this 'in print'...

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

Succeeding to @ingelaalger, @JFBonnefon senior Researcher CNRS Occitanie Ouest has been appointed as director of IAST and the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at TSE . He builds upon the interdisciplinary vision established in 2011 by Jean Tirole.

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

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 Evolutionary Human Sciences for human scientists new to causal inference: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Tips: -

Une nouvelle recherche de la HEC Lausanne 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

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

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