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We call it the "dilution of expertise" theconversation.com/innovative-pro… via The Conversation U.S.

Amazing new finding! "An Upper Palaeolithic proto-writing system and phenological calendar" doi.org/10.1017/S09597…

Social networks tend to be distributed when monitoring is easy but punishment is hard, and hierarchical when punishment is easy nature.com/articles/s4159…

Cultural evolution is changing due to the way that communication networks are structured to bring misinformation forward, dilute expertise and obscure the transparency of information. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

*JOB ALERT* 3-yr postdoc available for a modeller / computational scientist on the Evolutionary Dynamics of Multilingualism - join us MPI-EVA Leipzig BirthRites in an international, interdisciplinary European Research Council (ERC) funded project! Deadline October 1st! eva.mpg.de/career/positio…

Authors include Alex Bentley Sergi Valverde🌍(under a blue sky) Joshua Borycz Blai Vidiella Ben Horne (@[email protected]) Salva Duran-Nebreda and Michael J. O'Brien Check out the short press release at: worldscientific.com/pressroom/2023…

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Jordan Peterson was invited to a demographic summit in Budapest to discuss “how to get Europeans to make more babies”. Wut?? What insights does Twitter’s misogynist-in-chief have on family policy, exactly? politico.eu/article/eu-pop…

In this new chapter, Michael Woodley, Matthew Sarraf & Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre claim they are not eugenicists or hereditarians. Assume it will only be a matter of time until they retract all their previous work which promotes eugenics & hereditarianism link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

What can we learn about complexity in brains and minds from an artificial/synthetic perspective? Great session today on liquid brains and final touches for my second Ulam Memorial Lecture at The Lensic. A very short visit this time, but it is always great to come to Santa Fe Institute

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Our new article -- about 50% of it is open-access: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wow. A bug in the Seaborn data visualization software hid many CD=1 papers, leading Park et al to incorrectly conclude that disruption in science and technology is declining (top histogram), while it is not ( bottom histogram). Vincent Ginis

Sergi Valverde🌍(under a blue sky) Vincent Ginis This (very nice) paper from Petersen et al also raises concerns about the suitability of the methods for conducting inter-temporal analysis. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Our own re-analysis is available as an open-source paper: worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0…

Very excited to share our Trends in Ecology & Evolution review paper on #punctuated_evolution: a pattern of long-term stability interrupted by dramatic changes. A thread on the origins of rapid change, from large #extinctions to socio-technological #disruption.🌍🧬🛠 doi.org/10.1016/j.tree…

The road towards publishing this paper has been complex and punctuated; the trip only made possible by the collaborative efforts of a fantastic team! Salva Duran-Nebreda Blai Vidiella Niles Eldredge Andrej Spiridonov Alex Bentley and Mike O'Brien.

How does complexity arise in (macro)evolution? Is it a continuous or a stepwise process? What about hierarchies? Check this new Trends in Ecology & Evolution review led by Sergi Valverde🌍(under a blue sky) on the eldredge and Gould's Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium across scales. cell.com/trends/ecology…

Punctuated evolution includes cultural evolution! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

Socially distanced layout of the world’s oldest cities helped early civilization evade diseases theconversation.com/socially-dista… via The Conversation U.S.