Maxime Derex
@MaximeDerex
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Studying cumulative culture, social learning & innovation in the lab. @IASToulouse @CNRS
Toulouse
Joined July 2015
We are looking for two PhD students interested in cumulative culture in great apes. By using observational, experimental and computational methods, we aim to test whether precursors of human culture are present in chimpanzees and bonobos. https://t.co/33C16VwPNc
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What happens when LLMs play the Telephone game? ☎️ In this new preprint, we analyse the evolution of texts as they are transmitted between LLM agents 🤖💬🤖💬🤖💬 Do text properties converge to attractors? 🧲 How is this influenced by the task📝 and model⚙️? 1/13🧵
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I have a postdoc position available on our 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory' grant: https://t.co/qltOvBQ9gV ... working at the intersection of archaeology, ancient DNA, computational modelling and stats
ucl.ac.uk
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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What drives innovation? The Collective Brain Hypothesis (@mmuthukrishna,@MaximeDerex) argues that innovation arises from the recombination of ideas that occurs when diverse minds interact and share ideas... @mattwridley @tylercowen
royalsocietypublishing.org
Abstract. Innovation is often assumed to be the work of a talented few, whose products are passed on to the masses. Here, we argue that innovations are ins
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What can LLMs bring to the study of cultural evolution? 🤔 In this preprint, we present a framework for simulating cultural evolution using LLMs 🦜 We study how the dynamics depends on social structure, simulated personalities👥, and whether it has potential attractors🧲🔍 1/17
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We are happy to announce our fee waivers and @CulturalEvolSoc ACE Travel awards #CES2024durham. You can apply for both here https://t.co/DfcCGbJLXr The deadline is 20th April at 9 am BST and you will hear back before the deadline for early bird registration on 20th May 4pm BST
ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Our Inclusivity Award applications are now CLOSED. Here you will find information about Conference Fee Waivers & Travel Awards for CES 24. If eligible, you may apply for both. CONFERENCE FEE WAIVERS...
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📣We are hiring!! We are looking for two tenure-track assistant professors, one in Human Evolutionary Social Science and one in Computational Social Science. 🚨Deadline Jan 31st Please retweet! Details are here:
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New Paper: "Machine Culture" https://t.co/OyQ9F08bvo AI systems are increasingly integrated into the human cultural fabric. What can we learn from human cultural evolution to anticipate the impact of intelligent machines on culture (socially transmitted information)? [1/9]
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📢The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse seeks applications for POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS and VISITING FELLOWS. More information and application links can be found at https://t.co/LDbEZtGVsv 🚨Application deadline: November 15, 2023.
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👉Job call! 👈We are looking for a 3-year postdoctoral researcher in computational modeling to join our efforts to understand how capacities for human symbolic behaviour evolved ~150 – 15 k years ago. See the call here: https://t.co/H84ZC3MFOH
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Just a few more days left to apply! Job details here:
iast.fr
🚨 POSTDOC JOB ALERT 🚨 I’m recruiting a 2y postdoc to conduct lab-in-the-field experiments on social learning and cumulative culture. 🗓️Applications close March 17, 2023. Please RT! 📢 Full job details at https://t.co/oPUWX4taue
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New funding call: "Advancing cultural evolution (ACE)" grants -- applications due Mar 10. 1. ACE Small grants for early career researchers https://t.co/RiE1b6TCQv 2. ACE Outreach award https://t.co/jsKBhXncdR 3. ACE Building Research Capacity Award https://t.co/QVsg1L5Mna
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The following application is for one award of up to $6000 to support either: A researcher from a Low-and-middle-income (LMIC) or Global South (GS) country to visit a host institution anywhere in the...
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🚨 POSTDOC JOB ALERT 🚨 I’m recruiting a 2y postdoc to conduct lab-in-the-field experiments on social learning and cumulative culture. 🗓️Applications close March 17, 2023. Please RT! 📢 Full job details at https://t.co/oPUWX4taue
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Historical Psychology Post-doc at Harvard: Open to folks from any field with the right tools and interests in cultural evolution @diyclassics @JF_Schulz @WalterScheidel @slingerland20 @_MaxPosch_ @StevenHeine4 @leraboroditsky @Peter_Turchin @David_S_Wilson @corenapicella
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***JOB KLAXON*** I’m recruiting *multiple* PhD & Postdoc researchers to join my group @BirthRites in 2023. Thematic umbrella is cultural evolution, reproduction, demography. Methodologically, we’re diverse: current members range from polisci, compsci to soc/culanth. Core Qs:👇
📢📢 Join our vibrant research community @MPI_EVA_Leipzig! We're offering PhD and/or postdoc positions in areas incl. primate behavior & evolution; human adaptation, ecology & culture; human evolutionary genomics. Check it out & apply by 1st December 2022!
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📢 @IASToulouse is looking for research fellows! Applications from researchers within a large range of disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences are welcome. https://t.co/AxX1pMktiF Deadline: 15th November 2022
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Are you interested in evolution of human cumulative culture, social networks and social cognition of hunter-gatherers? 5 new PhD positions 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 👇 -Deadline November 30
migliano-uzh.com
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Today is publication day of "Individual-based models of cultural evolution. A step-by-step guide using R" - with @amesoudi and @smollamarco You can have 20% off using the code below... https://t.co/vvwve7MevO
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