Maxime Derex

Studying cumulative culture, social learning & innovation in the lab.
@IASToulouse @CNRS

[Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen @ejcvanleeuwen]

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

[Jérémy Perez @Jeremy__Perez]

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🧵

[Mark Thomas @mt_genes]

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

[Joe Henrich @JoHenrich]

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 https://t.co/GDaosKi0Bk

[Jérémy Perez @Jeremy__Perez]

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

[Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre @Durham_DCERC]

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

[Maxime Derex @MaximeDerex]

📣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: https://t.co/aUOUweTPqz

[Levin Brinkmann @LevinBrinkmann]

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]

[Maxime Derex @MaximeDerex]

📢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.

[Maxime Derex @MaximeDerex]

@Nicolas_Fay Not about the introduction of writing systems but this paper tests the effect of the printing press https://t.co/PYopCX0PcS

[eSYMb: The Evolution of Early Symbolic Behaviour @ERC_eSYMb]

👉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

[Maxime Derex @MaximeDerex]

Just a few more days left to apply!

Job details here: https://t.co/oPUWX4taue

[Maxime Derex @MaximeDerex]

🚨 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

[Cultural Evolution Society @CulturalEvolSoc]

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

[Maxime Derex @MaximeDerex]

🚨 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

[Joe Henrich @JoHenrich]

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

[Maxime Derex @MaximeDerex]

@GDezecache Seppänen & Forsman 2007. Interspecific Social Learning: Novel Preference Can Be Acquired from a Competing Species

https://t.co/OMB1LzX4dM

[Maxime Derex @MaximeDerex]

📢 @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

[Andrea Migliano @andrea_migliano]

Are you interested in evolution of human cumulative culture, social networks and social cognition of hunter-gatherers? 5 new PhD positions 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 👇 -Deadline November 30 https://t.co/8cdU0RGFra