Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
@blubludoesscience.bsky.social
Postdoc at @ki.se
Studying neurocognitive aspect of culture and social learning
contact: [email protected]
Studying neurocognitive aspect of culture and social learning
contact: [email protected]
Pinned
📝New paper in iScience (@cp-iscience.bsky.social) by myself and a wonderful cast of co-authors (sadly not on bluesky). We investigated the neural circuit involved in watching other people build tools! 🧵 (1/8) [link: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111870]
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How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone?
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone?
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
Reposted by Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...
Colloque inaugural du Grand programme de recherche CultureLab | PSL
Recherche, CultureLab inaugure ses travaux le 22 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet avec une journée consacrée aux sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles et à l’évolution culturelle. , Le Gra...
psl.eu
September 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...
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🎊 New paper out! In this @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Forum, we (with @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social) summarize how reward learning can lead to adaptive social learning. We also explore the broader consequences for cultural evolution:
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🚄
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🚄
July 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🎊 New paper out! In this @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Forum, we (with @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social) summarize how reward learning can lead to adaptive social learning. We also explore the broader consequences for cultural evolution:
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🚄
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🚄
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💥 Our new paper (with @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social) is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠 Here, we advance a novel RL account—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—that explains how people learn to learn from others! 🤝
🧵👇
🧠 Here, we advance a novel RL account—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—that explains how people learn to learn from others! 🤝
🧵👇
July 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
💥 Our new paper (with @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social) is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠 Here, we advance a novel RL account—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—that explains how people learn to learn from others! 🤝
🧵👇
🧠 Here, we advance a novel RL account—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—that explains how people learn to learn from others! 🤝
🧵👇
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Postdoc in agent-based human-earth system modelling
We are looking for a modeller with experience in agent-based or human earth system modelling and with interest in transdisciplinary sustainability science as part of the Anthropocene navigator project in a two-three year position in Stockholm.
We are looking for a modeller with experience in agent-based or human earth system modelling and with interest in transdisciplinary sustainability science as part of the Anthropocene navigator project in a two-three year position in Stockholm.
July 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Postdoc in agent-based human-earth system modelling
We are looking for a modeller with experience in agent-based or human earth system modelling and with interest in transdisciplinary sustainability science as part of the Anthropocene navigator project in a two-three year position in Stockholm.
We are looking for a modeller with experience in agent-based or human earth system modelling and with interest in transdisciplinary sustainability science as part of the Anthropocene navigator project in a two-three year position in Stockholm.
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The second @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social poster from the lab is by fantastic PhD student Shen Tian. Using modeling and experiments, he investigated the key role of semantic knowledge in a complex innovation task (originated by @maximederex.bsky.social). On Thursday, poster #86
June 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The second @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social poster from the lab is by fantastic PhD student Shen Tian. Using modeling and experiments, he investigated the key role of semantic knowledge in a complex innovation task (originated by @maximederex.bsky.social). On Thursday, poster #86
I'm presenting a poster at #RLDM2025 this Thursday in Dublin!
I'm on Poster Session 3:
Poster #14: Language allows culture to improve mental models 💭
Please find me if you want to talk cultural evolution & language!
I'm on Poster Session 3:
Poster #14: Language allows culture to improve mental models 💭
Please find me if you want to talk cultural evolution & language!
June 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'm presenting a poster at #RLDM2025 this Thursday in Dublin!
I'm on Poster Session 3:
Poster #14: Language allows culture to improve mental models 💭
Please find me if you want to talk cultural evolution & language!
I'm on Poster Session 3:
Poster #14: Language allows culture to improve mental models 💭
Please find me if you want to talk cultural evolution & language!
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Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
June 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
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New paper out in Topics in Cognitive Science! "Open-Ended Technological Evolution: The Co-Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies" 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Open‐Ended Technological Evolution: The Co‐Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies
Open-ended technological evolution is the result of the co-evolution of invention and cognitive technologies that enhances our cognitive capabilities and generates a feedback loop of ever-expanding t....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
New paper out in Topics in Cognitive Science! "Open-Ended Technological Evolution: The Co-Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies" 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.
shorturl.at
May 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
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Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”.
Good academics acknowledge this.
I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.
Good academics acknowledge this.
I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.
May 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”.
Good academics acknowledge this.
I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.
Good academics acknowledge this.
I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.
Reposted by Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
Reposted by Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
One way to pass on our own causal understanding about how a physical system works is to provide a verbal explanation about it. Read in American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3. @neurogiovanni.bsky.social @blubludoesscience.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/arti...
April 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
One way to pass on our own causal understanding about how a physical system works is to provide a verbal explanation about it. Read in American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3. @neurogiovanni.bsky.social @blubludoesscience.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/arti...
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With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social
#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social
#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Announcing American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3! Featuring contributions from @neurogiovanni.bsky.social , @blubludoesscience.bsky.social , & more! Plus, book reviews, including review & response on "Smart Management" @mitpress.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/issu...
April 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Announcing American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3! Featuring contributions from @neurogiovanni.bsky.social , @blubludoesscience.bsky.social , & more! Plus, book reviews, including review & response on "Smart Management" @mitpress.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/issu...
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CE postdoc alert 🚨
Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified
shorturl.at
April 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
CE postdoc alert 🚨
Reposted by Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified
shorturl.at
April 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Great opportunity to study social learning and cultural evolution within a wonderful team & lab at the @ki.se in Stockholm!
You can contact me (or @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
directly) if you have any questions!
You can contact me (or @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
directly) if you have any questions!
Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified
shorturl.at
April 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Great opportunity to study social learning and cultural evolution within a wonderful team & lab at the @ki.se in Stockholm!
You can contact me (or @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
directly) if you have any questions!
You can contact me (or @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
directly) if you have any questions!
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post doc position on "affective social learning" in Andreas Olsson's group at Karolinska Institute. Recommended! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in affective learning and decision-making
Do you want to contribute to better health for everyone? Our research group, led by Andreas Olsson at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, is seeking a qualified and motivated postdoctoral researcher.
ki.varbi.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
post doc position on "affective social learning" in Andreas Olsson's group at Karolinska Institute. Recommended! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Pleased to see our work published:
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
March 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Pleased to see our work published:
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
Reposted by Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io
COSMOS
The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)
cosmossummerschool.github.io
March 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io
Reposted by Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨
How do people make moral judgments as third parties? 👀 We show how two motivations—inequality aversion (fair = moral) ⚖️ and the common-is-moral heuristic (frequent = moral 👨👩👧👧—interact to shape evaluations 🧵👇
📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...
How do people make moral judgments as third parties? 👀 We show how two motivations—inequality aversion (fair = moral) ⚖️ and the common-is-moral heuristic (frequent = moral 👨👩👧👧—interact to shape evaluations 🧵👇
📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨
How do people make moral judgments as third parties? 👀 We show how two motivations—inequality aversion (fair = moral) ⚖️ and the common-is-moral heuristic (frequent = moral 👨👩👧👧—interact to shape evaluations 🧵👇
📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...
How do people make moral judgments as third parties? 👀 We show how two motivations—inequality aversion (fair = moral) ⚖️ and the common-is-moral heuristic (frequent = moral 👨👩👧👧—interact to shape evaluations 🧵👇
📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
📝New paper in iScience (@cp-iscience.bsky.social) by myself and a wonderful cast of co-authors (sadly not on bluesky). We investigated the neural circuit involved in watching other people build tools! 🧵 (1/8) [link: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111870]
February 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
📝New paper in iScience (@cp-iscience.bsky.social) by myself and a wonderful cast of co-authors (sadly not on bluesky). We investigated the neural circuit involved in watching other people build tools! 🧵 (1/8) [link: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111870]
Reposted by Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet
Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share!
bit.ly/3QCXUFS
bit.ly/3QCXUFS
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share!
bit.ly/3QCXUFS
bit.ly/3QCXUFS