Joe Stubbersfield
@jstubbersfield.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Winchester University. Research in social transmission, cultural evolution, and psych behind conspiracy theories & urban legends.
https://jmstubbersfield.wordpress.com/
https://jmstubbersfield.wordpress.com/
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Prestige bias drives the viral spread of content reposted by influencers in online communities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05448
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05448
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Prestige bias drives the viral spread of content reposted by influencers in online communities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05448
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05448
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We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics […] songs characterized by sorrowful plots and endings receive higher scores than those with more joyful emotional themes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
‘Do songs tell stories?’ An empirical analysis of the effect of emotional arcs on success in a national song contest - Journal of Cultural Economics
This article explores whether the lyrics of songs influence their success in a national song contest. We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics and examined their impact on contest per...
link.springer.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics […] songs characterized by sorrowful plots and endings receive higher scores than those with more joyful emotional themes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !
📣 Job offers
We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪
Deadline: 31 March 2025
We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪
Deadline: 31 March 2025
February 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !
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There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology)
Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord
We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science
www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...
Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord
We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science
www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...
Jobs and vacancies - Faculty of Social Sciences
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.sv.uio.no
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology)
Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord
We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science
www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...
Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord
We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science
www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...
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🚨 New paper! 🚨 by Yoolim Kim, @helenamiton.bsky.social, Marc Allassonnière Tang, & myself, in Journal of Memory and Language. We tried to do for letter shapes what phonologists did for speech sounds. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... A 🧵 (1/14)
February 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨 New paper! 🚨 by Yoolim Kim, @helenamiton.bsky.social, Marc Allassonnière Tang, & myself, in Journal of Memory and Language. We tried to do for letter shapes what phonologists did for speech sounds. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... A 🧵 (1/14)
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Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...
February 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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The #cultural #evolution Society published the recordings from their conference Sept 24 free to watch
https://underline.io/events/456/library/809
https://underline.io/events/456/library/809
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February 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The #cultural #evolution Society published the recordings from their conference Sept 24 free to watch
https://underline.io/events/456/library/809
https://underline.io/events/456/library/809
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🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰
Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg!
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch)
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)
Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg!
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch)
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)
February 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰
Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg!
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch)
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)
Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg!
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch)
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)
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Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Traditional Methods of Black Magic traditionsofconflict.substack.com/p/traditiona...
Traditional Methods of Black Magic
Spooky action at a distance
open.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Traditional Methods of Black Magic traditionsofconflict.substack.com/p/traditiona...
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We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
January 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science. Deadline January 6: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
December 24, 2024 at 7:43 PM
📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science. Deadline January 6: international.au.dk/about/profil...
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A new Lecturer position to join our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social A preference for candidates with expertise in functional neuroimaging in relevant areas (e.g. cognitive, social, affective, clinical neuroscience), but all other areas will also be considered.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...
Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching) at Royal Holloway, University of London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 3:37 PM
A new Lecturer position to join our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social A preference for candidates with expertise in functional neuroimaging in relevant areas (e.g. cognitive, social, affective, clinical neuroscience), but all other areas will also be considered.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...
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Funded PhD position at NTU: Using imaging spectroscopy to measure individual differences in facial expressivity in human and non-human primates www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...
Using imaging spectroscopy to measure individual differences in facial expressivity in human and non-human primates
Find out about this studentship opportunity on using multiple imaging spectroscopy techniques to understand individual differences in facial expressivity in human and non-human primates.
www.ntu.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Funded PhD position at NTU: Using imaging spectroscopy to measure individual differences in facial expressivity in human and non-human primates www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...
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I'm very happy to see my article "Genes, Culture and Scientific Racism", coauthored with Marc Feldman, published in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (see rb.gy/x0e4lw).
We explain why people wrongly believe race is a biological classification.
We explain why people wrongly believe race is a biological classification.
November 24, 2024 at 7:48 PM
I'm very happy to see my article "Genes, Culture and Scientific Racism", coauthored with Marc Feldman, published in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (see rb.gy/x0e4lw).
We explain why people wrongly believe race is a biological classification.
We explain why people wrongly believe race is a biological classification.
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🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you.
cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...
cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...
cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de
November 22, 2024 at 9:17 AM
🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you.
cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...
cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...
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🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM
🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
The Specials on the continuity between humans and non-human primates
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Ou...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Ou...
November 22, 2024 at 11:57 PM
The Specials on the continuity between humans and non-human primates
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Ou...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Ou...
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The British Academy has just published an interactive map that tracks the UK's subject 'cold spots', which suggests subjects such as anthropology might soon be the preserve only of students with higher grades or able to travel further from home to study www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...
Mapping SHAPE provision in UK higher education
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 7:32 PM
The British Academy has just published an interactive map that tracks the UK's subject 'cold spots', which suggests subjects such as anthropology might soon be the preserve only of students with higher grades or able to travel further from home to study www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...
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Our paper on Human-AI coevolution is now published on the Artificial Intelligence journal!
At the crossroads of #AI and #complexity to better understand how humans and AIs influence each other on online platforms
sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Big thanks to all coauthors!
At the crossroads of #AI and #complexity to better understand how humans and AIs influence each other on online platforms
sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Big thanks to all coauthors!
November 18, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Our paper on Human-AI coevolution is now published on the Artificial Intelligence journal!
At the crossroads of #AI and #complexity to better understand how humans and AIs influence each other on online platforms
sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Big thanks to all coauthors!
At the crossroads of #AI and #complexity to better understand how humans and AIs influence each other on online platforms
sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Big thanks to all coauthors!
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New paper led by Lidya Yurdum (PI: @mehr.nz )—we studied people in 52 countries in an experiment translated into 31 languages, testing a core set of intuitions about music—for at least these intuitions, they were highly consistent!
t.co/vys4n7b49o
t.co/vys4n7b49o
September 7, 2023 at 10:27 PM
New paper led by Lidya Yurdum (PI: @mehr.nz )—we studied people in 52 countries in an experiment translated into 31 languages, testing a core set of intuitions about music—for at least these intuitions, they were highly consistent!
t.co/vys4n7b49o
t.co/vys4n7b49o
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"We are looking for applicants with scientific expertise in:
behavioural science
anthropology
human geography
engineering
medical science
political science
economics
artificial Intelligence
migration
fraud and democratic/state threats
public safety"
behavioural science
anthropology
human geography
engineering
medical science
political science
economics
artificial Intelligence
migration
fraud and democratic/state threats
public safety"
The UK Home Office's Science Advisory Council (HOSAC) has announced new vacancies for members to join their team, inviting experienced scientists & experts from a variety of fields to apply.
The deadline for application is 12pm on 25/11/2024 📅
Apply now: www.gov.uk/guidance/hom...
The deadline for application is 12pm on 25/11/2024 📅
Apply now: www.gov.uk/guidance/hom...
Home Office Science Advisory Council vacancies
Vacancies for the Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC).
www.gov.uk
November 15, 2024 at 11:52 AM
"We are looking for applicants with scientific expertise in:
behavioural science
anthropology
human geography
engineering
medical science
political science
economics
artificial Intelligence
migration
fraud and democratic/state threats
public safety"
behavioural science
anthropology
human geography
engineering
medical science
political science
economics
artificial Intelligence
migration
fraud and democratic/state threats
public safety"
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Extended deadline to 12/15/24! Postdoc position on creativity/innovation in culture with an interdisciplinary team at
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
Dynamics of Creativity and Innovation in Complex Social Networks - Postdoc Listing
POSTDOC: Dynamics of Creativity and Innovation in Complex Social Networks Institute for Advanced Computational Science Stony Brook University Deadline: December 15, 2024 Expected Duration: January 1...
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November 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Extended deadline to 12/15/24! Postdoc position on creativity/innovation in culture with an interdisciplinary team at
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
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I'm recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-... Apps due Nov 17!
Joining the Lab — Crockett Lab
www.crockettlab.org
November 14, 2024 at 2:27 PM
I'm recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-... Apps due Nov 17!