Simulating sci-fi novels and calling it cultural evolution
Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University London | https://j-winters.github.io
James Winters
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Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵
Here's a proper mathematical model of the interaction between conformity and migration
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mostly coming to the same conclusions as the simulations I did here
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Next deadline for proposals to edit an issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is coming up on 18 July.
These issues are a great way of shaping the discussion in your field, and I highly recommend working with Royal Society Publishing
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/pages/g...
The sexual division of labour regarding house construction shows a very consistent pattern cross-culturally: women usually construct the shelters in nomadic societies, while in sedentary societies men do it.
🎥 Introducing Brunel Psychology’s new YouTube channel 🤩
because obviously what the internet needed was academics doing 40-minute deep dives. You’re welcome.
Daniel sits down with Brunel’s @aiyanakoka.bsky.social to talk religion, gods and why humans are so committed to meaning-making 🧠✨
By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...
#PhilTransB recently published a theme issue on ‘The evolution of #CollectiveIntelligence’. In this blog post, the Guest Editors tell us how this issue came about, and about some of the important research highlighted: royalsociety.org/blog/2026/05...
New paper by @younesjeddi.bsky.social, @jsegoviamartin.bsky.social & @emiless.bsky.social in Phil Trans B compares crowdsourced vs. LLM forecasting. It explores the accuracy–correlation effect and how AI impacts human judgment in collective intelligence. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Proud to share a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B of @royalsociety.org on the Evolution of Collective Intelligence!
Co-edited by our SCI faculty, this collection of 18 open-access papers explores CI from non-human species to AI's future.
📖: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
The Origins and Evolution of Writing: A Very Brief Synthesis
My talk last week at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, for the VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social
youtu.be/SRC6QkiKtSo?...
Philip Sulewski
Migration has shaped cultural and genetic diversity. Population genetics shows that low migration rates between populations can homogenise them. Howev…
Abstract. Over the past quarter century, crowdsourced forecasting has largely outperformed individual forecasters. Today, large language models (LLMs), agg
