I use big data to research the cultural evolution of arts @ Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
More: https://www.sobch.uk/
Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦
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Had a chance to present our new work on literary evolution at @ces2026.bsky.social conference. What you see on that slide is a dynamic network of influences between genres of fiction
Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.
1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
🚨New paper alert!🚨 In our new paper with @oliviermorin.bsky.social, Rowan Hall, and Marie Halo published in the Journal of Language Evolution, we explored the relationship between word length and ambiguity on a large-cross linguistic dataset. 1/6
Amazon and eBay give star ratings for seller trustworthiness — but should we trust eBay?
Institutions that publicize reputations, from e-commerce to religious authorities, benefit from user participation.
Hiro Okabe studied how such institutions will behave.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
More @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference talks! @babeheim.bsky.social on norm psychology, and in particular escalator standing norms in Japan
LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so.
We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a proper mathematical model of the interaction between conformity and migration
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
mostly coming to the same conclusions as the simulations I did here
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
