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Forever DM, eurorack hack, and neophyte game designer. Also, academic psychologist interested in cultural evolution, ritual, religion, and reality beliefs.
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We have a lovely new paper out, showing that even ignorant people can be very good at recognising who's knowledgeable based on minimal cues

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

ngl, it breaks my heart a little when I arrive home - having left my cat alone for some number of hours - to find she's carried one of her toys to just in front of the door.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I truly, truly hate EE. I've been off contract for 9 months, and the m'f'ers failed to tell me I could have cancelled a certain part of my plan *at any time*, and it would have saved me 17 a month. I literally went in 9 months ago to reduce costs, and they just *didn't tell me*. Pricks.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If you've never seen Aussie Rules, you should check this out. When this happens there's almost never hard feelings between players (and if there are, they just wait until the ref isn't looking, exchange a few jabs or rib-shots, and get back at it).

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I've never encountered this before. I had to review an assignment (not in my department) where the argument and expression was morally repugnant, but the rubric made no space to evaluate this repugnancy, so I simply had to determine if the structure of the repugnant argument was sound.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It's monday, folks. Let's make a sneaky little agreement to not send those emails this week. Let's just not, yeah?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Harvested ~30 head of garlic from my garden today. I planted them before winter, lay them under a leaf-litter layer, and pinned them with a net. My kitchen is overwhelmed with the pungency of fresh garlic, which is both a pro and a con...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not qualified for this... but Yale is very pretty, Carol is phenomenal, and HRAF is an invaluable resource.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Steven Pinker is the Chris Pratt of Malcolm Gladwells.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Very cool!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

C'mon!? It's a bit rude to suggest the entire snafu of HE in the UK is an 'idiot plot'.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 But seriously, this one study has more clear creations of form as a means of 'marking' a medium (in this case, water) than we have for the entirety of the #Neanderthal archaeological record. If they can control the shape enough to make the perfect O, then the other forms may be intentional too?

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Emailed a colleague today: "I'm down to mark some stuff, but it's not where it should be. Is this an error?" Response: "We didn't use your question, so you don't need to mark anything" ... and wow. That's like finding £50 on the street.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I get a UATX email, I jump in ready to see how stupid they are. They're not stupid-stupid, they're often clever enough to dress it up. NOT TODAY! The only link they had in this newsletter was to 'leading commentators'. One of which was Dave Rubin.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

1. HAHAHAHhahah 2. A service that actually uses humans (and pays them well) is a service people want! Just do the job correctly!? 3. (They never will, the point was to build a financial bubble).

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Deadwood, but in modern silicon valley. Think about it. Al runs a bar, and dirty tech bros keep coming in, but he tolerates them for their cash. Wu is mistreated by most because he's a migrant. Cy comes looking to shill the tech bros. The dope storyline is now about ket.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I assumed an important role on a big paper quite late in the process. I've been carrying around guilt for over a month because it was still on my to-do list. Sat down today... What!? I already did them? And it's been published? All this anxiety for nothing!?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

All this proves is that Bigfoots are cleverer than we thought, and are very like either a) dressing up as... or b) artificaially cultivating (akak FARMING) Black Bears !!11!!1

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My phone has died. I'm with EE. I really want to change. Any UK based folks care to recommend a service provider, one that's not too expensive, has non-exploitative international roaming, and suitable for normal use (mostly on wifi)?

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments