Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@qoto.org

Looking much forward to start working with the new colleagues, and an arrivederci to all the great people at the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London

Btw, they opened *my* position (deadline 8th March - feel free to get in touch if you have any question):

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CXH095/lecturer-in-psychology-13272-1

I went to pub quiz and all I got was this obsession with the idea that "My Best Friend's Girl" is sung from the perspective of an older, sadder Jessie.

Here’s a new preprint w Zack Dunivin: Dynamics of covert signaling: Modeling the emergence and extinction of identity signals.

We use theoretical modeling to explore the dynamics of identity signals when their use is penalized by a hostile outgroup.

Depending on the benefits of coordination and expected costs of discovery by outgroups individuals, we should expect a wide range of dynamics for the emergence and persistence of identity signals.

Feedback much appreciated.

https://psyarxiv.com/3tz2r/

Our preprint "Shifting the level of selection in science" should be an interesting read for anyone interested in recognition and rewards in science. We discuss how moving from rewarding individuals to rewarding teams could have important benefits for science.

I thought I'd remind you - our revision is stuck in review limbo due to the recent drama at Perspectives on Psychological Science, but it's a paper that I think deserves to be read as is.

Oh boy. I already love #TheDecemberists, but Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists) just kicked it up a notch.
He asked #ChatGPT to write a song in his style and then he recorded it.
https://colinmeloy.substack.com/p/i-had-chatgpt-write-a-decemberists

He managed to make the chords work, but some of these lyrics are really hilarious (and bland?) 😂

#TodaysWork: mixing all day today on the small dinos record! 🎉

i'm starting to finish mixes. it's rewarding to have that starting to happen; we've been working on it for four months, not counting pre-production.

i had a minor triumph with one song; i ended up achieving a super distinct texture by way of two different tape emulations on the mix bus, one of them being a model of cheap cassette tape. i feel like people would pay me less if they knew i do shit like this 😂

#music #musicProduction

I was recently on the @sfiscience@mastodon.sdf.org #Complexity Podcast with C Thi Nguyen. We had a bonkers far-reaching conversation about selection, incentives, institutions and #CulturalEvolution. Good times. https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/101

#TodaysWork: mostly mixing today, again on the small dinosaurs record. i worked too late and i'm exhausted and my ears are shot, but i feel like i finally turned a decisive corner on the album's magnum opus. this fucking song has 75 tracks!! and there's no one to blame but me, because i'm the asshole who produced it! why do i do this to myself 😂

in all seriousness, though, it rules, and it's starting to sound huge. yay.

and we did book club! people got deep tonight. 🖤

#music #musicProduction

#TodaysWork: i finally got to settle into finishing the mixes on the Small Dinosaurs record we've been working on! the process for this one has been fun. we rented an extremely fancy studio in california for a few days to do the bulk of the tracking ... the singer flew up in november to finish the vocals ... and the band also did some additional overdubs at home! SUCH a fun record; stoked to spend time with it. also, we did "Good to Me" book club day 2; it was lovely. 🖤

#music #musicProduction

Doing some research for next lecture, there is actually a recorded lecture from George Pólya on youtube walking a class through problem solving and conjecture. For the 1% of my followers at my nerd level... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gbw-Ur_do

"The Lost Art of Mathematical Modelling" by Gyllingberg, L., Birhane, A., & Sumpter, D. J. T. (2023).
http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08559

#ComplexSystems #MathBio