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I am curating a collection of resources for finding and working with online data.
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Academic and academic-adjacent jobs increasingly require having a Twitter account. Here how to start.
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The International Cognition & Culture Institute organised a book club around “Cultural evolution in the digital age”.
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Cultural evolution models should integrate network models - and viceversa.
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Pop song lyrics became sadder in the last fifty years. Is it because sadder genres become more popular?
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Lyrics of contemporary pop songs are sadder than old ballads.
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Back to an old darling of the blog.
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Seemingly millennia-old culinary traditions are relatively young. Cultural evolution research needs to not essentialise culture.
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Running your R scripts in the cloud is as simple as that (and free).
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Data from Wellcome Trust shows no correlation between social media usage and negative opinions towards vaccination.
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