October 30: gave a talk at TEDxNewEngland on cultural evolution
October 23: interviewed by Armen Shirvanian on The Armen Show Podcast
September 1: with Elisa Heinrich Mora, Noah Egan, and Marcus W. Feldman, published an invited commentary, Culture is not ecology, in Evolution and Human Behavior
June 13 and 17: gave a research flash talk for the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS), and assisted in giving a tutorial on creating flash talks for SFI's Undergraduate Complexity Researchers
June 4: with Melanie Mitchell, co-mentored an Undergraduate Complexity Researcher on a project about large language models
June 2: research featured in a SIAM News article, Mathematical framework explains evolutionary dynamics of behavior
May 29–30: gave a talk, Biased cultural transmission: from social animals to artificial intelligence, at the virtual Evolution conference and served as a judge for the W. D. Hamilton Award presentations at this conference
May 19–21: participated in the Santa Fe Institute Working Group Building a science of cultural evolution for the 21st century, and presented a talk, Some thoughts on cultural evolution
April 24: began teaching as a Section Leader for Stanford's free, online, 20,000-person course Code in Place
April 8: presented a talk, Biased decision-making in organisms and large language models, at the Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology SMTPBConnect Grad and Postdoc Research Showcase
April 4: named the runner-up for the John Maynard Smith Prize from the European Society for Evolutionary Biology — see announcement here and Santa Fe Institute news piece here
March 10–13: co-organized a Micro Working Group at the Santa Fe Institute, Populations on the brink: Robust estimation for optimal reintroduction ranges
March 3: presented an invited talk, Following the majority or the mean: Conformity in humans and large language models, at the Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) Symposium at Stanford University
February 18: presented a talk, Conformity to continuous and discrete ordered traits, at the Winter Quantitative Biology Conference in Oahu, Hawai'i, and chaired the session that included this talk
January 29: visited Stanford University and gave a talk about current research to Marc Feldman's lab
January 17: research featured in a Santa Fe Institute news article, New study offers insights into how populations conform or go against the crowd
January 17: article with Elisa Heinrich Mora, Michael Palmer, and Marcus Feldman, Conformity to continuous and discrete ordered traits, was published in PNAS
September 23–26: attended the SFI Postdocs in Complexity Global Summit and gave a 3-minute "Science in 3" talk summarizing research
September 11: presented a talk, Conditions that favour cumulative cultural evolution, at the Cultural Evolution Society Conference in Durham, UK
August 12: gave a Slice of Science presentation, Dimensionality reduction methods in population genetics, at the Santa Fe Institute
July 18: posted an arXiv preprint, Conformity to continuous and discrete ordinal traits (which was later published in PNAS as Conformity to continuous and discrete ordered traits)
July 1: began Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI news article: SFI welcomes Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kaleda Denton)
May 27: completed Stanford's Postdoctoral Mentoring Certificate, Tier 1
May 24: presented an invited talk, Modelling constant and stochastically variable conformity, at the Banff International Research Station Workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology
April 1: article with Uri Liberman and Marcus Feldman, On random conformity bias in cultural transmission of polychotomous traits, was published in Theoretical Population Biology
February 1: article with Peter Nonacs, Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters, was published in Insectes Sociaux
October 1: article with Jeremy Kendal, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus Feldman, Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use, was published in Theoretical Population Biology in memory of Freddy Christiansen
June 30: began postdoctoral research in Marc Feldman's lab at Stanford University
June 18: awarded the Samuel Karlin Prize in Mathematical Biology for Ph.D. dissertation
May 23: began co-instructing the mini-course Biosciences 213: Ecology and Evolution of Altruism with Talia Borofsky
May 12: defended Ph.D. thesis, Evolutionary dynamics of conformity, at Stanford University
April 7: article with Egor Lappo and Marcus Feldman, Conformity and anti-conformity in a finite population, was published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology
March 13: article with Yoav Ram and Marcus Feldman, Conditions that favour cumulative cultural evolution, was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B as part of the theme issue "Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions"
March 7: gave an invited talk, Evolutionary dynamics of conformity, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany
