Storytelling, sovereignty, and STEM Justin Lund Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology OSU Center for Health Sciences Inclusive and engaged research and education are essential for fostering equity and mutual respect. Yet, academic approaches to culturally appropriate knowledge production and community engagement vary widely. Indigenous communities have long been a focus of research, […]

Lineage Fitness Theory and the Lineage Manipulation and Mutualism Mechanism: Bridging Evolutionary Social Sciences & Cultural Evolution Ryan Nichols Department of Philosophy, California State University Fullerton Lineage fitness theory aims to improve integration of cultural evolution with evolutionary psychological and social sciences by explaining the onset and maintenance of key traditions as products of gene-culture […]

Bridging the data gap between children and AI models Mike Frank Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Stanford University Large language and language-vision models show intriguing emergent behaviors, yet they receive at least three to four – and sometimes as much as six – orders of magnitude more language data than human children. What accounts for […]