Computing Taste: Care and Control in Algorithmic Music Recommendation
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Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners' horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs of music streaming services.…
Exploring 50,000 Years of Human Adaptation and Disease Development through Ancient DNA Analysis
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Since the dawn of humankind our ancestors have been through an incredibly complex and interesting journey. They experienced strange encounters with distant cousins (e.g. Neanderthals) and embarked on a journey to explore and settle every corner of the world. Their living environments were forever…
Shadows of Saigon: Cool Behavior in a Hot City
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Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Ho Chi Minh City residents regularly orient their bodies and actions in relationship to the position of shadows and the flow of wind through the city. In addition, people’s own actions transform the position of shadows…
Interlinking Culture and Heritage with Destruction, Rebuilding and Transformation
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Migration Network Seminar Series 2022This event is presented in person and online. Zoom details below Interlinking Culture and Heritage with Destruction, Rebuilding and Transformation Culture in displacement and resettlement has been variously ignored, subordinated to livelihood imperatives…
Referral pathways and mutual aid: Urban women in PNG seeking alternatives to law in the aftermath of violence
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Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Women in Papua New Guinea (PNG) live with some of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world outside of war zones, according to bodies such as Médecins Sans Frontières. Both government and NGO efforts have sought…
Chimpanzee Behavioural Flexibility: A Pan African Perspective.
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The Pan African Programme: the Cultured Chimpanzee ('PanAf') has collected data on over 40 wild chimpanzee communities from 2010 to 2020 using a standardized protocol. All chimpanzee communities were unhabituated to researchers at the time of data collection therefore remote camera-trap devices…
Inside and Out: Virtual anatomy and cerebrocranial evolution of the temporal regions in anthropoid primates
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The brain does not preserve in the fossil record making any study of brain evolution reliant on endocasts, moulds of the inside of the skull. The middle cranial fossa of the cranial base is in close spatial proximity to the temporal lobe of the brain. The temporal lobe in primates is involved…