Prof. Thomas Pollet

Time flies. Following a talk about similarity to humans. I am presenting a poster with Jeanne Bovet at www.ehbea2025.com - but any mistakes are my own. You can view the poster here - note it is actual size you’ll need to zoom out. [Read More]

It already seems eons ago but at one point we received some funding to look into Evolutionary Psychology text books. What struck me is that often exemplars get invoked, non-human animals, to illustrate a point about for example, altruism. We wondered if that might influence about how individuals could think... [Read More]

We have a new preprint. This paper is a research article demonstrating how institution ranking lists compare to a robust ranking method based on subjects, in a UK context. Simply put, publications such as the Guardian produce lists of institutions overall, next to rankings of institutions by each subject. However,... [Read More]

As I needed to sort out the review for a bunch of abstracts, I decided to venture into the Shiny world. This worked surprisingly well - with some AI prompting, I managed to get something half decent up and running. You can check it out here. [Read More]

A very brief message about the website update. This is how I spent my afternoon. Hurrah! [Read More]