Computational social science, cultural evolution, and behavioral ecology in the Lahti lab at CUNY
Publications & Software
Journal Articles
Youngblood, M. (2020). Extremist ideology as a complex contagion: the spread of far-right radicalization in the United States between 2005 and 2017. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 7(49). [Link] [PDF]
Youngblood, M. (2020). A Raspberry Pi-based, RFID-equipped birdfeeder for the remote monitoring of wild bird populations. Ringing & Migration. [Link] [PDF]
Youngblood, M. (2019). Conformity bias in the cultural transmission of music sampling traditions. Royal Society Open Science, 6(9). [Link] [PDF]
Youngblood, M. (2019). Cultural transmission modes of music sampling traditions remain stable despite delocalization in the digital age. PLoS ONE, 14(2). [Link] [PDF]
Youngblood, M. & Lahti, D. (2018). A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution. Palgrave Communications, 4(120). [Link] [PDF] [Interactive Network]
Preprints
Youngblood, M. & Lahti, D. (2021). Content bias in the cultural evolution of house finch song. bioRxiv. [Link]
Youngblood, M., Baraghith, K., & Savage, P. E. (2020). Phylogenetic reconstruction of the cultural evolution of electronic music via dynamic community detection (1975-1999). arXiv. [Link]
GomezdelaTorre Clavel, M. G., Youngblood, M. & Lahti, D. (2020). Relationship between personality and cognitive traits in domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). bioRxiv. [Link]
Popular Press
Friedman, A. & Youngblood, M. (2020, June). Poorer cities spend more of budget on police, even where crime is lower. Sludge. [Link] [PDF]
Youngblood, M. (2019, June). A study of collaborative sampling across international networks. Red Bull Music Academy Daily. [Link] [PDF]
Software
Youngblood, M. (2021). TransmissionBias: agent-based model of biased cultural transmission (R package). [Link]
Youngblood, M. (2020). DynCommPhylo: phylogenetic reconstruction via dynamic community detection (R package). [Link]