30 years ago today, December 31st 1995, the last ever Calvin & Hobbes comic strip was published. Even now, I still find it so poignant & moving.

@royalsocietypublishing.org has published an OPEN ACCESS theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B: “Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures” compiled and edited by Adam H Boyette, Sarah Mathew, Stephen Asatsa, Michael Chimento, and Rachel L Kendal 💫 👇 👇 👇

This new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural #evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges. It highlights research funded by the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's Transformation Fund, which focused on #DEI: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

The deadline has been extended - there is still time to get your abstracts in to join us in Morocco!

Our recently announced ACE Course Design Awards showcased excellent teaching materials from CE courses. We're now pleased to announce the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards, aimed at those looking to include more CE in their courses. Find out more @ the link below! vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

I'm co-directing an independent film w/ Ella Warnick about marine foraging, environmental adaptation, & family in Tonga, trailer: youtu.be/3ttrOkX-esU?... Still not finished! I have a job already, but to finish this film please support my young, up-and-coming co-director: gofund.me/d9b24a5af

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright

We are pleased to announce our newly elected committee members of the Cultural Evolution Society: Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social & Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social Welcome and congratulations!!

@jeremykoster.bsky.social @avbell.bsky.social @drelenamiu.bsky.social @duhe.bsky.social @eapower.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social

New preprint w/ Nathan Gabriel & @avbell.bsky.social: The Evolution of Identity Signals for Coordination in Diverse Societies The model tackles multiple nested/overlapping identities and complex signaling structure. Recovers lots of old results and adds several new ones osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨 CE PhD opportunity! @onicatam.bsky.social is looking for PhD applicants interested in projects related to cultural evolution or language evolution for a fully funded scholarships at the School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH532/s...

Nomination form, and more details, here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Applications for the Cultural Evolution ACE Course Design Awards close July 7. Consider applying to gain funding to up the impact of your courses!

It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.

Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!

📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content. Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants

1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢 Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵

Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management! Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG... @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com

Thankyou CES exec for taking this courageous stance.

Interested in Cultural Evolution? You should check out @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's new 'Transmissions' by @ferylbadiani.bsky.social. First episode has the inimitable @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social talking about why CE matters, and helps us understand human behavior & culture

CES offers its full support to the Stand Up For Science rallies in the U.S. on March 7 2025.

We are please to release Transmissions Ep 1, featuring Dr Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social in conversation with Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social Cristina and Feryl chat about Cristina's work in Peru and discuss CE in human and non-human societies: youtu.be/2otT0PkhPkw?...

🎙 Exciting news! Transmissions Episode 1 features Dr. Cristina Moya. In this episode, we explore her fieldwork in Peru, and discuss how pilgrimage sites emerge and sustain themselves over time. It will be out on YouTube this week—Stay tuned for the link!

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Co-sign 👇 excellent talk covering the anti-racist origins of the field of cultural evolution and giving practical advice on how the field can counter scientific racism

For those who missed the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference in Durham last September, the recorded talks are now freely available to watch here: underline.io/events/456/l...

For our junior colleagues in the US looking for opportunities, Europe is a great place to do science 🧪 We have a #postdoc call open right now! #complexity csh.ac.at/education/po...

💥Postdoc Opening! 💥We (@lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Piet van den Berg) seek a postdoc to study social learning and cultural evolution. We are looking for someone with math/computational modeling skills & interest in human behavior. Get in touch if you have any questions! shorturl.at/W6Qsb

New #PhDposition (cultural psychology) at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA: the project focuses on social cognition and will involve research in Germany (Leipzig), Namibia and Polynesia. Application deadline: March 1st, 2025 www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

The Development of Risk Attitudes and their Cultural Transmission New preprint w/ Alejandro Pérez Velilla & @babeheim.bsky.social. This is one of the best modeling papers I have ever been involved in, tackling developmental, cultural, and class differences in risk attitudes. osf.io/preprints/so...

Newsie news for phonetic ethnic marker paper with @drlisamojo.bsky.social and Marianna Di Paolo attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...

We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Repost of work influenced by the insights of Labov among others Often amazed at how (my) supposed *independent* thinking is a continuation of what we have inherited

Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you. cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excellent new paper which clearly explains how “a gene-culture coevolution perspective can refute reductionist & determinist claims while providing an inclusive multidisciplinary framework to interpret human variation” Genes, culture & scientific racism www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Modeller? Interested in linguistic diversity? *Postdoc* position on DYNAMICS OF MULTILINGUALISM available in my group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... 2 yrs working with an international & interdisciplinary team led by @justynaolko.bsky.social

Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management! Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science to study how people manage environmental challenges in the ACE Lab (timwaring.info). Position Details: timwaring.info/wp-content/u...

Linguistic evidence for group marking along ethnic boundaries. Led by Lisa Johnson @drlisamojo.bsky.social with Mariana Di Paolo and I. Testing cultural evolutionary theories of when ethnic markers evolve! Check it: rdcu.be/dXEXz

The Vermont Complex Systems Center at the University of Vermont is hiring two positions that are great fits for cultural evolutionists!! We Two new Tenure-Track Faculty positions in Computational Linguistics: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/75733 And Digital Anthropology: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/75548

An attempt to understand how assortative and demographic properties shape cultural outcomes, with an eye toward new approaches to measurement in ethnographic fieldwork. Mathy and reductionistic BUT motivates broader understanding b/c we tour statistical moments. Preprint. doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

Big news, CES elections will launch tomorrow morning! Voting by society members will close on August 31st at 11:59 PM BST. There are two positions (President-Elect and Student Representative) to be filled. Please take a few moments to participate.

Time is running short to register for #CES2024 Conference! Register here pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham... by 20th July at 4pm UTC/GMT to ensure you don't miss out! See our programme below and visit our website for a refresher on our 5 awesome keynotes here! ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/programme/

Applications now open for the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social Advancing Cultural Evolution Early Career Research Grants, deadline 27 Sep 2024, award of up to $3000 culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

Nominate yourself to be the President-Elect (and then President), or Student Rep, of the Cultural Evolution Society! More info here: culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve... Nomination form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #culturalevolution #culturalevolutionsiciety

Bret's and my latest contribution since we wrote about canoes in 2011