Out today, we present high quality ancient DNA data for Beachy Head Woman for the first time. Hers is a story about changing interpretations, science communication, and cutting-edge genetic technology...🧵 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

We’re into the final stretch of Session 3 at #CAAUK2025! We’ve heard Adrian Timpson & Simon Carrignon on inequality modelling and Doudou Cao on body-size change in ancient China — now Anastasia Nikulina is presenting her work on modelling Mediterranean agriculture. #DigitalArchaeology #CAAUK

I remember in 2008-2010 thinking "future of internet is mesh networks, everyone storing a bit of internet, maximum redundancy, robustness, decentralisation..." Did it finally happened? missed the memo ..

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Received my version yesterday, it's beautiful! (and yes, very big!) .

That's was a super nice episode of many minds! This is a fascinating topic, presented by two great researchers. Hard not to want to explore more in depth kids culture after listening to that :D

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳 #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

Awesome dive into the concept of panmixia & the reasons of its wide adoption in evolutionary biology (it's not just a convenient mathematical simplification!) And a great example of a fruitful collab between science & history of sciences, two communities that sadly are way too far from panmixia :)

Btw what I’m finding endearing in an (appropriately) old-fashioned way is that the entirety of our collaboration happened over one 100-message email thread spanning about three months.

never been a mac user but super fun to read and a lot to learn!

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

Is archaeology a science? 🧪 Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...

c'est a partir de quelle age que t'es obligé de parler à tes voisins de tablé dans le train quand t'es assis a une table de 4? genre au dessus de 60 ans? ou c'est just basé sur le pourcentage de cheveux blanc?

Thanks @durhamdcerc.bsky.social for the opportunity to present work I have been doing on ABM & archaeology. It was a great pleasure to be in Durham again and chat with you all. I made it through the flood, and I'm now on my way back with plenty of things to think about!

that's it! all in one :D @sheinalew.bsky.social

M'colleague Mark Thomas has a new position in our lab, in European pre-history evolution, exploring patterns of co-variation in genetic, archaeological and environmental data using a range of statistical method. Come and join us. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Calling all cultural evolution researchers in Asia

My colleague is hiring a post-doc for a very cool project using text-mining and stats techniques to study the cultural evolution of archaeological information. You'd get to do interesting work with a very fun team and live in the best city in the world! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share! bit.ly/3QCXUFS

If you are still not sure why you should switch to linux in 2025, here is the video you should watch right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Cy... (I'm a bit subjective as it involve a live demo of debian+KDE, the system i uses too, but still! thanks @siestes.bsky.social )

@samsonduran.bsky.socialah ouai la pp fashiono-cloonesque!

Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

My reading got a bit disturbed and delayed by new job and stuff but I am glad I grab and finished sianmgilbert.bsky.social's book yesterday! it was great! definitely recommand it , and waiting for Sian next one :)

pdfpc is such a GREAT tools. If you still think 'linux isn't bad but, mehh, pdf are not as good as PPT, video never really works, etc"... just check it pdfpc.github.io

New paper on PNAS led by @carigol.bsky.social and written with Anne Kandler and Stephen Shennan, where we explore the impact of post-marital residence rules and resocialisation in cultural hitchhiking - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

matchincroyable UESA EUROPA. une fin tellement dommage

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...

that's it! the beginning of my new Cambridge-London commuter's life... lucky one so far, train is 'only' 15 minutes' late so far and I found space for my bike ❤️

awesome initiative from Will! #CES2024Durham, you should just hit 'follow all' without hesitation!

Sounds like not much activity hear yet sadly :/ I guess for now will keep posting on 'the other place' #CES2024Durham

We are excited to announce that we are collaborating with Nature Human Behaviour!! We will mass reproduce/replicate their papers from 2023 onwards. We need your help conducting computational reproducibility + sensitivity analysis OR replication with new data. Correspondence here: rdcu.be/dwUGX

If I had any doubt that I arrived in a department of sociology :) @albertoacerbi.bsky.social

Slowly making my way to Trento ! (was a gif, but looks like still no gif around here...)

I’ll be giving a talk at the @CDAL Seminar Series at @UCamArchaeology on the 5th of Feb 🤩. I’ll mainly discuss work done with @jblinkhorn.bsky.social and Prof Matt Grove on Central African archaeology! Come by if you you’re interested in the ecological drivers of cultural dynamics 🤗

I am very happy to finally share the last talk of our Garrod Seminar Series about Cultural Evolution & Archaeology! Sadly @amesoudi.bsky.social couldn't make it on the day of his talk but he kindly accepted to record it to allow us to share it online! here it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyve...

The year is coming to an end and holidays are coming up soon. We hope you had a successful year and wish you and your family happy holidays and a prosperous New Year 2024.

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

We are really excited to be hosting the CES2024 conference here in Durham in September! What are some questions you have for us? #CES2024Durham

Very interesting and challenging reflections about modelling here at the first day of Barcelona workshop on Social Modelling and Simulation organised by @h3uristica.bsky.social ! Why are we modelling social phenomena? can it really work? how should we do it?

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That's it, last post for this term, the Garrod Seminar Series is finished! We want to warmly thank all the speakers: Fiona Jordan, Mike O'Brien, Felix Riede, @amesoudi.bsky.social, Stephen Shennan, Ruth Mace & Valentine Roux!

The Social Modelling and Simulations Barcelona Workshop #SMSBCN23 is coming. An occasion for joint reflection for those who investigate social behavior applying the tools of physical, mathematical, and computational sciences👇🧵 heuristica.participa.cloud/conferences/...

📣 The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse seeks applications for POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS and VISITING FELLOWS. More information and application links can be found at iast.fr/apply 🚨 Application deadline: November 15, 2023 🚨

Last seminar of the term 😥 Don't miss it! Valentine Roux continue to guide us into the exploration of Evolutionary Dynamics, Cultural Transmission and Archaeology! online registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi... full abstract: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/events/garro...

Packed week but worth it! Join us on Monday For Ruth Mace's talk! Online or at the Henry Welcome Building in Cambridge, it's going to be great and your penultimate chance to assist the Cultural Evolution & Archaeology series! 🗓️Mon 27th November 🕓4pm UK time more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/events/garro...

my weekly post for the Garrod Seminar! This time announcing the venue of Prof. Stephen Shennan on Thursday, 4pm UK time. On the program: 'Ancient DNA and cultural transmission' Don't miss it! all info here: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/events/garro...

Job alert! Postdoctoral and teaching fellow at Mannheim University in social learning, cultural evolution and personality/individual differences, with Jochen Gebauer, me, Daniel Haun & Wilhelm Hofmann. Deadline 1st Dec, more details here: www.psy.de/evoad.pdf #culturalevolution #personality #postdoc

Sadly I couldn’t give this seminar due to a family illness. Here are some slides from the talk I would have given. There were lots of stick figures.

We are going to explore Blick Mead tomorrow with Current Archaeology of the year David Jacques @WolfsonCam ! join us online or in person, it starts 5.30 UK time , all info here : www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events...