Abstract submissions are open for CES 2026! The deadline is 16th November. Make sure to follow @ces2026.bsky.social for updates.

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...

⏳4 weeks left! Submissions for the CogSci Mind Challenge close Oct 17! Make a 5-min video answering: “How do different minds (i.e. different groups of humans, animals, artificial systems) learn language, if at all?” 💰Prizes up to $1000! Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...

👇 interview on collaborative (research 🧪) cultures Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social

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

💡 Explore how practices from distributed, open-source software can make science more professional, open, and collaborative! Attend the “Science as amateur software development” lecture by Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept, 9:00. 👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth. Please share with your students. #PsychSciSky #Anthropology www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Apply now to study at Durham! Not only would you be working with Sheina or Lynda, both fantastic scholars, but you'd be part of a department with a thriving PGR community, and a member of DCERC!

Woo new paper! Cross-cultural investigation into maternal responses to infant distress How babies are soothed may be more important than how quickly, which vary cross-culturally w/Carlo Vreden & team in #DevelopmentalPsychology! Open-access link + thread 👇 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Can't believe it's already been a whole year since we hosted the CES 2024 Conference here at Durham! Such a fantastic week hearing about diverse and fascinating research @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social 1/4

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium. Deadline: October 10, 2025. wennergren.org/article/call...

🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵 🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards. 🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Excited to share our new paper investigating Ugandan mothers' experience of gender roles and how it impacts their children's socio-emotional development! dx.doi.org/10.1002/icd.... @drboothroyd.bsky.social @zannaclay.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social

Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

🚨 New paper led by ‪@asatsa.bsky.social‬! We show that participation in Luhya mourning rituals overall increases well-being and cooperation among the bereaved, yet qualitative findings show they can also be perceived negatively by some community members royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Interesting talk at #ehbea2025 by Robin Watson on human prestige and hierarchical societies: strength of prestige learning bias can potentially produce structured or hierarchical populations.

8 PhD scholarships in Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento - deadline 15th May www.unitn.it/en/phd/socio...

EHBEA 2025 is going wonderfully. Can't wait to present my work and observations on BaYaka Women and girls engaging on 'Relay Cooperation' in the Congo, and hear your questions and insights. 🌿 @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

✨️The EHBEA 2025 Starter Pack is Here! ✨️ - Follow #EHBEA2025 conference presenters & attendees! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 - Attending EHBEA?? Comment bellow or send us a message to be added! #CoolEvoScience #HumanBehaviour #SharingResearch @ehbea.bsky.social go.bsky.app/83e84Ca

Thanks 🤩 Paper just accepted today 👀 and can’t wait to explore the many unanswered questions about reproductive and child rearing overlap further ❤️

Do evolutionary hypotheses about physical attraction hold up cross-culturally? Nope, according to @drboothroyd.bsky.social’s #ehbea2025 plenary

Durham University is offering 100 x £3,000 Postgraduate Student Support Scholarships to UK students from low and middle income households. For more info, visit: www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...

Data from the @evodemreligion.bsky.social project now being presented by @paulajasheppard.bsky.social at #ehbea2025, to test whether family size, household size or birth order is associated with child health across five different populations. Conclusion: ecology matters

Amazingly inspiring talk from @heidicolleran.bsky.social, challenging misconceptions on fertility and calling for more ethnographically oriented demography! @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social

Very stimulating plenary talk about how the cultural organisation of reproduction has been crucial for human evolutionary success 🤓 #EHBEA2025 @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social @heidicolleran.bsky.social

Probably the best way I could think of to make this announcement: super excited to be joining Durham Uni in June as a postdoc/modeller on @sheinalew.bsky.social's new ERC grant, Children as Agents of Cultural Evolution. Looks like I'm going to fit right in 😍 #DungareeLab @durhamdcerc.bsky.social

Come check out our new paper on the challenges of ensuring our measures are doing what they’re meant to in cross-cultural work, and some proposed solutions - full breakdown and team below 👇

Being part of this was delightful. Great team, fantastic leadership.

1/ 🧵 🚨New paper!🚨 Cross-cultural research is expanding in the social sciences — but are we measuring what we think we are? Our recent paper argues that construct validity is an overlooked challenge, especially in developmental research. Let’s break it down. 🌍 🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

Important paper by @durhamdcerc.bsky.social members @brucerawlings.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social reviewing the challenges cross-cultural developmental research faces in ensuring construct validity across samples & providing several potential solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The CES 2024 and Capstone Conference talks are now available online using the link below! A lot of the talks (with permission) are available for ALL. So if you missed the conferences, this is your chance to experience it all free of charge! ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/02/13/t...

New OA paper out with the awesome Sarah Cutting in Educational Psychological Review - we dive deep to discuss and link disparate fields to shed light on whether schools are good or bad for children's creativity. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Study finds culturally widespread negative stereotyping of poorer individuals (in Brazil, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, France, Nigeria, Philippines, and the United Kingdom): Household Wealth is Associated With Perceived Trustworthiness in a Diverse Set of Countries

Nearly a month since #CES2024Durham and we are delighted to share the names of our nine prize winners who were all judged independently by volunteers. *drumroll*...

At the end of the conference, I received the award for the best presentation of the global south! In the face of so many insecurities about speaking in another language, this award brought me enormous satisfaction! #ces2024durham #ces2024 @neoprego.org @durhamdcerc.bsky.social

And just like that #CES2024Durham is over!!! We hope you all had a lovely time!

A huge well done to all our prize winners and the #CES2024Durham team! Now we will be having our @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social AGM

And now Sally Street will be announcing our conference prizes!! #CES2024Durham @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

We are closing #CES2024Durham which has been a blast!! Sarah Wright and Rachel Kendal are now giving our conference report @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Lily van Eden looking at wildlife conservation and management as an evolving cultural practice @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social #CESDurham2024

Angela Chira now speaking on cultural drivers of numeral base diversity @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social #CESDurham2024

Václav Hrnčíř next with Carneiro’s dataset for cultural evolution research @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social #CESDurham2024

Now for Francisco Brahm on consilience in the theory of the firm @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social #CESDurham2024

Next for Yo Nakawake exploring supernatural revenge in Japanese folklore @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social #CESDurham2024

Now our lightning talks, first up - Péter Rácz Possession trance and cultural complexity in the ethnographic atlas @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social #CESDurham2024

Now for our final keynote, Kathleen Corriveau speaking on the role of testimony in cultural learning #CESDurham2024 @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Kicking off our last day at #CES2024Durham we have an open address by Durham University’s Vice Chancellor Prof Karen O’Brien @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

The conference dinner in Durham castle has begun! #CES2024Durham @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social