📢 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...

“individuals tend to report more accurately about the partners with whom they shared knowledge than about those from whom they received knowledge….findings provide important empirical evidence on how community-wide cultural transmission is structured by demography and perception”

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

@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/...

Great news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥 www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...

👋🏻Are you a woman and/or member of the SGM community working in the evolutionary human sciences? We've relaunched W+EBS (@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social) to provide mentorship, networking, and advocacy at major EHS conferences, including HBES, CES, and EHBEA! 👇🏻Will you be at HBES in 2 weeks? 👀 If so... (1/2)

⏳ Don’t forget to submit your Qs for the #WplusEBS panel at #HBES2025! “Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025” Help shape the discussion! Submissions are anonymous. pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Plus these awards are still open for applications, deadline end of May. Grants for Outreach, Early Career Research, and making links with under-represented scholars, all in the field of cultural evolution

New paper alert 📢 Young wild chimpanzees from the @taichimpproject.bsky.social show attachment types with their mothers similar to human children. Only they do not display patterns related to disorganized attachment. Read our new paper in Nature Human Behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41...

❗Want to know what W+EBS is all about now? ❗ Check out our updated remit: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 💭 Got ideas for what we should do next? Submit suggestions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WplusEBS #InclusiveScience #EvolutionaryBehavioralSciences

🦋 Ever wondered what happens when curious minds collide? The Friends of IAST starter kit is now on Bluesky! Fellows, researchers, and thinkers are ready to share ideas, spark debates, and explore new perspectives. 👋Join us—this is just the beginning! #FriendsofIAST#starterkit go.bsky.app/5mQmnLF 👇

I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

I am very grateful to be funded by the Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social in my 10th year since I first began working with the BaYaka people in 2015. I will continue working with the BaYaka mothers, to whom my research is dedicated 💙 leakeyfoundation.org/fall-2024-re...

Are you, or do you know, a national of Gabon, Cameroon, Congo or DRC interested in studying the climate, ecology or economy of the Congo Basin? CBSI has 28 fully-funded scholarships across a wide range of projects, applications due February 28th. More info here: shorturl.at/5flYY Please share!

New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd. We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

A really cool and important paper that raises questions about grandmothering! 💙

Last, tremendous thanks to @sheinalew.bsky.social for doing such a wonderful job steering the journal over the past few years. We hope to continue this upward trajectory! And if you have anything to submit, you can find our submission information here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr

Want to join in? We are assembling an editorial board! We already have a superb team of evolutionary anthropologists & archaeologists and especially welcome applications from socio-cultural anthropologists. Details in the link and please share widely. www.ishgr.org/2025/01/15/c...

I am thrilled to announce that @vivek123.bsky.social I are the incoming editors-in-chief of Hunter-Gatherer Research, published by Liverpool University Press.

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...

The appearance of symbolic material culture is often linked to the evolution of complex, 'modern' human minds. In an article soon to be formally published in BBS, I reconsider this link, and argue that modern humans needn't leave any such evidence. A thread. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🧵1/ Our second chapter for the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook is on what makes a family and a household – basically it depends, of course 🙃 Led by the wonderful @anushe.bsky.social You can find the pre-print here 👇 @brunelcce.bsky.social @brunelpsy.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

“Here, we—two early-career psychologists from Germany and India and one global health researcher from the UK who all conducted field work in LMICs—summarize key questions and concerns that we wish someone would have told us before conducting our research in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India”

1/ 🧵 about the complexity of marriage globally 💍🌍 New chapter pre-printed for the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook by @anushe.bsky.social and me 🥳 We review the evolutionary literature on marriage, challenging common assumptions we as researchers make. Key insights 👇🧪🏺

Excited to share that our BBS target article — "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" — is online & open for commentary! In it, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argue that children's peer cultures might play an important & understudied role in cultural adaptation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am very honored to have been selected as the 2024 Fyssen Research Grant receipient! My project will explore how social support for mothers is shared within a community among the BaYaka forager and their neighboring Bantu fisher-farmer community 💙

Siblings-in-law ("cuñado" and "cuñada") also emerge as key helpers. Among latino settler and indigenous cultures, "cuñado" and "cuñada"are often used as fictive kin terms, especially for potential sibling-in-law with marriagable siblings or very close friends and exchange partners.

New paper out with insights into kinship, alloparenting, and cooperative breeding! 🧪 Older, closely related kin more often provide costly aid to young Tsimane, while unrelated alloparents provide older youth lower-cost - possible investment in future reciprocal relationships.

Our new paper, on the evolution of institutions, is out in PNAS! How can institutions promote cooperation when they themselves rely on cooperation? Check out JB's awesome thread! Very proud of this paper with @jliep.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

How do institutions enable large-scale cooperation? 🤝 Institutions promote cooperation but depend on cooperation to function. In a new study in @pnas.org, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @lfitouchi.bsky.social and I explore this paradox. 🧵 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This special issue of Hunter Gatherer Research focusses on stepfamilies, adoption and other forms of the family in hunter-gatherer societies. Read it online: bit.ly/HGR93-4 @haneuljang.bsky.social @jing-xu.bsky.social @humannature.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social @ceciliapad.bsky.social

Interested in anthropology, health, and culture? Come to our Orang Asli zoom webinar next week! All are welcome. Dec 17, 8pm Malaysia time Register here: forms.office.com/r/cppLYZ5dBj

⏳ ONE WEEK LEFT! ⏳ The extended deadline to submit your abstracts for #EHBEA2025 is FAST approaching: 🗓️ Mon 16 Dec, midnight (GMT)! Don’t miss this opportunity to present your work at Newcastle, April 14-17! 🌟 Submit now: ehbea2025.com @ehbea.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych #Evosky

A new doctor is born! 💙 Vidrige Kandza successfully defended his PhD yesterday at the Univ. of Leipzig with Magna cum laude! 🥳 Looking forward very much to continuing to work with Dr. Kandza who is highly engaging and dedicated to supporting the forest people and preserving biodiversity in Congo.

The special issue on “Stepfamilies, Adoption, and Other Forms of the Family in Hunter-Gatherers”, led by Barry Hewlett, is finally out in Hunter Gatherer Research! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

🔊EHBEA members we have a few deadlines coming up... ECRs nomiate yourself for the New Investigator Award by December 10th!!! Application details 👇https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/ehbea/awards#investigators

Health is a human right. 🌍❤️ On #WorldAIDSDay, let’s ensure HIV prevention, treatment, & care are accessible to ALL—without stigma or discrimination. Everyone deserves quality healthcare, no matter their status, gender, or where they live. #EndAIDS: bit.ly/3Z5Ot5P

Starter pack for evolutionary behavioral science! I know I am missing many ppl working in this area. Please add yourself and your colleagues! go.bsky.app/Rt4Kh26

(This starter pack will no doubt expand as more people migrate to Bluesky.) go.bsky.app/KVUQFms

10 days left to apply to the Toulouse School of Economics Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences! www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

New preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? Together with @danielredhead.bsky.social, we explore how two types of knowledge are shared in a BaYaka community: long-term foraging skills and short-term information about food locations

Adding to the noise on why birth rates are falling - a question that continues to stump the human evolutionary sciences unherd.com/2024/12/the-...

I'm so excited about our (>60 contributors) forthcoming edited volume! A Field Guide to Doing Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning journeys through history, theory, fieldwork near or far, and policy, with loads of personal stories in between. tinyurl.com/mvxxus55

This is incredible. We often suspected that Homo erectus existed alongside other hominin species. Now we know they did! Preserved footprints from 1.5 million years ago show erectus and another bipedal species, likely Paranthropus, coexisted and probably interacted.

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

🏺Haíɫzaqv Archaeologist Elroy White (Q̓íx̌itasu) et al : "M̓ṇúxvʔit means “to become one” in Haíɫzaqvḷa, in this case referring to outside knowledges being incorporated into Indigenous systems (not vice versa)." conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (open access)

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It’s the International Day to End Violence against Women and Girls! 1 in 3 girls and women around the world experience physical and/or sexual violence by: A husband A boyfriend An intimate partner A lover A parent A relative A colleague A boss A stranger bit.ly/3gy8pfq #NoExcuse

Do you have a student who is a non-native English speaker #NNES ? A post-doc? A collaborator? Are you a reviewer? It takes years to get to express yourself in a foreign language, if it ever happens The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...