Come and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution "Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics" www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr... More details here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz files.newsletter2go.com/l3slzozn/s_i...

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Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!

I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

📢 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...

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

💙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/...

Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741 with team members @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Ann-Marie Nussberger, @maximederex.bsky.social, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov

Seeking Behavioral Science PhDs @cuboulderibs.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @nathumbehav.nature.com @maximederex.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social

Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan

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.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

3 days left until the deadline for these @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social grants

Do you teach a course on cultural evolution? The @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social is offering Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... $4000 award. Apply for up to 3 courses. Less than 30min per course submission.

10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity

📢 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

Don't forget to put in your application for our 2025 awards!

We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution. Check out these decision trees! osf.io/preprints/ps...

The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications! -Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ... -ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN... -Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...

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

Have you ever heard of a travois—one of the simplest prehistoric vehicles, made of two long poles attached in a V-shape? Turns out it’s way older than we thought! www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

💥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 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! 🧵👇

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...

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

Exhaustive list of ways to congratulate a colleague on a new paper: 1️⃣ Congrats on your paper! 2️⃣ "Congrats" on your paper. 3️⃣ Congrats on "your" paper. 4️⃣ Congrats on your "paper".

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

🐦📢🧪 very pleased to share our freshly published cultural diffusion experiment w/ Gustavo Alarcón-Nieto @lucymaplin.bsky.social @ PLOS Biology that explored decision-making of immigrant great tits after moving into a new social group: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Fascinating history of the first attempt to measure the size of molecules, beginning with Ben Franklin pouring a teaspoon of oil on a pond and his astonishment as it covered the pond. press.asimov.com/articles/mea...

📢 Please repost 📢 Applications for the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26 - Jun 20 2025) are now open. Brochure and more info: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul... Application form (deadline, Dec 15 2024): www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

1/ 🌟 @PNASNews Special Feature: Half a Century of Cultural Evolution 🎉 With @amesoudi.bsky.social, @glupyan.bsky.social & Pierce Edmiston, we review the field's key experimental methods, findings, and critiques—and present a new lab experiment. 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

We have a postdoc position available in my lab at UC Berkeley, 2 years+, flexible start date, research focus is social reasoning and cultural evolution from a computational perspective. Deadline = November 29th. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04639

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...

For the newbies working in Cultural evolution, Evolutionary Psychology or human behavioural ecology - I made a feed for y'all last year. 😀 Tag #BioAnth, #EvPsych, #EHBEA, #HBES or mention cultural evolution... bsky.app/profile/did:...

⏳ Only 3 days left to apply for a Research Fellowship at IAST! Researchers from a wide range of social and behavioral science disciplines are welcome to apply! www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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

Two great job opportunities in Paris cognition.ens.fr/en/job/junio...

Come do a Research Fellowship (postdoc) with us at IAST! - Work 100% on your own research - Contract for 2 +1 years - Top scientific environment - anthro, bio, psych, poli sci, econ, soc and more - In a paradise city in the south of France Apply by Nov 15 www.iast.fr/research-fel...

📣 New paper "Do institutions evolve like material technologies?" with @jorgeapenas.bsky.social, @manvir.bsky.social, & @maximederex.bsky.social. Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jrQt_,5MJ.... Feedback very welcome! Part of a special issue on Norm Change: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Our annual post-doctoral research fellowships campaign at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) is now open. We welcome applications from researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Please share! www.iast.fr/research-fel...

My book SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION will be out on May 20, 2025! Shamanism characterized the earliest religions, echoes in often unappreciated ways in the world around us, and will long outlive us. Pre-order it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730339...

Early career CE research grants up for grabs - applications open now! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...