A sincere thank you to all the candidates who stood for election and to the CES membership for their active participation in the voting process. We were fortunate to have many excellent candidates, making this election a strong reflection of our membership’s commitment and talent.

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!!

The voting window for the CES officer elections has been extended until Friday 23:59 BST. CES members, don't forget to vote and have your say in the running of your society! Check your inbox for the voting link, or if you didn't receive one, contact the society (details below).

If you are an active member of @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social, please go vote for our new Executive Ordinary Members. You will have received an email with voting instructions. Voting closes Tuesday!

🧵 1/ CCEs @michelleakline.bsky.social , @nicolewen.bsky.social and Nachita Rosun all contributed to ….“Meet A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning” 📣💪🤩 edited by the lovely @sheinalew.bsky.social

@michelleakline.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social @bjjbarrett.bsky.social @nataliabdutra.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @acerbialberto.com @nicolewen.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.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

We have extended the nomination period to this Friday 11th July. If you are a @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social member, consider running from Secretary or Executive Ordinary Member! Happy to answer any questions if you have them!

Nominations are still open for the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee roles of Secretary (non-male) and Ordinary Members (any gender). It’s not too much work and very rewarding!

Don't forgot to nominate for positions in our Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025! Nomination period now closes July 11th, see the nomination form below for more information: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@abbeyepage.bsky.social, Harleen Dhami, and I are doing a study to understand new mums' experiences with infant feeding. If you know someone who has had a baby recently, please share our study!

Jen Clegg-Petz and I presented on cultural variation in first- and third-party imitation and attention. #SRCD2025

Today! Excited to join this awesome symposium! I will be talking about my research about how children from Canada and Brazil shared coins in a virtual Dictator Game-like task and discuss effects of subjecive-SES and Inequality! Collab work between UFRN, UFPA and Queen's!

📢 Come to our symposium TODAY at #SRCD2025! We'll be discussing challenges and best practices for cross-cultural dev psych work! 🕒 4:40 PM📍200H Talks by Sarah Pope-Caldwell, @sylpi.bsky.social, & Yitong Wang Discussant: Tanya MacGillivray Chairs: @nicolewen.bsky.social & @brucerawlings.bsky.social

Great to talk about rituals in childhood at the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social lunch and learn! Thank you for having me, @drzacharywalker.bsky.social and @drrebeccagordon.bsky.social!

Lovely recent CCE social in the *always sunny* London 🌞🤩🎡 If this doesn't sell us.... 🤷‍♀️ @loraadair.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @nicolewen.bsky.social @michelleakline.bsky.social @matthewmgervais.bsky.social ❤️

If you want to understand why we do the things we do, being trained in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives is a pretty good start 😊 excellent thread from CCE's @abbeyepage.bsky.social on our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution, now accepting applications 👇

📣 The next CCE talk is by 🤩 Dr Willem Frankenhuis 🤩 on "The evolution of plasticity and learning" 📅 26th March - 12:45 (In person for food, 13:00 online) to 14:15 🔓 Open to all online or in person - come join us Teams link 👇 or DM for an invite

13/ 🎈 Meet Dr Nicole Wen @nicolejwen.bsky.social - @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social Early Career Award winner 🏆 for her work on childhood rituals Nicole studies how culture shapes kids' learning, cooperation, & social bonds - basically, how little humans become awesome group members! 👧🌍👦

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 🧵

Please see below for EHBEA's statement in solidarity with Stand Up For Science Day ✊

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?...

1/ 🧵 Are We Really Measuring What Matters? Cross-Cultural Challenges in Developmental Research 🌍👶📏 New paper led by CCE’S lovely @nicolejwen.bsky.social & @brucerawlings.bsky.social , also featuring CCE’s @michelleakline.bsky.social and many others. Supported by @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social 🔗👇

Very happy to be a coauthor on this paper, supported by @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social at the workshop phase and pushed ahead by my @brunelcce.bsky.social colleague @nicolejwen.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 👇

This is a very serious issue. I have done a morn of cross cultural work and I have often worried about this. Recently I an systematically testing for measurement invariance when I use a scale. It isn’t always glorious even for well established scales in the West.

Great paper featuring @brucerawlings.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social from @durhamdcerc.bsky.social

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

The looks great: “cross-cultural developmental research poses distinct problems for ensuring high construct validity, owing to the nuances of working with children; the standard approach of transporting protocols designed & validated in one population to another risks low construct validity”

🔍 Are we really measuring what matters when studying children across cultures? 🤔 Our latest blog post explores hidden challenges in cross-cultural developmental research and strategies to improve construct validity. 🌍 @brucerawlings.bsky.social Check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

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...

✨📢 To all the new people joining 💙 BlueSky 💙 in recent days I think a introduction is in order The Brunel Uni Centre for Culture and Evolution is a hub of world-leading (yes I do say myself 💅) researchers in evolutionary and cross-cultural approaches to psychology and behaviour We DO IT ALL (ish)

We are kicking off our afternoon session with our second keynote Nicole Wen, recipient of the CES New Investigator award 2022! #CESDurham2024 @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Happening now 😎

Second plenary @ #CES2024Durham - Nicole Wen on ritual in childhood. Children recognise ritual actions from infancy, and learning group rituals increases group identity behaviours and affiliation (where opportunities to form individual bonds via exposure are more limited). #CulturalEvolution

🏆⭐️👑⭐️🏆 @nicolejwen.bsky.social

CCE members are presenting at CES in Durham ✨ @nicolejwen.bsky.social is the afternoon keynote today as the Early Career Award winner for @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social on Rituals in Childhood 🤩✨