[PhD track in Cognitive Science at Département d'Études Cognitives, ENS-PSL] Applications are now open for the PSL PhD Track 2026–2027 in Cognitive Science! This 5-year integrated program is aimed at talented students eager to tackle the scientific challenges of the future and to start shaping 1/2

Help us strengthen trust in climate scientists in the US! Join our megastudy 👇

🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀! www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸! 🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr 📍Pesthuis #EHBEA2026

EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀 If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president! If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary! DEADLINE: 16/12/2026 HERE IS THE FORM 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ever wanted to read about an old problem almost nobody cares about anymore? Well, I wrote about it. 🧵

📢 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...

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122 press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

EHB commentaries on Baumard and André's "The ecological approach to culture" are growing (see "Commentaries" section at the end). Good. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/evol...

"a forest is not treated as the output of a second inheritance system or as a group-level adaptation... culture is not a transmitted substance; it is the structured context that emerges from repeated and overlapping individual actions"

Nicolas Baumard & Jean-Baptiste Andre’s “ecological view of culture” provides an exciting new perspective that links Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology, & Cultural Evolution. Read more in their HBES blog post: www.hbes.com/reconciling-...

Here, weird guy from X, I fixed it for you: "If a scientific society wants to be welcoming to [...] students & researchers [from the Global South], does it make sense to hold its next annual conference in a country that's notorious for [being located in the Global South]?" The answer is Yes.

We have a lovely new paper out, showing that even ignorant people can be very good at recognising who's knowledgeable based on minimal cues

We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...

the functional form of moral judgment is (sometimes) the nash bargaining solution new preprint👇

I think the BabyLM Challenge is really interesting, but also feel that there is something fundamentally ill-posed about how it maps onto the challenge facing human children. It's true that babies only get a relatively limited amount of linguistic experience, but...

🧵New paper out in Cognition Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)? @danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module. 50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...

The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub

Two more weeks to apply! Spread the word and reach out with any questions.

Many thanks to all organisers of #EHBEA2025 for putting on such an inclusive and welcoming conference! @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social

ℹ️ New announcement!! #EHBEA2026 will be in Leiden! Save the date.

🧠✨ EHBEA 2025 — Tuesday Highlights ✨🧠 From cultural transmission to chatbots and grandmothers, here's what's coming up on Day 2 (April 15) at #EHBEA2025. A thread 👇 @ehbea.bsky.social #HumanBehaviour #EvPsych #Anthropology #Research #EHBEA

Call for 5-years research fellowships at PSL university! @psl-univ.bsky.social Join the CultureLab team to research computational social science. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o5mkp...

🚨 We’re so excited to welcome you to #EHBEA2025 — starting THIS MONDAY in Newcastle! 🎉 We’re opening with a bang 💥: A pre-conference panel on Big Team Science at 2pm! What worked, what didn't & more! 📝 Register: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam... #TeamScience #HumanBehaviour #EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social

Today is the day!! #EHBEA2025 is now here!! 😁🎉 Come find us at registration, which opens at 2pm! Then: - Pre-conference panel on big team science, 2-3pm - Conference opening @330pm - Plenary by Russell Hill @4pm - Reception @5pm Can't wait to see you all today! @ehbea.bsky.social

✨️Guess what?!?✨️ We're putting together a starter pack to make it easy to follow EHBEA 2025 presenters and attendees!! 🔥👩‍🔬 Want to be added? Drop a comment below! 👇 #EHBEA2025 #Evolution #HumanBehaviour @ehbea.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

Last, but denfinitely not least: 🧭 Code of Conduct We take your safety and wellbeing seriously. Please review EHBEA’s Code of Conduct. Concerns? Speak to Amanda Rotella, Paula Sheppard, or David Coall. [10/10]

✅ What to Bring No conference swag = more sustainable & better catering! 🥗 Don’t forget: • Notepad & pen • Bag • Refillable water bottle More info on the website: www.ehbea2025.com [9/10]

🎉 It's almost time— #EHBEA2025 kicks off this Monday!! We're very excited to welcome you to Newcastle! ✨ Check your inboxes—an important email just went out with everything you need to know. 📩 Here’s a quick thread with the essentials [1/10] 🧵👇

👋 Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment? #evolution #genetics Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇 devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality. Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

🚨 Last call! Registration for #EHBEA2025 closes TOMORROW!! 🚨 If you haven’t signed up yet, now’s the time—deadlines wait for no primate! 🦧🧑🏻‍🔬👀 Conference highlights below! 👇🏻 Reg + programme: 👉 www.ehbea2025.com Hope to see you there! #DeadlinePanic #EvolutionaryScience @ehbea.bsky.social

#scmedias Comment énerver un scientifique ? Demandez-le aux grands médias qui ont fait une promotion dithyrambique d’un livre mauvais truffé d’âneries sur l’évolution ! Histoire racontée vigoureusement avec beaucoup d’humour par @jbaptistandre.bsky.social sfecologie.org/regard/ro24-...

NOUVELLE VIDÉO !! La science progresse un enterrement à la fois www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpd... Pourquoi malgré l’indigence et l’injustice des critiques de la psycho évo depuis plus de 30 ans, je pense qu’il y a des raisons d’espérer ! Conclusion de ma mini-série « critiques ».

🚨If you fancy evolutionary genomics, theory, my lab now offers *two* fully-funded #PhD #genomics #popgen #evolution ℹ️One on sex-asex transitions with Christoph Haag bit.ly/4hp1q1A ℹ️One on allele-specific expression with Sylvain Glémin bit.ly/4iuKLuQ Part of #ERC RegEvol In #CEFE lab, Montpellier

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

⏳ The deadline is fast approaching for the ENS-PSL master's program in cognitive science! Apply by March 13!

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Can our culture alter how we see the world around us? In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social and I dig through >100 years of scholarship on this foundational question in psychology, anthropology, and even philosophy. Take a look here (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and follow the story below 👇

Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚀 We're so excited that #EHBEA2025 is coming up fast! What are YOU presenting this year?!? Share your talk/poster topic -- let's start the hype & hear about cool science! 😎🔥 #EvolutionaryScience #NewIdeas @ehbea.bsky.social P.S. Don’t forget—early bird registration ends soon (March 1st)! 🐦⌚📅

🚨 Now accepting commentary proposals!! 🚨Thrilled to share that our paper --- "Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition" --- was accepted for publication at Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is open for commentary!

Sydney's post goes on as a thread with an excellent summary of this work, and a link to the portal for submitting commentaries at BBS. Working on this with Sydney, Josh, and Nick was enormously productive in my own thinking about the structure and function of morality!

Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies? Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵 w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

EHBEA 2025 is soon approaching, and hopefully you just got some good news about your presentations 🥳 What's next?! Well, planning your trip to Newcastle! To make it easier on you, we created tool to find accomodation! 🏠 Check it out - link in comments! Hope it helps!💤🛏️💻 @ehbea.bsky.social

📢 We have now reviewed all the abstracts submited to #EHBEA2025! If you submitted an abstract, go check your email now! With the large number of quality submissions, there will be an exciting mixture of long talks, short talks, & posters! Can't wait till April! @ehbea.bsky.social

Dear EHBEA members, please remember to cast your vote to decide our next Vice President - check your emails for the link, deadline 5pm GMT Jan 31st!

🥳 My first publication ever in Personality and Individual Difference, with @edgardubourg.bsky.social and @hugoreasoning.bsky.social. Insight can arise from a wide range of experiences, from making groundbreaking discoveries to reading a whodunit. Are some people more interested in this feeling?

Nobel prize winner Katelyn Karikó has spent endless hours to gain unprecedented insights into nature. But she also enjoys the feelings of insight triggered by watching Columbo. Are there people who just enjoy feelings of insights more, whatever their source? Our recent findings suggest that yes:

We're over the moon to announce this year's EHBEA Services to the Community Award goes to @drboothroyd.bsky.social!!! Many thanks also go to her nominators @sheinalew.bsky.social and @brucerawlings.bsky.social