🚨MASTER AND SCHOLARSHIP ANOUNCEMENT🚨 The MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour at University College London is a broad-based programme run by experts in the field. This year they are excited to share 2 bursaries for Home/UK students, and 1 for International students - based on financial need.

🚨Plenary Announcement for #EHBEA2026🎤✨ We’re very excited to welcome Prof Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews🏛️) With her fieldwork in Uganda and Guinea on gestural and multimodal communication in apes🐒, her research is reshaping how we understand the evolution of language!🗣️ 👉 www.wildminds.ac.uk

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @nicolewalasek.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award of New Investigator👏

Don’t miss out a brand new episode of @cognitations.bsky.social where they discuss with @manvir.bsky.social about the social lives of human populations in the past 🤩🤓😎😉

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @tvpollet.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award on Services to the Community 👏

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMET🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @drboothroyd.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social on earning the 2026 EHBEA Award in Excellence in Public Communication and Outreach👏 @durhampsych.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

🎉 Got the good news? If your abstract was accepted — congrats! 🥳 📬 You can now check OpenReview to see your assigned presentation format. ⏰ Reminder: early bird registration for #EHBEA2026 is open until 20 February!

🎤✨We’re thrilled to announce our first keynote speaker for #EHBEA2026: Dr Iyad Rahwan! 🤖His talk dives into machine culture—how algorithms and chatbots are reshaping social learning, norms, and the evolution of new cultural traits. Don't miss out👉 www.rahwan.me ⏰Early bird registration until 20 Feb

🚨🚨Last reminder for abstract submission!🚨🚨 ⏰ Abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes on 9 Jan (AOE effectively Saturday noon). 📌 Exception(!): papers part of a symposium (EvApecognition, AIvolution, etc.). For details, check our website! 👉www.ehbea2026.com

Discover the full program here: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

🚨 CONFERENCE DEADLINE 🚨 9 January is the last day to submit your abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social See you in April! 😊

⏳ONE WEEK LEFT⏳ We hope you’re rested and ready for an exciting new year!🚀 Don't forget: abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes THIS FRIDAY, 9 January—don’t miss your chance to present your work in Leiden, 14-17 April 2026!🌟 Submit now: ehbea2026.com #EHBEA2026 #BehaviouralScience #AIvolution

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

HBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award. If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply! DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025

If you know someone who works and contributes to the research community on human evolution and behaviour, please do not hesitate to nominate them! Deadline: December 19 👇 👇 👇 👇

@royalsocietypublishing.org has published an OPEN ACCESS theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B: “Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures” compiled and edited by Adam H Boyette, Sarah Mathew, Stephen Asatsa, Michael Chimento, and Rachel L Kendal 💫 👇 👇 👇

We’re hiring for two postdoctoral positions in Social and Behavioral Sciences! 💼 👉 Two Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, or related disciplines. 🗓️ Starting date: September 2026 👉 Learn more and apply now: www.tse-fr.eu/fr/recrutement

Do you, or someone you know, do/does the extra-step on spreading the word about human evolution and behaviour? Then don’t hesitate to apply for the EHBEA award on public outreach and communication! Deadline? December 19 😉

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION 🚨 For those who have not finished their abstracts, @ehbea2026.bsky.social is extending the abstract submission until JANUARY 9th!! Hope that the extra time allows us to see even more work in the evolution of human behaviour 🤓 🤩

The new EHBEA website has an opt-in Members' Directory, allowing anyone to find experts in the evolutionary behavioural sciences (already popular with our members! >100 signed up in a few days), and a Members' Forum, a private space for members to share thoughts, questions, teaching materials etc

EHBEA has a shiny new website and it looks lovely 😃 Many thanks to @amrotella.bsky.social for leading EHBEA through this change, with assistance from @pablovarase.bsky.social and @jeannebovet.bsky.social 🙏

the ✨new✨ @ehbea.bsky.social website www.ehbea.org is live and looking great! The (opt-in!) member directory is a fantastic addition, such a nice way to find people and connect!

✨NEW WEBSITE✨ We are finishing the year with a brand new website, so please stop by, have a look, and enjoy the new looks of EHBEA 💫 👇 👇 👇 www.ehbea.org

Don’t forget to submit your #EHBEA2026 abstract before Dec 15! See you in beautiful Leiden in April! @ehbea2026.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social

🚨 NEW AWARD DEADLINE 🚨 EHBEA is giving, for the first time, an award for those members who excel in reaching outside of academia with their research and evolutionary human sciences Don’t miss out the opportunity! Deadline? December 19, 2025 More information? 👇 👇 👇

🚨 DEADLINE ALERT 🚨 If you know someone who has contributed enormously to strengthening our community beyond our research please do not hesitate to nominate them! Deadline? December 19th, 2025 More information? 👇

🚨 DO NOT MISS THE DATE 🚨 @ehbea2026.bsky.social is receiving abstracts for our next conference in 2026! DEADLINE? December 15 MORE INFORMATION? 👇 👇 👇

🚨 AWARD DEADLINE 🚨 If you are, or know someone, doing really cool research as an early-career researcher…EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations on their New Investigator Award. Deadline? December 19th, 2025 More information below 👇

EHBEA awarded a workshop grant this year to researchers aiming to strengthen evolutionary approaches to the study of behaviour in Chile & elsewhere in Latin America, as we're keen to use these awards for outreach beyond our usual community. Congrats to the organisers, & hope the workshop goes well 😊

Interesado en salud, comportamiento y evolución humana? Este 10 de diciembre se realizará la Jornada de Investigación “Evolución Biocultural: Aplicaciones y desafíos en salud y comportamiento humano” El evento es gratis pero con cupos limitados, inscríbase aquí 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

🚨 DEADLINE 🚨 EHBEA is searching for people who wants to help in the development of the evolutionary human sciences 👀 Do you feel like it? Then apply for PRESIDENT and/or SECRETARY for 2026-2029! Deadline? December 16/12/2025 More information?👇 👇 👇

Congratulations to the Cognitations podcast, which was awarded an @ehbea.bsky.social grant to support the excellent work they're doing in public communication 🎉 This year, and for future years, we broadened the criteria for workshop grants to include non-academic events & public engagement

Working on some cool project about human evolution? Do not hesitate to submit an abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social 🙌 Deadline? December 15th More info? Below 👇

No se pierda este 10 de diciembre de 2025 el workshop en Evolución Biocultural! Estaremos hablando de salud, comportamiento y evolución! 🤓 Link de inscripción aquí 👇 tr.ee/ytgK8OIO7V

For undergraduates curious about complex systems research, applications are now open for the 2026 Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program — a fully funded, 10-week summer research experience at the Santa Fe Institute. Apply by Jan. 14, 2026: santafe.edu/ucr

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...

🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🚨 #EHBEA2026 will be held in Leiden! Do not forget to submit your abstract before December 15th in order to attend and share your research! More in the official account: @ehbea2026.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Leiden looking good today ;-) 📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026 ⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April 📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance) For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com

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...

Seems the NYT likes Leiden as much as we do 😉 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/t... BTW did you know that EHBEA 2026 will take place right in the middle of the renowned Dutch flower season? 🌼🌼 If you consider staying for one extra night you can enjoy the annual parade (“bloemencorso”) on the 18th 😇

Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University! The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health. More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...

Another great PhD opportunity: An ERC-funded project on “Children as agents of cultural evolution,” lead by @sheinalew.bsky.social at Durham University. Come do fieldwork with Mayan groups in Belize with her, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, and I! One of three, 3-year PhD positions starting Fall 2026.

Funding for students!! New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞 www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

UPDATE! 🎉 Cognitations has been awarded a Workshop Event Grant by @ehbea.bsky.social This amazing grant will help us record new episodes with leading international experts in evolution, anthro & cog sci. Stay tuned in to hear from @manvir.bsky.social, @dansperber.bsky.social & many more!!!

We're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠 Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology: "Is disgust a unitary emotion?" 📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5 👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences 📣 📣 📣 Deadline: December 19, 2025 Check the form below 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 EHEBA is calling for the Service to the Community Award 🙌 Do not hesitate to nominate someone that you know has contributed in the strengthening of our community beyond their research! Deadline: December 19th, 2025 Here is the form👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨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

🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award. If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply! DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025 Here is the form👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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...