The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright

@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/...

Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

Brilliant talk by @isilova.bsky.social delivering postcards to challenge Western conceptions of learning and mind at the 2025 NSF/Jacobs Foundation Workshop on Deconstructing the Universal Mind, run by Mike Frank and Christine Legare

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

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!

Bluebell season behind Durham uni campus

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪! Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution. 🧠 Behavioral + computational work 🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o

"Labeling the people or practices as 'Cargo Cult' is unlikely to be productive." New article by @statmodeling.bsky.social and Megan Higgs doi.org/10.1007/s111...

The MammalWeb project still isn't on Bluesky, so here's a link to the April newsletter for all of you who are! Lots of exciting updates on projects, competitions, site developments - and, excitingly, another award! What's not to like? What indeed ... tinyurl.com/MWApr25

🚨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

saw this piece being shared around on the bird site and sharing it here cuz it's so good genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Final call - six fully funded PhDs to work in John Sutton’s interdisciplinary Leverhulme centre, University of Stirling placememory.net

Just made a list of all the recent books highlighting women's philosophizing--there are so many! Going to mark the last week of #womenshistorymonth by posting a few a day. Starting with Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachel Wieseman's "Metaphysical Animals"! Please add others! #philsky

This articulate reflection by @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social may be valuable to a broad range of social scientists interested in trying out ethnographic research compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy International Women’s Day, including these two wonderful people, Chandika Shrestha and @rachkendal.bsky.social being celebrated in Pokhara, Nepal.

A brilliant visual guide for discovering the geometry and topology of two- and three-dimensional spaces by Jeffrey Weeks. A great workout for your visual imagination!

What a refreshing set of perspectives, including a chapter by ex-Durham Anthro student, Alex Hill.

Spines spotted. Rare commodity in science these days.

Durham Research Methods Café's next session will be running on Wednesday 19th February 2025 in person, 1100-1230. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information here: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins... #interdisciplinary

Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

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

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...

Save the dates June 2-6 for the second annual meeting of @smtpb.bsky.social on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology, hosted in Chicago by @nitmb.bsky.social. More details coming later. www.nitmb.org/modeling-and...

New for 2025! An MA in Interdisciplinary Research Methods supported by DRMC! Explore a wide range of training methods to tackle contemporary social phenomena. See more information here and apply for the course - dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

Interested in researching the evolution of the capacity for mental time travel? Supervised by Gema Martin-Ordas (Psychology, Stirling), Kristie Miller (Philosophy, Sydney) and me (Anthropology, Durham). Competition-funded PhD project www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Are you a theoretician in ecology/evolution/systematics & related fields? Do you hope to become one? Wondering where there is a good community to share tips, learn new tricks, & hear about modelling discoveries? Check out the Society for Modeling & Theory in Population Biology (SMTPB)! smtpb.org

Lots of cultural evolution content to read in latest PNAS! www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/121...

Wow, this looks wonderful! Thank you Tuomas!

New paper out with Pantea Pooladvand and Mark Tanaka. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For the new listeners, here’s a free tutorial I made for learning how to make simulation models of cultural evolution in R, on github: github.com/amesoudi/cul... and as a bookdown version with outputs: bookdown.org/amesoudi/ABM...

First paper is out from our IAS Representing Memory project - this one led by Alex Easton: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #cognition #memory

New paper out, led by Alex Easton, where we argue that context only really makes sense at the point of retrieval, so it can't be encoded: Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition

1/3📢We’re excited to announce our next plenary speaker at #EHBEA2025, Dr. Heidi Colleran! 🌍 As leader of the ‘BirthRites’ Group at Max Planck Institute, @heidicolleran.bsky.social’s research delves into how culture and reproduction interact! 🤱👨‍🍼⬇️ @ehbea.bsky.social

🚨 Attention researchers! 🚨Abstract submission for #EHBEA2025 is NOW OPEN! Don’t miss your chance to present your work on evolution, behaviour, culture & related topics! Deadline: 2 Dec 📅 Submit today: www.ehbea2025.com Please share widely! @ehbea.bsky.social #EvolutionaryScience #Conference

Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪

“Embracing a One Health perspective, we examine both human-to-human and zoonotic transmission pathways in their environmental contexts to assess how market integration alters infectious disease exposure and susceptibility in beneficial, detrimental, and mixed ways” academic.oup.com/emph/advance...

📢Announcing #EHBEA2025 ’s 1st plenary: The unparalleled Prof Christine Anna Caldwell! 📢 Prof Caldwell researches the distinctiveness of human culture and cognition, including cumulative cultural evolution. (1/2) ⬇️ @ehbea.bsky.social

Plant-friendly soil microbes grew more when "white noise" was played in the lab www.science.org/content/arti...

The myth of the heartless brain - in which @christelvaneck.bsky.social, @lydiamessling.bsky.social and I dismantle the claim that science should - or even can - be neutral. Open access @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🧪🌎

Helena Miton's tought-provoking Aeon essay on how cultural knowledge is archived in human bodies aeon.co/essays/how-d...

New post on the EPIC blog! Eleanor Byrne reports from the Women in Philosophy workshop #philsky epistemicinjusticein...

Divorce among young adults in Malawi: “Having children was associated with increased likelihood of divorce for men & women, however for men there was no association between children & subsequent outcomes, while for women children were associated with lower chances of remarriage & attending school”

Hard side eye for any academics blorping on about using AI, it’s an ethical disaster in every dimension and the failure to acknowledge that vs trying to look shiny & clever for the bandwagon is frankly embarrassing.