More coverage of ‪Éadin's paper: oceanographicmagazine.com/news/immigra... 🐳🦑

Our collection on Decision-making in structured groups in npj Complexity is open and accepting manuscripts through May! It's a broad call, covering anything from animal societies to human social systems of all sorts. Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/

Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026: 1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD 2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD #AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social

Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Looking forward to feedback on this preprint emerging from our Representing Memory project at Durham IAS @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

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 🧪🌎