2x CE related (evolving languages) PhD opportunity 🚨

Cultural Evolution (Methods) paper alert 🚨

“A better understanding of how cultures evolve—how info is transmitted & modified, how we make decisions, how culture interacts with biology & other species—is a pressing issue in an increasingly interdependent world where cultural activities are causing rapid, drastic social & environmental change”

Cultural Evolution paper alert 🚨

Preview of an upcoming book chapter, discussing (amongst other things) transmission and innovation in Tibetan Buddhist sects. This is a phylogeny of the main sects

This new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural #evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges. It highlights research funded by the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's Transformation Fund, which focused on #DEI: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Why does every decade promise a method, a language, or now #AI that will “fix” #software #complexity? Software never behaved like an engineered artifact. Our research shows it evolves like an #ecosystem. A thread ↓

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

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Young chimps play weird with tools and other objects & this can lead to innovation! Moss sponging, doll play, leaf clipping to ask for carrying. If copied and retained, rare kid innovations can contribute to cultural complexity 🧪🔬🐵 My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Animal culture paper alert 🚨

Cultural evolution postdoc alert 🚨

The deadline has been extended - there is still time to get your abstracts in to join us in Morocco!

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

A reminder for those on the fence, there are still 3 days left to apply for the ACE teaching innovation awards!

Only 2 days left to get your abstracts in!

Don't hesitate, apply for our Advancing Cultural Evolution Teaching Innovation awards - The deadline is the 17th of November, so you've got one more week to get your application in! culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...

📢 Here is my commentary about the pitfalls of taking an impoverished evolutionary approach to culture, which include 'the limitations of a unidirectional model of evolution' and 'the neglect of niche construction theory'. #ehbea #evolution #psychscisky 🧪 🧵 1/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!

👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November. 🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!

New paper out on the important role of social learning in breastfeeding! academic.oup.com/emph/article...

🚨 Cultural Evolution PhD Alert!

🚨 New CE paper alert!

Our recently announced ACE Course Design Awards showcased excellent teaching materials from CE courses. We're now pleased to announce the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards, aimed at those looking to include more CE in their courses. Find out more @ the link below! vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Thanks Paul for catching that error in our original post! Congratulations to @psmaldino.bsky.social on his ACE Course Design Awards for "Cultural Evolution" and for "Modeling Social Behaviour".

Cultural Evolution Paper Alert 🚨

We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching. We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):

ACE Teaching Innovation Awards empower scholars to incorporate high-quality cultural evolution course materials into their teaching. This is a great opportunity for those from majority-world countries and ECR academics, but everyone can apply! culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...

I just had a lovely morning teaching memo with Lio Wong at #COSMOS2025 in Tokyo! Charley and Wataru have put together an absolutely *fantastic* summer school. Fascinating talks, delightful people… and excellent location. I feel so lucky to be here. If you ever get a chance to attend COSMOS, take it!

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

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

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

This paper is wild. www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level". Whatever mitochondrial challenges you may face, at least none of your organelles is an ENTIRE INSECT.

CE Paper Alert 🚨

Calling all CE folks interested in artificial life, get in your abstracts for the upcoming ALIFE -25!

A cool workshop on cultural evolution in ALife, happening right after the #COSMOSSummerSchool in Tokyo! Stretch your stay in Japan to attend ALIFE in Kyoto too!!

I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself. The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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!!

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now out! evolang2026.org. @cogscisociety.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

We're thrilled to announce upcoming ACE Teaching Innovation Awards, made possible by Eric & Peggy Peterson. This aims to empower teachers through access to course materials in the CES Teaching Library. Selected applicants will also be able to consult with winners of the ACE Course Design Awards.

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).

I'm happy to share our latest manuscript "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience", coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman.

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!

The CES officer elections have now launched! Active members of the society should have received an email from Election Runner with the title "Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025", so pls check your inbox. Voting closes on 29th July at 23:59 BST. culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

Nice new paper in PNAS providing further evidence that random/long ties help social contagions — even many that would be labeled "complex contagions" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @davidlazer.bsky.social

I'm hiring 2+ 2.5-year postdocs over the next few months. Job 1: looking for someone with deep expertise in computational modelling (reinforcement learning, agent based modelling) on real-world/complex data (closing: 18 August, starting: October-December), www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52059/

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In September @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social will inaugurate the International Research Lab on Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures (ChiMP4IC) in Abidjan in memory of the late Christophe Boesch and to support our work at @taichimpproject.bsky.social Happy #WorldChimpanzeeDay

Hope this whets your appetite for the the CES 2026 conference! culturalevolutionsociety.org/conference/