🚨 CES Elections 2026–2029 🚨 We’ve extended the nomination period for SIX Executive Committee positions: President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, 2x Executive Ordinary Members and Student Rep! 🗓 Nominations close: Jun14 🗳 Voting: Jun24–Jul8 📢 Results announced this summer forms.gle/9yX2SLcf82Vk...

New preprint in review! 🤩 "Identifying social learning through peering: predictions and recommendations". 👀 Led by Elisa Bandini alongside @revathe.bsky.social, myself, and Caroline Schuppli. See 🧵 and read it here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Great opportunity for anyone wanting to get involved in the direction Cultural Evolution institutions go. You get to work with lovely people and help guide this nascent organization.

Not to missed if you're interested in cultural diffusion through networks!

CES paper alert 🚨

CEs Job Alert 🚨! 4-year teaching focused lecturership at Bristol in bio/evo anthropology with a quantitative focus. Bristol is a terrific city to live in, and many ECRS in the CES will hopefully fit the profile: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Day 2 continued with a rich program, marked by two plenary sessions. Stephen Vaisey, Professor at Duke University, opened the day with a forward-looking reflection on the possible futures of cultural evolution, exploring how different intellectual traditions shape the way we understand the field.

Another day of rich discussions and interdisciplinary exchange. Learn more about CES2026: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Day 3 | CES Conference 2026 at UM6P Rabat 📍 The final day opened with a plenary by Prof. Nicole Creanza on the evolution of learned behaviors, drawing insights from both birds and humans 🧠🐦

As CES 2026 comes to a close at UM6P Rabat 📍, we extend our sincere thanks to all participants, speakers, and organizers who made these three days so rich and engaging.

Today I’ll be presenting online at @ces2026.bsky.social: Arcade games as a model system for cultural macroevolution 👾 Track B · Room B-K2-02 11:30–12:40 Sorry not to be in Rabat in person, but happy to share this work with the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social.

Sadly I couldn't get a photo of @stephenvaisey.com 's earlier plenary, which placed the field of cultural evolution in sociological context, but that was great too

Now it's @michelleakline.bsky.social 's fascinating plenary on cultural evolution and childrearing / childbirth

Our host turns speaker: @matcharbonneau.bsky.social on how open-ended cumulative cultural evolution works

Sergey Gavrilets now on how tightness-looseness changes cooperative dynamics

CES 2026 continues with @twaring.bsky.social talking about food clubs as an example of cultural group selection

Now Tom Morgan on how conformist behaviour emerges from anti-conformist beliefs

Here is @alexschakowski.bsky.social on social learning strategies in Finnish fishing competitions

Egor Lappo telling us about social learning in chess playing (not in cats sadly, despite the photo)

🚨 CES Elections 2026–2029 🚨 We’ve got SIX Executive Committee positions open — including President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, Executive Ordinary Members (x2), and Student Rep! 🗓 Nominations close: May 31 🗳 Voting: June 15–24 📢 Results announced this summer forms.gle/9yX2SLcf82Vk...

Final keynote of the day by Abdellatif Bencherifa @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

More @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference talks! @babeheim.bsky.social on norm psychology, and in particular escalator standing norms in Japan

In Rabat for the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference. Great start with a fascinating keynote by @helenamiton.bsky.social on constraints on cultural evolution

CES Conference 2026 at UM6P Rabat 📍 The Cultural Evolution Society (CES) Conference 2026 successfully kicked off today at the UM6P Rabat campus, hosted by the Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences (AIRESS) in collaboration with the School of Collective Intelligence (SCI).

📢IMPORTANT NOTICE Participants are required to bring their passport with them to access the campus. Please do not forget it, as it is mandatory for entry. We are very excited to welcome you!

🚨 Cultural evolution paper alert

Really grateful (and a bit in disbelief) to receive the 2026 CES Richerson Award. Special shout out to my supervisors @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and Rita McNamara for all their support and guidance 🤍

A new episode of Transmissions is out! We feature Dr. Aiyana Willard, Reader in Psychology at Brunel University London. We talk about the adaptiveness of religion, including alternative beliefs such as witchcraft, tarot reading and other local healing practices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2m5...

Conference update emails for #HBES2026 and #CESRabat will be sent soon. In the meantime, updated programs are live on both conference websites: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026 airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 Check them out! @ces2026.bsky.social @hbes2026.bsky.social

The Cultural Evolution Society is delighted to announce that Feryl Badiani (She/Her), LEVYNA, Masaryk University, is the recipient of the 2026 CES Richerson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research. Please join us in congratulating Feryl on this well-deserved recognition!

Job Alert 🚨 - please share! My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings! Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The largest and most diverse collection of Indigenous American genomes 👉🏻 “The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” @macscastro.bsky.social @hunemeier.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @jrockdrigo.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New theme issue of #PhilTransB: The evolution of collective intelligence. Read #OA: buff.ly/f0gWUxH

Postdoctoral Fellow in Agent-based Human–Earth System Modelling at the Anthropocene Laboratory at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: June 15. @brunelcce.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com

The Cultural Evolution Society is delighted to announce that Mason Youngblood (he/they) @masonyoungblood.bsky.social, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, is the recipient of the 2026 CES New Investigator Award. Congratulations Mason on this well-deserved award!!

The preliminary programme for @ces2026.bsky.social is now out. What a fabulous line up! airess.fgses-um6p.ma/CES2026?__cf...

A reminder you have until April 10 to get your applications in. Don't hesitate, it's a great award and prize!

Yes non-human animals have culture too! This Phil Trans B special issue includes contributions from many CES members, and discusses its taxonomic breadth and implications for conservation.

Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

The deadline applications to the CES New Investigator Award has been extended until April 2 - don't miss out getting your application in!

Interested in the weirdness that is humanity? Ever suspect human evolution itself may be changing? Join my colloquium at the KLI in Austria to learn about: The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... (3pm CET, 9am US Eastern, on zoom and live)

🚨 ACE Seminar We’re excited to host Dr. VPS Ritwika in our upcoming ACE Seminar! 🗓 Tuesday, Mar 17, 2026 🕖 7:00 PM JST (UTC+9) 💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 To receive the Zoom link, please send a blank email to [email protected]

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

We're pleased to announce the call for the 2026 Richerson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research, for a recent PhD dissertation that significantly contributes to the field of CE. Recipients receive a $300 award, a 3-yr CES membership and CES conference registration. forms.gle/p4MqcskCs2Yz...

Applications for the 2026 New Investigator Award are open! This award recognises outstanding ECR scholars who have contributed to the field of cultural evolution. The recipient is given the opportunity to give a plenary at a CES conference. Apply here until March 25: forms.gle/GycUhdFj7q6U...

CE Postdoc alert 🚨

Applications open until the end of day - still time to get your travel grant applications in for CES2026!

We are excited to share the third episode of our student-led outreach series! In this instalment, student representatives @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & Ishaan interview Dr. Tim Waring, Assoc. Prof. at U. Maine and head of the Applied Cultural Evolutionary Laboratory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3U...

🚨 Job Alert: Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology / Primatology at University of Zurich, focused on understanding evolutionary and cultural evolutionary foundations of gender-based inequality and violence, with research in non-human primates. jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Apply at this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...