Less than a week to go until #IACESR2026! 🎉 If you’re joining us in Brno, here are a few ideas to help you make the most of your visit. Join a run with our very own Honza, who can tailor a route to your pace while showing you some of Brno’s best spots. Don’t forget to pack your swimsuit! 🩱☀️

New paper out! 🎉 “Godlessness in the Land of Gods: Unravelling Atheism in a Hindu Context” We interviewed 75 Hindus across caste groups and two linguistic communities in India and found that atheism is far from uniform. 🔗: secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.... @aiyanakoka.bsky.social

🏆 John J. McGraw Award – IACESR 2026 We are delighted to announce this year’s awardees: 🎓Carmen María Callizo Romero — Religiosity, Not Size, Predicts Abstract Cognition in Sacred Spaces 🎓 Radim Chvaja — Is God Perceived as More Moralizing During War? Evidence from Ukraine #IACESR2026

I don’t know if you know this, but @ferylbadiani.bsky.social is awesome. Well deserve award!

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 🤍

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!

IACESR 2026 – 10th Biennial Meeting We’re excited to announce our keynote speakers: Will Gervais • Rebekah Richert • Quentin Atkinson • Larisa Heiphetz Solomon 📍 Brno, Czech Republic 📅 1–3 July 2026 | Masaryk University Registration open soon. Stay tuned. #IACESR2026 #CognitiveScienceOfReligion

I was interviewed by Feryl Badiani for the Cultural Evolution Society's Transmissions podcast. It was a fun conversation, but I biffed the introduction, so you can skip that part. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3U...

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...

After a short hiatus, we are delighted that our student outreach initiative is back with a new episode from their interview series! Featuring former president Dr. Sarah Mathew, in it we explore how human warfare evolved, alongside her fascinating fieldwork in Kenya. youtu.be/eUqEcxf5uBQ?...

The CES teaching materials library will be open once it is completed. And we are accepting applications for a teaching competition ($2000) for those who adopt these award-winning CE materials in their courses. Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We are also keen for volunteers to help to review applications. If you interested please contact @ferylbadiani.bsky.social, feryl.badiani_at_vuw.ac.nz

Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan

📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content. Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants

🎉 Exciting news from the Cultural Evolution Society 🎉 We're launching the ACE Curricular Awards this spring to boost cultural evolution education! There are two award categories (more below) culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

Interested in Cultural Evolution? You should check out @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's new 'Transmissions' by @ferylbadiani.bsky.social. First episode has the inimitable @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social talking about why CE matters, and helps us understand human behavior & culture

Great #culturalevolution chat from @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social and @ferylbadiani.bsky.social as part of @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social ‘s new podcast series

We are please to release Transmissions Ep 1, featuring Dr Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social in conversation with Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social Cristina and Feryl chat about Cristina's work in Peru and discuss CE in human and non-human societies: youtu.be/2otT0PkhPkw?...

🎙 Exciting news! Transmissions Episode 1 features Dr. Cristina Moya. In this episode, we explore her fieldwork in Peru, and discuss how pilgrimage sites emerge and sustain themselves over time. It will be out on YouTube this week—Stay tuned for the link!

🚀 On March 1 CES is launching TRANSMISSIONS. Hosted by our student reps, this talk series discusses topics that range from religion to animal culture with leading experts in cultural evolution. Stay tuned for key dates, speaker announcements, and more. We hope you'll join us for the ride!

My book asks why our species has gods, and how atheism naturally emerges in a (mostly) religious species. Side quests on culture, evolution, morality & scientific integrity. Plus f-bombs & snarky footnotes! A great gift for friends, frenemies, and nemeses alike! 📚💙📚 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

Great talk indeed! (cc @ferylbadiani.bsky.social ). Curious to see how the problems Feryl raised about the very likely non-randomness of online survey (with people probably from same class/cast/social surrounding,...) may have impacted the results and how to overcome that!

Now joining us online we have Feryl Badiani on the role of divine role models in supporting community behavioural codes in India #CES2024Durham @CulturalEvolSoc

Super interesting flash talk, summarising how work on the origins and function of big God religious belief is focused on 'Christian'* belief and norms, and is not well suited to explaining Hinduism. *I'd argue it's broader than that but it's definitely a key source of bias.