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📣 Join us Wednesday 14 Jan at 1pm GMT 💻🌍 Early career researcher interested in culture, behaviour, and learning? Get involved, learn about ESLR, and meet others in the field. We'll cover 2026 activities including skill-sharing sessions. 🛠️💡 Join: meet.google.com/sun-ddcz-gky

Save the date! 🗓️ On the 14th of Jan 2026, we will hold our first online meeting after a prolonged hiatus 💻🌍. This will be a friendly, informal gathering for members to meet and learn about ESLR activities for 2026 including our upcoming skill sharing sessions. 🛠️💡 More information will follow soon!

Would you like to share your research skills with the ESLR community? Starting next year, we will be hosting regular online sessions serving as a platform of mutual exchange and support among early-career researchers. Please do get in touch if you are interested in hosting a session!

If you are an early-career researcher interested in social learning, culture, or related fields, join ESLR! We are a welcoming, interdisciplinary and international community. Remember, you can sign up for free here: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

📣✨ New ESLR logo? Join our logo competition! Include ESLR, but get creative with fonts, colours, and style. Feel free to add imagery inspired by behaviour, culture, or learning. Send designs to [email protected] by December 1st. 🌍 If selected, you’ll get full credit as the logo’s creator!

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

3 days left until the deadline for these @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social grants

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

New PhD Studentship Opportunity! 💧 Come work with us and the ZSL for this exciting project! 🎓 The de Freitas Studentship, Ref: 5431 📍 Location: Penryn Campus, University of Exeter, Cornwall 🗓️ Closing date: Midnight 28 February 2025 💻 Visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #ExeterCEC #PhDsky 🌍

If you know any biol/psych students who might be interested in this PhD with me, please feel free to send them the advert. 😊 The selected candidate would be entered into competitive funding for a full studentship, and the nomination deadline is 17 Jan. So please get in touch with me asap! #ehbea

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

🎉 Great news! The #EHBEA2025 submission deadline has been EXTENDED by 2 whole weeks! 🚀 You now have until MIDNIGHT (UK time) on Monday, Dec 16th to get your abstracts in. Don’t miss your chance to shine! 🌟 Submit here: ehbea2025.com #EvolutionaryScience #AcademicConference @ehbea.bsky.social

When did insects first show up in art? The earliest example was carved into a bison bone dated to 15,000 years ago (!) found in the Cave of the Trois-Frères in France. It shows a cave cricket which probably represents Troglophilus, a genus not found in the region in the present day. 🦗🎨 #bugsky

📢 Please repost 📢 Applications for the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26 - Jun 20 2025) are now open. Brochure and more info: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul... Application form (deadline, Dec 15 2024): www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

PNAS special feature: Half a Century of Cultural Evolution www.pnas.org/topic/565