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...

🧠👀 Dr Rachel Bennetts, our expert in face processing at Brunel psychology, shared her thoughts in @theguardian.com on a fascinating new study exploring what makes some people exceptional at recognising faces 😶‍🌫️ 🔗 👇

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!

Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”

👉 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!

Postdoc Opportunity The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025 📍 Oslo, Norway 🔗 www.prio.org/about/career... #Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity in Psychology! The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Júlia Palik). 📍 Location: Oslo, Norway 🗓️ Deadline: November 24, 2025 🔗 Apply here: www.prio.org/about/career...

Prepping a lecture on paternal care and revisiting this brilliant 2024 article by Brooke Scelza. Such a good demonstration of the value of an anthropological lens when thinking about the evolution of human family life. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Reminder for this week's #WplusEBSWednesday! Please submit any resources or opportunities (in the comments below or in the google form) you think we should highlight for our community! Stay tuned for our post tomorrow :)

An especially good episode against even a strong background

📢 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...

YES! Anthropology.

The concept of "fitness" is central to evolutionary biology but it's not entirely worked out. There are multiple definitions, doubts about predictive power, problems with internal consistency. Here's a paper from last year attempting to solve some of these problems. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

This #WplusEBSWednesday, we're highlighting that #EHBEA2026 is soliciting abstract submissions until December 15th!

Positions are also open on the EHBEA Committee! Submit nominations for EHBEA president and secretary by December 16th! #WplusEBSWednesday

👏👏👏 #WplusEBSWednesday

New research on wild chimpanzees shows juvenile innovation is not play but a cultural engine. Young chimps invent tools, refine adult techniques, and introduce novelty. What if childhood experimentation drove early human cultural evolution too? #Primatology #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanOrigins

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws? Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s44...

An interesting fact about the 2019 version of Richard Lynn's "national IQ" database is that, for the first time, "Muslim" is considered a race, and an average IQ calculated for Muslims (76.89)

Karen's work on how children's contributions to the family are essential in underwriting high fertility is really excellent, and described nicely in this podcast. Also something that doesn't get enough attention in current debates about low fertility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Funding for students!! New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞 www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

Richard Lynn was criticised for using a sample of children with intellectual impairment to calculate the "national IQ" of Equatorial Guinea in 2002. In 2019, he calculated the IQs of Native Americans from children referred for psychoeducational evaluations, including those with learning difficulties

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

For this #WplusEBSWednesday, we wanted to highlight some job opportunities closing November 1st & 2nd! First, Penn State University is hiring for a position as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology! (1/3) psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Update: The deadline for #HBES2026 has been extended to January 16! airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026

Kinship terminology rarely perfectly reflects biological kinship. The root meaning of the Indo-European word "mother" isn't even "biological mother". The ancestral Indo-European system, the patrilineal Omaha system, calls your mother's sister and all women on mother's side "mother" (B in diagram).

🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Leiden looking good today ;-) 📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026 ⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April 📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance) For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com

New paper out now in Ecology & Evolution: "Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms: A general framework for labile traits" Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Have a resource, recommendation, or opportunity you think would benefit our community? Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2) 🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z... #WplusEBS

Happy Monday! This week, we’re excited to kick off our new series: W+EBS Wednesdays! Every Wednesday, we’ll share helpful resources, recent job postings, and recommendations (podcasts, research papers, books, and more). Be on the lookout for a new post this Wednesday!(1/2) #WplusEBSWednesdays

👋 Meet Kat, our Student Event Liaison! @ksheetz.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate at Oakland University working with Dr. Lisa Welling, studying social cognition in the context of online dating. At W+EBS, she organizes and plans social events at HBES and other conferences. (1/2) #WplusEBS

👋 And finishing our intros, I'm @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social, the Student Social Media Officer (& a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara)! At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2) #WplusEBS

Reminder to anyone considering submitting for #HBES2026 and/or #CES2026 that the abstract submission deadline is November 16th!

👋 Meet Sarah, our Secretary! @anthrosarah.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. As secretary, she helps connect with the evolutionary social sciences community, planning events and collaborating with the team to shape the future of W+EBS. (1/2) #WplusEBS

⭐️ Negotiating Masculinity in a Changing World ⭐️ Grad student - and soon to be doctor - Joseph Kilgallen will be giving a public talk on his thesis on Wed Oct 29th 9am (California time). Join us in person or on zoom (dm me and I’ll send you a link!). All welcome!

The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read

Monty Python understood p-hacking

Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target. A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking. Shocking!

Summary of recent research on the effects of family structures: https://theconversation.com/rethinking-polygamy-new-research-upends-conventional-thinking-about-the-advantages-of-monogamous-marriage-267201 "Building healthier societies necessitates paying attention to the evidence and remaining […]

New paper out today with Zhian Chen. We argue that modern intensive parenting is not only exhausting for parents, but in some cases disrupts healthy child development. What is 'overparenting'? And can evolutionary theory help us understand how we got here? academic.oup.com/emph/advance...

Registration and housing is OPEN!! But the submission portal closes soon (IN TWO DAYS)! Submit your abstracts if you haven’t yet!!! @ahrako.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2026

🚨 Cultural Evolution PhD Alert!

Lovely new data on how Himba women learn to breastfeed successfully.

Great piece by @davidwlawson.bsky.social highlighting three new papers on polygamy. It's complicated but the effects aren't what you think: polygamy usually doesn't create "excess" men, usually doesn't disadvantage child health, and can even be an economic hedge! theconversation.com/rethinking-p...

👋 Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer! @haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers. As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2) #WplusEBS

👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair! @annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept. As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2) #WplusEBS

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...