Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Why does Western Paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often use abbreviations? Our new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices using cognitive science experiments. A thread 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#HBES2026 abstract submissions are live! More exciting details to come soon. Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social

Self-promotion (and cultural evolution specific...): acerbialberto.com/IBM-cultevo/

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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!

"How does information infrastructure shape long-term cultural evolution?" for the game of Go, "the influence of AI has produced only a modest, short-lived disruption in the distribution of opening moves"

'The Desperation of Causal Inference in Ecology' "What’s the solution? If you ask me, be less gaga over any statistical method and teach everyone basic biological models, simulate data from it and then fit their statistical model to it." […]

#CESRabat 🇲🇦 ... Cultural evolution 🧪

Lee Cronk just made me aware of this Wiki that tracks places to study #evolutionary #behavioral #science. Check it out (and update as necessary). via #HBES evosocialscience.wikidot.com/places-to-st...

An #NIH reviewer offers #grant-writing tips. #getfunded www.the-scientist.com/an-nih-revie...

“Alpha status is more like a temporary job role than an innate characteristic of the leading individual” www.livescience.com/animals/are-...

Tl;dr = No. www.science.org/content/blog...

🧵 1/ New paper co-authored by Francisco Gomez Jimenez from the CCE and colleagues explores same-sex sexuality within an evolutionary framework published in Archives of Sexual Behavior 🧪

Abstract submission now open for the next Cultural Evolution Society conference in Rabat, Morocco next May @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

The majority of animals do show various forms of hierarchy - but is the concept of ‚alpha‘ relevant or even real? https://www.livescience.com/animals/are-alpha-males-real

Looking forward to be in Paris for the launch of the CultureLab!

It must be real if it's on jobs.ac.uk...! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ976/p...

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

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

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth. Please share with your students. #PsychSciSky #Anthropology www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Interesting things will happen in Tromso next week. #ritualstudies #cognitivestudies #culturalevolution #earlychristianity

Just one week away until SEVEN DECADES is born. Not too late to preorder (code PUP30 for discount): tinyurl.com/efpaxtex I hear from friends that the preorders are already arriving! @princetonupress.bsky.social

Was great to appear on evolutionary psychology: the podcast. “Real evolutionary psychology by real evolutionary psychologists”, as the tagline puts it. Was a fun conversation for sure. Dave and David know their stuff.

Re-upping this super helpful thread from @benkawam.bsky.social! In it he outlines some core analysis principles and summarises our preprint on animal social network analysis 🐒

Includes a set of reflective questions aimed at minimising plausible biases in research, which looks useful for all researchers, not just biologists onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Distributed cognition meets cultural evolution www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

A recent BSPS initiative is a critical demography strand, which thinks about how demography could be even better. This panel organised by Laura Sochas & Ben Wilson w/ Wendy Sigle, @signesvallfors.bsky.social & @honoratabogusz.bsky.social had great ideas about applying critical thinking in demography

Reflections on the #BSPS2025 conference, one of my favourites (after >20 years of conferencing). This year it was held at the beautiful campus on Swansea Bay (sadly didn’t get a pic of the delicious Welsh cakes that came out at afternoon tea!) 🧵

The book we have all been waiting for from @mgurven.bsky.social is finally here!! Read it to get a broad perspective on human evolution and aging - stay for the fun titles 😀

How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬? We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

The recent IARR 2025 mini conference on "Gender, sexuality and relationships" co-led by CCE's Stan Gaines was a great success 🏳️‍🌈😌🫂 The mini-conference was named for the Gender, Sexuality and Relationships (GSR) theme group within Brunel University of London’s Centre for Culture and Evolution (CCE)

Personally, I don't see what the problem is... It's very clear that the Long is connected to the Dong via the carbon sonk node provision using a post-optization otimation bhfjhfihfijfessvnkmnj thingy 🤷

It's that time of year again, when I bully friends I admire into trying for a W-G symposia grant

Coincidentally, was talking about eugenics again yesterday at the #BSPS2025 conference. Dermot Grenham and Alice Reid organised a very interesting session on similarities in public concern about low fertility in the 1920s and 2020s

This blog is continually relevant and an important read 📕 👀

Here is the link to a short blog that @kztwyman.bsky.social and I wrote about our article (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marc Feldman) entitled "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience": www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

This is a great thing to do - I did it, loved it and it underpinned a Phil Trans B special issue 💜 If you want any advice DM me Also my (with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and @ehemmott.bsky.social successful application is on the EHBEA website to help guide you…. Just saying there’s still time 🕰️

Or this recent article explicitly on the topic of countering racist pseudoscience.... bsky.app/profile/kevi...

This is my point (and Duncan’s) that this special issue is co-edited by @rebeccasear.bsky.social @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and me and an @ehbea.bsky.social initiative to support rigour in science We’re all evolutionary *to our core* and care deeply about using this knowledge to challenge hate

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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? @kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

(here's the posting) bsky.app/profile/mehr...

At Brunel I was teaching stats to first-year psychology students in the same building (!) where Alex from Clockwork Orange was "rehabilitated". The joke was writing itself, and I had the feeling nobody was getting it...

Centre for Ecology & Evolution autumn symposium & mixer www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

taking a social/relational perspective on resilience in recovery - super proud of this work and so grateful to our participants 🫶