Huge thanks to everyone who joined the launch yesterday! 🙌 We’re really excited about your ideas and plans ahead for 2026. If you couldn’t make the event, you can join the society here: www.eslrsociety.com/membershipoin and join our Discord channel: discord.gg/wxMxcXYj

🎉 📣Join today at 1pm GMT to learn about ESLR and get involved!

📣 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

🎓 Got a skill to share? Pass on your wisdom by hosting a friendly session with the ESLR community online! A great chance to test-run a workshop or rehearse teaching material in a supportive setting. Writing, analysis, academic life… if it's helped you, we'd love to hear it ✨ tinyurl.com/57v7ftd3

New issue published in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org: Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures.

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!

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com Experimental evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans Date: December 5 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 9 am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Animal culture paper alert 🚨

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

❗❗ Just a quick note: We recently discovered an issue with our email system that prevented some incoming messages from reaching us. If you’ve contacted us recently, please resend your message – we’re sorry for the inconvenience!

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...

We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/ Please share widely! #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

📢🚀 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

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! 🙏

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE

I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

Another great PhD opportunity: An ERC-funded project on “Children as agents of cultural evolution,” lead by @sheinalew.bsky.social at Durham University. Come do fieldwork with Mayan groups in Belize with her, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, and I! One of three, 3-year PhD positions starting Fall 2026.

📣✨ 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

📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪

ESLR is currently undergoing a transition, and a new committee (@alexschakowski.bsky.social, @ahnisnaahsi.bsky.social, @katebonner.bsky.social, @lucahahn.bsky.social, @mariapykala.bsky.social) is working on reinstating its presence and shaping its future. Please feel free to get in touch!

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

My friend Andrea Bender is looking for a PhD researcher in Cultural and Cognitive Evolution. Sounds like a dream job — you'd get to work on the topic of mushrooms & cognition with excellent people like Andrea at the beautiful city of Bergen, Norway. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We are hiring. The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology. Duties are collection-based research, curation of collections, teaching and public engagement. Deadline: 18 May 2025. View full job posting: bit.ly/3XPIQcg

Announcing the ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop: Nature of Intelligence – Bridging Animal & Artificial Intelligence 📍 University of Sheffield, UK 📅 4–5 September 2025 📝 Abstracts due: 1 July 🔗 Register & learn more: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... #AnimalIntelligence #NeuroAI #BioRobotics @asab.org

We still have 5 more days to the deadline!! Submit a brief cover letter, cv, and one reference letter! #COSMOSTOKYO2025

Interested in learning how to apply computational models to social and collective behavior? Apply for COSMOS Tokyo 🇯🇵 by APRIL 25TH 🚀 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io As always, it's free to attend, we provide housing, & with the support of @eslr.bsky.social we will offer a number of travel stipends

Two more weeks to apply! Spread the word and reach out with any questions.

Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪! Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution. 🧠 Behavioral + computational work 🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o

And check out the lineup of world-leading guest lecturers! We are really excited and thrilled to welcome our new “COSMOnauts” in Tokyo! 🚀🌕

🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io

This is the MSc programme I wish I could’ve taken after undergrad. Top notch culture and evolution content, building highly marketable research skills, amazingly cool and smart staff. Spread the word, come join us!

⭐Schedule Update⭐ 📆 We regularly update the #EHBEA2025 draft programme as changes come in. Check back often - we update it weekly! Access here: tinyurl.com/385xh6ar Key points? 🔑 - Pre-conference: 2pm, Mon 14 Apr - Conference start: 3:30pm - End: Thu 17 Apr (w dinner!) @ehbea.bsky.social

Booking travel for #EHBEA2025?? Consider taking the train! 🚂 It’s easier and quicker than you might expect. Plus, it’s more comfortable and sustainable than flying. 🍃 🛤️ Helpful guide here: www.seat61.com/european-tra... #EvolutionaryScience #SustainableConferencing @ehbea.bsky.social

Rhythms and communication in the brain doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

🔬🔊🎶 Rhythm—what is it? From the tides to drumming, from heartbeats to music, the term is used across disciplines but lacks a precise definition in behavioral biology. Our new preprint tackles this challenge head-on! 🧠🐦🎼 #RhythmResearch 📖 Read more: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵1/4

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore: 🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques) 💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making 🤝 Spontaneous social behavior ⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️

Off Monterey Bay, blue whale song calls have been generally increasing over time (2015-2021), and are heard every day in Sept to November doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Inside the sex lives of chimpanzees: like humans and other species, it’s about much more than just reproduction New piece in @ConversationUK about our new @royalsociety research study on the social role of sex in chimps and bonobos. @durhampsych.bsky.social theconversation.com/inside-the-s...

A snippet of my recent conference on animal intelligence at the Centre Jean Piaget (in French). Full conference here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHjY...

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really interesting podcast on animal communication - with bonus hyrax! open.spotify.com/episode/3mnS...

"Findings indicate a uniform behavioural set: similar lithic technology, increased reliance on large-game hunting & socially elaborated behaviours (intentional burial, ochre use in burial contexts). We suggest this is due to intensified interpopulation interactions between Homo groups 130–80 ka."🧪

The University of Tennessee invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in animal behavior, starting Aug 1, 2025. Submit application… https://fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/1992/?utm_medium=jobshare&utm_source=External+Job+Share #postdoc

Cultural Evolution PhD Alert 🚨

1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢 Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵

Our new preprint is live! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐝🧪 “Bumblebee string pulling skill spreads between colonies under open diffusion conditions”! @procenko.bsky.social @minibraincognition.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics! Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying! Please repost & share widely!