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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 7h

New study with @rachkendal.bsky.social and @profemmaflynn.bsky.social - UK children’s sociometric position (friends named, whether they were named as a friend or reciprocal friendships) was not associated with innovation or imitation across multiple tasks www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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Frontiers | It’s not who you know: sociometric position did not shape children’s innovation or imitation propensities

IntroductionThe capacity for cumulative culture depends on the interplay between social learning and innovation, yet the social-ecological factors that shape...

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Check out our new pre print on play and innovation, led by the awesome Elena Miu 👇

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Please do check out this new article aiming to help students and ECRs with peer reviewing - why we do it, what it involves and what makes a good peer review, the types of challenges they and editors face and offering potential solutions 👇

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Sure but it’s the special issue image, nothing to do with the manuscript specifically (nor did we have any input)

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Things I thought I’d never say - here’s a new manuscript of cockroach and rat collective intelligence. We argue group-level intelligence can emerge from very different mechanisms—from simple local rules to socially mediated cooperation and learning: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

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Clever vermin? Collective intelligence in rats and roaches

Abstract. Collective intelligence (CI) is the capacity of groups to outperform individuals in tasks such as decision-making, coordination and problem-solvi

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

With Gill Vale, Cristine Legare, Marie Monfils, Darby Proctor and Sarah Brosnan

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Clever vermin? Collective intelligence in rats and roaches

Abstract. Collective intelligence (CI) is the capacity of groups to outperform individuals in tasks such as decision-making, coordination and problem-solvi

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11/12/2025

This new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural #evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges. It highlights research funded by the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's Transformation Fund, which focused on #DEI: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

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Rachel Kendal @rachkendal.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Picture of front cover of Theme Issue entitled "Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures." The image on the front cover is of a Yao honey hunter in Mozambique holding retrieved honeycomb.

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE. Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Deadline: Jan 23 www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Creative minds, equal ground: no socioeconomic gaps in UK children's divergent and convergent thinking

Creativity is seen as a critical 21st-century skill that should be identified and harnessed early. Despite much work suggesting enriched environments …

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Creative minds, equal ground: no socioeconomic gaps in UK children's divergent and convergent thinking

Creativity is seen as a critical 21st-century skill that should be identified and harnessed early. Despite much work suggesting enriched environments …

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution hard copy

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Lovely surprise in the post today - a hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evoltuon, superbly edited by @rachkendal.bsky.social @jeremykendal.bsky.social and Jamie Tehrani, featuring a chapter by @simonreader.bsky.social and I on Innovation!

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Durham Psychology @durhampsych.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Just launched! Professional short online courses in behavioural science at Durham University. 👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3 👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Tagging @rkapitany.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @brucerawlings.bsky.social and the tireless @lhlidborg.bsky.social who actually coordinated and compiled all the stydent power reviews and read every chapter TWICE for English-as-second-language checks.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Intense but fun day as the (almost) full editing team for 'the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook' met to go through the entire book post 'user' peer review. Glad to say we've got some amazing reviewers in @durhampsych.bsky.social - I'll never write student-facing material without their input again! #LTHE

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob Deadline: 20th July ⏳ Start: From September 🗓️ Please share 🔁

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Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6

The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...

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Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳 Are you curious about 🧒 developmental, 🌍 cross-cultural 🦧 species comparative research on cooperative sustainability? All info here or dm me with questions! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job... Please share! 🙏

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Career Opportunities: PhD position Cooperative Sustainability (14208)

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇 www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...

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Championing Equity in Developmental Science: A Conversation with Bruce Rawlings

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Championing Equity in Developmental Science: A Conversation with Bruce Rawlings

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 13/06/2025

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Treemap showing measurement fragmentation across subfields in psychology. Hill-Shannon Diversity 𝐷=1626.05

How often measures in the APA PsycTESTS database are (re)used according to the APA PsycInfo database: rarely, the majority are never reused.

Our fragmentation index (Hill-Shannon diversity) over time across subdisciplines shows fragmentation rising.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Scholarship for Durham University Students £15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26. Durham people please spread the word! Application form 👇

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If you have a hunter-gatherer related paper sitting in your file-drawer with excellent methods but a 'null' finding, please consider the Journal of Hunter-Gatherer Research. Submission instructions are on our website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

the deadline for the special issue on the development of innovation and creativity in children and other animals is soon - led by @karrineldner.bsky.social, Gökhan Gönül and myself. Do get in touch if you have any questions (or need a little more time!). www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Acta Psychologica | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Acta Psychologica | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Acta Psychologica at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Durham Psychology @durhampsych.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Our brilliant @proftammiwalker.bsky.social is speaking on this important topic today at the Public Policy Exchange event 'Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system'

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity

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Tomer J. Czaczkes @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught! Videos will worth watching www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Tool use aids prey-fishing in a specialist predator of stingless bees | PNAS

Tool use is widely reported across a broad range of the animal kingdom, yet comprehensive empirical tests of its function and evolutionary drivers ...

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 17/05/2025

really cool paper by @vkempe.bsky.social tracking child directed (well, broadcasted) speech over several decades to assess cultural variability of cds acoustic features: eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50... I suspect vowel space area might also have changed?

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

And in an exciting new development, @emilymljeffries.bsky.social of @durhamanthropology.bsky.social wins the other best student talk prize! Amazing day for @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and @durhamdcerc.bsky.social PhD students. #ehbea #ehbea2025

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Wonderful resource crafted by a global team of experts, led brilliantly by @sheinalew.bsky.social and Stephen Asatsa - happy to have contributed and inspired by the amazing scientists throughout the book that do genuinely awesome work. Completely recommend 👇

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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Join the MacaqueNet family! We’re looking for a postdoc to study the link between social structure and lifespan across species, using MacaqueNet data and a new life-history database. Feel free to reach out—I'm happy to chat about MacaqueNet, CRAB, or living in Exeter. shorturl.at/xyNsL

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Extended job description - PrimateLifespans Social Postdoc

Hi there! Thanks for your interest in the post. In case you need the link to the job advert, it’s https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec179gf.open?WVID=171839ediw&LANG=USA Deadlin...

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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📢 Come to our symposium TODAY at #SRCD2025! We'll be discussing challenges and best practices for cross-cultural dev psych work! 🕒 4:40 PM📍200H Talks by Sarah Pope-Caldwell, @sylpi.bsky.social, & Yitong Wang Discussant: Tanya MacGillivray Chairs: @nicolewen.bsky.social & @brucerawlings.bsky.social

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"we argue cultural ecosystems should be studied through the same mechanisms as other ecosystems—ecological modifications, phenotypic responses, legacy effects & ecological cascades. Different ecosystems may require specific methods or concepts, but not fundamentally different theoretical frameworks"

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The ecological approach to culture

The prevailing view in the literature treats cultural dynamics as fundamentally distinct from other ecological processes—governed by a second system o…

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm recruiting a Centre Manager (Impact and Administration) to help run my new Centre for Animal Sentience. This person will be so important to the Centre's mission! Please get in touch if you believe in that mission and want to help make it a reality. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Centre Manager (Impact and Administration)

Centre Manager (Impact and Administration), , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <p style="text-a...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Durham University is offering 100 x £3,000 Postgraduate Student Support Scholarships to UK students from low and middle income households. For more info, visit: www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If you are interested in my new 'Evolution Evolving' book you can watch me give a talk about it here. I cover new research in non-genetic inheritance, plasticity led evolution, niche construction, evolvability, and more. #evolution #evodevo www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sym...

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Overview of "Evolution Evolving"

YouTube video by EES Update

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

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Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky

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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🎉 It's almost time— #EHBEA2025 kicks off this Monday!! We're very excited to welcome you to Newcastle! ✨ Check your inboxes—an important email just went out with everything you need to know. 📩 Here’s a quick thread with the essentials [1/10] 🧵👇

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