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Attender of meetings at the University of Lausanne. #culturalEvolution #geneCultureCoevolution #appliedCulturalEvolution #evolutionCooperation #coordination #socialNorms #humanEvolutionaryEcology

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨 Applied Cultural Evolution Brownbag Series 🚨 Two inaugural discussions: Oct 7 What is (uniquely) applied cultural evolution? Caroline Graf, U. Zurich Dec 9 What can cultural evolution offer climate adaptation practitioners? Christine Lindell, World Vision Australia tinyurl.com/3st6zy79
A black and white image of a tattoo design featuring a human brain with wings pierced by two diagonal arrows over a flying banner that reads "Applied Cultural Evolutionists"
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charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Coltrane, born 23 September 1926.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New Paper out now in PNAS: Is cousin marriage associated with greater or lower exposure to physical intimate partner violence and coercive control? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Cousin marriage and reduced exposure to intimate partner violence and coercive control | PNAS
Cousin marriage, practiced by over 10% of the world’s population, restructures kinship networks by overlapping blood and affinal ties. Theory makes...
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charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This fall, the Dept of Ecology and Evolution @ the Univ of Lausanne will be looking for an associate professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution. If that sounds like you, please apply. CH is an outstanding place to live and work. ⛰️🚄🔥 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Understanding the roots of gender-biased behaviours
Many gender-biased practices don’t make evolutionary sense. So why do they happen?,,,European Commission
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Economics. For Society. @ubscenter.uzh.ch · 29/04/2026
Ernst Fehr, Professor of Economics at @econ.uzh.ch and @ubscenter.uzh.ch Director, has been elected as an international member of @nasonline.org. www.nasonline.org/news/2026-na... #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Next year in Zurich 😊 🏔️🇨🇭 #ehbea2027 will be held 29 March to 2 April. Website and Bluesky account are already set up (love the logo ❤️) @ehbea2027.bsky.social www.ehbea2027.com
Andrea Migliano presenting information about next year’s EHBEA conference in ZurichAndrea introducing the organising committee, including herself, Adrian Jaeggi, Jorg Gross and Charles Efferson
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Marijn Keijzer @mrnkzr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Travel grants 📣 For the 13th Toulouse Economics & Biology Workshop (June 1–2, 2026, @IAST) we have travel fellowships for PhDs & early-career researchers presenting a poster. Apply by Feb 27! Details: www.iast.fr/conferences/...
Poster of 13th Econ and Bio workshop on 'social influence and it's macro consequences'
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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence. Thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson enumerated grievances against a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation. Among others were:
1. "He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People."
2. "He has excited domestic Insurrection among us.”
3. "For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us."
4. "He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our Legislatures."
"We the people" are hearing echos of that history. 
And then there is that pesky inconvenience called the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and persons or things to be seized.
U.S. CONST. amend. IV.
Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.
Accordingly, the Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED pursuant to the attached Judgment.
Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And
the rule of law be damned.
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Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Excited for the new Transmissions episode on ASU's Sarah Mathew on how human warfare evolved, and her fieldwork in Kenya. Watch here: youtu.be/eUqEcxf5uBQ?... New Episodes monthly! Created by @ferylbadiani.bsky.social and @ahnisnaahsi.bsky.social CC: @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
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Transmissions Episode 2 with Dr Sarah Matthew
YouTube video by Cultural Evolution Society
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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026
My new paper on time and studies of human behavior and evolution is out - Just FYI it's a theory paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Adjusting the Aperture: Decolonizing Time in Studies of Human Behavior and Evolution
Biological anthropology has long positioned foraging and often pastoralist populations as the most appropriate referent communities for the rigorous study of human behavior and evolution. With this, ...
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Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com · 19/11/2025
I’m recruiting PhD students at NYU (start Sept 2026). Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development. Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon. I’ll share more about the move & new work soon. Please share with students & retweet!
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charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Congratulations to Dr @mariapykala.bsky.social for successfully defending her PhD thesis yesterday. Two big themes. 1) Social learning as a two-step process with psychological biases shaping both network formation and social learning given a network. 2) Cumulative cultural evolution in an AI world.
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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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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 23/07/2025
Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social @lucasmolleman.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Feature-based reward learning shapes human social learning strategies - Nature Human Behaviour
This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments and simulations, it shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shapin...
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
@jeremykoster.bsky.social @avbell.bsky.social @drelenamiu.bsky.social @duhe.bsky.social @eapower.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social
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charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Today @schimmelpfennig.bsky.social successfully defended his outstanding thesis on cultural evolution and organizational science. Congratulations, Dr. Schimmelpfennig!
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 10/06/2025
This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influence and social selection on preference for cutting female relatives using data from 5163 Ethiopian Arsi Oromo adults. @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @bristolantharch.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Social clustering of preference for female genital mutilation/cutting in south-central Ethiopia - Nature Human Behaviour
Recent estimates indicate that half of Ethiopian girls aged 15–19 years have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC). This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influenc...
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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New paper with Eshetu Gurmu, Alex Alvergne @danielredhead.bsky.social Janet Howard & Mhairi Gibson! rdcu.be/eqjfT
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Social clustering of preference for female genital mutilation/cutting in south-central Ethiopia
Nature Human Behaviour - Recent estimates indicate that half of Ethiopian girls aged 15–19 years have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC). This socio-centric social...
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The new edition of 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour', co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social , is available! Get 30% off (promotion code ASPROMP8): global.oup.com/academic/pro... Ebook is available on Kindle. Thank you to Prof. Clark Barrett for the endorsement! 🧪
Image of cover of book called Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour, with a quote beside it saying, "Sense and Nonsense is the ultimate insider's guide to the history of one of our most ambitious attempts to understand ourselves" from Clark Barrett, University of California, LA.
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charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hello, Bluesky. I guess we're here now! New paper in EHS with Sonja Vogt. Among other activities, we replicate our original FGC results from Sudan (Efferson et al, 2015) with a new larger data set. tinyurl.com/knt2v9fr
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The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics - Volume 7
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