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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s here! Most anticipated new book release of the year. @statmodeling.bsky.social @avehtari.bsky.social @rmcelreath.bsky.social @paulbuerkner.com

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Our collection on Decision-making in structured groups in npj Complexity is open and accepting manuscripts through May! It's a broad call, covering anything from animal societies to human social systems of all sorts. Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...

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Decision-making in Structured Groups: from animal societies to human governance

This collection hopes stimulate new dialogues and translational efforts, to fully capture the rich diversity of ways collectives solve complex problems in ...

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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

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Research Fellow - AR3233

Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...

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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/

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Tim Fawcett @timwfawcett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026: 1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD 2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD #AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social

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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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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Looking forward to feedback on this preprint emerging from our Representing Memory project at Durham IAS @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

@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/...

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Fees and Funding - Durham University

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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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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Brilliant talk by @isilova.bsky.social delivering postcards to challenge Western conceptions of learning and mind at the 2025 NSF/Jacobs Foundation Workshop on Deconstructing the Universal Mind, run by Mike Frank and Christine Legare

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

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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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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Bluebell season behind Durham uni campus

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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

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Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified

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

"Labeling the people or practices as 'Cargo Cult' is unlikely to be productive." New article by @statmodeling.bsky.social and Megan Higgs doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Over the past fifty years, the term “cargo cult” has been used to describe the actions of scientists who appear to follow forms of scientific inquiry but without the understanding and self-criticism that are essential to real scientific progress. The term has served a useful role by providing a short and catchy label to something that is otherwise difficult to explain. However, the term is also fraught with historical and cultural baggage and, in our opinion, encourages crossing of a subtle line between criticizing discipline methodological norms and criticizing the individuals currently carrying out those norms as part of a complex and context dependent social process. We find that carefully interrogating the term itself holds some important lessons for improvement in the science reform movement.

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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The MammalWeb project still isn't on Bluesky, so here's a link to the April newsletter for all of you who are! Lots of exciting updates on projects, competitions, site developments - and, excitingly, another award! What's not to like? What indeed ... tinyurl.com/MWApr25

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MammalWeb Update April 2025

The latest news and images from the MammalWeb project

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality. Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

Rep2SI: Reputation & the Reproduction of Social Inequality. A Leverhulme-funded project based at the LSE, combining ethnography, economic games, and modelling. We're looking for a modeller to join our core team as a two-year postdoctoral research officer.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 05/11/2024

saw this piece being shared around on the bird site and sharing it here cuz it's so good genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Theory: Whtat to read

The role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu...

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Final call - six fully funded PhDs to work in John Sutton’s interdisciplinary Leverhulme centre, University of Stirling placememory.net

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

Visit the post for more.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Just made a list of all the recent books highlighting women's philosophizing--there are so many! Going to mark the last week of #womenshistorymonth by posting a few a day. Starting with Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachel Wieseman's "Metaphysical Animals"! Please add others! #philsky

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day, including these two wonderful people, Chandika Shrestha and @rachkendal.bsky.social being celebrated in Pokhara, Nepal.

Chandika Shrestha and Rachel Kendal, Pokhara, Nepal.

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A brilliant visual guide for discovering the geometry and topology of two- and three-dimensional spaces by Jeffrey Weeks. A great workout for your visual imagination!

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

What a refreshing set of perspectives, including a chapter by ex-Durham Anthro student, Alex Hill.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Spines spotted. Rare commodity in science these days.

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DRMC @durhamrmcentre.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Durham Research Methods Café's next session will be running on Wednesday 19th February 2025 in person, 1100-1230. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information here: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins... #interdisciplinary

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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We're over the moon to announce this year's EHBEA Services to the Community Award goes to @drboothroyd.bsky.social!!! Many thanks also go to her nominators @sheinalew.bsky.social and @brucerawlings.bsky.social

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Save the dates June 2-6 for the second annual meeting of @smtpb.bsky.social on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology, hosted in Chicago by @nitmb.bsky.social. More details coming later. www.nitmb.org/modeling-and...

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Modeling and Theory in Population Biology | NITMB

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DRMC @durhamrmcentre.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New for 2025! An MA in Interdisciplinary Research Methods supported by DRMC! Explore a wide range of training methods to tackle contemporary social phenomena. See more information here and apply for the course - dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

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MA in Interdisciplinary Research Methods - Durham University

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Interested in researching the evolution of the capacity for mental time travel? Supervised by Gema Martin-Ordas (Psychology, Stirling), Kristie Miller (Philosophy, Sydney) and me (Anthropology, Durham). Competition-funded PhD project www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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The Evolution of Temporal Representations in Humans and Non-Human Animals at Durham University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The Evolution of Temporal Representations in Humans and Non-Human Animals at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Are you a theoretician in ecology/evolution/systematics & related fields? Do you hope to become one? Wondering where there is a good community to share tips, learn new tricks, & hear about modelling discoveries? Check out the Society for Modeling & Theory in Population Biology (SMTPB)! smtpb.org

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Lots of cultural evolution content to read in latest PNAS! www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/121...

PNAS cultural evolution special feature contents

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Wow, this looks wonderful! Thank you Tuomas!

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 16/11/2024

For the new listeners, here’s a free tutorial I made for learning how to make simulation models of cultural evolution in R, on github: github.com/amesoudi/cul... and as a bookdown version with outputs: bookdown.org/amesoudi/ABM...

Content page of Agent Based Modelling tutorial

Graph showing how vertical and horizontal cultural transmission differ in the speed with which they cause traits to spread

Fluctuating empire sizes simulating historical dynamics

Graph showing how group size and frequency of Intergroup conflict support different levels of cooperation

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

New paper out, led by Alex Easton, where we argue that context only really makes sense at the point of retrieval, so it can't be encoded: Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition

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Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded

Context has long been regarded as an important element of long-term memory, and episodic memory in particular. The ability to remember not only the ob…

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

1/3📢We’re excited to announce our next plenary speaker at #EHBEA2025, Dr. Heidi Colleran! 🌍 As leader of the ‘BirthRites’ Group at Max Planck Institute, @heidicolleran.bsky.social’s research delves into how culture and reproduction interact! 🤱👨‍🍼⬇️ @ehbea.bsky.social

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

🚨 Attention researchers! 🚨Abstract submission for #EHBEA2025 is NOW OPEN! Don’t miss your chance to present your work on evolution, behaviour, culture & related topics! Deadline: 2 Dec 📅 Submit today: www.ehbea2025.com Please share widely! @ehbea.bsky.social #EvolutionaryScience #Conference

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Home | EHBEA2025

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪

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The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

“Embracing a One Health perspective, we examine both human-to-human and zoonotic transmission pathways in their environmental contexts to assess how market integration alters infectious disease exposure and susceptibility in beneficial, detrimental, and mixed ways” academic.oup.com/emph/advance...

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How Market Integration Impacts Human Disease Ecology

Abstract. Market integration (MI), or the shift from subsistence to market-based livelihoods, profoundly influences health, yet its impacts on infectious d

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

📢Announcing #EHBEA2025 ’s 1st plenary: The unparalleled Prof Christine Anna Caldwell! 📢 Prof Caldwell researches the distinctiveness of human culture and cognition, including cumulative cultural evolution. (1/2) ⬇️ @ehbea.bsky.social

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