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New cultural evolution modelling paper with @bdecourson.bsky.social on @pnas.org! "Weak individual preferences stabilize culture" A quick 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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🚀 We're so excited that #EHBEA2025 is coming up fast! What are YOU presenting this year?!? Share your talk/poster topic -- let's start the hype & hear about cool science! 😎🔥 #EvolutionaryScience #NewIdeas @ehbea.bsky.social P.S. Don’t forget—early bird registration ends soon (March 1st)! 🐦⌚📅

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📣 The next CCE seminar is up TODAY with @viveknityananda.bsky.social 📅 12:45 - 14:15 ESGW 111 🤩 Joining info 👇 it's open to all online or in-person 🔓🌐👥

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CCE member Antonin Atger recently presented his research on 🦎🦎 How do conspiracy beliefs and politics interact? 🦎🦎 at the Brunel Uni CHMLS postgrad conference 🤩

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Human behavioral ecology: Opportunities for theoretically driven research on human behavioral variation in China https://share.osf.io/preprint/E0139-128-606 Human behavioral ecology is an evolutionary framework that attempts to understand how adaptive human behavior maps on to variation #sociology

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Looking for a first intro to theoretical models in cultural evolution? For yourself or your students? 🔍 In our chapter for an upcoming @ehbea.bsky.social textbook, we outline what models are for, what questions they address, and how they can be coded in R! Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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EHBEA members: don’t miss the chance to have your voice heard when deciding our new Vice President 👇 deadline 31 January

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EHBEA Secretary hat on 👒⌨️ All student members SHOULD apply for this support - we do our best to cover as much as possible especially if it's your first conference or talk 💞 ✉️🛂 I will also write glowing supporting letters for visas with or without abstract acceptance 📨 [email protected]

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👩‍🎓 Student members may apply for a maximum of €500 for conferences in their home country, €800 if traveling within Europe and €1000 if traveling from low- and middle-income countries 🌍 visa support also available :)

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Traditional Methods of Black Magic traditionsofconflict.substack.com/p/traditiona...

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The (Mis)conceptions exhibition with a session led by CCEs amazing @loraadair.bsky.social, Julieta Barker and Ayesha Ali has been a massive success 🥳❤️💅

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Need To Know Basis is launched ! The team is now working on data collection in the Farafenni region of The Gambia. Thank you to the team for all their work in the field and for their sensitivity asking men and women about information sharing and FGC!

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1/ 🧵 ✨ BRAND sparkling new CCE paper on how beliefs in witchcraft enforce social norms 🧙‍♀️✨ What role does witchcraft play in regulating social behavior? New research from @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and Co examines how beliefs in witchcraft and envy shape norms around social conduct in Mauritius👇

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It’s now 2025 and scientific racism still thrives in the evolutionary behavioural science literature. This journal is considered a respectable disciplinary journal yet neither reviewers nor editor apparently noticed the citation to one of the most well-known racist ideologues in psychology

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The Santa Fe Institute has a call for applications for resident #research #faculty: (initially 5 years) https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/resident-faculty-2025 deadline Friday, March 28, 2025

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Funding call – British Academy International Fellowships Programme 2025 email.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/cr/AQimihMQ-...

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1/ 🧵 New preprint out today 🤩 With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺 #Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych

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@loraadair.bsky.social nickname soon to be 'finger in all the (vegan) pies Adair" 🤩

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Reannouncing this, having got our New Investigator Petr's affilliation wrong in the first post! 😣 @ehbea2025.bsky.social #EHBEA2025

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Dear EHBEA members, please remember to cast your vote to decide our next Vice President - check your emails for the link, deadline 5pm GMT Jan 31st!

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A good read! Beyond Evolution: Alfred Russel Wallace’s critique of the 19th century world theconversation.com/beyond-evolu...

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CCEs @loraadair.bsky.social has been selected for the highly competitive @royalsociety.org Pairing scheme It's a mentoring scheme which brings together the best (💅) research scientists with parliamentarians and civil servants 🤩

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After LONG deliberation, reflecting the number and extremely high quality of the applications we received, we decided that EHBEA's 2026 New Investigator Award should go to Petr Tureček 🥂🥳 Congratulations to Petr!

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The appearance of symbolic material culture is often linked to the evolution of complex, 'modern' human minds. In an article soon to be formally published in BBS, I reconsider this link, and argue that modern humans needn't leave any such evidence. A thread. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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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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CCE talks are back! Anyone is welcome to join our seminar series, kicking of 2025 with a talk from @michael.muthukrishna.com 🤩

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Imagine living a life so devoid of meaning that saying slurs at your money job feels like “a new dawn” worth celebrating

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Yes, indeed! We did some cross-cultural work on male androphilia updating outdated codes and evidence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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"A family is a network of individuals tied to each other by blood, marriage, adoption or fostering and comes in many forms and sizes". yes. great overview!!! another terrific piece from @abbeyepage.bsky.social and @anushehassan osf.io/preprints/so...

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