Pablo J. Varas Enríquez

🚨 NEW AWARD DEADLINE 🚨

EHBEA is giving, for the first time, an award for those members who excel in reaching outside of academia with their research and evolutionary human sciences

Don’t miss out the opportunity!

Deadline? December 19, 2025

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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.

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

a woman wearing sunglasses and a fur coat is holding a magazine and says boss lady . ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses and a fur coat is holding a magazine and says boss lady .

I am incredibly proud of my PhD student @amandinevisine.bsky.social who won the Academic Achievement Prize for achieving the highest overall mark in her masters program 🤯 😱🤯 😱🤯 😱🤯 😱🤯 😱 Watch out world, here she comes!!!

Cultural transmission and market participation in a Congo Basin village Abstract. Guided by cultural evolutionary theory, this study investigates people’s economic activities in a village in the Republic of the Congo as shiftin

Cultural transmission and market participation in a Congo Basin village url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

🚨 DEADLINE ALERT 🚨

If you know someone who has contributed enormously to strengthening our community beyond our research please do not hesitate to nominate them!

Deadline? December 19th, 2025

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🚨 DO NOT MISS THE DATE 🚨

@ehbea2026.bsky.social is receiving abstracts for our next conference in 2026!

DEADLINE? December 15

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🚨 AWARD DEADLINE 🚨

If you are, or know someone, doing really cool research as an early-career researcher…EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations on their New Investigator Award.

Deadline? December 19th, 2025

More information below 👇

EHBEA awarded a workshop grant this year to researchers aiming to strengthen evolutionary approaches to the study of behaviour in Chile & elsewhere in Latin America, as we're keen to use these awards for outreach beyond our usual community. Congrats to the organisers, & hope the workshop goes well 😊

🚨 DEADLINE 🚨

EHBEA is searching for people who wants to help in the development of the evolutionary human sciences 👀

Do you feel like it? Then apply for PRESIDENT and/or SECRETARY for 2026-2029!

Deadline? December 16/12/2025

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@catferna.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social

Interesado en salud, comportamiento y evolución humana?

Este 10 de diciembre se realizará la Jornada de Investigación “Evolución Biocultural: Aplicaciones y desafíos en salud y comportamiento humano”

El evento es gratis pero con cupos limitados, inscríbase aquí 👇

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Working on some cool project about human evolution? Do not hesitate to submit an abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social 🙌

Deadline? December 15th

More info? Below 👇

@catferna.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social

No se pierda este 10 de diciembre de 2025 el workshop en Evolución Biocultural!

Estaremos hablando de salud, comportamiento y evolución! 🤓

Link de inscripción aquí 👇

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🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🚨

#EHBEA2026 will be held in Leiden!

Do not forget to submit your abstract before December 15th in order to attend and share your research!

More in the official account:
@ehbea2026.bsky.social

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Come and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution

"Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics"

www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr...

More details here:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨

Happy to share a comment, together with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, on the need of formal models and a developmental perspective to really understand the relationship between environmental uncertainty and the reproductive behaviour of humans 🤓😉

doi.org/10.1017/S014...

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.

PhD in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience : College of Natural Sciences : UMass Amherst Engage in research centered on fundamental theoretical questions about cognitive function using multiple experimental methods and data analysis.

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...

We're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠

Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology:
"Is disgust a unitary emotion?"

📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!

EHBEA-Public-Communication-Award-nomination-form 2026.docx 2026 EHBEA Excellence in Public Communication award Nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DEC...

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences

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Deadline: December 19, 2025

Check the form below 👇

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2026 service noimination form.doc 2026 EHBEA Services to the Community award Nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 20...

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

EHEBA is calling for the Service to the Community Award 🙌

Do not hesitate to nominate someone that you know has contributed in the strengthening of our community beyond their research!

Deadline: December 19th, 2025

Here is the form👇

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EHBEA-2026-New-Investigator-Award-nomination-form.docx 2026 NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Self-nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com. Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 2026 ...

🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award.

If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply!

DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025

Here is the form👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EHBEACommitteeNominationForm_Pres_Sec.doc EHBEA Committee 2026-2029: Nomination Form The EHBEA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for the following open committee positions for 2026-2029. You are invited to nominate one or more c...

EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀

If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president!

If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary!

DEADLINE: 16/12/2026

HERE IS THE FORM 👇

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

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...

Charting the evolution of European literature Oleg Sobchuk has received an ERC Starting Grant to study 200 years of European literary evolution

Great news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥

www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Our article "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience" (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marc Feldman) is now published online.

We describe five factors that contribute to the spread of racism and suggest strategies for countering them.

doi.org/10.1017/ehs....