EHBEA

@ehemmott.bsky.social

For more information about applying to the MSc, please contact via email:

anthro-masters@ucl.ac.uk

For more information about the scholarship contact:

Julia Scott Memorial Bursary (Home/UK Fee): www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
UCL Master's Bursary (Home/UK Fee): www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
UCL Global Master's Scholarship (International Fee): www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

🚨MASTER AND SCHOLARSHIP ANOUNCEMENT🚨

The MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour at University College London is a broad-based programme run by experts in the field. This year they are excited to share 2 bursaries for Home/UK students, and 1 for International students - based on financial need.

🚨Plenary Announcement for #EHBEA2026🎤✨
We’re very excited to welcome Prof Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews🏛️)
With her fieldwork in Uganda and Guinea on gestural and multimodal communication in apes🐒, her research is reshaping how we understand the evolution of language!🗣️
👉 www.wildminds.ac.uk

You can check her research and work in:

walaseknicole.wixsite.com/site

Congratulations! 🎉

Her contribution on strong theoretical work together with her potential impact for the field show a robust and generative framework to develop the evolutionary human sciences, especially regarding the evolution sensitive periods that have a large impact on human development.

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

EHBEA wants to congratulate @nicolewalasek.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award of New Investigator👏

Don’t miss out a brand new episode of @cognitations.bsky.social where they discuss with @manvir.bsky.social about the social lives of human populations in the past 🤩🤓😎😉

Prof. Thomas Pollet | Thomas Pollet (Northumbria University) This page will feature updates on my work.

You can check his research and work in:

tvpollet.github.io

Congratulations! 🎉

His contribution organising EHBEA conferences, and long-standing contributions regarding open-science and methods leadrship to develop community infrastructure have had a clear dowstream effect on ECRs and other members of the EHBEA community.

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

EHBEA wants to congratulate @tvpollet.bsky.social
on earning the EHBEA Award on Services to the Community 👏

You can check their research and work in:
lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk
sites.google.com/view/sheinal...

Congratulations! 🎉

Their contributions on sharing their research outside academic spaces, together with the project for an Open-Access textbook ln human behaviour and evolution highlights their originality and community scale initiative, valuing the diversity of voices within the understanding of human evolution

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMET🚨

EHBEA wants to congratulate @drboothroyd.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social on earning the 2026 EHBEA Award in Excellence in Public Communication and Outreach👏

@durhampsych.bsky.social
@durham.ac.uk

🎉 Got the good news? If your abstract was accepted — congrats! 🥳
📬 You can now check OpenReview to see your assigned presentation format.
⏰ Reminder: early bird registration for #EHBEA2026 is open until 20 February!

🎤✨We’re thrilled to announce our first keynote speaker for #EHBEA2026: Dr Iyad Rahwan!
🤖His talk dives into machine culture—how algorithms and chatbots are reshaping social learning, norms, and the evolution of new cultural traits.
Don't miss out👉 www.rahwan.me
⏰Early bird registration until 20 Feb

🚨🚨Last reminder for abstract submission!🚨🚨
⏰ Abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes on 9 Jan (AOE effectively Saturday noon).
📌 Exception(!): papers part of a symposium (EvApecognition, AIvolution, etc.).
For details, check our website! 👉www.ehbea2026.com

Discover the full program here: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

🚨 CONFERENCE DEADLINE 🚨

9 January is the last day to submit your abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social

See you in April! 😊

Overview | EHBEA2026 The upcoming conference of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 14th-17th of April 2026. EHBEA conferences bring together researchers applyi...

⏳ONE WEEK LEFT⏳
We hope you’re rested and ready for an exciting new year!🚀 Don't forget: abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes THIS FRIDAY, 9 January—don’t miss your chance to present your work in Leiden, 14-17 April 2026!🌟
Submit now: ehbea2026.com
#EHBEA2026 #BehaviouralScience #AIvolution

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching...

6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

Social monitoring & manipulation
#meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata

@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

HBEA 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

If you know someone who works and contributes to the research community on human evolution and behaviour, please do not hesitate to nominate them!

Deadline: December 19

👇 👇 👇 👇

@royalsocietypublishing.org has published an OPEN ACCESS theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B: “Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures” compiled and edited by Adam H Boyette, Sarah Mathew, Stephen Asatsa, Michael Chimento, and Rachel L Kendal 💫

👇 👇 👇

We’re hiring for two postdoctoral positions in Social and Behavioral Sciences! 💼

👉 Two Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, or related disciplines.

🗓️ Starting date: September 2026

👉 Learn more and apply now: www.tse-fr.eu/fr/recrutement

Do you, or someone you know, do/does the extra-step on spreading the word about human evolution and behaviour?

Then don’t hesitate to apply for the EHBEA award on public outreach and communication!

Deadline? December 19 😉

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION 🚨

For those who have not finished their abstracts, @ehbea2026.bsky.social is extending the abstract submission until JANUARY 9th!!

Hope that the extra time allows us to see even more work in the evolution of human behaviour 🤓 🤩

The new EHBEA website has an opt-in Members' Directory, allowing anyone to find experts in the evolutionary behavioural sciences (already popular with our members! >100 signed up in a few days), and a Members' Forum, a private space for members to share thoughts, questions, teaching materials etc

EHBEA has a shiny new website and it looks lovely 😃

Many thanks to @amrotella.bsky.social for leading EHBEA through this change, with assistance from @pablovarase.bsky.social and @jeannebovet.bsky.social 🙏