@jeremykendal.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Durham University, UK (he/him). Epistemology, cognition, population dynamics, cultural evolution, disease emergence. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jeremy-kendal/ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8644-3117
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
@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/...
I know, sorry it’s not open access😞
29.08.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution hard copy
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
27.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 62 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 6I was online listening in from Durham, UK. I look forward to reading some of your research once the student term is over!
17.06.2025 18:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Brilliant 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
13.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"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."
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!
09.05.2025 16:33 — 👍 92 🔁 40 💬 5 📌 3
Bluebells in woodland
Bluebell season behind Durham uni campus
24.04.2025 16:20 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This. 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
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
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.
"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...
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
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.
🚨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
saw this piece being shared around on the bird site and sharing it here cuz it's so good genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
05.11.2024 15:11 — 👍 128 🔁 53 💬 11 📌 15
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...
28.03.2025 07:15 — 👍 96 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 6
Final call - six fully funded PhDs to work in John Sutton’s interdisciplinary Leverhulme centre, University of Stirling
placememory.net
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
This articulate reflection by @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social may be valuable to a broad range of social scientists interested in trying out ethnographic research
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Chandika Shrestha and Rachel Kendal, Pokhara, Nepal.
Happy International Women’s Day, including these two wonderful people, Chandika Shrestha and @rachkendal.bsky.social being celebrated in Pokhara, Nepal.
08.03.2025 16:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Shape of Space by Jeffrey Weeks
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!
02.03.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Merci!
23.02.2025 22:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a refreshing set of perspectives, including a chapter by ex-Durham Anthro student, Alex Hill.
22.02.2025 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Spines spotted. Rare commodity in science these days.
22.02.2025 09:19 — 👍 40 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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
12.02.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
17.02.2025 15:31 — 👍 19 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 1🏰 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)
More info about Lynda
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
15.01.2025 18:28 — 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 6We'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...
