Rachel Kendal

Standing up for science is one way to push back against political attacks on the university sector 👇 Experts in biology and anthropology have put together this statement to counter misinformation about race. Please consider signing and sharing

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cool stuff!

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

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Apply now to study at Durham! Not only would you be working with Sheina or Lynda, both fantastic scholars, but you'd be part of a department with a thriving PGR community, and a member of DCERC!

Title of Project: Examining school-based body image interventions in Africa and/or Latin America Start Date: January, April or October 2026 Application Deadline: 20th October 2025 For more information including how to apply please see: PhD advert BIRES studentship

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth.
Please share with your students.

#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology

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What a week that was!

A project started shortly before Covid hit has finally arrived in print, phew!

Humans may not have a uniquely enhanced sequence memory: sequence discrimination is facilitated by causal–logical framing in humans and chimpanzees | Royal Society Open Science Humans have been suggested to possess uniquely enhanced memory for sequences, based on sequence discrimination learning (SDL) tasks involving arbitrarily ordered sequences with no functional connection to outcomes. Such tasks underestimate animals’ SDL as ...

New comparative paper on sequence cognition led by the wonderful @missdaffodil.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Very cool!

Fantastic new paper 👏

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!

Big congrats Iain!

The International Society for Neuroethology has a grant for disadvantaged scientists investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour. Apply for funds to help overcome any barriers you face!

Membership fees can be included in your application.

Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...

Wishing you a fab conference! So sorry that many of us Durham folk can’t come despite being so close due to a spending freeze

A fab little book giving first hand insights

Great paper featuring @brucerawlings.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social from @durhamdcerc.bsky.social

Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Fab project to postdoc in if you are into cultural evolution and modelling 👇

Guaranteed to be a great book

Reupping this POSTDOC position
- deadline Dec 20th

Some more info 👇 1/3

Picture of Kevin Lala with the third edition of Sense and Nonsense

I am excited finally to have my hands on the very first copy of the third edition of "Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour", co-authored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social.

The paperback will be available in just over two weeks time, from Oxford University Press.

I'm so very happy to have been involved in this paper. Understanding children is key to understanding culture change - past, present, future - and here we get a glimpse onto some ice age kids doing their thing.

screenshot of a paper published in Personality and Individual Differences on 'The role of cognitive capital in driving the development and quality of national infrastructure', by Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Jorge Albuja-Sánchez and Aurelio José Figueredo

The 9th "national IQ" paper of 2024 has just dropped. Anyone want to place bets on whether there'll be a nice round 10 papers using this thoroughly discredited dataset before the end of the year?

A Field Guide to Doing Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field This volume addresses the critical gaps in developmental research on childhood learning by advocating for a more inclusive and cross-cultural approach. Recent studies highlight a concerning over-relia...

I'm so excited about our (>60 contributors) forthcoming edited volume! A Field Guide to Doing Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning journeys through history, theory, fieldwork near or far, and policy, with loads of personal stories in between.

tinyurl.com/mvxxus55

Bleeting?

Bleeting!!!

Can you add me please, and thank you

Accelerate your Hashtag#research impact and join a global network of changemakers—apply for the Jacobs Foundation Fellowship today!
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PNAS cultural evolution special feature contents

Lots of cultural evolution content to read in latest PNAS!

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