ESLR

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE

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...

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.

📣✨ New ESLR logo? Join our logo competition! Include ESLR, but get creative with fonts, colours, and style. Feel free to add imagery inspired by behaviour, culture, or learning. Send designs to info@eslrsociety.com
by December 1st. 🌍 If selected, you’ll get full credit as the logo’s creator!

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪

ESLR is currently undergoing a transition, and a new committee (@alexschakowski.bsky.social, @ahnisnaahsi.bsky.social, @katebonner.bsky.social, @lucahahn.bsky.social, @mariapykala.bsky.social) is working on reinstating its presence and shaping its future. Please feel free to get in touch!

Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

PhD position in Cultural and Cognitive Evolution at the Department of Psychosocial Science (280431) | University of Bergen Job title: PhD position in Cultural and Cognitive Evolution at the Department of Psychosocial Science (280431), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 8, 2025

My friend Andrea Bender is looking for a PhD researcher in Cultural and Cognitive Evolution.

Sounds like a dream job — you'd get to work on the topic of mushrooms & cognition with excellent people like Andrea at the beautiful city of Bergen, Norway.

Please share!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Natural History Museum Denmark

We are hiring. The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology.

Duties are collection-based research, curation of collections, teaching and public engagement.

Deadline: 18 May 2025. View full job posting: bit.ly/3XPIQcg

Nature of Intelligence NIBAI-2025: Nature of Intelligence, Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence Workshop Dates: 📅 Date: 4–5 September 2025 📍 Venue: The Diamond Building, University of Sheffield, UK 📝 Registration De...

Announcing the ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop:
Nature of Intelligence – Bridging Animal & Artificial Intelligence
📍 University of Sheffield, UK
📅 4–5 September 2025
📝 Abstracts due: 1 July
🔗 Register & learn more: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
#AnimalIntelligence #NeuroAI #BioRobotics
@asab.org

We still have 5 more days to the deadline!! Submit a brief cover letter, cv, and one reference letter! #COSMOSTOKYO2025

Interested in learning how to apply computational models to social and collective behavior? Apply for COSMOS Tokyo 🇯🇵 by APRIL 25TH 🚀 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io As always, it's free to attend, we provide housing, & with the support of @eslr.bsky.social we will offer a number of travel stipends

Two more weeks to apply! Spread the word and reach out with any questions.

Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified

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

And check out the lineup of world-leading guest lecturers! We are really excited and thrilled to welcome our new “COSMOnauts” in Tokyo! 🚀🌕

🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io

This is the MSc programme I wish I could’ve taken after undergrad.

Top notch culture and evolution content, building highly marketable research skills, amazingly cool and smart staff.

Spread the word, come join us!

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⭐Schedule Update⭐

📆 We regularly update the #EHBEA2025 draft programme as changes come in. Check back often - we update it weekly!

Access here: tinyurl.com/385xh6ar

Key points? 🔑
- Pre-conference: 2pm, Mon 14 Apr
- Conference start: 3:30pm
- End: Thu 17 Apr (w dinner!)

@ehbea.bsky.social

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Booking travel for #EHBEA2025?? Consider taking the train! 🚂

It’s easier and quicker than you might expect. Plus, it’s more comfortable and sustainable than flying. 🍃

🛤️ Helpful guide here: www.seat61.com/european-tra...

#EvolutionaryScience #SustainableConferencing
@ehbea.bsky.social

Rhythms and communication in the brain
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🔬🔊🎶 Rhythm—what is it? From the tides to drumming, from heartbeats to music, the term is used across disciplines but lacks a precise definition in behavioral biology. Our new preprint tackles this challenge head-on! 🧠🐦🎼 #RhythmResearch
📖 Read more: osf.io/preprints/os...
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:

🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior

⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️

Off Monterey Bay, blue whale song calls have been generally increasing over time (2015-2021), and are heard every day in Sept to November
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Inside the sex lives of chimpanzees: like humans and other species, it’s about much more than just reproduction

New piece in @ConversationUK about our new @royalsociety research study on the social role of sex in chimps and bonobos. @durhampsych.bsky.social

theconversation.com/inside-the-s...

A snippet of my recent conference on animal intelligence at the Centre Jean Piaget (in French). Full conference here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHjY...

The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song Social learning can give rise to shared behavioral patterns that persist as culture within animal communities,1,2 such as bird and whale songs and cet…

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...