Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre

Theme Issue alert! Featuring awardees and the grant team of the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme, including DCERC members @rachkendal.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @amandinevisine.bsky.social, and @sarahewright.bsky.social

🚨 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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Abstract submission for CES 2026 in Rabat has been extended to 30th November! @ces2026.bsky.social

Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge - Nature Human Behaviour Formal education systems rarely include the knowledge and skills of hunter-gatherer societies. This can lead to cultural erosion and knowledge decline. For education to be both high quality and sustai...

Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge

"In our research with hunter-gatherer communities in the Global South, we see that participation in education often undermines Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural integrity."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25

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 👇

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

Overview | EHBEA2026

🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀!
www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸!
🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr
📍Pesthuis
#EHBEA2026

Congratulations to all the prize winners! Especially to our own Sally Street for her course on the Cultural Evolution of Music!

Know someone whose excellence in research and contributions to the CogSci community should be recognized? Nominate them to be a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society!

Deadline: Nov 1
More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

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/...

We’re delighted to share that the 37th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference (HBES2026) website is now live!

#HBES2026

Congratulations again to @emilymljeffries.bsky.social and all the other @ehbea.bsky.social award winners!

🚨New paper!🚨 (And don't forget, it's not too late to apply for a PhD supervised by Lynda www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...)

Assistant Professor in Psychology Ref: 40866 (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

Come and work with us!
Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover)
Please share!

jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c54c4570...

Abstract submissions are open for CES 2026! The deadline is 16th November. Make sure to follow @ces2026.bsky.social for updates.

Research Fellowships Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr

Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Graphic with teal background and green text that reads: ‘Submissions for the CogSci Mind Challenge will close in 4 weeks.’ To the right, there is the CogSci Mind Challenge 2025 logo featuring a brain icon.

⏳4 weeks left! Submissions for the CogSci Mind Challenge close Oct 17!

Make a 5-min video answering: “How do different minds (i.e. different groups of humans, animals, artificial systems) learn language, if at all?”

💰Prizes up to $1000!

Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...

👇 interview on collaborative (research 🧪) cultures

Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social

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

Promotional poster for the LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025 Public Lecture. The poster features a photo of speaker Prof. Dr. Richard McElreath. The text states the lecture focuses on science as amateur software development, time and date of lecture being 9:00-10:00 CEST on Wednesday September 17 2025, and instructions to register online. Logos of LMU Open Science Center, LMU, and Universitätsbibliothek München are displayed at the bottom.

💡 Explore how practices from distributed, open-source software can make science more professional, open, and collaborative! Attend the “Science as amateur software development” lecture by Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept, 9:00.
👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

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

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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!

Woo new paper! Cross-cultural investigation into maternal responses to infant distress

How babies are soothed may be more important than how quickly, which vary cross-culturally

w/Carlo Vreden & team in #DevelopmentalPsychology!
Open-access link + thread 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Finally, don't forget to register to be a member of CES here: culturalevolutionsociety.org/membership/, and keep an eye out for announcements on the next conference, which will be in Rabat Morocco, provisionally 11-13 May 2026! We hope to see you there! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

While you're there, why not check out the library for the @cultevolfunding Capstone Conference, which took place immediately after the CES 2024 Conference - link here: underline.io/events/457/l... 3/4

Watch lectures from the best researchers. On-demand video platform giving you access to lectures from conferences worldwide.

If you missed out, or just want to reminisce, you can watch the talks and view the posters for free via Underline's library here: underline.io/events/456/l... 2/4

Photo is taken from the back of a large lecture theatre, showing people entering and taking their seats whilst the logo for the CES 2024 Conference (a landscape of Durham city with the Cultural Evolution Society's tree logo included) is displayed on screens at the front.

Can't believe it's already been a whole year since we hosted the CES 2024 Conference here at Durham! Such a fantastic week hearing about diverse and fascinating research @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social 1/4

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Call for Proposals, Wenner-Gren Symposium 2027 The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
wennergren.org/article/call...

🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵

🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards.

🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...