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Durham University Library @dulib.bsky.social · 17h

Did you know it's currently Banned Books Week? 📚 Come and explore our display in Bill Bryson Library!

This week, we're celebrating books that have been challenged, removed, or silenced, and the people who write and share them.

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · 1d

Pictures taken by the camp manager, who is also my big brother: a selfless, brave and amazingly valuable man in conservation.
I am so proud of him! 💚🌿🦍

Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 14d

It’s #WorldGorillaDay. WCS Congo monitors Western Lowland gorilla groups in Nouabale-Ndoki National Park. Between 2024 and 2025, at least one birth was recorded in each. A win for conservation and also a chance for experts to study the development, learning, and social dynamics. bit.ly/3VAyYS7 🌍

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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · Jul 23

Science and society thrive through collaboration!

Meet our Feodor Lynen Research fellow @fhillemann.bsky.social ‬ and her host @sheinalew.bsky.social, as they reflect on the importance of shared learning in both indigenous communities and academia.

www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/n...

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 24d

💙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

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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

academic.oup.com

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 27d

@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/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · 26d

Durham's Dunagree Lab continues to be the most wonderful workplace. Thank you to @sheinalew.bsky.social, @chimpanzeve.bsky.social, @fhillemann.bsky.social, @amandinevisine.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky for the surprise baby shower today 🥹

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congrats Oleg 😊

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Rachel Kendal @rachkendal.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution hard copy

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Aug 25

Starting the week strong 💪 we share now the plenary talk of @heidicolleran.bsky.social, which was part of @ehbea2025.bsky.social

Here, she talks about the misconceptions and the biases behind the idea of “natural fertility”👶

Pass by, have a look, and stay tuned!

youtu.be/8Ch1t7zpW10?...

Heidi Colleran - EHBEA 2025

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

youtu.be

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jul 22

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@durhamanthropology.bsky.social
@durham-university.bsky.social
@ninedtp.bsky.social

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jul 22

My poster ends this academic year with 3️⃣ prizes, and I can't wait to finish the paper and publish it with @haneuljang.bsky.social!
🏆📝👦🏿🇨🇬

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thank you to all 🗳️ Durham University voters 🗳️ who gave my poster the 1st place in the DCAD Poster competition! 🥇

This means a lot! All your comments and feedback were highly useful 🌸

Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yesterday, my poster...

🌿- BaYaka nursing mothers and girls engage in 'Relay Cooperation' during foraging trips -🌿

... won the Runner Up position at DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) annual Poster Competition! 🥈

I am glad that the content appealed to academics out of Anthropology! 🌍

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · Jun 6

Did you know that our field guide to cross-cultural research on childhood learning is completely FREE?

books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

books.openbookpublishers.com

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jun 25

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@durhampsych.bsky.social
@ninedtp.bsky.social

Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jun 25

If you are interested in the content of my poster, don't hesitate to reach out! 😊🌿

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Winner of the competition, Faezeh Fatemizadeh, made a beautiful and educative poster on Britain's rare birds' population changes.
Congratulations! 👏🏻🐦

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yesterday, my poster...

🌿- BaYaka nursing mothers and girls engage in 'Relay Cooperation' during foraging trips -🌿

... won the Runner Up position at DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) annual Poster Competition! 🥈

I am glad that the content appealed to academics out of Anthropology! 🌍

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jun 25

Throwback on a great Summer School week at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social:
Great Talks, great talks, a beautiful blue sky, and a gorgeous city.

Additionally, we learnt a lot about the history of Belfast and Northern Ireland. Thank you to all the academics for sharing. 💚

@ninedtp.bsky.social

Queen's University, Belfast, Ith blue sky!

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Jun 20

I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition!

My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yesterday, NINE DTP Summer School started at Queen's University, Belfast!

The first keynote was a fascinating talk by Foluke Adebisi, on the history and aspects of decolonisation.

@ninedtp.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you have a hunter-gatherer related paper sitting in your file-drawer with excellent methods but a 'null' finding, please consider the Journal of Hunter-Gatherer Research.

Submission instructions are on our website:

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · Jun 11

Keep calling for a better publishing model. Keep pushing for preprints, preregs, replications. Keep publishing 'null' findings as reviewers and editors. Push for open data and celebrate authors who have the integrity to make retractions. Keep pushing to improve statistical literacy.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jun 10

Inclusion of #dementia in the WHO’s and UN’s discussions about non-communicable diseases could drastically change attitudes worldwide and could improve access to care and support for people living with the condition and their carers, writes Paola Barbarino in Nature. 🧪

Dementia is deadly — the UN needs to take it more seriously

Improved recognition of dementia as a major non-communicable disease by multilateral organizations is crucial, to build awareness and increase funding to tackle this insidious illness.

go.nature.com

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · Jun 10

Today I received the books ordered by @ehbea.bsky.social for the Poster Award. 🥰
This is going to be perfect reading for my PhD. 📚

Thanks again @ehbea2025.bsky.social!

Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin
Global Childhoods
Pathways to African Food Security

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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · May 28

Impossible to put words on the talent, light and determination of these speakers and scholars. We should all thrive to attain such a level of courage and ethical compass in our lives and work.

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