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Adrian Viliami Bell
@avbell.bsky.social
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professor and chair of anthropology at the university of utah; interested in evolution, culture, and migration https://adrianbell.wordpress.com/
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 7d
📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:
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Adrian Viliami Bell @avbell.bsky.social · 1d
I'm co-directing an independent film w/ Ella Warnick about marine foraging, environmental adaptation, & family in Tonga, trailer:

youtu.be/3ttrOkX-esU?...

Still not finished! I have a job already, but to finish this film please support my young, up-and-coming co-director:

gofund.me/d9b24a5af
Fatongia | Official Trailer
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d
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:
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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d
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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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 8
We are pleased to announce our newly elected committee members of the Cultural Evolution Society:

Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social
Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social
Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social &
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social

Welcome and congratulations!!
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · Jul 9
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · Jun 9
New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.
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.
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · Jul 1
New preprint w/ Nathan Gabriel & @avbell.bsky.social: The Evolution of Identity Signals for Coordination in Diverse Societies

The model tackles multiple nested/overlapping identities and complex signaling structure. Recovers lots of old results and adds several new ones osf.io/preprints/so...
Individual social identities indicate group affiliations and are typically associated with 3 group-typical preferences, signals that indicate group membership, and the propensity to condition actions on the social signals of others, resulting in group-differentiated interaction norms. Past work modeling identity signaling and coordination has typically assumed that individuals belong to one of a discrete set of groups. Yet individuals can simultaneously belong to multiple groups, which may be nested within larger groupings. Here, we introduce the generalized Bach or Stravinsky game, a coordination game with ordered preferences, which allows us to construct a model that captures the overlapping and hierarchical nature of social identity. Our model unifies several prior results into a single framework, including results related to coordination, minority disadvantage, and cross-cultural competence. Our model also allows agents to express complex social identities through multidimensional signaling, which we use to explore a variety of complex group structures. Our consideration of intersectional identities exposes flaws in naive measures of group structure, illustrating how empirical studies may overlook some social identities if they do not consider the behaviors that those identities function to afford.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Jun 11
🚨 CE PhD opportunity!

@onicatam.bsky.social is looking for PhD applicants interested in projects related to cultural evolution or language evolution for a fully funded scholarships at the School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH532/s...
School of Social Sciences PhD Studentship (Psychology) at Heriot-Watt University
Find a School of Social Sciences PhD Studentship (Psychology) on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · Jun 5
Nomination form, and more details, here:

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Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025: Nomination Form
Please use this form to submit your nomination(s) for the Executive Committee's open positions. On this page we will ask you for general details. The next pages allow you to choose the position(s) ...
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Jun 6
Applications for the Cultural Evolution ACE Course Design Awards close July 7. Consider applying to gain funding to up the impact of your courses!
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · May 14
📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content.

Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Jun 4
It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
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Elspeth Ready @elspethready.bsky.social · May 7
Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · May 14
📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content.

Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Mar 11
1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢

Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵
Psychology, Culture and Evolution MSc | Brunel University of London
A research-intensive psychology master's course, allowing you to understand how culture and evolution can influence human behaviour.
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · Mar 10
Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management!

Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG...
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com
ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory
culture, evolution, cooperation, and sustainability
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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · Mar 7
Thankyou CES exec for taking this courageous stance.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Mar 7
CES offers its full support to the Stand Up For Science rallies in the U.S. on March 7 2025.
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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · Mar 6
Interested in Cultural Evolution? You should check out @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's new 'Transmissions' by @ferylbadiani.bsky.social.

First episode has the inimitable @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social talking about why CE matters, and helps us understand human behavior & culture
Transmissions Episode 1 with Dr Cristina Moya
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Mar 7
CES offers its full support to the Stand Up For Science rallies in the U.S. on March 7 2025.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Mar 6
We are please to release Transmissions Ep 1, featuring Dr Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social in conversation with Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social

Cristina and Feryl chat about Cristina's work in Peru and discuss CE in human and non-human societies:

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Transmissions Episode 1 with Dr Cristina Moya
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Mar 2
🎙 Exciting news! Transmissions Episode 1 features Dr. Cristina Moya.

In this episode, we explore her fieldwork in Peru, and discuss how pilgrimage sites emerge and sustain themselves over time.

It will be out on YouTube this week—Stay tuned for the link!
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · Feb 19
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Feb 13
Co-sign 👇 excellent talk covering the anti-racist origins of the field of cultural evolution and giving practical advice on how the field can counter scientific racism
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · Feb 13
Indispensable, information rich talk from @kevinlala.bsky.social . Should be watched by anyone doing #genetics, #evolution, or race studies. Maybe I’ll share some thoughts later. #sts #philbio #hps

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Genes, culture, and scientific racism
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · Feb 12
For those who missed the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference in Durham last September, the recorded talks are now freely available to watch here:

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Eddie Lee @spintheory.bsky.social · Feb 3
For our junior colleagues in the US looking for opportunities, Europe is a great place to do science 🧪 We have a #postdoc call open right now! #complexity

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PostDoc Program * Complexity Science Hub
Education
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · Jan 30
💥Postdoc Opening! 💥We (@lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Piet van den Berg) seek a postdoc to study social learning and cultural evolution. We are looking for someone with math/computational modeling skills & interest in human behavior. Get in touch if you have any questions! shorturl.at/W6Qsb
Postdoktor i beräkningspsykologi/kognitionsvetenskap med fokus på social inlärning och kulturell evolution
Vill du bidra till medicinsk forskning av toppkvalitet? Gruppen Mechanisms of Social Behavior vid Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm söker en högt kvalificerad postdoktoral forskare för att ingå i
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