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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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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lovely surprise in the post today - a hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evoltuon, superbly edited by @rachkendal.bsky.social @jeremykendal.bsky.social and Jamie Tehrani, featuring a chapter by @simonreader.bsky.social and I on Innovation!

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Durham Psychology @durhampsych.bsky.social · Jul 29

Just launched! Professional short online courses in behavioural science at Durham University.

👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3

👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tagging @rkapitany.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @brucerawlings.bsky.social and the tireless @lhlidborg.bsky.social who actually coordinated and compiled all the stydent power reviews and read every chapter TWICE for English-as-second-language checks.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Jun 30

Intense but fun day as the (almost) full editing team for 'the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook' met to go through the entire book post 'user' peer review. Glad to say we've got some amazing reviewers in @durhampsych.bsky.social - I'll never write student-facing material without their input again!
#LTHE

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · Jun 26

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟

I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠

Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob
Deadline: 20th July ⏳
Start: From September 🗓️
Please share 🔁

Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6

The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...

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Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳

Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?

All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏

Career Opportunities: PhD position Cooperative Sustainability (14208)

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · Jun 19

I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇

www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...

Championing Equity in Developmental Science: A Conversation with Bruce Rawlings

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · Jun 19

I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇

www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...

Championing Equity in Developmental Science: A Conversation with Bruce Rawlings

www.wiley.com

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Jun 13

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Treemap showing measurement fragmentation across subfields in psychology. Hill-Shannon Diversity 𝐷=1626.05

How often measures in the APA PsycTESTS database are (re)used according to the APA PsycInfo database: rarely, the majority are never reused.

Our fragmentation index (Hill-Shannon diversity) over time across subdisciplines shows fragmentation rising.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 12

Scholarship for Durham University Students

£15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26.

Durham people please spread the word!

Application form 👇

Microsoft Forms

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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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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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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · May 30

the deadline for the special issue on the development of innovation and creativity in children and other animals is soon - led by @karrineldner.bsky.social, Gökhan Gönül and myself. Do get in touch if you have any questions (or need a little more time!).

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Acta Psychologica | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Acta Psychologica | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Acta Psychologica at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Durham Psychology @durhampsych.bsky.social · May 29

Our brilliant @proftammiwalker.bsky.social is speaking on this important topic today at the Public Policy Exchange event 'Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system'

Prof. Tammi Walker @proftammiwalker.bsky.social · May 24

Very honoured to be speaking at this event next week - Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system. 😀
www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/event.php?ev...

Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system | Public Policy Exchange

In May 2024, the UK government reported that there had been a 25% increase in the remand women’s population for December 2022-December 2023. Women were sent to prison on 5,164 occasions in the y

www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · May 26

And if you are a senior researcher, attend! This was such a fun day full of cutting edge metascience last year.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · May 20

10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity

Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Apr 11

The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications!
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...

ACE Outreach Awards

CES will give out two awards of up to $2500 each to support activities that translate cultural evolution research for a non-academic audience or for students outside of the field of cultural evolution...

forms.gle

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Tomer J. Czaczkes @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social · May 17

Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught!

Videos will worth watching

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Tool use aids prey-fishing in a specialist predator of stingless bees | PNAS

Tool use is widely reported across a broad range of the animal kingdom, yet comprehensive empirical tests of its function and evolutionary drivers ...

www.pnas.org

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · May 17

really cool paper by @vkempe.bsky.social tracking child directed (well, broadcasted) speech over several decades to assess cultural variability of cds acoustic features: eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50... I suspect vowel space area might also have changed?

scholar.google.dk

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · May 9

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!

Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · May 9

OUT NOW: A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning reimagines how we study kids—globally. With voices from 21 countries, this inclusive, practical guide bridges disciplines and challenges Western-centric research. buff.ly/0qk1cOs

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Apr 17

And in an exciting new development, @emilymljeffries.bsky.social of @durhamanthropology.bsky.social wins the other best student talk prize!

Amazing day for @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and @durhamdcerc.bsky.social PhD students.

#ehbea #ehbea2025

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · May 9

Wonderful resource crafted by a global team of experts, led brilliantly by @sheinalew.bsky.social and Stephen Asatsa - happy to have contributed and inspired by the amazing scientists throughout the book that do genuinely awesome work. Completely recommend 👇

Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · May 9

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!

Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · May 9

OUT NOW: A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning reimagines how we study kids—globally. With voices from 21 countries, this inclusive, practical guide bridges disciplines and challenges Western-centric research. buff.ly/0qk1cOs

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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · May 3

Join the MacaqueNet family!

We’re looking for a postdoc to study the link between social structure and lifespan across species, using MacaqueNet data and a new life-history database.

Feel free to reach out—I'm happy to chat about MacaqueNet, CRAB, or living in Exeter.

shorturl.at/xyNsL

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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · May 2

📢 Come to our symposium TODAY at #SRCD2025! We'll be discussing challenges and best practices for cross-cultural dev psych work!
🕒 4:40 PM📍200H
Talks by Sarah Pope-Caldwell, @sylpi.bsky.social, & Yitong Wang
Discussant: Tanya MacGillivray
Chairs: @nicolewen.bsky.social & @brucerawlings.bsky.social

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