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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 7d

Financial Award: Awardees are provided $2000 after demonstrating the impact of their new course.

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Recognition: Awardees and honorable mentions provide a significant addition to any academic CV.

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Networking & Mentorship: Selected applicants will have the chance to connect directly with senior academics who created the original course materials.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 7d

This award offers applicants (1/4):

Ready-to-Use Materials: All applicants gain access to vetted, well-researched course materials they can adopt and modify immediately.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 7d

ACE Teaching Innovation Awards empower scholars to incorporate high-quality cultural evolution course materials into their teaching. This is a great opportunity for those from majority-world countries and ECR academics, but everyone can apply!

culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...

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Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 7d

I just had a lovely morning teaching memo with Lio Wong at #COSMOS2025 in Tokyo! Charley and Wataru have put together an absolutely *fantastic* summer school. Fascinating talks, delightful people… and excellent location. I feel so lucky to be here. If you ever get a chance to attend COSMOS, take it!

Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 7d

Now up at #COSMOS2025: @kartikchandra.bsky.social & Lio Wong giving a tutorial on recursive social reasoning using MEMO github.com/kach/memo
Fun fact: those flowers between them and 🗻 are called "cosmos".
Collab notebook here to follow along 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/#g...

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 21d

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!

400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

Presentation submissions are open until November 16, with four submission formats: standard talks (15-20 minutes), lightning talks (5 minutes), poster presentations, and thematic sessions.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

Find out more on the new conference website: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

airess.fgses-um6p.ma

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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 · 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:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

airess.fgses-um6p.ma

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Jacob Tennessen @jacobphd.bsky.social · Sep 4

This paper is wild. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level". Whatever mitochondrial challenges you may face, at least none of your organelles is an ENTIRE INSECT.

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 27

CE Paper Alert 🚨

Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · Aug 26

"The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse"

#gaming

https://doi.org10.1017/ehs.2025.10015

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 24

Calling all CE folks interested in artificial life, get in your abstracts for the upcoming ALIFE -25!

michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣 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... 🧪

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · Aug 19

A cool workshop on cultural evolution in ALife, happening right after the #COSMOSSummerSchool in Tokyo! Stretch your stay in Japan to attend ALIFE in Kyoto too!!

michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣 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... 🧪

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself.

The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 8

A sincere thank you to all the candidates who stood for election and to the CES membership for their active participation in the voting process. We were fortunate to have many excellent candidates, making this election a strong reflection of our membership’s commitment and talent.

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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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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Aug 7

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉

Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020

Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054

Please spread the word!

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now out! evolang2026.org. @cogscisociety.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

evolangconf.bsky.social @evolangconf.bsky.social · Aug 7

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 1

How it Works:

In Stage 1, applicants apply with a course offering they can teach. Shortlisted applicants deliver their proposed courses.

In Stage 2, applicants provide evidence of course impact, such as enrolment lists, and feedback. Awards are chosen based on course impact and CE focus.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 1

The Key Details ->

What: Ten (10) awards of $2,000 each to support the integration of cultural evolution content into your existing or new courses.

When: Applications open on August 7th!

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 1

We're thrilled to announce upcoming ACE Teaching Innovation Awards, made possible by Eric & Peggy Peterson.

This aims to empower teachers through access to course materials in the CES Teaching Library. Selected applicants will also be able to consult with winners of the ACE Course Design Awards.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

The voting window for the CES officer elections has been extended until Friday 23:59 BST. CES members, don't forget to vote and have your say in the running of your society! Check your inbox for the voting link, or if you didn't receive one, contact the society (details below).

Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Jul 25

The CES officer elections have now launched! Active members of the society should have received an email from Election Runner with the title "Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025", so pls check your inbox. Voting closes on 29th July at 23:59 BST.
culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

Executive Committee voting now open! - Cultural Evolution Society

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm happy to share our latest manuscript "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience", coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman.

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