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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 7d

Finally in my hands! A new book from @mgurven.bsky.social on why we age, and how we can age better, through the lens of evolutionary anthropology💙 Very excited to dive in!

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Guy Harling @harlingg.bsky.social · 16d

Lovely detailed description by @haneuljang.bsky.social & @danielredhead.bsky.social of how knowledge & skills are differentially spread through the network of a forager village in DRC. And how this is patterned by own & contact age, kinship and relationship status

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

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 16d

📢 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...

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...

www.iast.fr

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 24d

“individuals tend to report more accurately about the partners with whom they shared knowledge than about those from whom they received knowledge….findings provide important empirical evidence on how community-wide cultural transmission is structured by demography and perception”

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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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you very much, Eric!
This paper directly builds on Eric's important work:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you so much, Pablo 💙

Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 24d

💙 In forager life, adults keep learning from elders, friends & spouses.

💙 Across all ages, however, people recall "sharing" knowledge more accurately than "being shared".

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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

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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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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥

www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...

Charting the evolution of European literature

Oleg Sobchuk has received an ERC Starting Grant to study 200 years of European literary evolution

www.eva.mpg.de

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · May 20

👋🏻Are you a woman and/or member of the SGM community working in the evolutionary human sciences? We've relaunched W+EBS (@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social) to provide mentorship, networking, and advocacy at major EHS conferences, including HBES, CES, and EHBEA! 👇🏻Will you be at HBES in 2 weeks? 👀 If so... (1/2)

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 12

❗Want to know what W+EBS is all about now? ❗

Check out our updated remit:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

💭 Got ideas for what we should do next? Submit suggestions here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#WplusEBS #InclusiveScience #EvolutionaryBehavioralSciences

W+EBS Mission statement and remit

W+EBS Mission statement and remit Tag-line Empowering women and SGM students, researchers and educators in the evolutionary behavioural sciences through mentorship, advocacy and community Missio...

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 23

⏳ Don’t forget to submit your Qs for the #WplusEBS panel at #HBES2025!

“Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025”

Help shape the discussion! Submissions are anonymous.

pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Suggest questions for HBES panel

What questions do you recommend we ask our panel of speakers at HBES 2025, focusing on gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences in 2025?

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · May 15

Plus these awards are still open for applications, deadline end of May. Grants for Outreach, Early Career Research, and making links with under-represented scholars, all in the field of cultural evolution

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...

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · May 12

New paper alert 📢
Young wild chimpanzees from the @taichimpproject.bsky.social show attachment types with their mothers similar to human children. Only they do not display patterns related to disorganized attachment. Read our new paper in Nature Human Behavior

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

Evidence of organized but not disorganized attachment in wild Western chimpanzee offspring (Pan troglodytes verus) - Nature Human Behaviour

This study of 50 wild Western chimpanzee mother–offspring dyads revealed no evidence of disorganized attachment. Instead, offspring exhibited secure-like and insecure avoidant-like behaviours during t...

www.nature.com

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 12

❗Want to know what W+EBS is all about now? ❗

Check out our updated remit:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

💭 Got ideas for what we should do next? Submit suggestions here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#WplusEBS #InclusiveScience #EvolutionaryBehavioralSciences

W+EBS Mission statement and remit

W+EBS Mission statement and remit Tag-line Empowering women and SGM students, researchers and educators in the evolutionary behavioural sciences through mentorship, advocacy and community Missio...

docs.google.com

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IASToulouse @iast.fr · May 9

🦋 Ever wondered what happens when curious minds collide? The Friends of IAST starter kit is now on Bluesky! Fellows, researchers, and thinkers are ready to share ideas, spark debates, and explore new perspectives.

👋Join us—this is just the beginning! #FriendsofIAST#starterkit
go.bsky.app/5mQmnLF 👇

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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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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · Feb 14

I am very grateful to be funded by the Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social in my 10th year since I first began working with the BaYaka people in 2015. I will continue working with the BaYaka mothers, to whom my research is dedicated 💙 leakeyfoundation.org/fall-2024-re...

Introducing the Fall 2024 Leakey Foundation Research Grant Recipients

Introducing the fall 2024 Leakey Foundation Research Grant recipients. Twenty-six scholars will receive funding to advance knowledge of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.

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Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI) @congobasinscience.bsky.social · Feb 11

Are you, or do you know, a national of Gabon, Cameroon, Congo or DRC interested in studying the climate, ecology or economy of the Congo Basin?

CBSI has 28 fully-funded scholarships across a wide range of projects, applications due February 28th. More info here: shorturl.at/5flYY

Please share!

Scholarships | Congo Basin Science Initiative

Discover CBSI Scholarships: funding opportunities for science students focused on the Congo Basin. Explore now...

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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · Jan 29

New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd.

We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇

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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣📣📣

Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!

Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!

More info: disi.org

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · Jan 21

A really cool and important paper that raises questions about grandmothering! 💙

Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · Jan 21

1/ 🧵 New preprint out today 🤩

With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺

#Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych

OSF

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · Jan 17

Last, tremendous thanks to @sheinalew.bsky.social for doing such a wonderful job steering the journal over the past few years. We hope to continue this upward trajectory! And if you have anything to submit, you can find our submission information here:

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr

Hunter Gatherer Research Home

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · Jan 17

Want to join in? We are assembling an editorial board! We already have a superb team of evolutionary anthropologists & archaeologists and especially welcome applications from socio-cultural anthropologists.

Details in the link and please share widely.

www.ishgr.org/2025/01/15/c...

Call for Editors, Journal of Hunter-Gatherer Research – International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research

www.ishgr.org

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · Jan 17

I am thrilled to announce that @vivek123.bsky.social I are the incoming editors-in-chief of Hunter-Gatherer Research, published by Liverpool University Press.

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