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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 1d

EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀

If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president!

If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary!

DEADLINE: 16/12/2026

HERE IS THE FORM 👇

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EHBEACommitteeNominationForm_Pres_Sec.doc

EHBEA Committee 2026-2029: Nomination Form The EHBEA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for the following open committee positions for 2026-2029. You are invited to nominate one or more c...

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 20d

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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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:

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 18d

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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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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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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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our article "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience" (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marc Feldman) is now published online.

We describe five factors that contribute to the spread of racism and suggest strategies for countering them.

doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

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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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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 28d

Eres un chileno/a, mexicano/a o otra persona latinoamericana que quiere hacer un doctorado en la tema de programas educativas de imagen corporal en escuelas? Tenemos una beca en Durham para unirse en nuestra proyecto! Puedes ver las detalles y aplicar aqui 👇
#Psicología
#antropología
🇨🇱🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇷🇦🇷🇨🇷🇭🇳🇸🇻🇺🇾🇵🇾🇵🇪🇧🇴🇨🇺

Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 28d

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth.
Please share with your students.

#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Title of Project: Examining school-based body image interventions in Africa and/or Latin America

Start Date: January, April or October 2026

Application Deadline: 20th October 2025

For more information including how to apply please see: PhD advert BIRES studentship

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 28d

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth.
Please share with your students.

#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 GRANT APPLICATION 🚨

Do not forget to apply for the workshop/event grant from EHBEA in case you are organising a scientific event 😉

DEADLINE: September 11th, 2025

EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Jul 19

🚨GRANT APPLICATION🚨

Call for the WORKSHOP/EVENT GRANT from EHBEA is officially open!

If you are interested in organising a scientific workshop or an outreach event please check the link and apply!

DEADLINE: September 11th, 2025

www.cambridge.org/core/members...

Awards

Welcome to Membership Services

www.cambridge.org

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our book is now available online at the African Books Collective here: africanbookscollective.com/books/mangro...

Reminder that 100% of proceeds to go mangrove conservation and education programs in Pemba, Tanzania.

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Chris von Rueden @chrisvonrueden.bsky.social · Jul 17

Job in cultural psychology: richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/staff_facult...

Assistant Professor of Psychology

The Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in ...

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Aug 27

Last but not least! today we share the talk of Christine Caldwell as plenary speaker at @ehbea2025.bsky.social

Here she talks about the cognitive challenges for cumulative cultural evolution and how these abilities were selected 🧠

Don’t miss it! 👇

youtu.be/UvVNfyiYOGc?...

Christine Caldwell - EHBEA 2025

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

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Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · Aug 26

🔊Up to 10 individual AIAS-AUFF FELLOWSHIPS are open for application by curiosity-driven and talented researchers from all over the world, from any research discipline & with 2-10 years of experience after completion of their PhD.
📆APPLY by: 28 October at 12:00 (noon, CET)
aias.au.dk/events/show/...

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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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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · Aug 22

🧠 What?! A meeting just on disgust?! Yes!!
📍 @iast.fr, France | 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025
💥 Keynotes by Paul Rozin @upenn.edu, @cr-amo.bsky.social, Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social & Cindy Kam
🌍 From Psychology to Politics, Biology & beyond
🎓 Abstract submissions until Aug 31: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today we share the work from @drboothroyd.bsky.social, as one of the plenary speaker in @ehbea2025.bsky.social

She talks about how common assumptions related to appearance ideals and sexual selection may differ when using more culturally diverse data 😮

Have a look! 👀

youtu.be/ENK3WPSJSo8?...

Lynda Boothroyd - EHBEA 2025

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

youtu.be

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are excited to share our next plenary speaker from @ehbea2025.bsky.social !

@prof-r-hill.bsky.social shows the STRANGE biases that exist in animal behaviour research via a nice and thorough overview of primate studies

Don’t miss it! 👀

youtu.be/wtS-xouCHqg?...

Russell Hill - EHBEA 2025

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

youtu.be

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Aug 15

We are happy to announce our brand new YoutTube channel 🥳

We start with the plenary talk of Petr Tureček as the New Investigator Award winner in @ehbea2025.bsky.social 🎤🤓

“Error, inspiration, and the dynamics of variance in cultural transmission” 👀

youtu.be/wafXoULA3B0?...

Petr Turecek - EHBEA 2025

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

youtu.be

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Aug 6

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability seeks assistant professor in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

Home dept is open. Happy to talk to anyone interested in ESoS.

#EHBEA #HBES #BioAnth #CultEvo #anthrosky 🌍

facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

We seek applicants for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor level in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (also referred to as Indigenous and local knowledge, Indigenous science, Native science, and other similar terms) and its relevance to social and environmental sustainability. Topical research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: the role of fire and other aspects of Indigenous land stewardship in the changing climate; establishment and management of natural protected areas; conservation and application of the wild relatives of crops and animals; the ethical and responsible collection and use of socio-ecological data; environmental governance; the role of tribal food and land sovereignty and cultural revitalization for environmental sustainability; and two-eyed seeing, the multicultural approach to understanding the natural world using both Indigenous and Western sciences as independent, but complementary, ways of knowing.

The range of expertise and facilities across Stanford University’s main campus, as well as Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) and Hopkins Marine Station, provide opportunities to develop a research program that bridges Indigenous and Western knowledge systems.

Application materials should be submitted online at this LINK. The application deadline is September 30, 2025, 11:00pm PST. Late applications will not be accepted.

Applications must include:

1. Cover letter

2. Curriculum vitae

3. Contact information for three reference letter writers

4. Research statement (maximum 2 pages)

5. Teaching statement (maximum 1 page)

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford University value faculty who will help foster an open and respectful academic environment for colleagues, students, and staff with a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Candidates may choose to include as part of their research and teaching statements …

based on factors including, but not limited to, the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate including years since terminal degree, training, and field or discipline; departmental budget availability; internal equity; and external market pay for comparable jobs.

For questions regarding this position, please contact Haley Mees at hmees@stanford.edu.

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Catalina I. Fernández, PhD @catferna.bsky.social · Aug 12

Short kids are malnourished, right? well, only maybe! In our recent paper at #RSOS we present a new theoretical model
of growth, exploring of how 🧬, 🥘, & 🦠, through their effects on body proportions & metabolism, cause variation in 👶 🚸growth trajectories. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A causal model of human growth and its estimation using temporally sparse data | Royal Society Open Science

Existing models of human growth provide limited insight into underlying mechanisms responsible for inter-individual and inter-population variation in children’s growth trajectories. Building on genera...

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨

The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology

Deadline for applying: August 22nd

More information on the link below 👇

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨

The University of Western Australia is looking for a Lecturer in Biological Anthropology

Deadline for applying: August 29th

More information on the link below 👇

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · Jul 24

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience

www.cambridge.org

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