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Ruth Mace
@ruthmace.bsky.social
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Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 14h
African harps as units of cultural evolution: a cladistic analysis on their morphology. New paper by Salome Strauch et al| Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
African harps as units of cultural evolution: a cladistic analysis on their morphology | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
African harps as units of cultural evolution: a cladistic analysis on their morphology - Volume 7
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 4d
Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 2d
If you are around @ucl.ac.uk later this month, I’ll be giving a talk on Spatial Population Dynamics and Human Evolution on the 28th 🤩

www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social · Jun 22
Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 22d
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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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 20d
📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 20d
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 20d
New paper with Narhulan Halimbehke,
@olkcampbell.bsky.social , Yishan Xie et. al in Human Nature
@evobias_erc
Our findings suggest attitudes to bride kidnapping driven by cohort replacement link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 21d
Released today!
SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER
Now available at your favorite bookseller.

Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can.

Please help spread the word!

#sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 20d
Strategies in the ancient game of Go mirror deep societal shifts, from feudal traditions to today’s AI advisors. @babeheim.bsky.social in EHS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 26d
Looking forward to be in Paris for the launch of the CultureLab!
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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 26d
We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...
Colloque inaugural du Grand programme de recherche CultureLab | PSL
Recherche, CultureLab inaugure ses travaux le 22 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet avec une journée consacrée aux sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles et à l’évolution culturelle. , Le Gra...
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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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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 3
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Aug 29
Centre for Ecology & Evolution autumn symposium & mixer www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Centre for Ecology & Evolution autumn symposium & mixer | LSHTM
The CEE Autumn Symposium & Mixer brings together London's vibrant ecology and evolution research community. This is an excellent opportunity to hear cutting-edge research presentations, mainly by PhD
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · Aug 27
Apply! I postdoc'd at Stony Brook U--great folks there.

"The Meave Leakey Postdoctoral Scholar, named in honor of Dr. Meave Leakey’s extraordinary contributions to the understanding of human and primate evolution in the Turkana Basin, will join the SHaPE Lab in the Department of Anthropology."
Meave Leakey Postdoctoral Scholar
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Chiara Barbieri @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social · Aug 27
New paper! ⚡ With Gabriel Aguirre and Marcelo Sánchez, looking at patterns of blowgun types and use across societies of the world. We find areal patterns, similarities mediated by cultural connections, and specific types characterizing distinct branches of the Austronesian language tree. 🎯
A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language - Volume 7
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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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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Aug 26
Lexical borrowing between click languages of three distinct families provides new insights into the pre-history of southern Africa New paper by Anne-Marie Fehn et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing - Volume 7
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Alex Alvergne @alexalvergne.bsky.social · Aug 18
Submit your abstract for the 6th FRESH (fresh-cnrs.org) annual conference in the Evo Human Sciences, 4-5th November in Montpellier, with Profs Pascal Boyer & Lluis Quintana Murci - Submit and Register here before 15th of September shorturl.at/xhHgL. See you there!
Journées Annuelles des GDR CNRS FRESH et RESHAPE - Sciencesconf.org
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Aug 14
Using 65,000 works to track how fiction has grown more distant from reality across cultures and centuries | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Quantifying and explaining the rise of fiction | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Quantifying and explaining the rise of fiction - Volume 7
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Aug 3
We’ve all been there
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David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 5
In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025)
anthropology.unm.edu/news-events/...
In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) :: Anthropology | The University of New Mexico
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · Jul 31
"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution"

Our new article is out in @science.org today

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Aug 1
According to a study published in The Lancet, life expectancy at birth in Gaza declined by almost 35 years between October 2023 and September 2024, before the current phase of acute famine. A harrowing result of the genocide. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024
Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ong...
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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · Jul 27
I love this kind of paper.

A seemingly niche topic—which the authors are genuine experts in—that regardless reveals some more fundamental ideas about how humakind operates. (1/2)

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Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Jul 26
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies by Chris Buckley, Guillaume Jacques and others | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies
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