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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 11d

I am happy to announce that our project on risk and social learning is now in press at Psychological Review. Several new additions and revisions thanks to detailed feedback from colleagues and anonymous reviewers. osf.io/preprints/so...
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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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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 22d

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 23d

It’s really funny that you can amass hundreds of billions of dollars, and still
Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.

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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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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

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Natália B. Dutra @nataliabdutra.bsky.social · 26d

Can't recommend these two enough. Fantastic women, amazing projects 👏👏👏

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

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · 26d

Durham's Dunagree Lab continues to be the most wonderful workplace. Thank you to @sheinalew.bsky.social, @chimpanzeve.bsky.social, @fhillemann.bsky.social, @amandinevisine.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky for the surprise baby shower today 🥹

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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

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · 29d

Super proud of this work and very grateful for all the amazing people who provided valuable feedback along the way @remivantrijp.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @cedricboeckx.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️🙏

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 29d

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred

I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain

Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Sep 4

Mourning ritual participation, subjective well-being and prosocial behaviour among the Luhya people of Kenya #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution @sheinalew.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · Sep 3

Finally, a special shout out to @asatsa.bsky.social for his incredible work bridging cultural evolution with Indigenous Psychology, and for his impeccable mentorship of the next generation of scholars from Africa and beyond

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · Sep 3

Co-author I could find on bluesky are @err-ring.bsky.social

Thanks to @cultevolfunding.bsky.social for funding this work, and to the participants for taking part in research at an especially vulnerable time in their lives.

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 New paper led by ‪@asatsa.bsky.social‬! We show that participation in Luhya mourning rituals overall increases well-being and cooperation among the bereaved, yet qualitative findings show they can also be perceived negatively by some community members

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Mourning ritual participation, subjective well-being and prosocial behaviour among the Luhya people of Kenya | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

This study explores the relationship between participation in mourning rituals, well-being and prosociality within the Luhya community of western Kenya. Cooperation, essential for human success, is of...

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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just causally dropping this here

Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Jul 4

🧵 1/ Eugenics isn’t ancient history

@rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social traces how the 19th-century idea of “improving” humanity through selective breeding keeps mutating - and why it never stopped threatening human rights 👇

The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · Aug 31

A lot of evo anth people are trying extremely hard to fight the researgence of eugenic thinking using their own disciplinary toolkit.

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · Aug 25

The transphobe argument against trans women in sports is also inherently misogynistic as it assumes all women are inherently inferior to men.

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · Aug 18

Bel article qui met en valeur notre site d’étude au Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana, ainsi que les recherches de ma doctorante (Marine Larrivaz) et de mes étudiants à la maîtrise (Médrick Heppell, Francis Latour) sur les colobes femelles et leurs petits.🧪 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Cinq mois dans une jungle au Ghana pour étudier des singes menacés

Deux étudiants de maîtrise en anthropologie passent cinq mois isolés dans une forêt du Ghana pour percer les secrets reproductifs d’une espèce de primate menacée d’extinction.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Aug 15

My excellent colleague, Dr Sophie Hodgetts is running a public webinar about teaching about sex and gender in psychology.

'Sharing reflections and practical strategies for delivering education that is accurate, evidence-based, and just.'

It's free to join and you can register below:

Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 8

"in England & Japan, identity development seems an important part of being a teenager. However, teenagers in Japan may think about themselves differently than in England. Results highlight the importance of understanding & considering culture when thinking about developmental processes and pathways"

Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · Aug 8

New paper!

What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence?

Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Adolescence as a Key Period of Identity Development and Connectedness: A Comparative Autophotography Study in England and Japan - Emily H. Emmott, Yasuo Ihara, Yudai Tokumasu, Mari Nozaki, Atsuko Sait...

Adolescence is identified as a key period for identity development, but anthropological literature hints at cross-cultural variations. Past research suggests Ja...

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · Aug 6

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

www.theguardian.com

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Aug 4

Varieties of childhood 🏺🧪
disi.org/varieties-of...

Dr. Dorsa Amir & Dr. @sheinalew.bsky.social discuss different ways childhood differs, in terms of parents’ attitudes toward risk, in terms of social structures and activities in which kids are embedded, and in terms of freedom children are granted.

Kids with funny faces drawn on their hands
Image by Lora Moore-Kakaletris via Unsplash

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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · Jul 23

Science and society thrive through collaboration!

Meet our Feodor Lynen Research fellow @fhillemann.bsky.social ‬ and her host @sheinalew.bsky.social, as they reflect on the importance of shared learning in both indigenous communities and academia.

www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/n...

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · Jul 24

Children are often cast as passive vessels into which we pour culture. But children create cultures of their own—vibrant ones with special properties.

Just one of the topics discussed in our recent episode with @dorsaamir.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social!

Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...

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