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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Rebecca Sear

culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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!

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by Darren P. Croft — Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

darrencroft.bsky.social
We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.

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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

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🚨 Last days to submit! 🚨

Join the Workshop on Cultural Evolution of Planet X at @alife2025.bsky.social (Kyoto, Oct 7).

We welcome abstracts on cultural evolution and emergent culture in artificial systems. Work presented elsewhere too!

📅 Deadline: Sept 20
🔗 sites.google.com/view/planetx...
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Joanna Bryson, John Kennedy , and 5 more

babeheim.bsky.social
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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by Alex Mesoudi — Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Joanna Bryson, Hugo Mercier , and 1 more

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Abstract submission now open for the next Cultural Evolution Society conference in Rabat, Morocco next May @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 26d
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
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Ruth Mace, Simon J. Greenhill , and 5 more

culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Simon J. Greenhill, Hugo Mercier , and 1 more

culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

kenjiitao.bsky.social
🔔ACE Seminar:
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Siyang Luo from Sun Yat-sen University!

🗓 Mon, Sep 22 at 7:00 PM JST (18:00 (Perth/Singapore/Beijing), 19:00 (Tokyo/Seoul), 20:00 (Sydney))
✉️ To receive the Zoom link, send a blank email to: [email protected]
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Hugo Mercier, Rebecca Sear , and 2 more

sheinalew.bsky.social
@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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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

joshcjackson.bsky.social
@helenamiton.bsky.social and I have a new paper out:

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

Past theories focus on how we evolve complex technologies (jet engines), but neglect cultural innovations that help us operate these technologies (pilot checklist)

Paper has tons of examples and new theory!
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by Alex Mesoudi

alexmesoudi.com
Friends and colleagues in the Berlin area:

Next week (8-12 Sep) I will be visiting the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung (WZB) (Berlin Social Science Centre) @wzb.bsky.social

Let me know if you'd like to meet for a coffee / drink / currywurst
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Joanna Bryson, Ruth Mace

jeremykendal.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

simoncolumbus.bsky.social
⚡ Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia ⚡

We are excited to announce the next run of Cooperation Colloquia. With @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, @setayeshradkani.bsky.social, @kris-smith.bsky.social, @alexmesoudi.com, & more.

Every second Friday, 15:00 CE(S)T

Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
Speaker list for the Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia: 2025-09-12 | Doruk İriş (Sogang University) 2025-09-26 | Talbot M. Andrews (Cornell University) 2025-10-10 | Setayesh Radkani (MIT) 2025-10-24 | Christian Ruff (University of Zürich) 2025-11-07 | Bianca Beersma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 2025-11-21 | Kristopher M. Smith (Washington State University) 2025-12-05 | Alex Mesoudi (University of Exeter)
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Simon J. Greenhill, Lesley A. Hall , and 1 more

twaring.bsky.social
🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵

🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards.

🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Simon J. Greenhill

mchimento.bsky.social
📣 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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by Alex Mesoudi — Reposted by: Rebecca Sear

alexmesoudi.com
"Trusting the experts" is not just a feature of modern science and democracy, it's a feature of our evolved capacity for culture, and a major driver of human cultural evolution more broadly.

For more, see this paper called, coincidentally, "Trusting the experts".

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Nathan Nunn, Rebecca Sear

culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Rebecca Sear

culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Bill Thompson

culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
We are excited to advertise the Asian Cultural Evolution (ACE) seminar series! It's organized by Kenji Itao, Xinyue Pan & Wataru Toyokawa, and seminars will take place on the third Tuesday of odd-numbered months at 19:00 JST (18:00 Perth/Singapore/Beijing, 19:00 Tokyo/Seoul, 20:00 Sydney).
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

garymarcus.bsky.social
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others
And they knew perfectly well what they were doing
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

thecharleywu.bsky.social
🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science:
How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

larschittka.bsky.social
I'm super happy that Michelle Maldonado and I have both won awards for "best acting" in Osseily Hanna's film The Last Bee, at the Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, David W. Lawson

culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content.

Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

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Cumulative cultural evolution is facilitated by relatively indiscriminate information sharing rather than reputation-based partner choice: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jt8fg_v1
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Simon J. Greenhill

culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Alberto Acerbi

bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Jul 23
Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
@lucasmolleman.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Feature-based reward learning shapes human social learning strategies - Nature Human Behaviour
This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments and simulations, it shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shapin...
www.nature.com
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi

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Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
@lucasmolleman.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Feature-based reward learning shapes human social learning strategies - Nature Human Behaviour
This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments and simulations, it shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shapin...
www.nature.com
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by Alex Mesoudi

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Wondering how you build a cathedral without the transmission of knowledge about how to build a cathedral
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by Alex Mesoudi

alexmesoudi.com
I think we took that logo image from Kroeber, didn’t we?
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Reposted by: Alex Mesoudi, Martín Haspelmath

patrickesavage.bsky.social
Cool new @PeerCommunityIn.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy recommendation by @alexmesoudi.com of an article on melodic evolution by @johnmcbride4lyf.bsky.social et al.
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Human cognition structures cross-cultural variation in musical m...
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