Amandine Visine
@amandinevisine.bsky.social
BaYaka Children & Foraging
PhD student @durhampsych.bsky.social & @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
Funded by @ninedtp.bsky.social
(She/Her)
PhD student @durhampsych.bsky.social & @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
Funded by @ninedtp.bsky.social
(She/Her)
Pinned
My poster ends this academic year with 3️⃣ prizes, and I can't wait to finish the paper and publish it with @haneuljang.bsky.social!
🏆📝👦🏿🇨🇬
🏆📝👦🏿🇨🇬
Reposted by Amandine Visine
⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure.
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity
Cross-linguistically, lexicons tend to be more phonetically clustered than required by the phonotactics of the language; that is, words within a langu…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure.
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Amandine Visine
Governments and investors are seeking minerals, timber and oil in the Congo Basin to fuel the global economy & the green transition.
However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.
However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.
Congo Basin communities bear the costs of industrial expansion
Governments and investors are seeking minerals, timber and oil in the Congo Basin to fuel the global economy and the green transition. However, communities that have lived in the world’s…
news.mongabay.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Governments and investors are seeking minerals, timber and oil in the Congo Basin to fuel the global economy & the green transition.
However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.
However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.
Reposted by Amandine Visine
New paper! We found that intensifying market integration in Rep. Congo does not uniformly shape BaYaka and Bantu adolescent behaviour and consumption, and that adolescents may be contributing to shifts in norms regarding the sharing of money.
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
BaYaka forager and Bantu fisher‐farmer adolescent engagement with intensifying market integration in the Republic of the Congo
A substantial body of anthropological research has investigated how subsistence communities engage with market-based economies. In this study, we contribute to this body of work by examining adolesce...
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
New paper! We found that intensifying market integration in Rep. Congo does not uniformly shape BaYaka and Bantu adolescent behaviour and consumption, and that adolescents may be contributing to shifts in norms regarding the sharing of money.
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It is already the 2nd day at the Global Hub on Indigenous People Food Systems, during the World Food Forum organised by the FAO.
Productive discussions between indigenous elders, academics, and politicians, about food security, diversity and peace.
Productive discussions between indigenous elders, academics, and politicians, about food security, diversity and peace.
October 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It is already the 2nd day at the Global Hub on Indigenous People Food Systems, during the World Food Forum organised by the FAO.
Productive discussions between indigenous elders, academics, and politicians, about food security, diversity and peace.
Productive discussions between indigenous elders, academics, and politicians, about food security, diversity and peace.
Reposted by Amandine Visine
Did you know it's currently Banned Books Week? 📚 Come and explore our display in Bill Bryson Library!
This week, we're celebrating books that have been challenged, removed, or silenced, and the people who write and share them.
This week, we're celebrating books that have been challenged, removed, or silenced, and the people who write and share them.
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Did you know it's currently Banned Books Week? 📚 Come and explore our display in Bill Bryson Library!
This week, we're celebrating books that have been challenged, removed, or silenced, and the people who write and share them.
This week, we're celebrating books that have been challenged, removed, or silenced, and the people who write and share them.
Pictures taken by the camp manager, who is also my big brother: a selfless, brave and amazingly valuable man in conservation.
I am so proud of him! 💚🌿🦍
I am so proud of him! 💚🌿🦍
It’s #WorldGorillaDay. WCS Congo monitors Western Lowland gorilla groups in Nouabale-Ndoki National Park. Between 2024 and 2025, at least one birth was recorded in each. A win for conservation and also a chance for experts to study the development, learning, and social dynamics. bit.ly/3VAyYS7 🌍
October 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Pictures taken by the camp manager, who is also my big brother: a selfless, brave and amazingly valuable man in conservation.
I am so proud of him! 💚🌿🦍
I am so proud of him! 💚🌿🦍
Reposted by Amandine Visine
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...
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...
July 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Amandine Visine
💙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...
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
academic.oup.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
💙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...
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...
Reposted by Amandine Visine
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
Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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
Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
Reposted by Amandine Visine
@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/...
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
September 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
@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/...
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/...
Reposted by Amandine Visine
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 🥹
September 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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 🥹
Reposted by Amandine Visine
A project started shortly before Covid hit has finally arrived in print, phew!
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
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A project started shortly before Covid hit has finally arrived in print, phew!
Reposted by Amandine Visine
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?...
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
August 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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?...
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?...
Thank you to all 🗳️ Durham University voters 🗳️ who gave my poster the 1st place in the DCAD Poster competition! 🥇
This means a lot! All your comments and feedback were highly useful 🌸
This means a lot! All your comments and feedback were highly useful 🌸
Yesterday, my poster...
🌿- BaYaka nursing mothers and girls engage in 'Relay Cooperation' during foraging trips -🌿
... won the Runner Up position at DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) annual Poster Competition! 🥈
I am glad that the content appealed to academics out of Anthropology! 🌍
🌿- BaYaka nursing mothers and girls engage in 'Relay Cooperation' during foraging trips -🌿
... won the Runner Up position at DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) annual Poster Competition! 🥈
I am glad that the content appealed to academics out of Anthropology! 🌍
July 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thank you to all 🗳️ Durham University voters 🗳️ who gave my poster the 1st place in the DCAD Poster competition! 🥇
This means a lot! All your comments and feedback were highly useful 🌸
This means a lot! All your comments and feedback were highly useful 🌸
Reposted by Amandine Visine
Did you know that our field guide to cross-cultural research on childhood learning is completely FREE?
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
books.openbookpublishers.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Did you know that our field guide to cross-cultural research on childhood learning is completely FREE?
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
Yesterday, my poster...
🌿- BaYaka nursing mothers and girls engage in 'Relay Cooperation' during foraging trips -🌿
... won the Runner Up position at DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) annual Poster Competition! 🥈
I am glad that the content appealed to academics out of Anthropology! 🌍
🌿- BaYaka nursing mothers and girls engage in 'Relay Cooperation' during foraging trips -🌿
... won the Runner Up position at DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) annual Poster Competition! 🥈
I am glad that the content appealed to academics out of Anthropology! 🌍
June 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Yesterday, my poster...
🌿- BaYaka nursing mothers and girls engage in 'Relay Cooperation' during foraging trips -🌿
... won the Runner Up position at DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) annual Poster Competition! 🥈
I am glad that the content appealed to academics out of Anthropology! 🌍
🌿- BaYaka nursing mothers and girls engage in 'Relay Cooperation' during foraging trips -🌿
... won the Runner Up position at DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) annual Poster Competition! 🥈
I am glad that the content appealed to academics out of Anthropology! 🌍
Throwback on a great Summer School week at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social:
Great Talks, great talks, a beautiful blue sky, and a gorgeous city.
Additionally, we learnt a lot about the history of Belfast and Northern Ireland. Thank you to all the academics for sharing. 💚
@ninedtp.bsky.social
Great Talks, great talks, a beautiful blue sky, and a gorgeous city.
Additionally, we learnt a lot about the history of Belfast and Northern Ireland. Thank you to all the academics for sharing. 💚
@ninedtp.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Throwback on a great Summer School week at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social:
Great Talks, great talks, a beautiful blue sky, and a gorgeous city.
Additionally, we learnt a lot about the history of Belfast and Northern Ireland. Thank you to all the academics for sharing. 💚
@ninedtp.bsky.social
Great Talks, great talks, a beautiful blue sky, and a gorgeous city.
Additionally, we learnt a lot about the history of Belfast and Northern Ireland. Thank you to all the academics for sharing. 💚
@ninedtp.bsky.social
Reposted by Amandine Visine
I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition!
My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.
My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.
June 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition!
My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.
My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.
Yesterday, NINE DTP Summer School started at Queen's University, Belfast!
The first keynote was a fascinating talk by Foluke Adebisi, on the history and aspects of decolonisation.
@ninedtp.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
The first keynote was a fascinating talk by Foluke Adebisi, on the history and aspects of decolonisation.
@ninedtp.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yesterday, NINE DTP Summer School started at Queen's University, Belfast!
The first keynote was a fascinating talk by Foluke Adebisi, on the history and aspects of decolonisation.
@ninedtp.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
The first keynote was a fascinating talk by Foluke Adebisi, on the history and aspects of decolonisation.
@ninedtp.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Reposted by Amandine Visine
If you have a hunter-gatherer related paper sitting in your file-drawer with excellent methods but a 'null' finding, please consider the Journal of Hunter-Gatherer Research.
Submission instructions are on our website:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr
Submission instructions are on our website:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr
Keep calling for a better publishing model. Keep pushing for preprints, preregs, replications. Keep publishing 'null' findings as reviewers and editors. Push for open data and celebrate authors who have the integrity to make retractions. Keep pushing to improve statistical literacy.
June 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you have a hunter-gatherer related paper sitting in your file-drawer with excellent methods but a 'null' finding, please consider the Journal of Hunter-Gatherer Research.
Submission instructions are on our website:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr
Submission instructions are on our website:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr
Reposted by Amandine Visine
Inclusion of #dementia in the WHO’s and UN’s discussions about non-communicable diseases could drastically change attitudes worldwide and could improve access to care and support for people living with the condition and their carers, writes Paola Barbarino in Nature. 🧪
Dementia is deadly — the UN needs to take it more seriously
Improved recognition of dementia as a major non-communicable disease by multilateral organizations is crucial, to build awareness and increase funding to tackle this insidious illness.
go.nature.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Inclusion of #dementia in the WHO’s and UN’s discussions about non-communicable diseases could drastically change attitudes worldwide and could improve access to care and support for people living with the condition and their carers, writes Paola Barbarino in Nature. 🧪
Today I received the books ordered by @ehbea.bsky.social for the Poster Award. 🥰
This is going to be perfect reading for my PhD. 📚
Thanks again @ehbea2025.bsky.social!
This is going to be perfect reading for my PhD. 📚
Thanks again @ehbea2025.bsky.social!
June 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Today I received the books ordered by @ehbea.bsky.social for the Poster Award. 🥰
This is going to be perfect reading for my PhD. 📚
Thanks again @ehbea2025.bsky.social!
This is going to be perfect reading for my PhD. 📚
Thanks again @ehbea2025.bsky.social!
This week, Eco Durham hosted a powerful and insightful event.
Using an intersectional lens, 3 speakers (see 🧵) presented how Environmentalism is often weaponised by colonial powers.
This was a truly moving panel which, through the pain and injustice, raised hope, awareness and solidarity.
Using an intersectional lens, 3 speakers (see 🧵) presented how Environmentalism is often weaponised by colonial powers.
This was a truly moving panel which, through the pain and injustice, raised hope, awareness and solidarity.
May 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This week, Eco Durham hosted a powerful and insightful event.
Using an intersectional lens, 3 speakers (see 🧵) presented how Environmentalism is often weaponised by colonial powers.
This was a truly moving panel which, through the pain and injustice, raised hope, awareness and solidarity.
Using an intersectional lens, 3 speakers (see 🧵) presented how Environmentalism is often weaponised by colonial powers.
This was a truly moving panel which, through the pain and injustice, raised hope, awareness and solidarity.
A couple of pictures from Tuesday, received the price and vouchers, delivered by @cristinacost.bsky.social and @durhamrmcentre.bsky.social. a
The said picture, caption, and description are below 👇🏻
'A Drop of Knowledge'
The said picture, caption, and description are below 👇🏻
'A Drop of Knowledge'
May 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A couple of pictures from Tuesday, received the price and vouchers, delivered by @cristinacost.bsky.social and @durhamrmcentre.bsky.social. a
The said picture, caption, and description are below 👇🏻
'A Drop of Knowledge'
The said picture, caption, and description are below 👇🏻
'A Drop of Knowledge'
My picture won the first prize of the Open Category!
Thanks to the voters 🥰
Thanks to the voters 🥰
Picturing Research Competition Winners!!! We were really pleased with the number of entries received and the standard of the work was outstanding! See the winning entries here - www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...
Picture Competition Winners Post 2025 - Durham University
www.dur.ac.uk
May 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My picture won the first prize of the Open Category!
Thanks to the voters 🥰
Thanks to the voters 🥰