Adrian Viliami Bell
avbell.bsky.social
Adrian Viliami Bell
@avbell.bsky.social
professor and chair of anthropology at the university of utah; interested in evolution, culture, and migration
https://adrianbell.wordpress.com/
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Our recently announced ACE Course Design Awards showcased excellent teaching materials from CE courses.

We're now pleased to announce the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards, aimed at those looking to include more CE in their courses. Find out more @ the link below!

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October 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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📢 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:
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I'm co-directing an independent film w/ Ella Warnick about marine foraging, environmental adaptation, & family in Tonga, trailer:

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Still not finished! I have a job already, but to finish this film please support my young, up-and-coming co-director:

gofund.me/d9b24a5af
Fatongia | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Ella Warnick
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October 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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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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September 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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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
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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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!!
August 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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New preprint w/ Nathan Gabriel & @avbell.bsky.social: The Evolution of Identity Signals for Coordination in Diverse Societies

The model tackles multiple nested/overlapping identities and complex signaling structure. Recovers lots of old results and adds several new ones osf.io/preprints/so...
July 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🚨 CE PhD opportunity!

@onicatam.bsky.social is looking for PhD applicants interested in projects related to cultural evolution or language evolution for a fully funded scholarships at the School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University

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School of Social Sciences PhD Studentship (Psychology) at Heriot-Watt University
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June 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Applications for the Cultural Evolution ACE Course Design Awards close July 7. Consider applying to gain funding to up the impact of your courses!
📢 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.

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June 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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📢 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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May 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢

Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵
Psychology, Culture and Evolution MSc | Brunel University of London
A research-intensive psychology master's course, allowing you to understand how culture and evolution can influence human behaviour.
www.brunel.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management!

Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG...
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com
ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory
culture, evolution, cooperation, and sustainability
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March 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Thankyou CES exec for taking this courageous stance.
CES offers its full support to the Stand Up For Science rallies in the U.S. on March 7 2025.
March 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Interested in Cultural Evolution? You should check out @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's new 'Transmissions' by @ferylbadiani.bsky.social.

First episode has the inimitable @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social talking about why CE matters, and helps us understand human behavior & culture
Transmissions Episode 1 with Dr Cristina Moya
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March 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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CES offers its full support to the Stand Up For Science rallies in the U.S. on March 7 2025.
March 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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We are please to release Transmissions Ep 1, featuring Dr Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social in conversation with Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social

Cristina and Feryl chat about Cristina's work in Peru and discuss CE in human and non-human societies:

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Transmissions Episode 1 with Dr Cristina Moya
YouTube video by Cultural Evolution Society
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March 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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🎙 Exciting news! Transmissions Episode 1 features Dr. Cristina Moya.

In this episode, we explore her fieldwork in Peru, and discuss how pilgrimage sites emerge and sustain themselves over time.

It will be out on YouTube this week—Stay tuned for the link!
March 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Co-sign 👇 excellent talk covering the anti-racist origins of the field of cultural evolution and giving practical advice on how the field can counter scientific racism
February 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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For those who missed the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference in Durham last September, the recorded talks are now freely available to watch here:

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February 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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For our junior colleagues in the US looking for opportunities, Europe is a great place to do science 🧪 We have a #postdoc call open right now! #complexity

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February 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM