Centre for Culture and Evolution
@brunelcce.bsky.social
Exploring the intersection of culture, evolution, psychology and anthropology. We study how culture and evolution shape human behaviour and society
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Highlighting these postdoc opportunities in the Pontzer Lab at Duke University for #WplusEBSWednesday!
One position is for "Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate", and the other is for "Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN)".
Start date is between Jan 15th 2026 and July 1st 2026.
One position is for "Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate", and the other is for "Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN)".
Start date is between Jan 15th 2026 and July 1st 2026.
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University!
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke - HBES
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30783 Position Description The Pontzer Lab in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University seeks two Postdoctoral Associates for research in h...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Highlighting these postdoc opportunities in the Pontzer Lab at Duke University for #WplusEBSWednesday!
One position is for "Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate", and the other is for "Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN)".
Start date is between Jan 15th 2026 and July 1st 2026.
One position is for "Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate", and the other is for "Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN)".
Start date is between Jan 15th 2026 and July 1st 2026.
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In addition to our last #WplusEBSWednesday post, we also want to recommend some cool R color palettes we've come across:
First, the MetBrewer palette: github.com/BlakeRMills/...
And also the wesanderson palette:
github.com/karthik/wesa...
What are your favorite R color palettes? Comment below!
First, the MetBrewer palette: github.com/BlakeRMills/...
And also the wesanderson palette:
github.com/karthik/wesa...
What are your favorite R color palettes? Comment below!
GitHub - BlakeRMills/MetBrewer: Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York - BlakeRMills/MetBrewer
github.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In addition to our last #WplusEBSWednesday post, we also want to recommend some cool R color palettes we've come across:
First, the MetBrewer palette: github.com/BlakeRMills/...
And also the wesanderson palette:
github.com/karthik/wesa...
What are your favorite R color palettes? Comment below!
First, the MetBrewer palette: github.com/BlakeRMills/...
And also the wesanderson palette:
github.com/karthik/wesa...
What are your favorite R color palettes? Comment below!
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Here’s more information on the race science network now being published across so many journals in the evolutionary behavioural sciences
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science...
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science...
Race Science Inc. | HOPE not hate
Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Here’s more information on the race science network now being published across so many journals in the evolutionary behavioural sciences
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science...
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science...
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The influence of race science is spreading in the evolutionary behavioural sciences. This new paper means members of a race science network have now been published in Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Behavioral Science, Evolutionary Psychology & Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The influence of race science is spreading in the evolutionary behavioural sciences. This new paper means members of a race science network have now been published in Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Behavioral Science, Evolutionary Psychology & Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology
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Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...
New paper!
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...
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Armed with THAMES, 80% of my students predicted that my shitty old Science study wouldn't replicate 🤘
Concerns cited: Cute assumptions, validity, weak results, cultural alternatives.
This was a lot of fun
Concerns cited: Cute assumptions, validity, weak results, cultural alternatives.
This was a lot of fun
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Armed with THAMES, 80% of my students predicted that my shitty old Science study wouldn't replicate 🤘
Concerns cited: Cute assumptions, validity, weak results, cultural alternatives.
This was a lot of fun
Concerns cited: Cute assumptions, validity, weak results, cultural alternatives.
This was a lot of fun
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Don't hesitate, apply for our Advancing Cultural Evolution Teaching Innovation awards -
The deadline is the 17th of November, so you've got one more week to get your application in!
culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...
The deadline is the 17th of November, so you've got one more week to get your application in!
culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...
Grants and Awards - Cultural Evolution Society
culturalevolutionsociety.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Don't hesitate, apply for our Advancing Cultural Evolution Teaching Innovation awards -
The deadline is the 17th of November, so you've got one more week to get your application in!
culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...
The deadline is the 17th of November, so you've got one more week to get your application in!
culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...
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🧠👀 Dr Rachel Bennetts, our expert in face processing at Brunel psychology, shared her thoughts in @theguardian.com on a fascinating new study exploring what makes some people exceptional at recognising faces 😶🌫️
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AI study gives insights into why super-recognisers excel at identifying faces
Research uses eye-tracking data to examine some people’s extraordinary recognition ability
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🧠👀 Dr Rachel Bennetts, our expert in face processing at Brunel psychology, shared her thoughts in @theguardian.com on a fascinating new study exploring what makes some people exceptional at recognising faces 😶🌫️
🔗 👇
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Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
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Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
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November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
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👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November.
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November.
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
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Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PRIO invites applications for a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in evolutionary, cultural or social anthropology, or a closely related field, ...
www.prio.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
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🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity in Psychology!
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Júlia Palik).
📍 Location: Oslo, Norway
🗓️ Deadline: November 24, 2025
🔗 Apply here: www.prio.org/about/career...
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Júlia Palik).
📍 Location: Oslo, Norway
🗓️ Deadline: November 24, 2025
🔗 Apply here: www.prio.org/about/career...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Psychology – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PRIO invites applications for a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in social psychology/ psychology/ cognitive science or a closely related fiel ...
www.prio.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity in Psychology!
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Júlia Palik).
📍 Location: Oslo, Norway
🗓️ Deadline: November 24, 2025
🔗 Apply here: www.prio.org/about/career...
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Júlia Palik).
📍 Location: Oslo, Norway
🗓️ Deadline: November 24, 2025
🔗 Apply here: www.prio.org/about/career...
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Prepping a lecture on paternal care and revisiting this brilliant 2024 article by Brooke Scelza.
Such a good demonstration of the value of an anthropological lens when thinking about the evolution of human family life.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Such a good demonstration of the value of an anthropological lens when thinking about the evolution of human family life.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The cuckoldry conundrum
Concerns about cuckoldry are a dominant theme in evolutionary studies of mating, frequently used to explain sex differences in reproductive strategies. However, studies in nonhuman species have shown...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Prepping a lecture on paternal care and revisiting this brilliant 2024 article by Brooke Scelza.
Such a good demonstration of the value of an anthropological lens when thinking about the evolution of human family life.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Such a good demonstration of the value of an anthropological lens when thinking about the evolution of human family life.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Reminder for this week's #WplusEBSWednesday!
Please submit any resources or opportunities (in the comments below or in the google form) you think we should highlight for our community!
Stay tuned for our post tomorrow :)
Please submit any resources or opportunities (in the comments below or in the google form) you think we should highlight for our community!
Stay tuned for our post tomorrow :)
Have a resource, recommendation, or opportunity you think would benefit our community?
Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2)
🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z...
#WplusEBS
Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2)
🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z...
#WplusEBS
W+EBS Wednesdays Recommendation Form
Have a resource, opportunity, or recommendation you think would be valuable to the Women+ in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences (W+EBS) community?
Every Wednesday, we share posts featuring useful tools,...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reminder for this week's #WplusEBSWednesday!
Please submit any resources or opportunities (in the comments below or in the google form) you think we should highlight for our community!
Stay tuned for our post tomorrow :)
Please submit any resources or opportunities (in the comments below or in the google form) you think we should highlight for our community!
Stay tuned for our post tomorrow :)
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An especially good episode against even a strong background
This week we talk to @babeheim.bsky.social about culture, change, modeling, running red lights, and the game of go.
youtu.be/nqTkSK-qtJM
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youtu.be/nqTkSK-qtJM
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Cultural Dynamics with Bret Breheim
YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)
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November 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
An especially good episode against even a strong background
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📢 Here is my commentary about the pitfalls of taking an impoverished evolutionary approach to culture, which include 'the limitations of a unidirectional model of evolution' and 'the neglect of niche construction theory'. #ehbea #evolution #psychscisky 🧪
🧵 1/2
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André
www.sciencedirect.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📢 Here is my commentary about the pitfalls of taking an impoverished evolutionary approach to culture, which include 'the limitations of a unidirectional model of evolution' and 'the neglect of niche construction theory'. #ehbea #evolution #psychscisky 🧪
🧵 1/2
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧵 1/2
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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YES! Anthropology.
Young people don't need more "Religious Education" to live in modern world.
If it's inclusion/social cohesion govt is aiming for, then a better approach would be to drop RE, and create new subject Anthropology, on critical thinking, philosophy & belief systems.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
If it's inclusion/social cohesion govt is aiming for, then a better approach would be to drop RE, and create new subject Anthropology, on critical thinking, philosophy & belief systems.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
National curriculum review in England: 10 key recommendations
Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
YES! Anthropology.
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The concept of "fitness" is central to evolutionary biology but it's not entirely worked out. There are multiple definitions, doubts about predictive power, problems with internal consistency. Here's a paper from last year attempting to solve some of these problems. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The concept of "fitness" is central to evolutionary biology but it's not entirely worked out. There are multiple definitions, doubts about predictive power, problems with internal consistency. Here's a paper from last year attempting to solve some of these problems. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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This #WplusEBSWednesday, we're highlighting that #EHBEA2026 is soliciting abstract submissions until December 15th!
Leiden looking good today ;-)
📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026
⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April
📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance)
For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com
📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026
⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April
📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance)
For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This #WplusEBSWednesday, we're highlighting that #EHBEA2026 is soliciting abstract submissions until December 15th!
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Positions are also open on the EHBEA Committee! Submit nominations for EHBEA president and secretary by December 16th!
#WplusEBSWednesday
#WplusEBSWednesday
EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀
If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president!
If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary!
DEADLINE: 16/12/2026
HERE IS THE FORM 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president!
If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary!
DEADLINE: 16/12/2026
HERE IS THE FORM 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EHBEACommitteeNominationForm_Pres_Sec.doc
EHBEA Committee 2026-2029: Nomination Form The EHBEA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for the following open committee positions for 2026-2029. You are invited to nominate one or more c...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Positions are also open on the EHBEA Committee! Submit nominations for EHBEA president and secretary by December 16th!
#WplusEBSWednesday
#WplusEBSWednesday
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Really enjoyed this podcast with @sheinalew.bsky.social and @dorsaamir.bsky.social on evolution and childhood. Super-smart people talking about a super-interesting topic
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Varieties of childhood
Podcast Episode · Many Minds · 10/07/2025 · 1h 29m
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November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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New research on wild chimpanzees shows juvenile innovation is not play but a cultural engine. Young chimps invent tools, refine adult techniques, and introduce novelty. What if childhood experimentation drove early human cultural evolution too? #Primatology #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanOrigins
Young chimpanzees invent tools, modify adult techniques, and explore in ways that spark cultural change. New research suggests childhood curiosity may have fueled innovation long before Homo sapiens shaped history. #Anthropology #Primates #Evolution #Science www.primatology.net/p/the-little...
The Little Inventors of the Forest
Young chimpanzees build tools, break rules, and may hold clues to how culture first evolved
www.primatology.net
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
New research on wild chimpanzees shows juvenile innovation is not play but a cultural engine. Young chimps invent tools, refine adult techniques, and introduce novelty. What if childhood experimentation drove early human cultural evolution too? #Primatology #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanOrigins
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws?
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws?
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...