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Haneul Jang
@haneuljang.bsky.social
Anthropologist studying motherhood, cooperative foraging & childcare, and knowledge transmission among BaYaka foragers in the Congolese rainforest

Research scientist @ird-fr.bsky.social

https://sites.google.com/view/haneuljang
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💙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

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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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🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMET🚨

EHBEA wants to congratulate @drboothroyd.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social on earning the 2026 EHBEA Award in Excellence in Public Communication and Outreach👏

@durhampsych.bsky.social
@durham.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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🚨 New Paper Alert!

We investigated the developmental trajectories of intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic social norm acquisition among BaYaka and Bandongo in northern Rep. Congo, a community where inter-ethnic cooperation is common. We found that...

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The social learning and development of intra- and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin
Compared to other species, the extent of human cooperation is unparalleled. Such cooperation is coordinated between community members via social norms. Developmental research has demonstrated that ver...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉

We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
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January 30, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Great to read Vivek's interview with Bob - lots of interesting things here. And not just the insights into Binford's data collection 😱. Thanks to both Vivek and Bob for the publication!
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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I was surprised by children's large contribution to family food production in my hunter-gatherer family simulation. Of course, they're eating most of this food, too! From this paper linking the evolution of menopause to family energy balance: menopause-preprint.wisp.place 🧪 #BioAnth
January 21, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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New article in Hunter Gatherer Research!

Foraging societies practice consensus-based politics. We conduct a xc review and argue that it helps to boost collective intelligence.

Consensus, cooperation and collective intelligence in foraging societies
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Consensus, cooperation and collective intelligence in foraging societies | Hunter Gatherer Research
Consensus-based collective decision-making is a common feature of political life in hunter-gatherer (forager) societies. In this paper, we ask why. Synthesising evidence from anthropology and experimental social psychology, we argue that consensus-based ...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Latest crop of early online papers at HGR includes some bangers - if I do say so myself. Not just this report on BaYaka Women's autonomy and my own article about cage traps, but also Sterelny on quasi-darwinian mechanisms in cultural evolution.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...
January 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Our new paper in Hunter-Gatherer Research!

We explored women’s decision-making power within households in two subsistence communities with different gender norms (BaYaka foragers & Bandongo fisher-farmers) in the Congolese rainforest ✨
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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The International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health will hold its annual meeting 28-31 July in Kiel, Germany. Abstract submission deadline 1 March isemph.org/page-18356
ISEMPH - 2026 in Kiel, Germany
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January 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques!
Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026
Fully funded PhD project available at Nottingham Trent University. Linked to a BBSRC funded grant, this project will investigate how primates perceive and respond to infants, combining cutting-edge cognitive testing with behavioural data. See 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨

We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.

Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.

Full time, 2 years, no teaching.

Deadline: Jan 23

www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
An outstanding and beautifully filmed documentary inspired by Sarah Hrdy’s “Father Time”, exploring the physiological and emotional changes men experience when becoming fathers and their deep evolutionary roots.

Streaming here until Feb 5, 2026 (French only for now):

www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
Paternité, une métamorphose décryptée - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Devenir père est une aventure dans la vie d’un homme, mais aussi une métamorphose physiologique que la science commence tout juste à révéler. Enquête sur les racines biologiques de la paternité à part...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A month ago, at a workshop funded by @fondationfyssen.bsky.social we discussed how hunter-gatherer studies can contribute to the emerging field of ‘More-than-human’ anthropology. These discussions are now developing into a joint publication. Please stay tuned! 💙
Two days, 11 researchers, countless ideas!
"More-than-human anthropology and hunter-gatherer studies", led by Thomas Widlok, member of the Fyssen Scientific Council.
Romain Duda, Edmond Dounias, Jerome Lewis, Alice Vittoria, Simon Hoyte, Franz Krause, Haneul Jang, Ivan Tacey, Aung Si, Velina Ninkova
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Happy #WplusEBSWednesday, folks!

This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr .

Applications due Dec. 15!

Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :)
www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences Application
Application to the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences taking place from May 25th to June 19th, 2026 in Toulouse, France Application deadline: December 15th, 2025 Applicants will be...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Fascinating longitudinal study in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @alicebaniel.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social and colleagues, providing evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate (gelada) 🧪
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate
Baniel et al. show that female geladas deceptively signal fertility when a new dominant male arrives. Across 14 years of data, lactating females displayed fertility signals and mated without conceivin...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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🚨🐵 New MS: rdcu.be/eQDX7 ... behavioural syndromes are associated with how much individual Barbary macaques adjusted affiliative behaviour across multiple socioecological gradients... including human-related activity! (1/3)
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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I’m recruiting PhD students at NYU (start Sept 2026).
Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development.

Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon.

I’ll share more about the move & new work soon.

Please share with students & retweet!
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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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...
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 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Come and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution

"Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics"

www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr...

More details here:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz

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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!

Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.

📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme

More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Postdoctoral fellow
www.ugent.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM