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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Cultural Evolution Paper Alert 🚨

Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · 3d

Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)

Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩

Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...

Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Finally, special thanks to Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social (with Jasmeen Kanwal, Kalyani Twyman) at the University of St Andrews, who have donated their course on "The Science of Race and Racism" to the CES global teaching community

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

And our two runners up: Olivier Morin at Université Paris Sciences et Lettres for "Methods in Cultural Evolution", and Elizabeth Price at Newcastle University for "Shared Minds: Culture, collaboration, and creativity in humans and other animals.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

7) James Holland Jones at Stanford University, for "Adaptation"

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

6) Marcelo Cardillo and Hernán Muscio at Universidad de Buenos Aires, for "Elements of Anthropology and Evolutionary Archaeology"

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

5) Sally Street at Durham University, for "Cultural Evolution of Music"

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

4) Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com and Tom Currie @tomcurrie.bsky.social at the University of Exeter, for "Evolution of Human Societies"

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

3) Luke Rendell (with M. Webster, E. Garland, C. Hobaiter) at the University of St Andrews, for "The Question of Culture in Animals"

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

2) Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social (with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Peter Richerson, Brian Vila) at
the University of California, Davis, for "Ecology, Nature, and Society"

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

1) Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social at the University of California, Merced, for "Modeling Social Behaviour"

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching.

We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 11d

Financial Award: Awardees are provided $2000 after demonstrating the impact of their new course.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 11d

Recognition: Awardees and honorable mentions provide a significant addition to any academic CV.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 11d

Networking & Mentorship: Selected applicants will have the chance to connect directly with senior academics who created the original course materials.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 11d

This award offers applicants (1/4):

Ready-to-Use Materials: All applicants gain access to vetted, well-researched course materials they can adopt and modify immediately.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 11d

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!

culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...

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Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 11d

I just had a lovely morning teaching memo with Lio Wong at #COSMOS2025 in Tokyo! Charley and Wataru have put together an absolutely *fantastic* summer school. Fascinating talks, delightful people… and excellent location. I feel so lucky to be here. If you ever get a chance to attend COSMOS, take it!

Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 11d

Now up at #COSMOS2025: @kartikchandra.bsky.social & Lio Wong giving a tutorial on recursive social reasoning using MEMO github.com/kach/memo
Fun fact: those flowers between them and 🗻 are called "cosmos".
Collab notebook here to follow along 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/#g...

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 26d

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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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 29d

Presentation submissions are open until November 16, with four submission formats: standard talks (15-20 minutes), lightning talks (5 minutes), poster presentations, and thematic sessions.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 29d

Find out more on the new conference website: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

airess.fgses-um6p.ma

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 29d

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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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 29d

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

airess.fgses-um6p.ma

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Jacob Tennessen @jacobphd.bsky.social · Sep 4

This paper is wild. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level". Whatever mitochondrial challenges you may face, at least none of your organelles is an ENTIRE INSECT.

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 27

CE Paper Alert 🚨

Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · Aug 26

"The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse"

#gaming

https://doi.org10.1017/ehs.2025.10015

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 24

Calling all CE folks interested in artificial life, get in your abstracts for the upcoming ALIFE -25!

michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣 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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