Please do check out this new article aiming to help students and ECRs with peer reviewing - why we do it, what it involves and what makes a good peer review, the types of challenges they and editors face and offering potential solutions 👇

Leher Singh @lehersingh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sharing a new article aimed at students and early career scholars on how to do a good peer review in developmental psychology. We offer a framework for a good peer review and suggestions on how to navigate challenges, including AI. The article is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Things I thought I’d never say - here’s a new manuscript of cockroach and rat collective intelligence. We argue group-level intelligence can emerge from very different mechanisms—from simple local rules to socially mediated cooperation and learning: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Clever vermin? Collective intelligence in rats and roaches

Abstract. Collective intelligence (CI) is the capacity of groups to outperform individuals in tasks such as decision-making, coordination and problem-solvi

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Things I thought I’d never say - here’s a new manuscript of cockroach and rat collective intelligence. We argue group-level intelligence can emerge from very different mechanisms—from simple local rules to socially mediated cooperation and learning: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Clever vermin? Collective intelligence in rats and roaches

Abstract. Collective intelligence (CI) is the capacity of groups to outperform individuals in tasks such as decision-making, coordination and problem-solvi

royalsocietypublishing.org

Please do check out this new article aiming to help students and ECRs with peer reviewing - why we do it, what it involves and what makes a good peer review, the types of challenges they and editors face and offering potential solutions 👇

Leher Singh @lehersingh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sharing a new article aimed at students and early career scholars on how to do a good peer review in developmental psychology. We offer a framework for a good peer review and suggestions on how to navigate challenges, including AI. The article is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural #evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges. It highlights research funded by the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's Transformation Fund, which focused on #DEI: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

🚨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

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New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Creative minds, equal ground: no socioeconomic gaps in UK children's divergent and convergent thinking

Creativity is seen as a critical 21st-century skill that should be identified and harnessed early. Despite much work suggesting enriched environments …

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New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Creative minds, equal ground: no socioeconomic gaps in UK children's divergent and convergent thinking

Creativity is seen as a critical 21st-century skill that should be identified and harnessed early. Despite much work suggesting enriched environments …

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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

Lovely surprise in the post today - a hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evoltuon, superbly edited by @rachkendal.bsky.social @jeremykendal.bsky.social and Jamie Tehrani, featuring a chapter by @simonreader.bsky.social and I on Innovation!

Just launched! Professional short online courses in behavioural science at Durham University. 👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3 👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK

Tagging @rkapitany.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @brucerawlings.bsky.social and the tireless @lhlidborg.bsky.social who actually coordinated and compiled all the stydent power reviews and read every chapter TWICE for English-as-second-language checks.

Intense but fun day as the (almost) full editing team for 'the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook' met to go through the entire book post 'user' peer review. Glad to say we've got some amazing reviewers in @durhampsych.bsky.social - I'll never write student-facing material without their input again! #LTHE

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob Deadline: 20th July ⏳ Start: From September 🗓️ Please share 🔁

Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6

The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...

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🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳 Are you curious about 🧒 developmental, 🌍 cross-cultural 🦧 species comparative research on cooperative sustainability? All info here or dm me with questions! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job... Please share! 🙏

I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇 www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...

Championing Equity in Developmental Science: A Conversation with Bruce Rawlings

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I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇 www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...

Championing Equity in Developmental Science: A Conversation with Bruce Rawlings

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Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Scholarship for Durham University Students £15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26. Durham people please spread the word! Application form 👇

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

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

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.

the deadline for the special issue on the development of innovation and creativity in children and other animals is soon - led by @karrineldner.bsky.social, Gökhan Gönül and myself. Do get in touch if you have any questions (or need a little more time!). www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Our brilliant @proftammiwalker.bsky.social is speaking on this important topic today at the Public Policy Exchange event 'Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system'

Prof. Tammi Walker@proftammiwalker.bsky.social · last yr.

Very honoured to be speaking at this event next week - Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system. 😀 www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/event.php?ev...

And if you are a senior researcher, attend! This was such a fun day full of cutting edge metascience last year.

Call for submission: Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2025 | Paul Meehl Graduate School

We are delighted to announce the second round of the Paul Meehl Graduate School’s Meta-Research Symposium, which will kick off...

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Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for submissions: Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2025! October 17, 2025, at Eindhoven University of Technology Keynotes: Dr. Duygu Uygun-Tunç and Dr. Lisa Spitzer ECR's: Submit your talk before 31st of June! paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-05-26-p...

10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity

Cultural Evolution Society@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications! -Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ... -ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN... -Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...

Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught! Videos will worth watching www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Tool use aids prey-fishing in a specialist predator of stingless bees | PNAS

Tool use is widely reported across a broad range of the animal kingdom, yet comprehensive empirical tests of its function and evolutionary drivers ...

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really cool paper by @vkempe.bsky.social tracking child directed (well, broadcasted) speech over several decades to assess cultural variability of cds acoustic features: eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50... I suspect vowel space area might also have changed?

I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

Open Book Publishers@openbookpublish.bsky.social · last yr.

OUT NOW: A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning reimagines how we study kids—globally. With voices from 21 countries, this inclusive, practical guide bridges disciplines and challenges Western-centric research. buff.ly/0qk1cOs

And in an exciting new development, @emilymljeffries.bsky.social of @durhamanthropology.bsky.social wins the other best student talk prize! Amazing day for @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and @durhamdcerc.bsky.social PhD students. #ehbea #ehbea2025