I’m now @grinnellcollege.bsky.social in Anthropology where I’ll be offering a series of new courses on human #evolutionary social #science & #biologicalanthropology and launching a new lab to support student research and expand my research program. 🧪 #HBES 🌾💎 #Grinnell

How many languages have existed over the Holocene—and what does that reveal about the design space of languages and cultures? Now out in @science.org www.science.org/eprint/QDZNY....

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

science.org

Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵

The Mind Is a Computer. Now the Computer Is a Mind | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...

The Mind Is a Computer. Now the Computer Is a Mind

We evolved to follow the knowledgeable. Now, an AI knows it all and seems confident enough. Here's why your mind so easily defers, and what it overlooks.

psychologytoday.com

1. Attempted cancellations of prominent scholars as proxy wars on ideas one doesn't like: the case of Margaret Mead...and a mea culpa 🧪 #AcademicSky

Autoposted from https://www.zhgarfield.com/outreach/. https://zhgarfield.com/blog/science-and-social-media

What things are often missed out? Risk! Life history! Individual variation! Inequality! @psmaldino.bsky.social Speaking my language in his talk on Development of Risk Behaviours and thier Cultural Transmission #CES2026 @ces2026.bsky.social

Day 3 of the Cultural Evolution Society Conference (CES) 2026 is in full swing at the UM6P Rabat campus! After a great start 2 days ago, Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences (AIRES) and the SCI continue to host this incredible gathering of minds. #CES2026 #UM6P

Joe Henrich emphasizing the importance of formal models at #CES2026

Rob Boyd tracing the origins of Cultural Evolution as a field #CES2026

#CES2026 is over - amazing days exploring new frontiers in animal culture and archaeology with so many talented people. Grateful to be in Rabat and happy to have presented my poster "Mapping Cultural Transmission in Human and Non-Human Primates" Thanks everyone - looking forward to the next CES✨

What a week! I had a wonderful time at #CES2026 and I'm very thankful for the opportunity to hang out with such amazing people and researchers, learn about their work and present my own. 🧬 I leave Morocco the head full of ideas, the heart full of friendship (and the stomach full of tajine) 🙌🏻

Just had a fantastic time at @ces2026.bsky.social ! I got to present some of my PhD work and to engage in stimulating discussions about the scope of chimpanzee social learning and their cultural potential 🙌 Excited to come back in 2028 ✨ A huge thanks to the organizers! #CES2026

Ed Hagen@edhagen.net · 3mo ago

The joint @ces2026.bsky.social / #HBES2026 is a wrap. Local organizers @zhgarfield.com, @edseabright.bsky.social, @sarahalami.bsky.social, & @matcharbonneau.bsky.social & their amazing support team pulled off TWO back-to-back conferences. The vibe, food, high-tech venue & talks were fantastic!

Final day of #HBES2026! 🌍 Parallel sessions kick off at 9:00, followed by Martin Daly’s lunch panel on the history of HBES, the Postdoctoral Investigator Award finalists, and our closing keynote at 15:05: Simon Baron-Cohen on “The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention.”

HBES 2026 | Day 2 at UM6P Rabat 📍 The 37th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference continues with a day full of exchanges and global perspectives

Learn more about HBES2026: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026

HBES2026@hbes2026.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HBES 2026 | Day 2 at UM6P Rabat 📍 The 37th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference continues with a day full of exchanges and global perspectives

Joint #HBES2026 / #CES2026 plenary 🎤 Hugo Mercier on "The evolution of reason and the cultural evolution of reasons." With Dan Sperber, he’s argued reason isn’t a fix-everything mechanism — it’s a social one. A thread 🧵

Great times with the EC at #HBES2026 in Morocco! 🇲🇦

Plenary 1 at #HBES2026 🎤 Brooke Scelza on “More Than Our Differences: Moving beyond dichotomies in the study of human mating.” Drawing on 15 years with the Himba of NW Namibia, she pushed us to broaden how we frame sexual selection. A thread 🧵

What's really clear from today's #CES2026 - #HBES2026 panel is how much we've come to work together, across the evolutionary social & behavioral sciences. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder sums it up: "The gaps between evolutionary psychology, human behavior ecology, & cultural evolution have narrowed"

A strong start to the conference, bringing together scholars and researchers from diverse disciplines to exchange ideas and advance the field.

Learn more about the conference agenda, discover our key speakers, and explore the highlights of Day 2 Agenda: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 #CES2026

📢IMPORTANT NOTICE Participants are required to bring their passport with them to access the campus. Please do not forget it, as it is mandatory for entry. We are very excited to welcome you!

📢IMPORTANT NOTICE Participants are required to bring their passport with them to access the campus. Please do not forget it, as it is mandatory for entry. We are very excited to welcome you!

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

⭐️ to any @hbes2026.bsky.social or @ces2026.bsky.social attendees traveling across #Morocco who manage to spot our logo inspirations IRL #CESRabat #HBES2026

Thanks @unlincoln.bsky.social & @unlcas.bsky.social for promoting our work! sgis.unl.edu/news/lincoln...

Fitting to see this out w/ @hbes2026.bsky.social around the corner. @rayhames.bsky.social, last year's #HBES Lifetime Achievement winner, gave us a brief history of the society. Martin Daly will build on it with a panel, The History & Prehistory of HBES See all you *The Podcast* talking heads soon

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This week, we talk to Ray Hames about his time working with the Yanomamo and Napoleon Chagnon (w/ guest host @zhgarfield.com) youtu.be/fnwliwsTAI8 www.podbean.com/eas/pb-jfe2d... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Join us in Barcelona for a postdoc! We are looking for candidates with a strong NLP/ML/AI background and an interest in linguistic diversity and human and machine cognition: dub.sh/blasi_nlp_po...