Jeremy Kendal

More coverage of ‪Éadin's paper: oceanographicmagazine.com/news/immigra... 🐳🦑

Decision-making in Structured Groups: from animal societies to human governance This collection hopes stimulate new dialogues and translational efforts, to fully capture the rich diversity of ways collectives solve complex problems in ...

Our collection on Decision-making in structured groups in npj Complexity is open and accepting manuscripts through May!

It's a broad call, covering anything from animal societies to human social systems of all sorts.

Learn more:
www.nature.com/collections/...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science"

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#philosophy #philsci

Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/

Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026:
1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD
2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD
#AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social

Picture of front cover of Theme Issue entitled "Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures." The image on the front cover is of a Yao honey hunter in Mozambique holding retrieved honeycomb.

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

Looking forward to feedback on this preprint emerging from our Representing Memory project at Durham IAS @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

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

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

I know, sorry it’s not open access😞

Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution Abstract. This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution, which has in recent years matured into an inc

Sure: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution hard copy

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

I was online listening in from Durham, UK. I look forward to reading some of your research once the student term is over!

Brilliant talk by @isilova.bsky.social delivering postcards to challenge Western conceptions of learning and mind at the 2025 NSF/Jacobs Foundation Workshop on Deconstructing the Universal Mind, run by Mike Frank and Christine Legare

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

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!

Bluebells in woodland

Bluebell season behind Durham uni campus

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.

A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified

Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven

Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o

Over the past fifty years, the term “cargo cult” has been used to describe the actions of scientists who appear to follow forms of scientific inquiry but without the understanding and self-criticism that are essential to real scientific progress. The term has served a useful role by providing a short and catchy label to something that is otherwise difficult to explain. However, the term is also fraught with historical and cultural baggage and, in our opinion, encourages crossing of a subtle line between criticizing discipline methodological norms and criticizing the individuals currently carrying out those norms as part of a complex and context dependent social process. We find that carefully interrogating the term itself holds some important lessons for improvement in the science reform movement.

"Labeling the people or practices as 'Cargo Cult' is unlikely to be productive."

New article by @statmodeling.bsky.social and Megan Higgs

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

MammalWeb Update April 2025 The latest news and images from the MammalWeb project

The MammalWeb project still isn't on Bluesky, so here's a link to the April newsletter for all of you who are! Lots of exciting updates on projects, competitions, site developments - and, excitingly, another award! What's not to like? What indeed ...
tinyurl.com/MWApr25

Rep2SI: Reputation & the Reproduction of Social Inequality. A Leverhulme-funded project based at the LSE, combining ethnography, economic games, and modelling. We're looking for a modeller to join our core team as a two-year postdoctoral research officer.

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality.
Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

saw this piece being shared around on the bird site and sharing it here cuz it's so good genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Theory: Whtat to read The role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu...

Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory Visit the post for more.

Final call - six fully funded PhDs to work in John Sutton’s interdisciplinary Leverhulme centre, University of Stirling

placememory.net

Just made a list of all the recent books highlighting women's philosophizing--there are so many! Going to mark the last week of #womenshistorymonth by posting a few a day. Starting with Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachel Wieseman's "Metaphysical Animals"! Please add others!
#philsky

Ethnographic Philosophy: A Qualitative Method for Naturalised Philosophy Recent years have seen a rise in the engagement with empirical methods in philosophy. However, explicit discussion of the method and methodology behind such approaches is scarce, in particular for en...

This articulate reflection by @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social may be valuable to a broad range of social scientists interested in trying out ethnographic research

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Chandika Shrestha and Rachel Kendal, Pokhara, Nepal.

Happy International Women’s Day, including these two wonderful people, Chandika Shrestha and @rachkendal.bsky.social being celebrated in Pokhara, Nepal.

The Shape of Space by Jeffrey Weeks

A brilliant visual guide for discovering the geometry and topology of two- and three-dimensional spaces by Jeffrey Weeks. A great workout for your visual imagination!

Merci!