Sarah Mathew

How to maintain reciprocity when social life is rife wt misunderstandings, misperceptions, disagreements? New study by @HillaryLenfesty et al shows there are 2 winning methods: 1) Forgive 2) Seek 3rd-party opinion royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

When does stone tool technology show rapid accumulation of know-how? @Jonathan_Paige and Charles Perreault analyze tool complexity and show it happened 600,000 ya and carefully interpret result's implication for cumulative culture's beginnings. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The first paper stemming from my dissertation is now published in PNAS! This will be delayed open access. Let me know if you need a copy... doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Arizona State University @ASU Professor Robert Boyd is among those newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. Congratulations! 👏 Read more: bit.ly/3wkVHIP

Over the next 2 months, the CES is collaborating with the @ESLRSociety to host recordings from their seminar series on our Youtube channel Catch them live at their zoom link, or keep an eye out for updates as we post the recordings! eslrsociety.com/events/eslr-se…

Three weeks left until early bird registration closes for #CES204Durham at 4pm UTC/GMT on 20th May. We'll be sharing our indicative programme soon, but in the meantime, we're delighted to announce a science writing workshop at the conference by @SAPIENS_org. Reg link below! 👇

JOB ALERT! Calling social/behavioural/cognitive scientists of all stripes interested in Collective Behaviour/Collective Intelligence. Join us in our small but growing interdisciplinary research team in Rabat, Morocco! Up to 4 (!!) permanent jobs available. Deadline April 15th.

Applications are open for the Cultural Evolution Society Awards! The New Investigator Award recognises outstanding contribution&potential <5 yrs post PhD, and the Richerson Award is for Outstanding Doctoral Research. Get your applications in by May 1st: culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-awa…

#ISEMPH2024 in Durham is open for abstract submission! It's bound to be an excellent event in a beautiful location (and check out the evolutionary psychiatry pre-meeting..) isemph.org/ISEMPH-2024

Calling all students seeking research experience in evolutionary social science! In @HumBehEvoSoc's new ADAPT Program, you'll work w a mentor on a research project in 2024-25. Get $1.2k stipend + up to $3k to attend/present at HBES2025! Apply hbes.com/the-adapt-miss… by 6/1!

Symposium #AABA2024, organized by @EvoRoseman, with talks by @APV2600, @sathreya3, @AnnePisor, Clark Barrett, Chelsea Cataldo-Ramirez, @thebirdmaniac, @FerVillanea, @juemos, @RebeccaSear, @TinaLasisi, @RGBribiescas, and yours truly. Titles and abstracts: xcdsystem.com/aaba/program/v…

How can we ensure cooperation between (natural & artificial) agents? Humans do this via social norms that constrain uncooperative actions. In this new paper, @xuanalogue and I show how artificial agents can *learn* these norms from observation! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2402.13399

Can't wait to see you all in beautiful Durham!

Going to the @HumBehEvoSoc conference at @AarhusUni in May? Wondering where to stay? The conference website now has pertinent information (including a list of hotels with conference discount): conferences.au.dk/hbes2024/accom…

1 month left to get your abstracts in for CES 2024 Durham

We are happy to announce our fee waivers and @CulturalEvolSoc ACE Travel awards #CES2024durham. You can apply for both here ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/inclusivity-aw… The deadline is 20th April at 9 am BST and you will hear back before the deadline for early bird registration on 20th May 4pm BST

Why is reciprocity common in humans but rare in other animals? A @nature paper by @EffersonCharles et al explains the conditions necessary for reciprocity to evolve nature.com/articles/s4158…