A sincere thank you to all the candidates who stood for election and to the CES membership for their active participation in the voting process. We were fortunate to have many excellent candidates, making this election a strong reflection of our membership’s commitment and talent.
We are pleased to announce our newly elected committee members of the Cultural Evolution Society:
Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social
Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social
Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social &
Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social
Welcome and congratulations!!
The voting window for the CES officer elections has been extended until Friday 23:59 BST. CES members, don't forget to vote and have your say in the running of your society! Check your inbox for the voting link, or if you didn't receive one, contact the society (details below).
If you are an active member of @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social, please go vote for our new Executive Ordinary Members. You will have received an email with voting instructions. Voting closes Tuesday!
🧵 1/ CCEs @michelleakline.bsky.social , @nicolewen.bsky.social and Nachita Rosun all contributed to ….“Meet A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning” 📣💪🤩
edited by the lovely @sheinalew.bsky.social
@michelleakline.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social
@ehbea2025.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social
@durhamanthropology.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social @bjjbarrett.bsky.social @nataliabdutra.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @acerbialberto.com @nicolewen.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social
Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan
We have extended the nomination period to this Friday 11th July. If you are a @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social member, consider running from Secretary or Executive Ordinary Member! Happy to answer any questions if you have them!
Nominations are still open for the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee roles of Secretary (non-male) and Ordinary Members (any gender). It’s not too much work and very rewarding!
Don't forgot to nominate for positions in our Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025!
Nomination period now closes July 11th, see the nomination form below for more information:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@abbeyepage.bsky.social, Harleen Dhami, and I are doing a study to understand new mums' experiences with infant feeding. If you know someone who has had a baby recently, please share our study!
Jen Clegg-Petz and I presented on cultural variation in first- and third-party imitation and attention. #SRCD2025
11/ We closed out with our discussant, Tanya MacGillivray, who argues for an emphasis on community engaged and slow science in developmental sciences.
10/ We need a shift: from extractive, top-down developmental science to horizontal, community-engaged research. This means co-design, shared ownership, and institutional support for ethical, inclusive practices.
9/ Most "cross-cultural" methods are just Western designs with a cultural tweak. But surface-level changes don’t make a study culturally valid. True relevance requires collaboration and input from the communities being studied.
8/ Yitong Wang discussed how too often, cross-cultural developmental research extracts data from communities without engaging them. This isn't just unethical—it undermines the science. It’s time to move from knowledge extraction to co-construction.
7/ Doing developmental research across cultures is tough—think unstable broadband, COVID impacts, and translating methods. But we need to adapt our studies to fit the context. @sylpi.bsky.social
6/ Canadian kids share more with age & when observed. Across Canada and Brazil, kids who see themselves as lower status give more. Social status perceptions may shape fairness decisions earlier than we think. @sylpi.bsky.social
5/ @sylpi.bsky.social et al. examined sharing behavior in Canada and Brazil, countries with differing socioeconomic profiles, and explored the challenges and opportunities of conducting the study in each region.
4/ By identifying the topics and areas where culture is underrepresented, Sarah offers a roadmap for future research that seeks to address these gaps.
3/ Topics like biology and atypical are less likely to include cultural variables. But social development and language? Much more likely. What gets studied says a lot about what we assume is universal.
2/ Sarah Pope-Caldwell et al. conducted a systematic review of nearly 2.7k empirical articles in developmental journals, to examine whether research topic predicts whether an article contains culture as a variable.
Today!
Excited to join this awesome symposium!
I will be talking about my research about how children from Canada and Brazil shared coins in a virtual Dictator Game-like task and discuss effects of subjecive-SES and Inequality!
Collab work between UFRN, UFPA and Queen's!
📢 Come to our symposium TODAY at #SRCD2025! We'll be discussing challenges and best practices for cross-cultural dev psych work!
🕒 4:40 PM📍200H
Talks by Sarah Pope-Caldwell, @sylpi.bsky.social, & Yitong Wang
Discussant: Tanya MacGillivray
Chairs: @nicolewen.bsky.social & @brucerawlings.bsky.social
Great to talk about rituals in childhood at the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social lunch and learn! Thank you for having me, @drzacharywalker.bsky.social and @drrebeccagordon.bsky.social!
Lovely recent CCE social in the *always sunny* London 🌞🤩🎡
If this doesn't sell us.... 🤷♀️
@loraadair.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @nicolewen.bsky.social @michelleakline.bsky.social @matthewmgervais.bsky.social ❤️
If you want to understand why we do the things we do, being trained in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives is a pretty good start 😊 excellent thread from CCE's @abbeyepage.bsky.social on our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution, now accepting applications 👇
📣 The next CCE talk is by 🤩 Dr Willem Frankenhuis 🤩 on "The evolution of plasticity and learning"
📅 26th March - 12:45 (In person for food, 13:00 online) to 14:15
🔓 Open to all online or in person - come join us
Teams link 👇 or DM for an invite
13/ 🎈 Meet Dr Nicole Wen @nicolejwen.bsky.social - @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social Early Career Award winner 🏆 for her work on childhood rituals
Nicole studies how culture shapes kids' learning, cooperation, & social bonds - basically, how little humans become awesome group members! 👧🌍👦
1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢
Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵
