Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre
@Durham_DCERC
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DCERC is a highly interdisciplinary research centre using evolutionary models to study cultural change and diversity. Based @durham_uni
Durham, UK
Joined November 2022
1/ 🧵 Are we really measuring what matters? Cross-cultural challenges in developmental research 🌍👶📏 New paper led by CCE’S lovely @NicoleJWen and Bruce Rawlings also featuring CCE’s @MichelleAKline and many others. Supported by @CulturalEvolSoc 🔗👇
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Are we really measuring what matters? The hidden challenges of studying children across cultures https://t.co/AqulFQj4dr Nicole Wen and Bruce Rawlings blog about their paper @Journal_EHS
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Cross-cultural research in the social sciences is expanding rapidly, helping us understand how different cultures shape human behaviour. But here’s the big question: Are the tools we use actually...
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Get in touch if you are interested in a funded PhD on the cultural evolution of health behaviour ( https://t.co/AzAFEWQILx) or communication ( https://t.co/sUauKBpol2).
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Abstract. This paper discusses the ethics of public health communication. We argue that a number of commonplace tools of public health communication risk q
Delighted - Applications open for PhD studentships in Health and Wellbeing at Brunel - Grand Union DTP | Brunel University of London @LouMansfield101 @brunelchwl @BrunelResearch Happy to discuss
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absolutely an honor to have this wonderful primer by @RachelAHarrison about our recent paper!
.@RachelAHarrison explores a #PLOSBiology study in birds by @evogom &co suggesting that changes in the physical environment, rather than the social environment, are key in prompting #SocialLearning by immigrants. Primer: https://t.co/RsBJ2IJzSi Paper: https://t.co/rKnpe3QMcQ
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Gökhan Gonul, @karrineldner and I are editing a special issue in @ActaPsych on innovation and creativity in children and nonhuman animals - we encourage submissions from diverse perspectives (empirical, theoretical, methodological). Please share widely: https://t.co/W5sygcfA2X
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We review work on the link between academic achievement & creativity, developmental slumps, teachers' perspectives of creativity, studies on alternative-philosophy schools, and culturally & educationally diverse populations. We provide a framework linking these fields together
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New OA paper out with the awesome Sarah Cutting in Educational Psychological Review - we dive deep to discuss and link disparate fields to shed light on whether schools are good or bad for children's creativity.
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Educational Psychology Review - Whether schools help or hinder creativity is a topic of vibrant, international debate. Some contend that the focus on structure, rote learning and standardised...
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POSTDOC ADVERT: The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is hiring a postdoc on their NIH project examining how early life adversity influences aging. Particularly looking for someone who can support lab analyses of physiological biomarkers. Please share!
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There's a recently published #openaccess paper too @durham_uni Deconstructing Solitude and Its Links to Well-Being co-authored by @DurhamPsych's @thuyvytnguyen
https://t.co/aBNcIeTDfe
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Although solitude is a common experience in daily life, empirical research on its effects is scarce and challenging to interpret. Here, we propose a methodological framework to study solitude and...
@thuyvytnguyenfrom our @DurhamPsych discusses how #solitude can be restorative and something to embrace. @thesolitudelab
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How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng @Nature #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science
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Passionate about development research? I am hiring a pre-doc to work on social norms, media and inter-group dynamics. Apply by Nov 24. Details here: https://t.co/4aJQQV7bV9
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British Academy is inviting proposals for International Writing Workshops, which should aim to develop skills of early career researchers in lower/mid income countries, including supporting the uptake of their research in publications. Deadline 25 January
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These awards encourage and support early career researchers in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries...
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Dora Biro (@dora_biro_ ) and I are recruiting a graduate student to study collective cognition in homing pigeons at University of Rochester NY. Please let us know if you have any questions! https://t.co/z3n9YCQwVQ
https://t.co/2BdAhIz1SI
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We were thrilled to be joined by guest editor Charles Efferson and authors Sirio Lonati, Dan Smith, Lisa Faessler, Ross Pain, Ron Planer, and Frederik Hartmann for this discussion on causal inference in Evolutionary Human Sciences. Watch it here >
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Apologies for typo - our second student poster winner was Emile Byron for his poster on “Chimpanzees’ capacities to accumulate knowledge in a food enrichment task results in gradual increase in performances efficiency”
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A huge congratulations to all our winners and everyone who presented at #CES2024Durham @CulturalEvolSoc
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Best Student Posters: Emily Jeffries ""The Moral of the Story" - Investigating the co-evolution of storytelling and Human Cooperation via a survey of moral attitudes to Indo-European folktales" and...
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Best Student Lightning Talk: Niccole Porras for “Evolutionary dynamics of genes and culture under migration” and Madeleine Ammar for “Memory, innovation, and vertical transmission”
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Our Best Student talks were awarded to Lucie Wolters for "Universal statistical properties of language emerge in a cultural evolution experiment” and Harin Lee for “Melodic and rhythmic regularities of music around the world reveal independent cultural clusters”
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The second prize Best Presentation from Global South and Indigenous Presenter was awarded to Mercedes Okumura for her lightning talking "The use of cladistics to explore cultural diversity in Tupiguarani Tradition pottery from SĂŁo Paulo State, Brazil"
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