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Entire issue Download PDF Articles Ready, Steady, Spring Editorial Page Marco Smolla Download PDF Cultured Scene Our All New Magazine Society News Download PDF Summer Workshop 2018 Society News Download PDF Early-career but not young? Society News Download PDF Pulling Strings and the State of Bumblebee Culture Interview Sylvain Alem Download PDF Clean Eating Gorillas Get There On Their Own Pitch to Publication Damien Neadle Download PDF Moving Forwards by Tweaks and Bounds Pitch to Read more…

By Marco Smolla, 12 months6 months ago

Communication

Coming Soon – Our All New Society Journal Cultured Scene

We are hard at work putting together a new issue of Cultured Scene. The inaugural issue came out over a year ago (and can be found here). We hope Cultured Scene will be an interesting read for early-career researchers from a range of disciplines. Our goal for future editions is to focus on highlighting interesting new work in the field of social learning and cultural evolution, through interviews with researchers themselves. We will also feature Read more…

By Rachel Harrison, 12 months6 months ago

Communication

Early-career but not young? Reply to feedback on the society’s name

We have recently received some feedback on misleading ageism terminology in the name of the society. Read more about what we are going to do about it.

By Marco Smolla, 1 year6 months ago

Communication

Process and pattern in innovations from cells to societies – Theme Issue

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B has published a theme issue with the title Process and pattern in innovations from cells to societies (see a list of papers below). The published articles approach innovation both with theoretical and conceptual, but also with experimental methods. What makes an innovation, who innovates, and when do innovations occur? This issue addresses many questions that were also raised at this year’s Culture Conference. Article list: Innovation: an emerging focus from Read more…

By Marco Smolla, 1 year1 year ago

Announcements

YSLR Workshop Meet-up in Penryn

In occasion of the workshop on Methods in Cultural Evolution in Penryn, we are taking the opportunity for a new get-together. If you want to discuss the next meeting, share the latest research, talk about the latest news in the field or simply for some of the old networking, join us for a dinner in lovely Penryn at 7 pm on 15th November. Get in touch via email (info@yslr.co.uk) by the 5th November to book Read more…

By Edith Invernizzi, 1 year1 year ago

Communication

Extension of Biology Through Culture – Sackler Colloquium

This year’s Sackler Colloquium ran under the title Sackler Colloquium on Extension of Biology Through Culture (use this link for an online edition). The papers, which are now available in a PNAS special issue, span a wide range of topics in cultural evolution. From social learning in children to song evolution in whales, and from concepts of culture and niche construction to evolutionary neurobiology. The articles provide a contemporary snapshot of the state of the field Read more…

By Marco Smolla, 2 years1 year ago

Communication

YSLR Meeting at 2017’s Culture Conference

On May 25th and 26th 2017, many social learning and cultural evolution researchers gathered again at the Culture Conference in Birmingham. Aside from inspiring conference contributions under the theme “Innovation in cultural systems”, this was also another chance for YSLR members to meet and chat. We met on the day before the conference at the Pitcher and Piano. We talked about our current work and future projects, thesis that were just or about to be Read more…

By Marco Smolla, 2 years1 year ago

Announcements

YSLR Pre-Conference Meet-Up

If you are attending this year’s Culture Conference in Birmingham (culture-conference.com), we would like to invite you to meet up for a chat and a drink ahead of the conference. Also, if you know anyone who is coming to Birmingham and hasn’t heard about us, feel free to bring them along. We’ll meet 7pm at a pub near the central train station: the Pitcher and Piano. We’ll talk a little bit about what ideas people Read more…

By Marco Smolla, 2 years1 year ago

Announcements

Call for Abstracts: Evolution of Cultural Complexity

The Conference in Complex Systems is a major annual event for people studying Complex Systems. This year it will held in Cancun, Mexico, and a full day satellite session will be dedicated to Cultural Evolution and Social Learning.

By Marco Smolla, 2 years2 years ago

Communication

Winter Workshop 2017

The Winter Workshop 2017 is over. Most participants have already travelled home. Some are sticking around to explore Manchester. A good moment to look back on this eventful day. The workshop was built around three activities, that should help to break the ice and getting to know each other. In the following two activities we exchanged ideas and visions about our research field and explored ways for public outreach. The discussions were lively, and only Read more…

By Marco Smolla, 2 years1 year ago