Unbelievable - Culture Conference is 10 years old! What a journey…🩵

Hi Tim! Jochen Gebauer at the University of Mannheim is investigating social learning through surveys - we are for example working on a questionnaire aiming to capture social learning strategies. It‘s all still unpublished material but maybe you want to shoot him an email in any case?!

The training route in the original Tolman study, rats take a winding S shaped path to a reward, there is a light near to the reward.

The testing layout of the Tolman study, the training route was blocked and multiple pathways were provided instead in a radial formation. Rats chose the one of these heading to the previous reward location, suggesting they inferred a novel shortcut.

What was the Sunburst maze experiment?

Rats learned a long, winding route to a reward.

This route was then blocked & new paths were opened - one headed directly toward the former reward location.

This shortcut route was the most chosen path (36%)!

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Abstract Submission The call for abstracts for Culture Conference 2026 is NOW OPEN! We call for submissions of abstracts of no more than 250 words, summarising the background, aims, methods and results of your work.&n…

The Culture Conference is (once again) indulging in that grand old tradition of EXTENDING the submission deadline‼️

The new deadline for abstract submissions is December 15th.

Registration will open very soon—stay tuned!

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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...
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Only a few days left before abstract submission closes!

Don’t forget to submit your work 👉 culture-conference.com/abstract-sub...

⏰ Reminder: 10 days left to submit your abstract for Culture Conference 2026!

🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon).

Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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Culture Conference 2026 26th & 27th February, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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We are excited to welcome you again in Utrecht, NL for the next Culture Conference on the 26th & 27th of February 2026!

And surprise! We will also host a hands-on workshop on the 25th/02 🙌💻

So stay tuned for future announcements here & on the website 🔎
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Hi Liz! I can recommend Peloton. It’s pricey but has something for everyone (recorded and live classes, different instructor personalities, various workout types) and is fun. They advise combining running with strength training - exercising your legs helps as much as training endurance itself. 🩷

Humans may not have a uniquely enhanced sequence memory: sequence discrimination is facilitated by causal–logical framing in humans and #chimpanzees. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #RSOS @missdaffodil.bsky.social @rachkendal.bsky.social

Humans may not have a uniquely enhanced sequence memory: sequence discrimination is facilitated by causal–logical framing in humans and chimpanzees | Royal Society Open Science Humans have been suggested to possess uniquely enhanced memory for sequences, based on sequence discrimination learning (SDL) tasks involving arbitrarily ordered sequences with no functional connection to outcomes. Such tasks underestimate animals’ SDL as ...

New comparative paper on sequence cognition led by the wonderful @missdaffodil.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Sorry for having missed you :/

I take this as an invitation to a (re-)visit of your lab, Claudio! 😀