The summer is slowly progressing with hot and sunny days (at least in Philadelphia). Friends and colleagues are on annual leave or engaged in fieldwork. Meanwhile, the ESLR committee keeps working on a variety of projects. Here is a list of what is going on: 1. Social Learning WTF At Read more…
Society bank account and online membership payments The society has now reached another milestone: we have a bank account. You would not believe how tricky it was to open an account for our not-for-profit organisation with an international committee. Many months later, we can now call an account at the Read more…
Entire issue Download PDF Articles Hello Again Editorial Page Marco Smolla Download PDF What’s New? Society News Download PDF 2nd Annual ESLR Summer Workshop Society News Download PDF Big questions of social learning Summer Workshop Marina Bazhydai Download PDF Machine learning culture and the value of old souls Summer Workshop Read more…
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 Read more…
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.
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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.