We have been closely monitoring the current COVID-19 pandemic and discussed how we should respond to it. In line with other societies, we have come to the conclusion that at this point in time, we cannot guarantee the safety and health of our workshop participants. We, therefore, have decided to postpone Read more…
Hello everyone and welcome to another Update! It is hard to believe but it’s been already two months since our Workshop in Leipzig. We had a great time meeting you all and spending time together in Germany. We hope you liked it too! As is tradition (and part of the Society’s constitution) we also Read more…
Hello everyone and welcome to the second Update. It is almost April now and that means, it is about time to have a look back at March and ask what we have been up to. Or shall I say, what you have been up to? Because more than 40 of Read more…
Hello everyone! We have great news for you. Our society has now a presence on GitHub ? If you haven’t heard of GitHub before, it is an internet-based version control for (mostly) text files, or simply put a dropbox for computer codes. Why is that so great you ask? Well, Read more…
Hello fellow researchers! Happy 2019! I hear you thinking, isn’t it already February? You are absolutely right. However, this is the first Update we are sending out in 2019. This is a new blog format where we report on what is going on inside ESLR and the committee. Talking of Read more…
Our workshop report has been accepted for publication in Evolutionary Anthropology. Due to the licensing restrictions, we can only upload the pre-peerreview version as the PDF here. Many thanks to all co-authors for their work and support! Happy reading!
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…
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 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.