Just a few more weeks to get those submissions in for the special issue on pronatalism!

“By demanding that economics education should be more pluralist ethically conscientious, historically aware & oriented towards the real world, Rethinking Economics exposed the staggering deficiency in how economists are educated & induced significant changes in economics teaching around the world”

“Epstein’s passion for injecting eugenics into conversation after conversation in his emails should shape the way we think about his role in funding scientific research and development—and steering richer men’s money in that world”

'Cutting off funding for culture and knowledge has social and political consequences. If you want a healthy and harmonious civil society, invest in the humanities and the arts, for they foster understanding, knowledge and empathy.'

Don’t miss out a brand new episode of @cognitations.bsky.social where they discuss with @manvir.bsky.social about the social lives of human populations in the past 🤩🤓😎😉

"open science behaviors function as honest signals of a researcher’s willingness to expose their work to scrutiny" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/28/p...

“we should replace ‘greed is good’ maxims in the capitalist framework with a community-oriented, cooperation-promoting mindset, appreciating that we are all better off when we work together is the critical insight needed for building a prosocial and equality-focused environment for the future”

🚨Plenary Announcement for #EHBEA2026🎤✨ We’re very excited to welcome Prof Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews🏛️) With her fieldwork in Uganda and Guinea on gestural and multimodal communication in apes🐒, her research is reshaping how we understand the evolution of language!🗣️ 👉 www.wildminds.ac.uk

iDiv Leipzig is organizing a symposium for early career researchers from all fields interested in scientific integrity & reproducibility. Some good stuff, e.g.: @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social on generative AI for science, @rmcelreath.bsky.social on a guerilla approach to scientific workflow.>

Mothers and Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery: Evidence From the Surinamese Slave Registers, 1830–1863 doi.org/10.1215/0070...

“Cultural context plays a huge role in questions of family planning and sexual health, and it’s essential that healthcare providers in the UK understand the context of the women they treat” www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk/what-we-do/r...

“Snow leopards are found in just 12 countries across Central and South Asia. India is home to one of the world's largest populations, with a nationwide survey in 2023 - the first comprehensive count ever carried out in the country - estimating more than 700 animals” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @nicolewalasek.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award of New Investigator👏

'The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information.'

MY NEW OP-ED: Why I doubt surveys suggesting a quiet revival among young adults in Britain www.premierchristianity.com/opinion/why-...

“Our new review of the growing body of research on the manosphere reveals how it’s evolved. It used to be largely special interest men’s rights groups, such as pick-up artists and incels. It’s now a widely mainstreamed and commercialised ecosystem, led by high-profile influencers or “manfluencers””

Gordon Brown on the Today programme this morning argued that politicians shouldn’t have other jobs. Wonder if a cap on academics’ extramural earnings would solve a lot of the problems our profession has?

A one-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities (Oxford Brookes University), exploring the history and legacy of eugenics and commemorating Daniel Kevles’ major contribution to the field. 📅 Thursday 19 March 2026

Once attended a dinner with Trivers after a talk he gave, so I guess it’s one 😬

As the influencers say, stay with this. I found it a rather touching and hopeful antidote to all the population panic around youtu.be/1rFeyW1lS_8?...

📢 Call for survey questions! 💡 GGP is inviting proposals for innovative, inspiring, and ready-to-field survey questions or modules to include in the GGS-II Wave 3 questionnaire 🗓️ Submission deadline: March 22, 2026 More details are available here: www.ggp-i.org/engage/get-i...

“the Southend campus was established at a time when the New Labour government was intent on making sure as many people as possible could go to university. Back then there was a clear national vision for universities, and they were mostly publicly funded. Now you stand or fall on your student demand”

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of democracy on this side of the Atlantic, and I’m not being hyperbolic.

Congratulations to Thomas! Science needs more Thomases, and more celebrations of those who are such an all-round asset to their communities 😊

1/ New paper from @brunelpsy.bsky.social CCE in Evolution & Human Behavior looks at secularisation in Mauritius 🇲🇺 Nachita Rosun, @matthewmgervais.bsky.social and @aiyanakoka.bsky.social have been testing big theories outside the usual Western settings 🌏 🔗 👇

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

Happy #WplusEBSWednesday! Reposting this 🙌 Submit your abstracts for the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health by March 1st! #conferences #WplusEBS #evolution

Interesting discussion going on atm between Ruben and @williamcostello.bsky.social on the appropriate ways to defend (or not) Evolutionary Psychology but I wanted to pick up this point here. How many internal critics stay in the field? How many throw up their hands and walk away? 1/?

97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that! This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time. therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...

Good morning! We have just learned that our article on experiences and recommendations for faculty with disabilities has been published: www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/15...

Interesting read on the impact of private equity on the UK restaurant sector: “Over the last few decades, the sector has gobbled up £1.2 trillion in assets across the British economy, a greater proportion than any other advanced economy. Strangely, it has shown a remarkable taste for British food”

Congrats to Lynda and Sheina on their EHBEA public communication award! 🎉

🎉 Got the good news? If your abstract was accepted — congrats! 🥳 📬 You can now check OpenReview to see your assigned presentation format. ⏰ Reminder: early bird registration for #EHBEA2026 is open until 20 February!

Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare. A nice little article by my excellent colleague Jasmeen Kanwal. doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

A lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...

"In 1992, 11,000 women in the UK started their first infertility treatment cycle. By 2018, that number had more than doubled, and births conceived through ART accounted for 3.0% of the national fertility rate, up from just 0.3% in 1991"

It seems we're meant to respect the guys who were invited into Epstein's orbit but maintained distance (beyond the odd dinner). But not engaging in paedophilia is an *exceptionally low bar* for respect. If these guys were wary of Epstein, what did they do to reduce his influence & the harms he did?

Explains the trajectories of many public intellectuals: “There is no well funded, career-boosting media ecosystem for intellectual rigour, for careful judgement, for objective assessments of complicated phenomena. But there is a thriving, well-remunerated ecosystem for right-wing provocation”

A new metric for assessing social scientists - the E-index, it's just the number of times you appear in the Epstein files

“the real power of online politics is about waging the fight over how people view the world – and what they see as politically possible. The online right has had its sights set on this fight for a decade. Now, many on the left are leaving internal battles behind and entering the fray”

“Rather than treating [academic] job ads as prescriptions, we frame them as signals — shaped by departmental needs, institutional pressures, and broader social moments. This gives a clearer picture of the demand side of academic archaeology” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

many thanks to @andytattersall.bsky.social for indulging me and encouraging me to discuss all the things that should go in the bin. Nice long chat which is the antithesis of Tiktok.

This is an excellent piece 👇 its discussion of the “tyranny of the quantifiable” reminded me of the recent article about the tech guys whose miserable vision is for dating to be determined entirely by algorithm

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

The head of Palantir in the UK is Oswald Mosley’s* grandson, a plot twist surely the most unimaginative of novelists would balk at * founder of the 1930s British Union of Fascists

“Overall, the literature suggests that religious teachings and participation often reinforce traditional gender roles, influencing women’s education, labor supply, and fertility decisions, though important heterogeneity and exceptions exist” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🧵 New special issue out in *Religion, Brain & Behavior* edited by Michael Price & Dominic Johnson, which brings together research from a Templeton Religion Trust–funded programme asking a deceptively simple question: Why do people turn to science, religion, or both to make sense of the world? 🧠🌍

I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1007/s137...