Call for papers closes tomorrow Feb 6th! iacesr.com/conferences/

New paper lead by Dr Nachita Rosun that I am super proud of! We look at religious changes in Mauritius and find that differences in religious socialisation matter the more in predicting religiosity as material security gets higher www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @tvpollet.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award on Services to the Community 👏

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 🌏 🔗 👇

Dusted off the ol' blog after years of heavy disuse because I'm h*ckin' excited to tell y'all about some of the exciting things we're trying in our stats/methods/skills curriculum at Brunel! Read! Share! Tell us what you think! #psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

@willgervais.com wonderfully showcasing the work of CCE members @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social in re vamping the research methods at @brunelpsy.bsky.social 💙 We’re learning as we go but dead excited 📚☠️🤗 Follow for updates 🧪

📢 Talk announcement bringing together @brunelcce.bsky.social and CCN research centres! 📢 Dr Conrad Hackett (Pew Research Center) joins us on 📆29th Jan, 2-4pm to unpack the latest global religion survey and how it diverges from Pew’s influential 2015 projections 🌍📊 Open to all! 🔓

1/ 👩‍🎓 Big shout-out to Brunel PhD student Hannah Mays and supervisor @nelliferenczi.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social for contributing written evidence on misogyny in the manosphere and online content to a major policy consultation

Had a really fun chat with James Hodgson at Humanism Now about my book Disbelief....check it out! www.buzzsprout.com/2246305/epis... Book here, bound to make a confusing Christmas gift for many children on your list! www.globepequot.com/978163388925...

1/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪 Watch the full talk here 🎥👇

My nursery bill is nearly double my mortgage...

EHBEA 2026 has extended the deadline till the 9th January #holidaymircale

So the traditional explanation for fertility decline - that fertility declines once children become net consumers rather than producers - isn't quite right, though part of the explanation is likely increased costs of children over time Paper here books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

@michealdebarra.bsky.social and @aiyanakoka.bsky.social discuss all about this research in this short video 📹 👏🎬

1/ 🧵 New PNAS paper by CCE’s @michealdebarra.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social with Angel V Jiménez and Nachita Rosun🎉 📄 Why do people turn to religious or supernatural cures? 🧪🏺 #evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolution

Many congratulations to the newly-minted Dr Baafi @josephineabaafi.bsky.social 🎉🥳 who passed her PhD viva yesterday! A very positive experience thanks to examiners Monica Magadi and @joestrong.bsky.social, and Chair @1verofilippi.bsky.social 🙏

🧵 1/ Excited to share this work from CCEs Francisco Gómez Jiménez, whose research explores gender diversity across cultures 🌍 Francisco introduces the muxes of the Istmo Zapotec community in Oaxaca, Mexico - a remarkable example of longstanding, culturally grounded gender diversity 🏳️‍🌈 🎥👇

1/ 🎙️ New paper by Dr Aiyana Willard argues it’s time to retire HADD = “we’re hardwired to see agents EVERYWHERE” and replace it with something that *actually* fits the evidence 🪦➡️📚 @brunelpsy.bsky.social 🔗 Read it 👇

Brunel's press release about our (@hggaddy.bsky.social @anthrolog.bsky.social) recent publication, showing that high levels of polygyny don't necessarily lock men out of the marriage market www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The deadline has been extended - there is still time to get your abstracts in to join us in Morocco!

🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🚨 #EHBEA2026 will be held in Leiden! Do not forget to submit your abstract before December 15th in order to attend and share your research! More in the official account: @ehbea2026.bsky.social 👇👇👇

For a while (many years!) back, @eseb.bsky.social gave us €€€ to form a Special Topic Network. Formally, the network no longer exists, but informally for sure AND we can now pick the fruits of our labours! Here is one and the next post shows another... Thank you ESEB! 🙏

Come and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution "Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics" www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr... More details here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Seems the NYT likes Leiden as much as we do 😉 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/t... BTW did you know that EHBEA 2026 will take place right in the middle of the renowned Dutch flower season? 🌼🌼 If you consider staying for one extra night you can enjoy the annual parade (“bloemencorso”) on the 18th 😇

Only 2 days left to get your abstracts in!

New Phil Trans B issue on the ‘Evolutionary functions of consciousness’ royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

1/ 🩸 New Research by former CCE Tristin Agtarap and CCE member Julieta Baker 📣👏 A new paper in *Sexuality Research & Social Policy* explores how menstrual product choices and menstrual-care practices shape empowerment, autonomy and connection to the body

The increasing rate at which @rebeccasear.bsky.social and others are posting this absolute shame and failing of peer review and the rip off publishing system should be a canary in the mine about a diffusion of racists and race science within mainstream science and as a result everyday thought 🚨

Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University! The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health. More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...

Armed with THAMES, 80% of my students predicted that my shitty old Science study wouldn't replicate 🤘 Concerns cited: Cute assumptions, validity, weak results, cultural alternatives. This was a lot of fun

The eternal struggle

Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...

If you’ve never heard of the “arctic origins of East Asian psychology” theory it’s because it was made up whole cloth by “David Sun”, some failed grad school applicant who somehow got one paper about it published and otherwise just posts lewd AI anime art about his theory on Twitter

Highlighting these postdoc opportunities in the Pontzer Lab at Duke University for #WplusEBSWednesday! One position is for "Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate", and the other is for "Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN)". Start date is between Jan 15th 2026 and July 1st 2026.

Not used yet. But how about a Severance inspired palette. GitHub - ivelasq/severance: The severance package contains color palettes inspired by the show Severance: share.google/UqZ9wnGv40f3... . Lots of great suggestions here : Color palettes – Data Visualization with R: share.google/O4r2nwvhHVTQ...

Love this Personally, all my teaching plots use a bi colour palettes 💜🩷🩵

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Update: The deadline for #HBES2026 has been extended to January 16! airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026

Have a resource, recommendation, or opportunity you think would benefit our community? Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2) 🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z... #WplusEBS

Happy Monday! This week, we’re excited to kick off our new series: W+EBS Wednesdays! Every Wednesday, we’ll share helpful resources, recent job postings, and recommendations (podcasts, research papers, books, and more). Be on the lookout for a new post this Wednesday!(1/2) #WplusEBSWednesdays

Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target. A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking. Shocking!

👋 Meet Kat, our Student Event Liaison! @ksheetz.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate at Oakland University working with Dr. Lisa Welling, studying social cognition in the context of online dating. At W+EBS, she organizes and plans social events at HBES and other conferences. (1/2) #WplusEBS

👋 And finishing our intros, I'm @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social, the Student Social Media Officer (& a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara)! At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2) #WplusEBS

👋 Meet Sarah, our Secretary! @anthrosarah.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. As secretary, she helps connect with the evolutionary social sciences community, planning events and collaborating with the team to shape the future of W+EBS. (1/2) #WplusEBS

The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read

👋 Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer! @haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers. As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2) #WplusEBS

Reminder to anyone considering submitting for #HBES2026 and/or #CES2026 that the abstract submission deadline is November 16th!

👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair! @annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept. As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2) #WplusEBS

'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...