So pleased to have won this award. Thank you @ceciliapad.bsky.social @gregoryfiorio.bsky.social @ruthmace.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social

So brilliant this piece by @ceciliapad.bsky.social about how human societies have often been so flexible that political hierarchies can change with the seasons, literally. www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...

Made an attempt to add some nuance to the recent debates on cousin marriage unherd.com/2025/04/stop...

We have made it to Lake Turkana @ceciliapad.bsky.social @asociacionbiomas.bsky.social

I’m just a girl, standing in front of Turkana Boy, asking him to love her @ceciliapad.bsky.social

So much in here incl: "five marriages in which both partners descend from the founding female. However, these partners have no recent relatedness...suggesting the people had a deep knowledge of their own genealogies...used to guide marital arrangements among a pool of related groups" rdcu.be/d6m8T

Why do 70% of Pashtuns say that honour killings are justified? The UNFPA estimates that 5000 women are killed every year over ‘honour’. Is this related to cousin marriage? Tremendous new paper, combining surveys & DNA! www.ggd.world/p/does-cousi...

The funniest part in this has to be Angus Deaton answering the question on whether there is a theory that is widely supported by his peers but which he considers total bunkum with: "that causality can be inferred from data"

Flattered to have produced a real LOL. Have a read of my piece in @thefence.bsky.social and all the other lolworthy bits.

Issue 22 is here 🧊 With writing from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social, Clive Martin, Gary Grimes, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social, @natalie-berry.com, Stephen Smith, Falty DL, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Olympia Campbell & more www.the-fence.com/shop/

interesting to see some of the easy, soundbite length explanations for falling birthrates challenged with counter-examples. no definitive answers found here, but I always enjoy a good read in the category of “this seems obvious, but is it?”

Adding to the noise on why birth rates are falling - a question that continues to stump the human evolutionary sciences unherd.com/2024/12/the-...

The salmon hat article has that something something

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

We’ve extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the #EHBEA2025 conference (of course we know you’re still running your analyses😉)! New deadline: 16/12 www.ehbea2025.com @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych

I suppose my first post should promote my new paper on cousin marriage and honour cultures. Combining genetic data with survey data on honour cultures we show that the more a population has practised cousin marriage, the stronger the honour culture. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...