NBC New York is just one of many news outlets featuring the Center for Urban Research’s fantastic election results map! www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politic...

Lol race science is back baby, and it's stupider and more transparently capitalist than ever

This article is an introduction and guide to investigating past relationships between climate and human behavior. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Research Reaching Everyone; Access and Relevance Making research truly open means more than publishing findings. It’s about ensuring communities can find, understand, and use research to shape better policies and decisions. #OpenResearch #PublicEngagement

Proverbs are a simple way of expressing a well-known truth or adage based on common sense or experience. Explore what anthropology, archaeology & the ethnographic record can offer to the field of paremiology, which is dedicated to the collection and study of proverbs. hraf.yale.edu/knowledge-is...

With the support of the National Science Foundation (#2020156), HRAF held 3 years of Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research, & has produced open course materials based on the institutes. Register for a free workshop w/ Carol Ember to learn more: hraf.yale.edu/hraf-to-offe...

They're here ... 👻 Are some things universally terrifying? Grab your favorite Halloween candy and read about spooky tales and ghostly ghouls from different cultures: hraf.yale.edu/towards-an-a... 🎃

Autumn has arrived in New Haven!

New issue of Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 31, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sveinvn.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @yannisham.bsky.social

📣 Some exciting news for Library Friends groups! @ala-united.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social are providing grants to Friends groups at small and rural libraries. Applications open Dec. 17! Learn more: bit.ly/3Wh5ZmM

"He lies in wait on paths and calls passers-by by name, in order then to tear apart and devour those who approach [...] “Do not go too far away,” the mother says to the children, “otherwise Nenaunir will get you.”" Are you afraid of things that go bump in the night?🫣 hraf.yale.edu/towards-an-a...

updated preprint from @loganjames.bsky.social @themusiclab.org: humans share acoustic preferences with a variety of other species I love this finding—in call/song/noise/etc pairs where we know (from prior work) that animals have a preference, humans reliably identify the more-attractive sound

Understanding Open Access publishing costs at EPFL - EPFL https://actu.epfl.ch/news/understanding-open-access-publishing-costs-at-epfl/

This week we talk to anthropologist Karen Kramer about our unique reproductive strategy as humans, and what it means for childhood, work, and the social contexts our minds evolved to be in. youtu.be/u4GhmF9GovE podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... www.podbean.com/eas/pb-qxxr5...

Leveraging seasonal variation in homeless shelter availability in Los Angeles County finds that temporary shelter significantly reduces crime and ER visits for psychiatric conditions, from Derek A. Christopher, Mark Duggan, and Olivia H. Martin www.nber.org/papers/w34376

#ForWhomtheBellTolls was first published 85 years ago #OnThisDay #ErnestHemingway’s love of bullfighting bordered on obsession. Did he see his own insecurities reflected in the ring? 🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/natu...

evidence of much older gene flow from Africa to Iberia from four human remains from northern Portugal and southern Spain, dated around 4000 years BP 3600 yBP individual from Córdoba was assigned to L2a1 l royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

"The pursuit of rank feels different from the pursuit of honor: it is an attempt to acquire the appearance of earned respect, enforced through institutions rather than earned through firsthand esteem."

From Teaching eHRAF, our open access repository of teaching syllabi and eHRAF activities: Relative and Absolute Dating Methods in Archaeology hraf.yale.edu/teach-ehraf/...

Nice to see our research featured on the eHRAF Academic Quarterly! I also discovered some interesting papers that I missed :)

In honor of National Mushroom Day (Oct. 15), don't miss @roopekaaronen.net 's "Living in the Mycelial World: A global cross-cultural ethnomycological review", featured in the HRAF Academic Quarterly 2025(2): hraf.yale.edu/hraf-academi...

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action. #climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Hi just a reminder that microcelebrity and parasociality can be massively toxic, and doubly so for academics. Never trust a cult of personality. "Leadership" shouldn't be judged on what you can do, but how much people in your community feel empowered to do things without your permission or guidance.

Happy Indigenous People's Day! The descendants, histories, and cultures of this continent's first people deserve far more respect than a single day. May today be a day of seeking to better understand the truth of their lives, and honoring what they have to teach us all.

Indigenous People's Day 2025 May we remember who this land belongs to.

Indigenous People’s Day 2025 Today we honor the history, resilience, and rich cultures of Indigenous communities. May we continue to learn, respect, and uplift their voices. #FinallySocial #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Indigenous #honor #richcultures #Indigenouscommunities

Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Josephine Baker is revered in her adopted France. This is both a cause for celebration and a prompt to explore the #colonialism and racism she helped conceal. ⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual #archaeology project.

“The idea that humans evolved to be protective & sensitive to harm directed towards women appears increasingly popular in evolutionary psych [but] ethnographic evidence conflict with this perspective, [which seems] rooted in contemporary WEIRD values rather than an evolved psychological mechanism”

The latest edition of the HRAF Academic Quarterly for 2025 features 12 new papers and publications based on HRAF and eHRAF data. hraf.yale.edu/hraf-academi... Did we miss any of your publications? Email your abstracts by December to be included in the next edition.

On Oct. 30th 6:00 PM (PDT), Sarah Queneau, April Mejia, Patrick Mooney, and Sofia Abolfathi explore how cultural beliefs and historical contexts shape our perceptions of fear. rccd-edu.zoom.us/j/82907050612

Come learn about the geology of Edinburgh through a comprehensive introductory course! A series of 6 guided walks and 5 online learning sessions will teach you about the geology of Edinburgh and Scotland at the beginner level. No previous geological knowledge required 📚

Why do women outlive men? A global study of 1,100 bird & mammal species finds sex-based lifespan gaps are written into evolution, shaped by chromosomes, mating, & parenting. #Evolution #Anthropology #Longevity #Biology www.anthropology.net/p/why-males-...

"Culture is not ‘transmitted’ but humans use other people's productions (beliefs, tools, buildings) to further their own goals, which sometimes (but not always) leads to transmission and (rarely) results in cumulative processes."

If you enjoy riddles, keep reading to find out why “whodunits” captivate us ... 🧵 hraf.yale.edu/hraf-academi...

Pulotu, the proto-Polynesian word for the abode of the gods, is a database of supernatural beliefs and practices across Austronesian cultures specifically designed to test evolutionary hypotheses of religious belief and practice, with a primary focus on the traditional state of cultures. pulotu.com

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

Browsing our HRAF library at 755 Prospect 📚 👀

There’s still time to book your spot for the next This is Archaeology lecture! Discover how the ARC, volunteers, communities, and partners are bringing collections to life through research, public engagement, and wellbeing projects. 2nd October | 7 - 8 pm | Free & online 👉

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Open Access from #PracticingAnthropology: Connecting the Dots: A Collaborative Ethnography of Plastic Leakages in Indonesia & the Philippines by Hardon, Pakasi, Hidayana, Taqueban, Moyer, van Zeben, Dey, Nichter & Lim Tan doi.org/10.1080/0888... @practicinganthro1.bsky.social #SfAA #anthropology

From memory spectacles on national TV to experiments in sensory transmission, today on Platypus explore the way reform-era China cultivated new ways of feeling information, redefining human potential in a technological world. blog.castac.org/2025/09/a-fe...