Some very good advice for thriving in graduate school dorsaamir.medium.com/modest-advic...

New evidence about how do people in a small scale society acquire foraging skills and knowledge?

Good news. Better news, there are still GFRPs for Life Sciences (due Oct 27) and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (due Oct 28).

#GreatAdaptations Better than science fiction www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#GreatAdaptations Even cuter and more amazing than regular size sea horses How the Pygmy Sea Horse Lost Its Snout www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...

#GreatAdaptations A new spin on the old adage: I'm all thumbs

New paper: Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This would be fun

#GreatAdaptations In the deep blue sea, it's hard to find mates. So, male anglerfish latch on to females and don't let go. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Herzog & Demps argue for the role of adversity in shaping the human adaptive niche onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#GreatAdaptations Power and leverage are not always based on size.

Female mountain gorillas can outrank males twice their size... ...and exhibit priority of access to resources over these males Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225008723 Press release: https://www.mpg.de/25119311/0730-evan-it-s-not-just-about-size-150495-x

A newer synthesis, 50 years after the publication of Sociobiology www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

Jane's contributions, as founding editor of Human Nature and patron saint of biosocial perspectives on human behavior, have had an important impact on the scope and direction of evolutionary social science. She will be missed.

Comparative data rock. New MS leveraging grooming data on 11 species of papionin primates (baboons, geladas, mandrills, and mangabeys) across 13 sites.

Karen Kramer writes about the importance of women's food foraging and food processing.

#GreatAdaptations The benefits of social bonds for zebra females brill.com/view/journal...

#GreatAdaptations So improbable it must have evolved.

#GreatAdaptations There are good landlords out there, but you might have to live in a jungle www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

#GreatAdaptations Humans have become the selective force for other species Honey, We Shrunk the Cod www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/s...

Social anxiety in macaques Tibetan macaques show self-directed behaviors before facing difficult social situations. For example, when females plan to approach higher-ranking females, or when low-ranking males are plan to approach receptive females. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just in time for Father's Day. Lovely data on the positive impact that baboon fathers have on their daughters. (Even in a species that seems adapted for extreme mating effort.)

You like to think that when you retire, your place will be taken by scholars that are younger and smarter than you are who will add to the sum of human knowledge. May not now. www.science.org/content/arti...

#GreatAdaptations Friendship is a great adaptation

Awesome

#GreatAdaptations Baboons walk the line. scienceblog.com/wildscience/...

If only I had 9 research lives...(I think I have already used two).

Interesting perspective on the breadth of children's moral concern --- and great to see the location of each study reported when results are described.

Oh, I am afraid it will get much darker.

A fantastic new issue of Phil Trans on animal culture and conservation is just out. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

#GreatAdaptations Soon our only unique attribute will be scale of harm that we can do to the planet.

Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught! Videos will worth watching www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

#GreatAdapations Curiosity + Data = Knowledge Flamingos Make Underwater Vortexes to Suck Up Prey www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

#GreatAdaptations An excellent paper for Mother's Day. Chimpanzees are really very good moms.

40 years on, this statement still resonates. The bitter theoretical conflicts persist, but the breadth of vision persists.

Impassioned defence of four-field anthropology from the closing paragraph of Blurton-Jones' 1982 paper 'Unity and Disunity in the Study of Human Behaviour'.

Happy to share the news that Rob Boyd was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He's not on social media, but I am happy to pass along messages.

#GreatAdaptations Tradeoffs in action Humans’ Wounds Heal Much More Slowly Than Other Mammals’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

Michael Crow, ASU President, and Marcia McNutt, NAS president, talk about why SCIENCE MATTERS to all of us. issues.org/interview-mc...

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. Every grant cancelled is an attack on all of us. Every fellowship terminated is an attack on all of our students. Every program killed is an attack on all of our programs.

#WithoutNSF the next generation of scientists is at risk. #NSF supports graduate training & research. This includes my current student @marioapata.bsky.social who is studying ancient population history in N. Chile & how they adapted to high arsenic levels in H2O www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4P6...

GreatAdaptations: Female bonobos team up to boss males around. One more awesome piece of data to add to the enduring mystery of why bonobos and chimps are so different. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Who will stand up for science? National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

#GreatAdaptations Which of Darwin's hostile forces shape zebra sociality? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#GreatAdaptations But do they make toasts? Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Totally endorse defending your dissertation in appropriate style.

Standing up for all of us: Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump is ‘of Momentous Significance’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Bonobo Sanctuary, Lola Ya Bonobo, is flooded. Financial help is needed to help them restore their facilities and keep the bonobos safe.

The evidence speaks for itself: Vaccines save lives www.nature.com/articles/d41...