As new Editor in Chief of Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, an OA society journal of ISEMPH, we welcome papers at the interface of evolution and medicine. I especially encourage studies in infection biology, broadly construed. We're a great and constructive journal! academic.oup.com/emph

Join the 2026 ISEMPH Meeting in Kiel, Germany from July 28-31! Registration and abstract submissions are open. Learn more at https://isemph.org/page-18356. Important deadlines from Feb to June 2026. #conference

Only 3 more days to get a 20% discount on ISEMPH membership! Use code "EB2026" at checkout. Membership pays for itself if you come to even one meeting in 3 years. Register for the July meeting also, refund is easy if you can't make it after all. https:// isemph.org

Join us at this year's meeting of the International Society of Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health - ISEMPH 2026 in Kiel. See: isemph.org/page-18356

Research possible thanks to support of @ncn.gov.pl

Levels of sex hormones decline in response to physical activity. But it is more difficult to reduce estrogen than progesterone. Relevant for breast cancer prevention. Paper from my PhD Kinga Słojewska as first author received Editor's Choice recognition. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health will hold its annual meeting 28-31 July in Kiel, Germany. Abstract submission deadline 1 March isemph.org/page-18356

@royalsocietypublishing.org has published an OPEN ACCESS theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B: “Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures” compiled and edited by Adam H Boyette, Sarah Mathew, Stephen Asatsa, Michael Chimento, and Rachel L Kendal 💫 👇 👇 👇

The deadline for abstracts for the 2026 European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association has been extended to 9 January 👇

Death by Fermented Food ->Scientific American | #food | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

"COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76%, Study Finds" Effectiveness of COVID Vaccines in Children (compared with unvaccinated children): 🔹76% reduction in ER or urgent care visits (ages 9 months–4 years) 🔹56% reduction in ER or Urgent care visits (ages 5–17 years) Source: archive.md/roPXg

The ClubEvMed on Dec 2 at Noon ET on this new book will be interesting! Laurence Hurst will kick it off, David Haig will comment, and I will MC a lively discussion. @evmed.bsky.social @umehap.bsky.social @tricem.bsky.social @evmedasu.bsky.social Register now! duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

6 November 1939 | Sonderaktion Krakau, a German pacification action in Krakow targeting the Polish academic community. 183 people were arrested, mainly professors and lecturers of the Jagiellonian University. Most were imprisoned in KL Sachsenhausen. At least 20 of them perished.

5 November 1905 | A Pole, Tadeusz Mróz, was born in Krakow. A painter. In #Auschwitz from 25 April 1942. No. 33153 He was shot in the camp on 27 May 1942. --- Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/VBgDxkWLMa

Beautiful photographs illustrating a sad story: “We estimate the population at fewer than 20,000 individuals. Perhaps even fewer than 15,000. They are now critically endangered.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great discussion of this nice review at our Tea with Hormones (reading group at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social ) doi.org/10.1093/emph...

New paper out today with Zhian Chen. We argue that modern intensive parenting is not only exhausting for parents, but in some cases disrupts healthy child development. What is 'overparenting'? And can evolutionary theory help us understand how we got here? academic.oup.com/emph/advance...

Beauty of fall

NEW: in the wake of devastating floods in tx, some officials say NWS forecasts weren't sufficient enough to warn them, while others are warning that DOGE cuts may have made predictions less accurate. meteorologists told me: NWS did a solid job with the forecasts around this storm

“Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Interested in PhD? Explore sleep and sex hormones @JagiellonskiUni @krakow_pl evoecogroup.wordpress.com szkoladoktorska.cm-uj.krakow.pl/cm/uploads/2... Great team, oldest PL university, best city in Europe

At this time of a year gardens are so nice

I will be looking for a PhD student for a project on sleep quality and reproductive hormones in women. szkoladoktorska.cm-uj.krakow.pl/pl/how-to-ap... Join our great team in Krakow. evoecogroup.wordpress.com/grazyna-jasi...

Spring

“By integrating evolutionary perspectives with global health concerns, this paper aims to inform future research agendas and policy frameworks aimed at enhancing resilience and adaptation among populations facing escalating climate challenges during critical reproductive phases”

This week's new episode of @pbs.org NOVA is exceptional. A thorough hourlong review of scientific racism told through the history of medical mistreatment of Black patients. I recommend highly. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB looks at #fire risks and the joint effects of #climate, vegetation and human activity: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Ducks build a nest on our pond. 7 eggs! But female left and I am waiting to see if she will be back.

New from #RSOS: Open science interventions to improve reproducibility and replicability of research: a scoping review. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @ndevito1.bsky.social #OpenScience

#rododendron I am searching for a name of this rododendron. It has about 2.5 meters (after 20 years), blooms early (March in Poland), its leaves are small, evergreen, and have scent of gingerbread. I would like to plant more of this beauty.

Dr. Lynnette Sievert - a short video summary of her Yearbook pub, ""Evolutionary Perspectives, Comparative Approaches, and the Lived Experience of Menopause." youtu.be/dm3IDoDyWPw

Roughly 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced from their homes since Israel launched an expanded military campaign in the West Bank in late January, almost immediately after the Gaza ceasefire began.

A generation at risk: Food crises in Gaza and elsewhere put millions of children in danger of lifelong harm www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Being close to other people changes across menstrual cycle. Closer relations with friends and family in luteal phase. Higher progesterone predicts higher desire to affiliate. Our new paper with Stacey Makhanova @urszulammarcin1 and others. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Into the home stretch of diseases to be aware of - Rubella is day 5(of 7). Don’t forget #vaccineswork #MedSky #PedSky #IDSky

This is a really fantastic review article by a leading expert on menopause, Lynnette Leidy Sievert 👇 Also will now be using the Obamas as my go-to example of grandmaternal investment; wasn’t previously aware the family included a maternal grandmother during their White House residence

Lynnette Leidy Sievert is truly great expert on menopause in evolutionary and cross-culture perspective.

As an Editorial Board member of @royalsocietypublishing.org #PhilTransB I would highly recommend this opportunity! Please contact me if you would like to discuss any ideas for #neuroscience #genetics theme issues. Find out more at bit.ly/PTBproposa

Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...

Next deadline for submitting a proposal for a theme issue (especially health and disease and developmental biology) of Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society B is on April 18. Great opportunity to influence your discipline. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/submit-...

Abortion bans lead to higher infant mortality.