🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Writing in the Guardian, @pollytoynbee.bsky.social calls out dangerous supremacism: “On the Robinson march in London, the great wooden crosses looked like armaments… The marchers’ “Christ is King” flags declared a radicalised ethno-supremacism.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

New research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

“The current racist political environment is driven by populism and created by politicians playing the ‘anti-immigration card’ who are unashamedly exploiting those with rightwing and racist views” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Cats are not dogs, says science: "we believe it is time to change our research perspective on cats and find out more about what they can teach us about different ways of evolving mutually advantageous, but independence-based relationships with humans" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? @kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Looking to do a PhD in demography, health, data science? Oxford Demography (LCDS) is recruiting to fill TWO positions! See Charlie's posts below for specifics. Come join us in the beautiful (albeit a bit rainy) Oxford!! 👩‍🏫📊🌦️

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

The human visual system has specialized modular processing for multiple distinct categories of causal events. My new paper with my lab manager Katharina Wenig in Cognitive Science, "Causal Perception(s)" Free open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #CogSci #PsychSciSky 🧵(1/22)

New preprint! "Parental beliefs and practices around child weight in London, England: insights from qualitative photo-elicitation interviews" We explored how parents view child weight + weight-related behaviours, and discuss implications for public health practice. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Our article "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience" (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marc Feldman) is now published online. We describe five factors that contribute to the spread of racism and suggest strategies for countering them. doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

🗣️Exciting PhD opportunity! Join @lshtm.bsky.social PSG and @mpidr.bsky.social as a PhD student/Research Assistant on an 3-year project leading to a funded PhD. The role focuses on developing cutting-edge methods to model health & mortality in low-income countries. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Interesting on how publishers respond when concerns are raised 👇 My own experience: Springer, 3 journals, No action Elsevier, 3, No action CUP, 1, No action Brill, 1, No action Emerald, 1, No action Frontiers, 1, No action Qeios, No action Cell Press, 1, Editorial note Royal Society, 1, Retraction

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.

Starting the week strong 💪 we share now the plenary talk of @heidicolleran.bsky.social, which was part of @ehbea2025.bsky.social Here, she talks about the misconceptions and the biases behind the idea of “natural fertility”👶 Pass by, have a look, and stay tuned! youtu.be/8Ch1t7zpW10?...

"88% of females outranked at least one adult male in multi-male group" www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is appalling on many levels www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

We are happy to announce our brand new YoutTube channel 🥳 We start with the plenary talk of Petr Tureček as the New Investigator Award winner in @ehbea2025.bsky.social 🎤🤓 “Error, inspiration, and the dynamics of variance in cultural transmission” 👀 youtu.be/wafXoULA3B0?...

Today we share the work from @drboothroyd.bsky.social, as one of the plenary speaker in @ehbea2025.bsky.social She talks about how common assumptions related to appearance ideals and sexual selection may differ when using more culturally diverse data 😮 Have a look! 👀 youtu.be/ENK3WPSJSo8?...

Have you had a good (in)fertility experience at work? Or not? If you're UK-based, please take this survey so that we can better understand the current landscape. Please share.

Check out this cool new package which I will likely also use for my "R u Ready" data wrangling and analyses class. 🐖

Daughters who have strong relationships with their fathers live longer in adulthood! Check out the latest paper from the Amboseli Baboon Project: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 5 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. The media, their framing, IS the problem

Essay which clearly outlines the scientific and ethical problems with selecting embryos for polygenic traits. Scientists associating themselves with embryo selection companies, and those who’ve previously defended sociogenomics but are staying silent on these companies, come in for criticism here

New paper! What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence? Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very happy to share this article, coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Clark Barrett, on the contemporary relevance of the human sociobiology debate, 50 years after publication of Wilson's landmark book.

Excellent article by Pratik Pawar on the consequences of cutting the Demographic and Health Surveys, and efforts to revive them. I'm quoted briefly.

It looks like Hiroshima and the current Gaza death toll is basically the same (>60k)

🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks? ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps! A 🧵

Chronically Ill? In Kennedy's View, It Might Be a Patient's Own Fault www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📢 Postdoc opening at the @cts.cuni.cz Open to researchers interested in any field developed at CTS, with a strong interest in transdisciplinary dialogue between the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities 📄 Details: cuni.cz/UKEN-1304-ve... 🗓️ Start: Jan 2026| Apply by: Sept 30, 2025

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

We’re expanding EHBEA’s Workshop Grant scheme to cover outreach activities, after our Stand Up For Science discussions at the conference 👇 The community clearly expressed the view that outreach beyond academia was vital to championing science. Apply by 11 September 💶

🚨GRANT APPLICATION🚨 Call for the WORKSHOP/EVENT GRANT from EHBEA is officially open! If you are interested in organising a scientific workshop or an outreach event please check the link and apply! DEADLINE: September 11th, 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/members...