Our new paper is out in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health! Led by the amazing @marinawatowich.bsky.social What drives worsening cardiometabolic health during urbanization in Indigenous populations? We expected it to be diet. But actually, it was the built environment.

New Paper Published in collaboration with MSc Medical Anthropology students (now graduates!) and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities 🥳 academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...

We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (mainly teaching Evo Med and Stats at UCL Anthro) as maternity cover! Please share - closing date 30th April www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🚨MASTER AND SCHOLARSHIP ANOUNCEMENT🚨 The MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour at University College London is a broad-based programme run by experts in the field. This year they are excited to share 2 bursaries for Home/UK students, and 1 for International students - based on financial need.

Just looking through some breastfeeding public health posters, and pleasantly surprised by the newer NHS ones. We've come a long way from posters telling women it's natural/instinctive & breastfeeding means love and care.

Are you an international student wanting to study an MA/MSc at UCL Anthropology? Take a look at the UCL Global Scholarships for Master's study, based on financial need: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

A reminder that we have MSc/MA bursaries for home fee students at UCL Anthropology!

Early view of our Special Issue on the Anthropology of Adolescence at the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is now available! Take a look at our introduction here, which also provides summaries of all the papers in the special issue: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University! The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health. More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...

Funding for students!! New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞 www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

This is a great thing to do - I did it, loved it and it underpinned a Phil Trans B special issue 💜 If you want any advice DM me Also my (with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and @ehemmott.bsky.social successful application is on the EHBEA website to help guide you…. Just saying there’s still time 🕰️

"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"

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...

Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

People often underestimate how awful pregnancy sickness is. They think it's just vomiting. It's not. It feels like your body is decomposing. You're in so much pain. You can't move. As this women says - it feels like you're going to die. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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/...

Jane Lancaster, my doctoral adviser, was a giant in our field. She taught me one can be assertive and kind at the same time. Her legacy of both research and mentorship spans across the globe. Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) share.google/TdRdZD6eD5nR...

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

“Parenting is never perfect. Cultures raise children differently, shaping adults valued by their own standards. But one truth emerges: Learning to care for others should start long before having a baby” www.sapiens.org/biology/to-r...

Have 15 mins spare? One of our MSc students from UCL Anthropology is investigating global attitudes to breastfeeding. Anyone can take part, from anywhere in the world! Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box) 日本語バージョンもあります！ Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception. Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs. Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

A comparison of 2 industrialised populations (Italy, Singapore) with 2 indigenous populations (Tsimane, Bolivia & Orang Asli, Malaysia) suggests inflammaging - age-associated increase in chronic inflammation, considered a hallmark of aging - is a byproduct of industrialisation, not a human universal

UK Peeps: Please consider writing to your MP, asking them to support Amendment NC17 to the Crime and Policing Bill to decriminalise abortions. This *does not* mean that people will now get access to "illegal abortions"; it simply means that abortions will no longer be treated as a criminal matter. 👇

🚨 Seeking practitioners, researchers, or students involved in forensic anthropology and/or skeletal trauma interpretation 🚨 Help us understand how forensic practitioners interpret gun shot and other trauma on long bones by participating in a short survey! binghamton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"...when it comes to all-class [mental health] lessons, we should listen to the evidence, and to young people themselves. We came up with a good idea, we spent a lot of time and money testing it, and we have our answer. Given the evidence, we should now stop doing those lessons."

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes! Join us at UCL Anthropology! www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications! -Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ... -ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN... -Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...

And just want to congratulate my co-author and MRes Anthropology graduate Imogen who got news of PhD funding today! Well done for all your hard work and persistence Imogen ❤️

New paper alert - Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis - is there a sociological mechanism which is creating the gender gap in mental health outcomes at adolescence in the UK?

Well done to my fantastic ex-student Imogen Hensler for her paper based on her MRes Anthropology research! Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis: doi.org/10.1177/1049...

🤩📣 New paper on participant-led methodological development for collecting high-resolution data on the post-natal period 👩‍🍼 with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️ funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social summary 🧵👇

🆕 3-Year PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences on "Adolescent Social Media, Mental Health & Inequalities"! 🎯 Deadline: March 31 Supervisors: @pablogracia.bsky.social [@uab.cat @cedemografia.bsky.social] & @alinacosma.bsky.social [@tcddublin.bsky.social] Apply & Share!👇 webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/s...

If you are a Black, Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage UK student wanting to pursue a PhD in applied evolutionary anthropology or evolutionary public health with me, drop me an email and see funding opportunity below 👇🏻 www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

Learning through play literally builds brains. Policymakers and funding gatekeepers for state education programmes must understand this much better | Dr Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social

Thinking of doing an MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology? A reminder that UCL are offering **200 bursaries** for home fee students: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... 👀 More about our MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour here: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢 Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵

Please see below for EHBEA's statement in solidarity with Stand Up For Science Day ✊

We are excited to advertise the Asian Cultural Evolution (ACE) seminar series! It's organized by Kenji Itao, Xinyue Pan & Wataru Toyokawa, and seminars will take place on the third Tuesday of odd-numbered months at 19:00 JST (18:00 Perth/Singapore/Beijing, 19:00 Tokyo/Seoul, 20:00 Sydney).

Wonderful video by Deniz Salali from UCL Anthropology, exploring the lives of BaYaka forager children! youtu.be/fAXgXP9JRDA?...

"Are grandchildren beneficial to mental health in old age? Using advanced statistical techniques & data from 160,000 individuals across Europe, Elisa Brini & Francesca Zanasi challenge this common belief: family ties do not significantly reduce the risk of depression for men & women in later life"

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Looking for some good news?Applications open for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships Programme. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Listen to me chat about the evolutionary anthropology of grandmothers with Ella Al-Shamahi on BBC4 🙂 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I asked my students for feedback/suggestions OR doodles on post-its today. I'm going to do this again next year. I need more doodles in my life!

So, as expected, redundancies are finally creeping into Russel Group universities. So much has gone wrong over the last 15 years. And government policy still seems to be "ignore and see what happens."

Not really sure how I've ended up here in my life where I'm giving my professional opinion about The Traitors TV show to the New Scientist and BBC - but it's good to be able to declare my love of reality tv to the public 😂

Are you UK-based and looking to do a MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology? You may be eligible for the UCL bursary for Home Students! www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...