#NowHiring: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of #Anthropology (Health) – BowdoinCollege in #BrunswickME careercenter.americananthro.org/job/693747/b...

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

📊 HBES 2025 Conference Survey Results are out! Read the highlights from member feedback after our Atlantic City meeting:

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

What happens to mate preference evolution when people choose partners based on up to ten traits instead of just one or two? Does multivariate mate choice weaken preference evolution? Learn more in Kaitlyn Harper et al.’s latest #HBESblog:

🗓️Tomorrow, 2-3 PM ET: Join our next Free-Form Friday session as members of SPSP's Student Committee discuss how students are navigating the unpredictable, ever-changing funding environment for research funding in the United States. ✍️Sign up here: ow.ly/wmQR50WJy5K

🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵 🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards. 🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#HBESblog Borrowing triggers social emotions like guilt and gratitude based on the welfare tradeoff ratio — the costs and benefits between borrower and lender. Learn more in Maria Brackin & Hugo Mercier’s latest HBES blog post:

This week, Drugs, Delusions, and Depression with @edhagen.net A wild ride! youtu.be/fWawIyNAjTc www.podbean.com/eas/pb-7srpz... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Postdoc Opening | University of Arizona The SPECIEs Lab is hiring a 3-year postdoc. Focus: interdependence, cooperation, fieldwork w/ the Mayangna (Nicaragua), cross-cultural surveys, experiments. 🔗

Faculty Opening | University of Minnesota – Twin Cities The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology (Paleoanthropology), starting Fall 2026. 🗓️ Priority deadline: Oct 17, 2025 www.hbes.com/biological-a...

Many think music evolved to promote social cohesion. But in some indigenous societies, collective singing & dancing are rare. Why? Dor Shilton and co-authors explore 4 societies, testing hypotheses on collective action, musical expertise & style.⬇️ www.hbes.com/studying-the...

🚨 Job Post: Assistant Professor in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Focus on Indigenous & local knowledge for social & environmental sustainability. www.hbes.com/assistant-pr...

🚨 Faculty Positions in Biological Anthropology @ The University of Western Australia! 🚨 📍 Open Roles: Lecturer in Biological Anthropology: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090... Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

Just one week left to enter our Photography Competition! Categories include Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science & Climatology, Ecology & Environmental Science, and Microimaging. Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

👋Don't forget: Tomorrow is the last day to submit a podium presentation session for #SPSP2026 in Chicago! This includes Symposia, Single Papers, Data Blitzes, and Professional Development (Workshops + Sessions). Learn more and submit below! 🔗: ow.ly/w61c50WqxLl

📢 Job Opportunity! The University of Pittsburgh is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate to work with Professor Machery on his new project, Philosophy for Better Minds. cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

📅Let's meet on Dec 4 & 5 to ̶d̶i̶s̶g̶u̶s̶t̶ discuss about Disgust accross borders, a theme that's anything but tasteless ! 👃 As you'll see very soon, the program is still appetizing. ⬇️Interested in presenting? Subdmissions are now open!⬇️ @cmolho.bsky.social @csarabian.bsky.social @atognetti.bsky.social

I'm hiring a full-time #labmanager for my new Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at UCSB! The start date is flexible, but could be as early as August 1, 2025. Application review begins July 17th and will continue until the position is filled 👶🪴 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02992 #academicjobs

Why do we keep choosing authoritarian strongmen as leaders? Find out in Lasse Laustsen & Mark van Vugt’s HBES blog post about their cross-cultural study in 25 countries on the link between intergroup conflict and face preferences in leaders: www.hbes.com/why_we_keep_...

When & why did our ancestors switch from bullying in traditional dominance hierarchies (e.g. many species) to the “reverse dominance hierarchy” where bullies are suppressed by coalitions? Find out in Michael McBride’s latest HBES blog post: www.hbes.com/when-our-anc...

What language precursors are found in chimpanzees? Do they share they turn-taking of signals that humans do? Find out in Bas van Boekholt & Simone Pika’s latest HBES blog post: www.hbes.com/blueprints_o...

Nicolas Baumard & Jean-Baptiste Andre’s “ecological view of culture” provides an exciting new perspective that links Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology, & Cultural Evolution. Read more in their HBES blog post: www.hbes.com/reconciling-...

💥New postdoc position! 💥 Join us to explore how people learn from each other—and how that drives cultural evolution. Run experiments, build computational models & collaborate across Europe w. @lucasmolleman.bsky.social 📍 Stockholm More info: shorturl.at/CY4wk

The winners of the HBES Don Symons Adaptationism Award (paper in any journal in previous 3 years that best exemplifies the adaptationist programme) goes to Joseph Billingsley and colleagues for their paper in EHB on relationship value, exploitation risk, & forgiveness: doi.org/10.1016/j.ev...

The winners of the HBES Margo Wilson Award (best paper in E&HB the previous year) are Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Gregory Fiorio, & Ruth Mace for the paper “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures”. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1016/j.ev...

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Jaroslava Valentova for her work on human sexual orientation, masculinity & femininity, sexual strategies, mate preferences, & romantic relationships, and her contributions to the burgeoning Brazilian evolutionary community. www.ip.usp.br/site/jarosla...

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Catherine Salmon for her research on many topics (e.g., birth order, parenting, siblings, female sexuality, media, eating disorders) and her exceptional service to HBES (incl. conference host, Member-at-Large, Treasurer). www.redlands.edu/faculty-and-...

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow James Roney for his research on behavioral endocrinology, especially how hormones produce coordinated adaptive responses to specific input conditions (motivational priority shift hypothesis). sites.google.com/site/behavio...

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Thom Scott Phillips, for his research on the evolution of communication in humans and non-humans, especially the foundations of language, using a combination of theory, experiments, and computational models: www.thomscottphillips.com

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Martie Haselton, for her work on cognitive biases in communication, intimate relationships, sexuality, & the effects of reproductive hormones on human behavior, and for her editorship of E&HB. www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty-page...

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Laith Al-Shawaf, for his work on the evolution of emotions, cognitive biases, & individual differences, and his public communication of evolutionary psychology. You can check out his research here: psychology.uccs.edu/laith_al-sha...

Congratulations to the 2025 HBES Fellows: Laith Al-Shawaf, Martie Haselton, Thom Scott Phillips, James Roney, Catherine Salmon, & Jaroslava Valentova! They have all made sustained outstanding contributions to the study or teaching of evolution and human behavior, or to the service of HBES

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Julia Stern, for her evolutionary work on personality, including its effects on well-being, mate choice, as well as the development and hormonal correlates of personality: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Daniel Redhead, for his work on social networks, and how perceptions of people’s trait profiles and dispositions impact their position within groups, and the structure of such groups, over time: www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staf...

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Catherine Molho, for her work on human cooperation, morality, and the role of emotions in decision making, especially the factors underlying cooperation and punishment: catherinemolho.github.io

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Mohammad Atari, for his work on the intersection of culture, evolution, and morality, particularly how social structures and immediate contextual cues impact people’s moral judgment and acceptance of social norms: mohammadatari.com

HBES is happy to recognize the following Rising Stars (<8 years post-PhD) for their research contributions: Mohammad Atari: mohammadatari.com Catherine Molho: catherinemolho.github.io Daniel Redhead: www.rug.nl/staff/d.j.re... Julia Stern: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

Interested in #HBES2026 in Rabat? The hosts have drafted a FAQ regarding the location: www.hbes.com/announcing-h... Overall, this is an exciting opportunity for a great location, hosted by a great team, joint with another evolutionary society, and with perspectives we seldom hear

Ray Hames made foundational contributions to human behavioral ecology in topics as diverse as food & labor exchange, human ecology, marriage, kinship, & parental investment, & served HBES & other societies in multiple roles. Congrats to Ray for winning the HBES Lifetime Achievement Award!

Congratulations to Ray Hames for winning the 2025 HBES Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution! This award is given to HBES members who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in evolution and human behavior

Luke Glowacki does outstanding work on how cultural mechanisms interact with our evolved psychology to shape warfare and peace, which makes him well-deserving of the HBES Early Career Award. See his research here: www.hsb-lab.org Congratulations, Luke!

Congratulations to Luke Glowacki for winning the 2025 HBES Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, which recognizes excellent young scientists (<10 yrs post-PhD) who have made distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the field

Thanks to the departing HBES exec members for their service: Past President (David Schmitt), Communications Officer (Pat Barclay), Student Rep (Nina Rodriguez), and Members-At-Large (Coren Apicella & Chris Von Rueden)

The new HBES electees will join the existing executive members: incoming President Ed Hagen, Past President H. Clark Barrett, and ongoing Members-At-Large Jaimie Krems & Josh Tybur (2027), Dan Conroy-Beam & Marco Del Giudice (2029)

We are happy to announce HBES election results: President Elect: David Puts Student Rep: Nike (Yunsuh) Wee Members-At-Large: Zach Garfield & Tania Reynolds Secretary: Lisa Welling Treasurer: Jessica Hehman Communications Officer: Karthik Panchanathan

We are currently discussing with potential hosts for HBES conferences in 2027, 2028, and beyond. What better way to get involved than to host an HBES? Planning starts a couple of years in advance, so if you’re potentially interested, please contact the HBES President to discuss.

#HBES2026 will be a joint meeting with the Cultural Evolution Society in Rabat, Morocco: CES is May 11-13, HBES is May 13-16, with one day of planned overlap. It’ll be a great chance for cross-pollination between the two evolutionary societies. Come for one conference, stay for both!

And the location of #HBES2026 will be… (drum roll)... Rabat, Morocco! From May 13-16 2026, Zach Garfield and his colleagues at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) will host the first HBES to be held in Africa. From hearing their pitches, it sounds like a great venue. See you there!

Congratulations to all our #HBES2025 Conference Awards winners: New Investigator (best grad student talk): Marco Balducci Postdoc Award (best postdoctoral talk): Ahra Ko Poster Award (best poster by anyone): Angela Vasishta, Karthik Panchanathan, & Hannah Rubin Great work!