Pleased to announce that my chapter with Phil Kavanagh @martakowal.bsky.social about how to apply evolutionary theory to study romantic love has been published in the International Handbook of Love (2nd ed). link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Earlier this year a paper was published on the biology of love that had many shortcomings. My co-author, @Marta7Kowal and I wrote an opinion piece outlining problems with this paper... www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...

Amazing new study just published led by the amazing @martakowal.bsky.social using data collected by S Craig Roberts... Couples who meet online love their partner less! Nationally representative data from 50 countries! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today in 1864, Thomas Huxley doodled this “ancient ape-man of Gibraltar” while bored in a meeting. It was inspired by the Forbes Quarry skull—a fossil his friend was puzzling over that we’d later recognize as a Neanderthal. #OnThisDay 🏺

Five enjoyable years of sporadic effort... I just submitted my PhD thesis. Yay!

Here's a quick read I wrote for Chalk Magazine - everything you need to know about the science of romantic love in 7 minutes. www.chalk-magazine.com/articles/wha...

New paper out led by fabulous collaborators at the University of Wroclaw. Love as a universal phenomenon: Data from nine non-WEIRD societies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They are opening an Aldi 1 minute's drive from my apartment. My life score just increased .2...

I had the pleasure of appearing on triple j's (Australia's public youth radio station) The Hookup talking about the science of romantic love. If you want to hear what I'm telling the youth about romantic love, have a listen: www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...

✨️The EHBEA 2025 Starter Pack is Here! ✨️ - Follow #EHBEA2025 conference presenters & attendees! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 - Attending EHBEA?? Comment bellow or send us a message to be added! #CoolEvoScience #HumanBehaviour #SharingResearch @ehbea.bsky.social go.bsky.app/83e84Ca

Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity. #linguistics #evolution #academia #phd www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper out with Phil Kavanagh. Variation exists in the expression of romantic love: A cluster analytic study of young adults experiencing romantic love When you are in love, are you a mild, moderate, intense, or libidinous lover? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Charles Darwin published his book Descent of Man #OnThisDay in 1871. In it he wrote: "It has often been asserted that man’s origin can never be known, but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

New paper out with Severe Luoto and Phil Kavanagh. Sex differences in romantic love: an evolutionary perspective. It fills a long neglected gap in the literature on sex differences and human mating... bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Just submitted another paper :)

Accidentally closed my browser. Amazing. Now I only have about 5 tabs open...

Got my first hate mail resulting from our recent SSRI study 😒

New research challenges fears that antidepressants dull passion. In a large international survey, young adults on these medications experienced the same intensity, obsession, and commitment of love as their unmedicated peers. #Antidepressants #MentalHealth #RomanticLove #LoveResearch #Psychology

My colleagues and I tested an 18 year-old theory that SSRIs negatively affect romantic love. In 810 people from 33 countries, we found no evidence of this. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm pleased to announce that I will be appearing with other experts at the World Science Festival in Brisbane on 29 March to discuss "Love (and other heart conditions)." worldsciencefestival.com.au/events/love-...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered the poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X 👏 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵

New research out led by the amazing Marta Kowal. Is romantic love a universal force fostering long-term commitment or does its importance vary across cultures and life circumstances? In our latest study, we explored this question with data from 86,310 individuals across 90 countries:

How do people get down to 0 emails in their inbox. I don't get it. What about all the stuff you have to do...

Truth hits hard...

Santa quad squad

Starter pack for evolutionary behavioral science! I know I am missing many ppl working in this area. Please add yourself and your colleagues! go.bsky.app/Rt4Kh26

Giving my supervisor a draft of my thesis...

post somebody you've been told you look like, who you definitely don't look like

Early in my PhD, I planned on papers taking about 6 months to get published. These days it seems more like a year... 🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7hj... 🧪

PsyPost picked up a recent study of mine and my colleagues... www.psypost.org/new-research...

Friends teaching #anthrorepro (and adjacent fields of repro) please consider this forthcoming book by @drtomori.bsky.social and me as background text. Written with undergrad and non-anthro students in mind www.routledge.com/The-Anthropo...

“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”

(This starter pack will no doubt expand as more people migrate to Bluesky.) go.bsky.app/KVUQFms

New cool paper out by Feybesse et al. looking at the reliability of some measures of love. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When a website asks for your favorite movie as a security question, pick something obscure and artsy so if there’s a data leak, you at least go down looking sophisticated

Common wisdom assumes more intense romantic love predicts higher frequency of sexual activity. Research by @adambode.bsky.social et al finds no evidence for this assumption: buff.ly/4g6UBSW

Everyone on this site has a library card

The @omovalleyresearchproject.org is now on BlueSky! In addition to conducting interdisciplinary behavioral science in Southwest Ethiopia, we are also working hard to support education for students from rural pastoralist villages.

The Romantic Love Survey 2022 (the world's largest dataset of people experiencing romantic love) is now publicly available on the Love Consortium Dataverse. dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...

I just found out there's a DJ named "Mixed Methods" and that's made my day...