It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Great news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥 www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...

💙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...

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....

@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/...

Eres un chileno/a, mexicano/a o otra persona latinoamericana que quiere hacer un doctorado en la tema de programas educativas de imagen corporal en escuelas? Tenemos una beca en Durham para unirse en nuestra proyecto! Puedes ver las detalles y aplicar aqui 👇 #Psicología #antropología 🇨🇱🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇷🇦🇷🇨🇷🇭🇳🇸🇻🇺🇾🇵🇾🇵🇪🇧🇴🇨🇺

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth. Please share with your students. #PsychSciSky #Anthropology www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🚨 GRANT APPLICATION 🚨 Do not forget to apply for the workshop/event grant from EHBEA in case you are organising a scientific event 😉 DEADLINE: September 11th, 2025

Our book is now available online at the African Books Collective here: africanbookscollective.com/books/mangro... Reminder that 100% of proceeds to go mangrove conservation and education programs in Pemba, Tanzania.

Job in cultural psychology: richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/staff_facult...

Last but not least! today we share the talk of Christine Caldwell as plenary speaker at @ehbea2025.bsky.social Here she talks about the cognitive challenges for cumulative cultural evolution and how these abilities were selected 🧠 Don’t miss it! 👇 youtu.be/UvVNfyiYOGc?...

🔊Up to 10 individual AIAS-AUFF FELLOWSHIPS are open for application by curiosity-driven and talented researchers from all over the world, from any research discipline & with 2-10 years of experience after completion of their PhD. 📆APPLY by: 28 October at 12:00 (noon, CET) aias.au.dk/events/show/...

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?...

🧠 What?! A meeting just on disgust?! Yes!! 📍 @iast.fr, France | 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025 💥 Keynotes by Paul Rozin @upenn.edu, @cr-amo.bsky.social, Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social & Cindy Kam 🌍 From Psychology to Politics, Biology & beyond 🎓 Abstract submissions until Aug 31: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

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?...

We are excited to share our next plenary speaker from @ehbea2025.bsky.social ! @prof-r-hill.bsky.social shows the STRANGE biases that exist in animal behaviour research via a nice and thorough overview of primate studies Don’t miss it! 👀 youtu.be/wtS-xouCHqg?...

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?...

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability seeks assistant professor in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Home dept is open. Happy to talk to anyone interested in ESoS. #EHBEA #HBES #BioAnth #CultEvo #anthrosky 🌍 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Short kids are malnourished, right? well, only maybe! In our recent paper at #RSOS we present a new theoretical model of growth, exploring of how 🧬, 🥘, & 🦠, through their effects on body proportions & metabolism, cause variation in 👶 🚸growth trajectories. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨 The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology Deadline for applying: August 22nd More information on the link below 👇 external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨 The University of Western Australia is looking for a Lecturer in Biological Anthropology Deadline for applying: August 29th More information on the link below 👇 external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

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...

📣 We are excited (or should we say disgusted?) to announce the conference 'Disgust across borders' at IAST! @iast.fr 🗓️ Join us on Dec 4 & 5 for two days full of disgust research across species and disciplines. Registration and abstract submission are open (until Aug 31): forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

🚨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...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Clinically ignored, archaeologically common. Are these holes in the head a thing of the past? So glad to finally have this award winning research (@paleopathology.bsky.social ) out -- cribra orbitalia and its relationship to health in living Tsimane adults.

Call for applications for the International Writing Workshops from the @britishacademy.bsky.social Aimed for developing skills and networks of early-career researchers with a connection to the Global South DEADLINE: September 17th More info 👇

Applications are now open for the Mid-Career Fellowships. This programme supports individual research projects that foster public engagement and deepen understanding of the humanities and social sciences. Learn more: buff.ly/VOWVPuC

Call for applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships from the @britishacademy.bsky.social DEADLINE: October 10th More info 👇

🎉 The Friends of IAST conference kicks off today in Toulouse! Held every two years, this event brings together IAST alumni and new research fellows—two days of reconnecting, sharing ideas, and sparking new collaborations. 👋Organizers: @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz

EHBEA MEMBERS! We are discussing about future EHBEA meetings (e.g. in person, online, hybrid) and we want to hear your opinion Check your email (and spam folder!) for the survey link, and don’t forget to fill it out 🙏 Didn’t get it? Reach out to Jeanne Bovet www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our...

INFORMATION FOR EHBEA MEMBERS We’re collecting feedback on the Newcastle 2025 meeting (@ehbea2025.bsky.social). Check your email (and spam folder!) for the survey link, and don’t forget to fill it out 🙏 Didn’t get it? Reach out to Jeanne Bovet 😊 🔗 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our...

Today I received the books ordered by @ehbea.bsky.social for the Poster Award. 🥰 This is going to be perfect reading for my PhD. 📚 Thanks again @ehbea2025.bsky.social!

Amazing work disentangling the cultural dynamics behind FGM/C in south-central Ethiopia 👏

Finishing the 12th EconBio Workshop with a panel discussion together with @richardakresh.bsky.social , @ruthmace.bsky.social , Pat Monaghan, and Ronald Lee to talk about the next steps in the interdisciplinary study of the evolution of the human life cycle #lifehistory @iast.fr

Last talk in the 12th EconBio Workshop at @iast.fr with Ronald Lee presenting some work on the relationship between reproduction and production in a social context, especially about increasing returns, reproductive skew, and group size #lifehistory @piretavila.bsky.social

Now listening to @bentrumble.bsky.social about the evolutionary context under which chronic diseases have developed and its relation to ageing at the 12th EconBio Workshop #lifehistory @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social

Starting the ageing and menopause session in the 12th EconBio Workshop at @iast.fr with a talk by Pat Monaghan about the evolution of a post-reproductive stage in humans and other species #lifehistory @piretavila.bsky.social

Attending an interesting talk from Siwan Anderson on the moral values and gender differences regarding intimate partner violence acceptance at the 12th EconBio Workshop #lifehistory @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social @olkcampbell.bsky.social

Listening to a wonderful talk by Raphaëlle Chaix at the 12th EconBio Workshop on the influence of kynship systems on gender norms and the timing of patrilineal and patrilocal societies in human populations using genetic evidence #lifehistory @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social @olkcampbell.bsky.social

Starting the 2nd day of the 12th EconBio Workshop with an intriguing talk from @siobhancully.bsky.social about the gender contributions - and biases - on the evolution of the human life cycle #lifehistory @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social @olkcampbell.bsky.social

Now moving into how social safety nets and policies relate to parental decisions in child development by a wonderful talk from @richardakresh.bsky.social at the 12th EconBio Workshop at @iast.fr #lifehistory @piretavila.bsky.social

Now listening to Willem Frankenhuis in the 12th EconBio Workshop talking about the influence of stressful environments in the evolution of human development, especially about developmental plasticity @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social #lifehistory

Starting the 12th Economy and Biology workshop in @iast.fr with an amazing talk looking to the past and early evolution of childhood and teenage development during the Upper Paleolithic by April Nowell #lifehistory

A couple of pictures from Tuesday, received the price and vouchers, delivered by @cristinacost.bsky.social and @durhamrmcentre.bsky.social. a The said picture, caption, and description are below 👇🏻 'A Drop of Knowledge'

Today I officially started as a Research Fellow in @iastoulouse.bsky.social 🇫🇷 thanks for the welcoming day (and the goodies!). I’m excited to work in such an interdisciplinary environment where I’ll keep talking about babies, evolution…but this time spiced up with some culture 👶 🤓 👀

📣 New paper by myself @djsmith90.bsky.social and colleagues published today in @royalsociety.org Proc B 📣 Grandmothers are often seen as key carers, but this isn’t always the case. We explore why in Agta forgers reflecting on the implications of demography for evolution of grandmothering 👵🌍

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!

John Krakauer killing off Simulation Ideology for the 1st annual meeting of @socphilneuro.bsky.social! @pessoabrain.bsky.social seems to be a fan? Looking forward to the #DSPNW session later today. Stoked to share my epistemic take on hyperscanning and some of the empiric work it stems from ;-)