📢 Reupping this: current & recent federal workers, would love to talk to you about how you're connecting & cooperating across agencies and regions! DM me if you'd like to share and we can switch to Signal. I'll need your name as a source for my records but am keeping folks anonymous in the article 💯

Current & recent federal workers! Are you connecting in new ways with people across agencies this year? I’m writing about it for The Conversation & would love to hear your experiences! DM me if you want to share (& happy to switch to Signal). You can remain anonymous in the article 👍🏻. Please repost!

For this #WplusEBSWednesday, we wanted to highlight some job opportunities closing November 1st & 2nd! First, Penn State University is hiring for a position as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology! (1/3) psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Leiden looking good today ;-) 📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026 ⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April 📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance) For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com

It was a pleasure to chat with Dave & David on @epthepod.bsky.social about all things groups: how people think about groups, when we'd expect to see intergroup tensions, and intergroup dynamics in 2025. Thanks for having me, both!

🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Have a resource, recommendation, or opportunity you think would benefit our community? Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2) 🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z... #WplusEBS

👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair! @annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept. As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2) #WplusEBS

Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky apply.interfolio.com/173938 📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

💙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...

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.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

'“Reporting of bird banding from hunters is one of the best citizen science programs that is out there,” said Brad Bortner' - and is slated for a funding cut of 90%: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/s...

What if I told you that your friendships could help protect your local fisheries? In my op-ed in the Scranton Times-Tribune, I talk about how federal funding can support stewardship of US waterways - and how much taxpayers will lose from proposed cuts, including smart stewardship *and* $10bn a year.

What if I told you that your friendships could help protect your local fisheries? In my op-ed in the Scranton Times-Tribune, I talk about how federal funding can support stewardship of US waterways - and how much taxpayers will lose from proposed cuts, including smart stewardship *and* $10bn a year.

📢 On Friday, the NIH pulled funding for 10 centers monitoring infectious diseases around the globe -- diseases highly likely to cause the next pandemic (1). Let's look at just one of these diseases: Rift Valley Fever, monitored by my collaborators at WSU Global Health Kenya. 🧵

📢 On Friday, the NIH pulled funding for 10 centers monitoring infectious diseases around the globe -- diseases highly likely to cause the next pandemic (1). Let's look at just one of these diseases: Rift Valley Fever, monitored by my collaborators at WSU Global Health Kenya. 🧵

That's a wrap on the #HBES2025 #WplusEBS panel! Thank you to our panelists @robingnelson.bsky.social, @dconroybeam.bsky.social, @siobhancully.bsky.social And thank you to the #HBES2025 attendees who shaped this conversation. Read some final takeaways from our panelists: 👇 1/4

Some more good quotes from the #HBES2025 #WplusEBS panel so far! 👇 @robingnelson.bsky.social "I can't do the work I want to do if I'm not in the room, so I am staying in the room" @dconroybeam.bsky.social "People that are mutually invested in each other has made surviving [in academia] possible"

Today at 7 at #HBES2025: speed networking and community! See you at Byrdcage! 🍹 #WplusEBS

🚨 What #NIHfunded research has been cancelled or delayed at your local US university? Type in your local university's name here to find out 👇🏻 At Penn State: work on kidney disease and viruses like West Nile, among other research. #SaveNIH www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This week at #HBES2025 come hang out with #WplusEBS for networking, community, & ideas & tools for meeting the moment! We'll see you at: 🍹Survival of the Social Mixer - Thurs 7pm at Byrdcage 💬Gender & Identity.. Challenges to Research & Researchers in 2025 - Fri 4:50pm in Event Room (panelists 👇🏻)

🚨Coming to #HBES2025? What questions should we ask at the gender & identity panel on Fri June 6th? Submit your suggestions here! 👉🏻 pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A poignant picture: NSF staff overcome obstacles to mark agency's 75th anniversary. www.science.org/content/arti...

New paper in Population and Environment by Choquette-Levy et al. examining how farmers’ information sources, social capital, and previous exposure to climate hazards shape climate risk perceptions and livelihood decisions. Available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

👋🏻Are you a woman and/or member of the SGM community working in the evolutionary human sciences? We've relaunched W+EBS (@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social) to provide mentorship, networking, and advocacy at major EHS conferences, including HBES, CES, and EHBEA! 👇🏻Will you be at HBES in 2 weeks? 👀 If so... (1/2)

I'll be joining this important panel on gender and identity in EHS at #HBES2025 in #AtlanticCity. Submit questions ahead and join us! Friday, June 6, 4:50-6:10pm!

A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies. TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.

Join us in congratulating Robert Boyd, a SHESC professor and research scientist with the @asuiho.bsky.social, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences — one of the highest honors a researcher can receive! 🌟 news.asu.edu/20250505-uni...

Are dance & infant-directed song human universals? Like many people, I've long thought so. But in a new paper in Current Biology, Kim Hill & I report that the Northern Aché (Paraguay) lacked both behaviors, likely losing them after cultural collapse. Open-access link: www.cell.com/current-biol...

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

And here's a recent story about @annepisor.bsky.social work on intergroup conflict & cooperation, which, intriguingly from my perspective, highlights the role of social context and motivation in shaping how we approach these sorts of divisions. 3/n @psuanthro.bsky.social www.psu.edu/news/researc...

Should be a highlight: We'll have two interdisciplinary discussion panels on Friday, including one with @annepisor.bsky.social (anthropology), @chrisskurka.bsky.social (media studies), @scottclifford.bsky.social (political science), @emilykubin.bsky.social @williambrady.bsky.social (psychology) 1/n

What happens when you get social scientists together from across disciplines to discuss morality and divisions? We'll have a lot to say! Tune in Fri April 25 -- registration and details below 👇🏻

What starts and maintains cooperation: individual decision-making, dyadic interactions, institutions that come along with group membership, network dynamics...? Always more to discuss! Thanks Paris 🇫🇷. Thanks especially to...

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality. Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

I'm immensely proud of Prof Smith -- his blend of theoretical rigor and applied research, his generous mentoring style, and his upward trajectory of accomplishment! Here's to your next chapter @kris-smith.bsky.social!! 🍻

Social networks look different in rainy season for Bangladeshi communities with different livelihoods says Ian Harryman: networks contract as risk goes up, but farming community manages risk with local ties while market-integrated community manages *correlated* risk with non-local ties. #AABA2025

Yes networks, including long-distance ties, can buffer collective risk (like environmental impacts) that strike whole communitie, says Joon Hwang, but inequality can undercut both network support generally as well as formation of long-distance ties - Joon speculates on why below. #AABA2025

Humans spend tons of energy on our bodies relative to other mammals & put on weight easily: very high resting energy expenditure, high & variable active energy expenditure (Dan Lieberman, Ian Wallace), & a tiny bit of positive energy balance means weight gain, across populations (Mary Joy) #AABA2025

🎉 Our lab is now here on Bluesky! The Human Sociality Lab will now be sharing our wins, insights, and papers at @socialitylab.bsky.social. Follow us to follow along! 👇🏻

*What do we do now, academic scientists?* 💪🏻 Don't become passive. (Steven Garvey) 💬 The most important thing we do is tell stories, to share what we know. (Claudia Valeggia) 👇🏻

Depending on the work you do, your exposure to heat can vary substantially, with impacts to your short-term health (like dizziness 🥵) and long-term health (like anxiety or depression). Sometimes that hard work pays the bills, but how does paying the bills today trade off with your health tomorrow? 🧵

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

@annepisor.bsky.social, SSRI cofund & assistant professor of #Anthropology, did a Q&A about her work on the "us vs. them" mindset. ⬇️ buff.ly/41uVI9H

NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

Reminder of this @appam.bsky.social webinar tomorrow on the assault of the federal government. Free and open to all. www.appam.org/events/webin...