'The manosphere’s enthusiasm for evolution goes beyond appropriation and selective interpretation of existing research' New paper by LouisBachaud et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

💯 “how it is at its core a fascist technology rooted in the ideology of supremacy, defined not by its technical features but by its political ones.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

“genetic determinism is like astrology. Indeed, Dr. Watson himself once said: “We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

I just got sent an ‘exclusive’ invitation to try out Nature’s new AI “research assistant”. Hard pass #neoludditeandproudofit

A central question for any evolutionary research program on humans: what is a population?

we have to figure out how to act like we are all each other’s makers—because, inevitably, we are

Childcare is a public good. The return on investment is high (and VERY well-documented). It benefits children, mothers, families, businesses, and the economy. The lack of a robust childcare infrastructure is a choice the U.S. has made. We could make a different one. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.” The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow. 🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio

We're hiring! WSU anthropology is looking to hire a TT Asst Prof in cultural anthropology, with a health, well-being, or human-environment interactions. This is a great dept with friendly folks! CV and cover letter due by 11/2 wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

Oh cool let’s make it even harder for pregnant women to get through their day. Maybe they should all give up working to focus on…..wait a minute…🧐 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An amazing opportunity with great multidisciplinary colleagues in the wonderful pink city of Toulouse

Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word! #sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

At @ishe-society.bsky.social, we are looking for someone to review @mgurven.bsky.social new book, "Seven decades" for Human Ethology. It looks terribly interesting! DM/email for details (and to get a hard copy 😊) @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"paper argues for the reintegration of mortality into studies of fertility transition by using net reproduction measures rather than total fertility rates. Incorporating mortality provides a more nuanced understanding of demographic transitions & has important implications for population policies"

Unveiling Mexico's Demographic Transitions: "Our spatial analysis reveals a concentric diffusion pattern, where fertility changes spread outward from urban, high-SES municipalities" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An absolute privilege to interview the scientist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy for @hpspodcast.bsky.social She was so generous & honest in talking about the shifts she had to experience in order to 'see' that men could be expert carers of babies #philsci #hps #fathertime

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?...

👋 Create links with the IAST community: either with alumni, or with current research fellows... If you are part of the IAST community and would like to be added to the starter kit, send us a DM! 📩 #FriendsOfIAST 👇 Join the conversation ! 👇 go.bsky.app/5mQmnLF

Even more linguistic-cultural diversity! I am truly grateful for this beautiful experience of fieldwork & learning along with Anja Becker. This is all possible thanks to the hospitality and trust of the community of Dixon Reef, Vanuatu #MULTILING-HIST @erc.europa.eu @heidicolleran.bsky.social

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

The last piece associated with the brilliant team effort to rethink aDNA results and social relations in Neolithic Ireland is in this month’s Current Archaeology magazine with an absolutely gorgeous cover image of Newgrange (credit: Ken Williams) archaeology.co.uk

Mi hapi tumas mo tenkyu long janis blong wok wetem National Museum mo direktor Kaitip Kami mo wetem Kalja Senta long Vanuatu! Hemia daerekt patnasip wetem tim blong @heidicolleran.bsky.social long MPI-EVA we i gat longfala ekspiriens blong mekem risej long Malekula mo ol narafala ples long Vanuatu.

It's time to play, "1900, or 2025?" From: Maria-Sophia Quine, Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe (1996).

Essay which clearly outlines the scientific and ethical problems with selecting embryos for polygenic traits. Scientists associating themselves with embryo selection companies, and those who’ve previously defended sociogenomics but are staying silent on these companies, come in for criticism here

The great Jane Lancaster has passed away. She was a titan and very kind to me all the years I was at UNM. See a tribute from her friend and mine, Bob Hitchcock here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Jane Lancaster (1935-2025), a major figure in the development of human behavioral ecology, passed away yesterday. Jane was on my PhD committee and was always supportive of me and my work. She will be missed. Here is the In Memoriam posted by UNM Anthropology: anthropology.unm.edu/news-events/...

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A wonderful thread on the purposes and value of anthropology by @judithbeyer.bsky.social

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

AMEN: “The main counter argument to pronatalism isn’t/shouldn’t be antinatalism. It’s: “Leave people alone!””

Enjoyable thread debunking population “crisis”-ism. Agree with basically everything.

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.

“there is a particular servitude in parenting without your people”… on the brutal demands of the nuclear family www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“How do we in the 21st century idolise a [family] model that is built on exclusion and patriarchy and call it “God’s design”?” Beautiful short article on the diversity of African family systems www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122 press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

Germany, where a “sofortbezahlung” (instant transfer) requires three layers of password entry/face recognition/payment system selection.

Descartes gave us all the tools we need to survive in an era of misinformation. Simply begin with the understanding that you are real but everything else is fairly likely to be the cruel games of a demon sent to torment you specifically.

Back talking about my favourite topic... www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Today's blog on the days of the week for weddings follows on from our earlier blog on long term changes in the seasonality of weddings (and births) www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/12...

We have a new paper: "intergenerational conflict among females may play a role in the evolution of #chimpanzee #menopause" https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250385

New publication: The transition to adulthood is occurring later, despite the fact that puberty now begins earlier than in the past. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Campop blog #55: Most weddings in the UK take place on Saturdays. @awakelam.bsky.social explains that this is a fairly recent phenomenon, but the rhythms of the working week (as well as costs) have always been important @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...

Here’s the link. Chapters have been available on the Open Science Framework for a while, but have now been nicely packaged by Open Book Publishers #OpenAccess www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Our (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) edited volume Human Evolutionary Demography is now published by Open Book Publishers 🎉 32 chapters completely free to read, including an impressive line-up of researchers working in this area 😊

Here it is, our case study on how to combine a century of deep (and building) archaeological knowledge around prehistoric social traditions with the new and exciting aDNA data, to help avoid interpretive pitfalls. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed the process of writing it 🎁

This 1912 photo of Lise Meitner (right) and Otto Hahn (left) is really striking (src www.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblic...). Of course the one we usually see of Meinter is the one on right with her smoking and looking at the camera like "take the photo already - I have an experiment running."