⚠️ Deadlines are approaching! ⚠️ Interested in disgust and, more broadly, human disease avoidance? 🚨 Two PhD positions are currently open: see thread below 👇

🌴🌞🌊 We are recruiting 🌊🌞🌴 UCSB seeks a lecturer broadly trained across anthropological fields to teach anthropological approaches to health. More info: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03100 UCSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer Expected salary range: $70,977–$98,249

Job alert: University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History (MNCH) is looking for a Director of Archaeological Research Division! Salary $100-115K/year; application review begins May 25. careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

PSA: talk to your cat about sleep hygiene.

Like pokemon, I have apparently collected all of these...

"we can support the social origins of consciousness hypothesis by showing that social pains are more painful than bodily pains, and that social attention is deeply desired and will be sought out even when it increases the risk of bodily pain"

I wrote a chapter on functionalist approaches to identity, taking an evolutionary stance and considering all the problems identity helps to solve (obviously it also causes problems), supported by both formal models and empirical work. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New Open Access book edited by Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social and Wolfgang Wagner on identity and culture. Many great chapter by great folks. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

On my team's recent research, also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, ... megaphone.link/CORU7814697428

Attention anthropology and anatomy colleagues! My student, Emma, and I are conducting a survey on the ethics of human skeletal remains in higher education. We would greatly appreciate your participation—thank you! #anthropology #anatomy #ethics bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Super interesting (short) thread

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

Ants may not have ears, but do you know that they very rarely get sick? It's because of their anty-bodies!

1/ COVER REVEAL 🧵 I'm thrilled to share the US and UK covers for SLEUTH-HOUND: THE CASE OF THE REAL SHERLOCK HOLMES, the untold story of Dr. Joseph Bell—the Victorian surgeon who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to create the world's greatest detective. Pre-order here: shorturl.at/fdGnV

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

cc @etvpod.bsky.social

People claim that psychedelics have been used by Indigenous groups around the world for millennia. But clear evidence of serotonergic psychedelic use has long been confined to the Americas. Until now. Here, we document clear evidence of Indigenous psilocybin use in Lesotho. 🍄 osf.io/preprints/so...

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

cc @bonesholmes.bsky.social

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" — Henry David Thoreau

You've never seen human anatomy like this before. Using a particle accelerator, the Human Organ Atlas is producing 3D scans of our organs in unprecedented detail! You can look through different layers of tissue and even zoom in on the cells for the heart, lungs, eyes, kidneys, and more.

the penne opticon

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

One week to go before the PhD application window closes. Please circulate widely or recommend to good candidates if you know them. Come work with amazing researchers in Archaeology and Game Design in Visby!!!

"Birds see fast enough that TV is a just slideshow of still images but slow enough they can see which direction the stars are moving" is really doing a number on me

Perplexed by the increased visibility of anti-vaccine beliefs in the US? New research on the asymmetry of vaccine activism - conspiratorial worldviews, not partisan identity, drive the gap. Come find us at the @asnpls.bsky.social Research Talks, #MPSA2026, Fri April 24, 1:30 PM! #VaccinePolicy #APLS

On his way to steal yo girl (Provided yo girl is a tan-morph female White-throated Sparrow, since each sex of this species has two morphs that mate disassortatively and function like genders with associated behavioral differences.)

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨 🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢 🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open! 📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health 🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!

Anthropology collections manager position open at our museum! www.usajobs.gov/job/864498000

“Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.” — Carl Sagan

We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

Are you looking for a summer field school? My Neanderthal one is paused right now, but my Macedonian colleagues are at Amzabegovo, one of the earliest Neolithic sites in Europe (and Gimbutas worked here all the way back in the 60s). I can promise fantastic food! www.bhfieldschool.org/program/birt...

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

A positive uplifting video to start the day, discussing the benefits and the stakes. @standupforscience.net

What curiosity does to a species

That's us. All of us. Every single one. Except for those four, every person dead or alive on a vibrant blue marble that we're slowly killing while we rapidly kill each other. What the fuck are we doing?

Ancient children's teeth reveal a syphilis-like disease was spreading in Vietnam 4,000 years ago www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.

Should probably have put this at the top, but: much of this budget is unlikely to come to fruition. Congress has historically rejected Trump's budget cuts to science, including last year when Trump was faring much better in polls and there was no midterm election looming.

Okay, NSF is for some reason under an appendix, but they do have directorate-level numbers. Cuts pretty much across the board, including zeroing out SBE? which I suppose is what would happen with a 54% cut. Also worth looking at those FY26 estimates... www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

-"This budget also a new arctic research vessel for the National Science Foundation" -"a $135 million increase above the 2026 enacted level for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) shipbuilding and unmanned systems (UxS) programs"

Initial WH budget request details for FY27 are out. Not a ton of numbers, but some R&D highlights: -"maintains funding for research in artificial intelligence and quantum information science at key agencies" -"$1.2 billion for AI to support seven AI supercomputers at the Argonne and Oak Ridge."

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

We're launching a new initiative: Primatology Profiles! 📢 Each month, we are interviewing a Primatologist to discuss their work and background, ultimately showcasing who they are and what they do. Our first profile is live, featuring an interview with Prof. Jacob Dunn: www.psgb.org/pages/primat...