Huge fan of this lecture series on YouTube!

Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances? Nope! Does blinding do anything? It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank. haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...

Fascinating longitudinal study in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @alicebaniel.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social and colleagues, providing evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate (gelada) 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Second, a new paper by @matildabrindle.bsky.social and colleagues explores the evolution of kissing. Kissing may date back 21.5 million years, appears across large apes, and potentially occurred among Neanderthals as well! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #WplusEBSWednesdays

Happy #WplusEBSWednesday, folks! This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr . Applications due Dec. 15! Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :) www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

Reminder for this upcoming #WplusEBSWednesday: if you have anything you’d like us to highlight, please fill out this Google Form! We’re collecting recommendations for fun podcasts, books, new articles, job opportunities, and other resources you think would be useful for our community.

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

And finally, Penn State University is also looking for an Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology, "in the areas of Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, or Industrial-Organizational psychology" (3/3) psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac... #WplusEBSWednesday

Second, Washington State University's Anthropology department is hiring an Assistant Professor with a "specialty in cultural anthropology focused on health, well-being, and/or human-environment interactions" (2/3) wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo... #WplusEBSWednesday

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...

I will be reviewing graduate student applications in the Social Psychology Area at Miami University for the 2025–2026 application cycle (Ph.D. start date: Fall 2026). Learn more about the Affective Science & Psychophysiology Lab and how to apply on the “Join Us” tab at www.darwinguevarra.com

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

I’m recruiting #PhD students to join my Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social! We study how infants learn about the natural world from others 🌱 If you’re interested in #devpsych, #EvPsych, and #infantstudies, please reach out and apply! More info below (1/2)

Why does W+EBS matter to @ksheetz.bsky.social? "W+EBS matters to me because every person deserves to feel safe and supported pursuing knowledge, their passions, and career opportunities." (2/2)

Why is W+EBS important to @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social? “W+EBS creates space for women and sexually & gender-diverse scholars to support each other, celebrate one another’s successes, and make our field more inclusive. A community like this feels worth being part of.” (2/2)

👋 And finishing our intros, I'm @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social, the Student Social Media Officer (& a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara)! At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2) #WplusEBS

Exploring careers beyond academia? Our new resource page helps researchers translate their expertise into roles in UX research, consulting, data science & more. Plus: career spotlights, FAQs & curated resources! Learn more: ow.ly/xysa50XgT1I

Why does W+EBS matter to @anthrosarah.bsky.social? “W+EBS & many of the researchers behind it have been incredibly supportive as colleagues & friends. As an anthropologist, it’s especially meaningful to be part of a society that highlights & celebrates the diversity within our own community”(2/2)

Reminder to anyone considering submitting for #HBES2026 and/or #CES2026 that the abstract submission deadline is November 16th!

Why does W+EBS matter to @haneuljang.bsky.social? “W+EBS provides an inclusive community for women and LGBTQ+ scholars, offering a safe environment to share challenges, support one another, and grow together in evolutionary sciences” (2/2) #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

Why does W+EBS matter to @abbeyepage.bsky.social? “It creates a supportive, cross-career network that helps people who can struggle to stay in our field and I think our field really needs diversity to thrive too!” Fun fact: Abbey's "powered by tea and very opinionated spreadsheets” 2/2 #WplusEBS

I’ll have more to say about this paper in a bit, but very excited about it. Helps to explain why punishment doesn’t work to improve cooperation, why people still punish anyway, and what it implies about the evolution of cooperation and criminal justice policy www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I had a great time at HBES 2025 @humbehevosoc.bsky.social! I presented my work on a method we developed that allows us to predict who people will choose as partners 3 months into the future—participants chose romantic partners on their own, in their own mating markets—with zero intervention from us!

Thanks to everyone who came to my #HBES2025 talk this morning! It’s exciting to finally share this work I’m so passionate about!

Join us at the #WplusEBS panel discussion at #HBES2025: "Gender and Identity in the Evolutionary Human Sciences: Challenges to Research and Researchers in 2025" 🗓️June 6th ⏰4:50pm 📍Stockton University Campus Event Room See you there!

🎙️Panel Chair: H. Clark Barrett (he/him) @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social UCLA Anth Prof, Director of UCLA BEC, #HBES President Expertise: Roots of human cog; nature & diversity of moral judgment; Indigenous knowledge & role in evolutionary and cog sci; ethics of evolutionary research & theorizing 5/6👇

🎙️Siobhán Cully (she/her) (@siobhancully.bsky.social) Associate professor of Anth at Rutgers University; former NSF program director Expertise: New perspectives on old debates in evolutionary anthropology, including how disabled people, adopted children, & women contribute to human evolution 4/6👇

🎙️Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam (he/him) (@dconroybeam.bsky.social) Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UCSB Expertise: Am I expert in anything? I guess computational modeling of human mating psychology #HBES2025 #WplusEBS 3/6 👇

🎙️ Dr. Robin Nelson (she/her) (@robinnelson.bsky.social) Associate Professor in the SHESC at ASU Expertise: Social Networks, Kin Investment and health outcomes across the lifespan; methods in qualitative behavioral research, and equity and access in research #HBES2025 #WplusEBS 2/6 👇

Meet the speakers behind our #WplusEBS panel at #HBES2025: “Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences” 🗓️Friday, June 6th ⏰4:50pm - 6:10pm We’re highlighting each panelist in this thread so read on! 👇1/6

Can’t wait to share some exciting new work at #HBES2025! Join me for my talk: “Is Mate Choice Predictable? Using Agent-Based Modeling to Prospectively Predict Successful Blind Dates” 🗓️ Thursday, June 5 ⏰ 10:50 AM Check out my abstract below ⬇️

🚨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_...

⏳ Don’t forget to submit your Qs for the #WplusEBS panel at #HBES2025! “Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025” Help shape the discussion! Submissions are anonymous. pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

👋🏻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’m really excited about this panel: “Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025” Help shape the conversation & submit your questions at the link below! Let’s talk about what attendees actually care about. Repost to spread the word!

For the first 75% of the session, we’ll discuss curated Qs from #HBES2025 attendees. What should we ask? 🙋Submit your questions anonymously here: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #WplusEBS (3/3)

Read our #HBES2025 panel abstract! This panel was co-organized by #W+EBS, the LGBTQ+ Social and Networking Event, and HBES president @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social. What would you like to hear our panel discuss? (2/3)

#W+EBS is excited to announce our panel at #HBES2025: "Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025" Chaired by @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social Moderated by @annepisor.bsky.social Abstract below👇 (1/3)

📣 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 👵🌍

Very proud of my first honors thesis student, Elora Shaw, presenting her work on the effects of dating app usage on mate search behavior at the @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Colloquium.

❗Want to know what W+EBS is all about now? ❗ Check out our updated remit: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 💭 Got ideas for what we should do next? Submit suggestions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WplusEBS #InclusiveScience #EvolutionaryBehavioralSciences

We’ve been quiet, but big things are happening. WEBS is now W+EBS! 🎉 We’ve relaunched with a new name, mission, & platforms. What’s new? - fresh name & logo - broader mission for inclusivity - shift to Bluesky & LinkedIn Stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks! #WplusEBS

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

Thanks 🤩 Paper just accepted today 👀 and can’t wait to explore the many unanswered questions about reproductive and child rearing overlap further ❤️

New paper out in SPPS w/ @jaimiekrems.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1177/1948... People who oppose abortion typically suggest that their position is motivated by concern for the unborn. But is there more going on?

HBES has released a statement with regard to recent US funding changes that are affecting HBES members. See our statement here: www.hbes.com/hbes-executi...

Super interesting research by @bengelbart.bsky.social: "Love may not operate as a commitment device in the classic sense: Rather than disincentivizing one's own pursuit of alternatives, acts of love may disincentivize alternatives from pursuing oneself." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨New paper! I tackle a confound in mate preference research: Are preferences & standards driven by one's own sex or target sex? Two studies show preferences are (mostly) driven by own sex, but overall standards are driven by target sex. Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/0956... #MatePreferences #Research

If you want to understand why we do the things we do, being trained in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives is a pretty good start 😊 excellent thread from CCE's @abbeyepage.bsky.social on our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution, now accepting applications 👇