The evidence is overwhelming - COVID vaccines #ProtectYouBoth!! True then, true now - equitable, community centered outreach makes a difference in helping pregnant & lactating folks get vaccinated.

New research lead by @marcela-pfaff-nash.bsky.social shows children living in low-resource, rural settings experience intestinal challenges that can persist well beyond early childhood, highlighting the role of globally varying intestinal function for childhood health and development.

Of course this administration, which loves to talk a big game on "health," is trying to protect a pesticide company from legal accountability.

How to explain glyphosate hypocrisy? Bayer’s lobbying and revolving door Here's one place where the MAHA and Food Justice movements agree: on glyphosate.  Here is a post from thefoodbabe (@Vani Hari): LOBBYING This refers to U.S. Right to Know's Bayer lobby tracker. Federal disclosures show Bayer…

Come work with us! And get in touch with any questions you might have about the position, our labs or living/working in Germany #PostdocWanted

🤩PREPRINT OUT! Using our causal model of 👫 growth, we test if model can estimate growth trajectories of pops. of 🚸 of uncertain age using cross-sectional data. Results: our model provide accurate estimates providing a solution for bioarcheological and other contexts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

AI scribes suck. Check your clinical notes, everyone! I’ve had them cite the wrong body part (left vs right) for surgery, state that I have a diagnosis that I’d specifically said I do NOT have, mistranscribe my symptom descriptions, and more! Genuinely dangerous for so many reasons.

It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

🚨🧑🏼‍🔬I’m hiring a postdoc to start in the fall! Come join our growing group here in Bloomington, Indiana. Please apply if you’re interested in climate impacts, extreme heat and health, climate change attribution and any related topic. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32142

How to turn off Gmail's AI "summaries" while retaining the helpful inbox category tabs--finally!

"It's less harmful to me to make sure that they can do the things without the AI than to try and push the AI into my classroom knowing that, at least for some of them, it's going to mean that they don't get to acquire the skills that they need." This this this this this this this this this this 🙏

1 in 200 #polio infections leads to irreversible paralysis. In the 1960s children suffering from irreversible paralysis caused by polio were required to use 'iron lungs' to help them breathe. We don't see these 'iron lungs' anymore today because #VaccinesWork

An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.

The MAHA Dietary Guidelines I: Personal Responsibility vs. Public Health Policy This is the first of a series of posts I will be writing about the new Dietary Guidelines for America, 2025-2030 Yesterday, I gave an overview of the guidelines, finding them cheerful, but muddled, contradictory,…

“The recommendation to limit saturated fats remains intact. Yet the guidelines also encourage people to eat foods higher in saturated fats… “It’s almost laughable that they kept the 10% limit for saturated fat while really pushing red meat and dairy… Good luck trying to circle that square.”

Next week, we welcome @rebeccasear.bsky.social in our Lecture Series. Rebecca will talk about 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #HPBio

EHBEA awarded a workshop grant this year to researchers aiming to strengthen evolutionary approaches to the study of behaviour in Chile & elsewhere in Latin America, as we're keen to use these awards for outreach beyond our usual community. Congrats to the organisers, & hope the workshop goes well 😊

📉 Many countries are seeing falling birth rates—but can rising gender equality reverse the trend? A new study from our centre revisits a major debate in demography and finds a modest fertility rebound at high levels of gender equality. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...

No se pierda este 10 de diciembre de 2025 el workshop en Evolución Biocultural! Estaremos hablando de salud, comportamiento y evolución! 🤓 Link de inscripción aquí 👇 tr.ee/ytgK8OIO7V

@catferna.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Happy to share a comment, together with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, on the need of formal models and a developmental perspective to really understand the relationship between environmental uncertainty and the reproductive behaviour of humans 🤓😉 doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Going against my personal rules to post this, but … Veep is telling us that he likes Grok bc it is most pseudoscientific. ANTHROPOLOGISTS! if you can hear me (and you don’t know this already), Grok will come at you with Phillipe Rushton papers to say you’re wrong about genetics and race.

Lead is leaching into the environment and lurking in our homes. It's in soil, in water, in food, in our housing. And it's poisoning people. The first episode of Untold: Toxic Legacy launches October 22. Trailer here: open.spotify.com/episode/6M4H...

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

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

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/...

ICYMI Notre Dame Anthropology will be hiring a post-doc for 2026-2028. This is part of a university-wide initiative to support early career scholars. Deadline is Oct. 31...sorry for late notice. apply.interfolio.com/171503

Our new paper is now out in SS&M! In a sample of US youth attempting weight loss, we found that those motivated to lose weight because of teasing engaged in riskier weight loss strategies and had higher BP and CRP compared to those citing other motivations authors.elsevier.com/a/1ltOu-CmV5...

Fat shaming is not just morally bad but also bad for your health. Awesome research by @jennifercullin.bsky.social and Kurt.E White.

📢 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 Bluesky rule: you can’t post a figure showing dramatic decline in the TFR without either explaining what TFR can, and can’t tell us, or posting the excellent explainer by @scientificdiscovery.dev on the topic.

A few friendly reminders about autism: - Autism is not inherently a bad thing. - Autism is not a death sentence. - Autism is not a pejorative term. - Autism is not a moral failing. - Autism is not something to shame or ridicule. - Autism is not something to hide. - Autism is not a crime.

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

Thanks to Sandee LaMotte @cnn.com for interviewing me about topics from my new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE with @juliabelluz.bsky.social that will be published tomorrow! www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/h...

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

Climate change is causing excess deaths at every scale, from global trends in the burden of disease down to the number of people who die in the first 24 hours of a heat wave or hurricane.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💙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...

We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

@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/...

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/...

This #RSOS study derives a new theoretical growth model permitting exploration of how genes, diet, and disease, through their effects on body proportions and #metabolism, cause variation in children’s growth trajectories: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @catferna.bsky.social

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

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/...

“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...

Two more weeks to apply! Spread the word and reach out with any questions.