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Joseph Watts

@josephwatts.bsky.social

Social scientist interested in how human culture, cognition and evolution interact. Psychology Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Personal website: https://josephwatts.org/

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Co-sign 👇 excellent talk covering the anti-racist origins of the field of cultural evolution and giving practical advice on how the field can counter scientific racism

13.02.2025 18:43 — 👍 27    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0
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SoS 224: Dr. John Shaver navigates religiosity, fertility, and family support Play SoS 224: Dr. John Shaver navigates religiosity, fertility, and family support by Human Biology Association on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

Check out this episode of SoS! @johnhshaver.bsky.social speaks about his research and one of the papers from the Evolutionary Demography of Religion project: m.soundcloud.com/humanbiology...

22.10.2024 15:15 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Nigel Groome Studentship: The Psychology of the ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ at Oxford Brookes University Discover a PhD Studentship: Nigel Groome Studentship: The Psychology of the ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!

Fully funded PhD studentship to study the psychology of the 'spiritual but not religious' at Oxford Brookes University. Please share and/or message me if interested.

Applications due: January 17th, 2025

#religion #spirituality #cultevo #psychology #PhD

26.11.2024 10:04 — 👍 17    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1
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‼️⭐ ONE WEEK left to submit ABSTRACTS for EHBEA 2025!! ⭐‼️

🗓️Mon 2 Dec!

We have an exciting conference planned for you at Northumbria, April 14-17! Plenaries by @heidicolleran.bsky.social, @drboothroyd.bsky.social, Christine Caldwell & Susan Carvalho!

See you there! Plz RT 😊
@ehbea.bsky.social

25.11.2024 12:54 — 👍 4    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1
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Announcing a special issue on "Historical Psychology"at Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology

Co-organized by me and @mohammadatari.bsky.social!

Submit your papers to us by September 1st!

07.04.2024 21:07 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Abstract Submission - CES 2024 Conference Abstract submission for the CES 2024 Conference will run from 15:00 GMT on 12th January 2024 until 09:00 GMT on 11th March 2024. Please read the guidance on this page first, and then submit your abstr...

Abstract submission for Cultural Evolution Society 2024 is now open!! Deadline is 11th March is getting cracking to join us in beautiful Durham...

12.01.2024 22:39 — 👍 5    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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PhD Scholarship - call for applications. Come study the cultural evolution of mentalising or religion with me at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
More info: josephwatts.org/2024PhDschol...

10.01.2024 02:45 — 👍 19    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2
Aberdeen Beach on New Years Day

Aberdeen Beach on New Years Day

I'm advertising two awesome macroevolution-y PhD projects (at the University of Aberdeen) with upcoming deadlines:

1. On the global vertebrate pet trade, due Jan 17: quadrat.ac.uk/projects/tra...

&

2. On parental care in fish, due Jan 30: findaphd.com/phds/project...

Join us!

09.01.2024 18:23 — 👍 13    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0

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