Eric Shattuck

Adolescence as a Key Period of Identity Development and Connectedness: A Comparative Autophotography Study in England and Japan - Emily H. Emmott, Yasuo Ihara, Yudai Tokumasu, Mari Nozaki, Atsuko Sait... Adolescence is identified as a key period for identity development, but anthropological literature hints at cross-cultural variations. Past research suggests Ja...

New paper!

What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence?

Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂

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My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15.

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‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

📢🚨 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: We are looking for a few more contributions to a session at the upcoming #SAA2026 in San Francisco 🧪🏺! The session is all about combining plant and animal data in archaeology. DM me if you'd like some more info or are interested! Session abstract in the comments 👇.

What's the deal with electrolyte drinks — do you need them to stay hydrated? Seems like nobody's drinking plain water these days. Electrolyte packets or colorful sports drinks are everywhere. But do you need them?

It was really fun getting texts and calls from old friends that they heard me on NPR this morning! Really enjoyed talking to NPR's @pien-huang.bsky.social about #water needs and #dehydration - have a listen! @psuanthro.bsky.social @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu
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#ResearchFunding opportunity in #HumanEvoultion at the Smithsonian

#AcademicSky #AcademicJobs

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates

Jordan Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social used a sophisticated evo quant gen approach to show that neighboring women enhance each other's fertility among the Tsimane, which accelerates adaptive evolution. This 'social drive' helps explain the rapid pace of human evolution. See thread and paper for more!

top left: most deplatforming by students, administrators and activists. top right: increase in campus deplatforming from 1998-2025. bottom left: most attacks on scholars by students, administrators and activists. bottom right: steep increase in attacks on scholars starting around 2014.

My plot of @thefireorg.bsky.social data. Early on, campus deplatforming was more from the right, then more from the left, & now equalizing at a high level.

Attacks on scholars were rare until 10 years ago, then increased by both sides, w/ a recent steep drop of attacks from the left 🧪 #AcademicSky

Logging nasal airflow over extended periods of time

How you breathe is like a fingerprint

Humans have individually unique nasal respiratory patterns that can predict mood and cognition

The pattern, not only unique to you, can be a marker of your physical and mental state

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints 🏺🧪
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Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world Human activities increase zoonotic disease risk.

🦠 Where future pandemics might start

A new study maps global hotspots for disease outbreaks, showing how climate change, deforestation, and crowded cities are creating the conditions for the next epidemic.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SciComm #GlobalHealth #Pandemics 🧪

“Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house”
— Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)

Artwork by Ursus Wehrli / Keith Haring

This is a long-shot, but do any of my anthro colleagues have longitudinal child growth data to share? I'm looking to give my students data on individual, anonymous kids for them to analyze.

Have 15 mins spare? One of our MSc students from UCL Anthropology is investigating global attitudes to breastfeeding. Anyone can take part, from anywhere in the world!

Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box)

日本語バージョンもあります！

Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Wild orangutans maintain sleep homeostasis through napping, counterbalancing socio-ecological factors that interfere with their sleep Sleep is a vital physiological process that lab-based studies of model species, including humans, have shown is homeostatically regulated—i.e., pressu…

Our new paper is out in #CurrentBiology!

Here we show how wild #orangutans make up for their lost sleep using daytime naps. 😴🦧

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#Primates
#AcademicSky
#Science
#Anthropology
#Biology

SoS 242: Pablo Nepomnaschy on Equity in Maternal Health Research Chris and Cristina interview Dr. Pablo Nepomnaschy, a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. Originally from

New Sausage of Science episode! Chris and Cristina interview Dr. Pablo Nepomnaschy, a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. soundcloud.com/sausageofsci...

Seven Decades An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden

Your next Fall read, my new book: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER

Longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden.

Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 for 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

@princetonupress.bsky.social

Job opening: Collections Editor The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is seeking a full-time Collections Editor for HRAF’s online databases. Position Summary HRAF seeks a knowledgeable and experienced Collecti...

Reminder: HRAF is seeking a knowledgeable and experienced Collections Editor (full-time) to manage document content production for the HRAF’s online academic databases of ethnography and archaeology (eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology).

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Okay science-y friends, who do I know here who studies drug/treatment side effects, adverse reactions, off-label uses and may I email to interview you to ask some know-nothing questions?

DR. NEPOMNASCHY | Reproductive Rhythms: How Stress Impacts Fertility THREADS OF LIFE · Episode

Thanks to Shubhdeep for her invitation to participate in her podcast!

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Meeting

#Medsky

Screenshot of post from X “initial_rhi 8h Everyone in LA, when the Marines get here hand them your screenplay so they leave immediately”

A terrifying escalation:

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer A The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and is one of the UK’s top 15 research-intensive universities. Committed to excellence in all we do, we are growing and investing i...

The University of Southampton seeks to appoint a full-time, permanent Lecturer (A) in Archaeology specialising in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Photo of a fingertip's print in red colour.

😱 NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! 🤯

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Hey, we have an official account! Follow us!

@dohadcanada.bsky.social

Excited to share our edited volume out today free/open access! Sex & Gender:Toward transforming scientific practice brings together perspectives from 40 interdisciplinary scholars on pressing issues including the weaponization of gender & sex impacting us all today. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

I’m trying to find a phrase to describe an important phenomenon: When we fix a problem, we forget it. Pop culture forgets, and the mass media forgets, and young people never learn about the problem or how it was solved. Can you help suggest a name for this phenomenon? Read more here:

BioantTalks BioantTalks A YouTube conference for anthropologists was created by Dr. Vanessa Campanacho. BioantTalks will allow: • Anthropologists to present their research on the comfort of their home/office • N...

Help me grow my channel by sharing and subscribing youtube.com/@bioanttalks... #anthropology #womeninscience #bioant