Eric Shattuck

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky

Our new paper out in American Psychologist.

Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.

Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally

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CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

We're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠

Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology:
"Is disgust a unitary emotion?"

📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!

Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology - Santa Clara, California (US) job with Santa Clara University | 37879320 Seeking for a teacher-scholar with an active field/lab based research program at the intersection of infectious disease/immunology/human growth & dev.

Full time, TT position in Biological Anthropology at Santa Clara University:
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...

Think you’ve got a strong stomach? 😏 What about your immune system?

We, researchers @ki.se @cnrs.fr @swanseauni.bsky.social, are running a real experiment at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö!

We are studying how your body reacts to “eww” moments — from stinky cheese to crunchy insects 🧀🐛 1/2

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

Come work with me! Looking for a vector borne disease biologist, parasitologist, mycologist or environmental microbiologist! Must love teaching & the adventure of research with undergrads!

I'm the chair of this hiring committee- please share widely!

jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology - Penn State - HBES The Department of Anthropology (https://anth.la.psu.edu/) and the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI: https://ssri.psu.edu/) at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park invites…

📢 Job opening: Penn State Anthropology & Social Science Research Institute are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Human Reproductive Ecology
Focus: social & ecological determinants of reproductive health across diverse populations.
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Check out our new paper in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, led by Ian J. Wallace.

"Dampened inflammation and reduced risk of osteoarthritis among non-industrialized societies"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Assistant Professor of Archaeology - Penn State - HBES The Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park (https://anth.la.psu.edu/) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant…

📢 Job opening: Penn State Anthropology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Focus: sociopolitical stratification, human–environment interactions, & evolutionary variability.
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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing ∼74,763 participants

Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Job posting! OU Sociology is looking to hire a TT Assistant Professor or an accelerated TT or tenured Associate Professor, teaching criminology, criminal justice, & race/ethnicity courses. OU is OK's flagship R1, PhD program, 2-2 load with TA help. Please share!

Details: apply.interfolio.com/174925

Hi! We're an interdisciplinary group from Córdoba, Argentina, studying human cognition. The lab is leaded by Dr. Pablo Barttfeld (@pablobarttfeld.bsky.social), and our research focuses on three main areas: consciousness, metacognition & attention. Follow us to get all lab's news!

Payne's Prairire, where you could watch the sunset every evening if you came to UF

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

EHBEACommitteeNominationForm_Pres_Sec.doc EHBEA Committee 2026-2029: Nomination Form The EHBEA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for the following open committee positions for 2026-2029. You are invited to nominate one or more c...

EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀

If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president!

If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary!

DEADLINE: 16/12/2026

HERE IS THE FORM 👇

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bearded Vulture nests found to have hoards of cultural artifacts—some up to 650 years old Many people have probably seen birds picking up small pieces of man-made materials, like strips of a plastic bag or paper litter, and taking them into their nest. This behavior appears to be fairly wi...

phys.org/news/2025-10... Vultures as agents of site disturbance or artifact relocation

Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message "Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”

Before her death, Jane Goodall left us all with a compelling message from her last interviews: While we’re the most 'intellectual animals' to ever walk the planet, "we’re not intelligent."

“Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”

From our friends at @vox.com:

The title page from an old book dated 1828

The first English language account of traditional Native stories written by a Native author, by David Cusick, a Tuscarora.

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Links to the positions (please share widely!):

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psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

📢 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:

I have wrapped up my postdoc and am officially an ex-academic - and now looking for a new role *full-time*!

I’m seeking roles in policy and regulatory spaces, climate strategy, ESG, and similar, ideally based in CA, remote, or outside the US, but I’m open to roles in solid blue states!

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

On a black and white game cam, three javelinas are browsing corn while a raccoon sits on one of their backs. The lighting produces laser-eyes in the raccoon, who is secretly one of the X-Men.

A raccoon knight on a javelina steed. "Onward, Pigasus! Let us show them the meaning of haste". Motion blurred, black and white game cam shot.

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu).

The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?

(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

My first Perspective piece was just published in Science! I discuss the new findings by @amandalea.bsky.social and colleagues showing adaptations to water stress in the Turkana, and the implications of past adaptations for future disease risk.

Interested in cross cultural appearance norms and ideals? This was a great first session at @persbodyimage.bsky.social
Check out these summarised and follow up with the presenters!

#BodyImage
#Anthropology
#HealthPsychology
#PsychSciSky