Anne Pisor

Highlighting these postdoc opportunities in the Pontzer Lab at Duke University for #WplusEBSWednesday!

One position is for "Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate", and the other is for "Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN)".

Start date is between Jan 15th 2026 and July 1st 2026.

📢 Reupping this: current & recent federal workers, would love to talk to you about how you're connecting & cooperating across agencies and regions! DM me if you'd like to share and we can switch to Signal. I'll need your name as a source for my records but am keeping folks anonymous in the article 💯

@us.theconversation.com @altnps.bsky.social @altcdc.altgov.info @altusaid.altgov.info @alt-va-comrades.altgov.info @nteunational.bsky.social @altfda.altgov.info

Current & recent federal workers! Are you connecting in new ways with people across agencies this year? I’m writing about it for The Conversation & would love to hear your experiences! DM me if you want to share (& happy to switch to Signal). You can remain anonymous in the article 👍🏻. Please repost!

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...

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...

EHBEA 2026 in Leiden - abstract submission opens soon!

Leiden looking good today ;-)
📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026
⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April
📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance)
For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com

It was a pleasure to chat with Dave & David on @epthepod.bsky.social about all things groups: how people think about groups, when we'd expect to see intergroup tensions, and intergroup dynamics in 2025. Thanks for having me, both!

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...

🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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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)

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👋 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

Mother rhesus macaque with her baby

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

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!):

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

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

I'm co-chairing the reproductive ecology search, and for either search, I'm happy to answer questions about our department, Penn State, and living in PA. We look forward to reading your applications!

#highered #jobopportunity #jobopening #tenuretrack #anthropology #archaeology #anthropologyjobs

The Matson Museum of Anthropology - looking through the window at glass cases with pottery, textiles, and casts of hominin skulls

We're located in State College, PA, a happy medium between city and country. You can live downtown and bike to restaurants and festivals, or live in the countryside with land and quiet -- and either way you're within 15 minutes of campus 💯

The lobby in the Welch Building, with blue and green chairs and museum display cases

Penn State is serious about interdisciplinarity. It's baked into performance reviews, stimulated by seed grants, and central to our research institutes -- they're the extra glue that bring and hold us together 🤝

The sign for the Department of Anthropology, on a wooden wall

Penn State Anthropology is an integrative anthropology program, and we mean it. We do lots of team science with real-world applications -- in a fancy new building! -- and we like to get things done 🔥

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:

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

💙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...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Trump’s Budget Would Clip Bird Banding. Hunters Are Not Happy.

'“Reporting of bird banding from hunters is one of the best citizen science programs that is out there,” said Brad Bortner' - and is slated for a funding cut of 90%:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/s...

Credit: Jon Flobrant. Underneath a blue sky studded with clouds, a river courses through a rocky gorge. From the rocky banks grow evergreens and cottonwoods. In the foreground, the river crosses some rapids before turning left in the distance

What if I told you that your friendships could help protect your local fisheries? In my op-ed in the Scranton Times-Tribune, I talk about how federal funding can support stewardship of US waterways - and how much taxpayers will lose from proposed cuts, including smart stewardship *and* $10bn a year.

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...

Read my op-ed here: www.thetimes-tribune.com/2025/06/13/f...

See the post that inspired it here: bsky.app/profile/anne...

and #SaveNSF!!

@pennstateuniv.bsky.social @psuanthro.bsky.social

Credit: Jon Flobrant. Underneath a blue sky studded with clouds, a river courses through a rocky gorge. From the rocky banks grow evergreens and cottonwoods. In the foreground, the river crosses some rapids before turning left in the distance

What if I told you that your friendships could help protect your local fisheries? In my op-ed in the Scranton Times-Tribune, I talk about how federal funding can support stewardship of US waterways - and how much taxpayers will lose from proposed cuts, including smart stewardship *and* $10bn a year.

Researchers doing infectious disease surveillance in rural Kenyan communities that work closely with animals, including cattle, sheep, goats, and camels. It is common for infectious diseases to spill over from animals to humans and then spread via human-to-human transmission around the globe -- this happens with flu all the time. Image courtesy of WSU Global Health Kenya.

📢 On Friday, the NIH pulled funding for 10 centers monitoring infectious diseases around the globe -- diseases highly likely to cause the next pandemic (1). Let's look at just one of these diseases: Rift Valley Fever, monitored by my collaborators at WSU Global Health Kenya. 🧵

NIH terminates network aimed at stopping pandemics before they start Agency calls research to identify viral threats “unsafe”

Sources:
(1) www.science.org/content/arti...
(2) www.cdc.gov/rift-valley-...
(3) www.science.org/content/arti...
(4) creid-network.org/research-cen...

Shout-outs:
@wsuvetmed.bsky.social
@wsunews.bsky.social
@pennstateuniv.bsky.social
@psuliberalarts.bsky.social
@science.org

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