Matthew Gervais

A Chough sits on a rocky cliff edge at South Stack Nature Reserve, North Wales.

Job vacancy 🧪
Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru

Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales?

Deadline: 3rd Nov
Location: Flexible within Wales
Duration: Permanent

Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

📷Jake Stephen

With the placement option, this is a two-year MSc for folks looking to pivot INTO Psychology from other backgrounds. I teach qualitative research methods in the first semester. Please share with the psy-curious!

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

I teach mixed-methods on this course & lecture on the evolutionary & cultural science of emotions. We're a motley crew showcasing the full scope of human evolutionary studies: EP, cultural evo, HBE, experimental design, ethnography, computational modelling, history, ethics. Send us your keeners!

UZH: PhD position in evolutionary anthropology and medicine The Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, led by Prof. Adrian Jaeggi, is inviting applications from prospe...

🚨 JOB ALERT!! We're looking for a PhD student to join our group! Are you interested in evolutionary medicine / anthropology? Already have a master's? Apply with your own project ideas! See link: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #EvMed @bioanth.org @ehbea.bsky.social Please RT!

A full rainbow arcs above a shadow-dappled home in England

Rain ahead ✅
Sun behind ✅
Cloudbreak ✅

Two small dogs--or are they a lambdragon and a toadcat?--snuggle in a sunny dog bed beside a space heater resembling a wood-burner

New space heater and the dogs have become fast friends

Sarah Hrdy: Rethinking Maternal Instinct | Live Legacy Interview | MINDinMIND Join us for a special Live Legacy Interview exploring the life and work of Sarah Hrdy, a pioneering anthropologist and primatologist who has revolutionised our understanding of maternal behaviour, att...

On Dec 12, Sarah Hrdy will do a "Legacy Interview" live on zoom. Sponsored by a mental health organization with commentators. There is a fee. Her work is foundational for understanding relationships. I look forward to this event.
mindinmind.org.uk/event/sarah-...

I will never, ever get over this.

Webinar coming up today 👇

Thanksgiving turkey on the ceramic smoker, golden and crisp at the edges

Nice! I planned for almost the same, then managed only a 12hr dry brine and bailed on the rub and the pan bits as the one-year-old wanted to exert his dominance. Still came out alright

What's your approach/set-up for the smoked bird?

He understood the assignment!

Children's wonder is the sustenance we need

Child's colourful marker drawing of a grassy nature scene with four ants on the ground, a caterpillar and a millipede climbing a tall purple flower, and a butterfly and a dragonfly on the wing

Our five-year-old's contribution to the new vibe 🦋🐛🐜🌸

Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

🎉IAS is recruiting🎉

UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):

Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866

Please retweet!

Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

PNAS cultural evolution special feature contents

Lots of cultural evolution content to read in latest PNAS!

www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/121...

Those three brief reports I just posted are part of a larger effort, published in Practicing Anthropology, with lots to dig into,

Advancing Methods in Anthropology: The New Big Tent Guest Editors: A. Wutich, H.R. Bernard, A. Ruth, M. Beresford, and R. Nelson

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpay20/4...

The filming locations for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), in the UK, around London, including Thamesmead, Wandsworth Chelsea and Brunel University; as well as Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshi... The filming locations for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), in the UK, around London, including Thamesmead, Wandsworth Chelsea and Brunel University; as well as Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshi...

If you've seen A Clockwork Orange, you may recognize the Brutalist lecture theatre across the quad: movie-locations.com/movies/c/Clo...

Whispy orange clouds against a blue sky at sunset over the campus of Brunel University of London. Group of men play table tennis in the foreground, other folks cross the quad in the background.

View from the office @brunelcce.bsky.social @brunelpsy.bsky.social. Ungodly 3:45pm sunset but the clouds lifted for a day, anyway 🙏

This is the antithesis of robust & rigorous social science. Social science actually engages w/ real people to better understand aspects of their lives; to challenge seen/unseen assumptions abt behavior/culture/belief/resource accessibility/etc. This is not the work- this is lazy unethical shite

A bronzed smoked turkey on the rack of a ceramic smoker

Dropped £127 on a heritage turkey here in the UK after arranging one with the local butcher but being so happy to have FOUND one that I neglected to ask the price. Nearly fainted when he passed the card reader. Tbh it was probs worth it (dry brined, w applewood & a bit of hickory on the Kamado Joe)

Just picked this up on Audible!

Not coincidentally, Edward Lee's strawberry tamarind ham glaze is the star of my smoked Christmas gammon 💅

💯 Pickles are key to every feast but I lean sweet at the holidays. Wegman's sweet gherkins are a singular holiday flavour for me. Can't get them abroad, so spiced pickled onions are my new go-to in the UK. Edward Lee's chai pickled grapes recipe in Smoke & Pickles makes a solid stand in.

Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

Scientists should stop arguing about whether science is political and get on with defending science against increasingly powerful attacks on it, which, yes, means scientists should be political advocates 🔥🔥
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Abstract submission for the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference closes early this year - 2 December - so make sure not to miss the deadline 😊

1/ 4🧵 Curious about the spiritual community in Glastonbury??
Of course you are so let’s dive into the Spirits and Sources project! 👇✨

Read this in 2017 and was gobsmacked by the parallels and potential prophetic insights. Had forgotten about the 2024 alignment 😳

Gökhan Gonul, @karrineldner and I are editing a special issue in Acta Psychologia on innovation and creativity in children and nonhuman animals - we encourage submissions from diverse perspectives (empirical, theoretical, methodological). Please share widely:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...