Update: The deadline for #HBES2026 has been extended to January 16! airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026
29.10.2025 17:34 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0@abbeyepage.bsky.social
Lecturer CCE Brunel in working on all things on reproduction, childrearing, early childhood and social support. Thinks in evolutionary and other frameworks. Secretary of EHBEA. π©·πππ©΅
Update: The deadline for #HBES2026 has been extended to January 16! airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026
29.10.2025 17:34 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Have 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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Happy Monday!
This week, weβre excited to kick off our new series: W+EBS Wednesdays!
Every Wednesday, weβll share helpful resources, recent job postings, and recommendations (podcasts, research papers, books, and more).
Be on the lookout for a new post this Wednesday!(1/2)
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Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
π Meet Kat, our Student Event Liaison!
@ksheetz.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate at Oakland University working with Dr. Lisa Welling, studying social cognition in the context of online dating.
At W+EBS, she organizes and plans social events at HBES and other conferences. (1/2)
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π And finishing our intros, I'm @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social, the Student Social Media Officer (& a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara)!
At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2)
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π Meet Sarah, our Secretary!
@anthrosarah.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
As secretary, she helps connect with the evolutionary social sciences community, planning events and collaborating with the team to shape the future of W+EBS. (1/2)
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The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read
23.10.2025 16:58 β π 37 π 11 π¬ 1 π 0π Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer!
@haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers.
As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2)
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Reminder to anyone considering submitting for #HBES2026 and/or #CES2026 that the abstract submission deadline is November 16th!
23.10.2025 00:00 β π 10 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1π 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)
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'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by π· www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
20.10.2025 19:21 β π 28 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0π Meet Abbey, our Chair!
@abbeyepage.bsky.social is a lecturer in Psych at @brunelcce.bsky.social ! As chair, she sets the agenda and overall direction of W+EBS to best support our members. She arranges and chairs meetings and hosts W+EBS events at HBES and other conferences. 1/2
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π¨ AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT π¨
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
π£ π£ π£
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below π
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
π’ Our new article on relationship between height preferences and endorsement of gender norms.π’
We investigated whether adherence to the 'male taller norm' varied according to gender norm attitudes (heterosexual UK-based participants).
π§΅1/5
π§ͺ #ehbea #psychscisky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
So proud of this work and so grateful for my participants and my incredible collaborators π«Άβ¨
13.10.2025 08:21 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0It was cool to see that Mokyr got the Nobel in economics. @antonhowes.bsky.social has a nice write up here: www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inv...
14.10.2025 07:47 β π 38 π 14 π¬ 2 π 0"a narrow focus on gross fertility measures provides a potentially misleading picture of demographic change. Our analysis of 236 countries from 1950-2023 reveals that when mortality is incorporated through net reproduction measures, our understanding of global fertility changes dramatically"
14.10.2025 21:17 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0Chaotic I can do
13.10.2025 12:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π§ Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? π΅
π¨ The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards.
π Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
could just take the same vibe of your slides??!
13.10.2025 09:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I will 100% contribute inane thoughts about statistical inference
13.10.2025 09:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm so excited by this ππ
I love teaching and creating content that turn #idon'tdomaths students data freaks π€©π
I mean it's the study of people and there is always people about....
my logic is solid
the leads in ONE DAY, three panels em: Hey. people will always need anthropologists <dex laughs> <em laughs>
i am sick in bed watching ONE DAY which I hadn't seen and I feel like this little exchange should have been an academic meme
13.10.2025 00:30 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1π¨ AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT π¨
EHEBA is calling for the Service to the Community Award π
Do not hesitate to nominate someone that you know has contributed in the strengthening of our community beyond their research!
Deadline: December 19th, 2025
Here is the formπ
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
π§΅ 1/ Excellent and impactful work from CCE second in command @loraadair.bsky.social published in the New Metro over the weekend about Outcry Witness
Itβs an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories.
No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words π£οΈπ‘οΈ
π€© Methods, stats and critical thinking is getting a massive overhaul at @brunelpsy.bsky.social thanks to the hard work of CCE @willgervais.com @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social πͺπ
13.10.2025 07:36 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers π in #QuantitativeSocialScience!
It comes with smart and lovely colleaguesπ, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions π§
Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...