The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University
📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
29.04.2025 13:58 — 👍 175 🔁 113 💬 4 📌 6
*Excellent* plenary talk by Heidi Colleran on the (inescapable) role of culture in human fertility, and great example of how modeling and empirical work can strengthen each other.
25.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you Heidi!
16.07.2025 20:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Childhood skeletal lesions common in prehistory are present in living forager-farmers and predict adult markers of immune function
Skeletal indicators of childhood stress are associated with cellular indicators of compromised immune function in adults.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Clinically ignored, archaeologically common. Are these holes in the head a thing of the past?
So glad to finally have this award winning research (@paleopathology.bsky.social ) out -- cribra orbitalia and its relationship to health in living Tsimane adults.
16.07.2025 19:50 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.
23.04.2025 21:19 — 👍 4834 🔁 1693 💬 132 📌 122
We present a prospective framework for cognitive neuropragmatics!
Co-authored with:
@copla.bsky.social @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Susanne Triesch-Hermann
Helen de Andrade
Daniela Sammler
14.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
and Broader Impacts statements will now likely be used to identify existing grants for termination...
29.01.2025 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
would that be the SPRF, by chance?
29.01.2025 00:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Archaeologist doing ecology of the past. Fieldwork in Australia, Mongolia, the American Southwest, and sometimes France.
Associate Prof of social-environmental modeling at USU, Fellow at Santa Fe Institute, two Ph.D.s, archaeoecology, endless swagger
Faculty (Penn State), lab director (https://socialitylab.org), entrepreneur. Interdisciplinary anthropologist studying how people use cooperation to manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍
News from the Research Program in Human Evolution at Uppsala University, Sweden // Department of Organismal Biology
https://www.uu.se/en/department/organismal-biology/research/human-evolution/
Prof of Demography & Population Health @oxforddemsci.bsky.social | Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. | Science Communicator 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
Substack: https://jenndowd.substack.com
Doctoral candidate in Archaeology at the University of Bradford researching frailty in medieval non-adults and young adults 🦴🦷
Bones & Zen |
Head of the Human Osteology Laboratory, Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology @ Kiel University
OsteoArchaeologist | Dr. ☠️ Bioarchaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Taphonomy, Palaeopathology & Zooarchaeology | All about skeletal remains & their context.
NO KINGS. NO FASCISTS. FUND SCIENCE.
Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
cultural evolution, behavioral ecology, math models, data provenance, MOSAIC group leader @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology + faculty at the Leipzig School of Human Origins https://babeheim.com/
Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - science reform - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
Assistant Prof @ Social Resilience Lab, Aarhus University
| human decision-making and settlement landscapes | anthro data with lots of computational sauce | ABMs, Bayesian inference |
Professor of Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara. Aging, life history and sociality! Co-Director of Tsimane Health & Life History Project. Website: gurven.anth.ucsb.edu
#hyperscanning
@copla.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @oistedu.bsky.social
Postdoc at MPI-CBS & OIST
nicolashinrichs.de
Anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/heidi-colleran/ Culture | Demography |Reproduction | Population | Existential dread. Humanist and scientist. Writing a book THE FACTS OF LIFE
Evolutionary anthropologist, researcher with BirthRites at MPI-EVA Leipzig. Reproduction, postnatal depression, infant feeding, cooperative childrearing, FGMC.
Ecological anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
David Graeber retweeted me once
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