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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 22h

🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀!
www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸!
🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr
📍Pesthuis
#EHBEA2026

Overview | EHBEA2026

www.ehbea2026.com

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 1d

🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award.

If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply!

DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025

Here is the form👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EHBEA-2026-New-Investigator-Award-nomination-form.docx

2026 NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Self-nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary [email protected]. Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 2026 ...

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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...

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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 7d

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 9d

Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️

If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...

youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...

Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 9d

📢 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:

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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...

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 18d

Writing in the Guardian, @pollytoynbee.bsky.social calls out dangerous supremacism:
“On the Robinson march in London, the great wooden crosses looked like armaments… The marchers’ “Christ is King” flags declared a radicalised ethno-supremacism.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The hard right are claiming the cross – and true Christians should not allow it | Polly Toynbee

British church leaders have finally spoken out about the dangerous rise of Christian nationalism. But their message was far too timid, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 19d

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr

Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Research Fellowships

Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

www.iast.fr

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 22d

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 22d

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 23d

New research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

Gender-biased clustering of attitudes towards physical intimate partner violence: A social network analysis in south-central Ethiopia

Abstract. Changing social norms, shared beliefs about what is acceptable, is a key focus of global health campaigns aimed at ending intimate partner violen

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks David, your comments were really helpful!

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Using large-scale sociocentric network data from Arsi Oromo farmers we find IPV-acceptance clusters occurs among social ties of the same gender, within & beyond households, indicating that interventions targeting both men’s & women's networks will be the most effective in eradicating IPV acceptance

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 23d

New research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

Gender-biased clustering of attitudes towards physical intimate partner violence: A social network analysis in south-central Ethiopia

Abstract. Changing social norms, shared beliefs about what is acceptable, is a key focus of global health campaigns aimed at ending intimate partner violen

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 27d

💙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

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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

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 28d

“The current racist political environment is driven by populism and created by politicians playing the ‘anti-immigration card’ who are unashamedly exploiting those with rightwing and racist views” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Alleged rape of Sikh woman in West Midlands being treated as hate crime

Police hunting for two male suspects who are alleged to have racially abused the victim during the assault

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 29d

#EHBEA

Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 29d

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Sep 9

Cats are not dogs, says science:

"we believe it is time to change our research perspective on cats and find out more about what they can teach us about different ways of evolving mutually advantageous, but independence-based relationships with humans"

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

The biological irrelevance of ‘Cattachment’ – It’s time to view cats from a different perspective

Cats’ interactions with humans were traditionally conceptualized as a less-than-perfect attempt to reach the complexity of the dog-human bond. However…

www.sciencedirect.com

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Sep 7

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.

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!!!!

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I felt doomed’: social media guessed I was pregnant – and my feed soon grew horrifying

The algorithm knew I was expecting before I had had a chance to tell my family, friends or GP. At first, I was served up joyful videos. Then the tone became much darker ...

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · Sep 3

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 31

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?

@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Image from the blog showing 5 solutions to countering scientific racism

1. Introduce students to the complexities of developmental processes
2. Introduce students to the complexities of inheritance processes
3. Explain that variation between racialised groups in behavioural and cultural traits is not caused by genetic differences
4. Debunk scientific racism in school and university level science curricula
5. Acknowledge and contextualised the racist histories of academic fields

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Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looking to do a PhD in demography, health, data science? Oxford Demography (LCDS) is recruiting to fill TWO positions! See Charlie's posts below for specifics.

Come join us in the beautiful (albeit a bit rainy) Oxford!! 👩‍🏫📊🌦️

Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 1

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨

Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:

1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html
2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html

Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

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