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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Jul 2

So pleased to have won this award. Thank you @ceciliapad.bsky.social @gregoryfiorio.bsky.social @ruthmace.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social

Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Jun 26

The winners of the HBES Margo Wilson Award (best paper in E&HB the previous year) are Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Gregory Fiorio, & Ruth Mace for the paper “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures”. Congratulations!
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Redirecting

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Jun 17

So brilliant this piece by @ceciliapad.bsky.social about how human societies have often been so flexible that political hierarchies can change with the seasons, literally. www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...

How Societies Morph With the Seasons

An anthropologist chronicles radical changes foragers undertake seasonally—and how the rigidity of industrialized societies is an anomaly.

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Apr 25

Made an attempt to add some nuance to the recent debates on cousin marriage unherd.com/2025/04/stop...

Stop worrying about cousin marriage

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Mar 30

We have made it to Lake Turkana @ceciliapad.bsky.social @asociacionbiomas.bsky.social

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Mar 25

I’m just a girl, standing in front of Turkana Boy, asking him to love her @ceciliapad.bsky.social

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Mar 24

Congratulations 🥳

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Feb 14

Animal dance video of the month however vm.tiktok.com/ZNd16d671/

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Jan 16

So much in here incl: "five marriages in which both partners descend from the founding female. However, these partners have no recent relatedness...suggesting the people had a deep knowledge of their own genealogies...used to guide marital arrangements among a pool of related groups"
rdcu.be/d6m8T

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain

Nature - An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jan 11

Why do 70% of Pashtuns say that honour killings are justified?

The UNFPA estimates that 5000 women are killed every year over ‘honour’.

Is this related to cousin marriage?

Tremendous new paper, combining surveys & DNA!

www.ggd.world/p/does-cousi...

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 19

He throws randomised controlled trials under the bus too

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 19

The funniest part in this has to be Angus Deaton answering the question on whether there is a theory that is widely supported by his peers but which he considers total bunkum with: "that causality can be inferred from data"

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Dec 19

We return to ask some stupid questions of the smartest people on Earth and, once more, our Nobelists oblige.

www.the-fence.com/nobel-endeav...

Nobel Endeavours II

Cats or dogs?

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 17

Flattered to have produced a real LOL. Have a read of my piece in @thefence.bsky.social and all the other lolworthy bits.

Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · Dec 14

One of maybe twenty lines in new @thefence.bsky.social that made me laugh out loud while waiting for a 1.5hr delayed doctor’s appointment (what I’m saying is, I was not primed for laughter, it is a VERY funny magazine)

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 6

Thank you!

Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 5

Could you add me

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Dec 3

Issue 22 is here 🧊

With writing from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social, Clive Martin, Gary Grimes, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social, @natalie-berry.com, Stephen Smith, Falty DL, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Olympia Campbell & more

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 3

Of course and thank you for sharing! I am probably overly cautious as an evolutionary person of coming across as deterministic or reactionary etc etc

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 3

May I clarify that this is a piece about evolutionary explanations for falling fertility. It is certainly not a piece about this being an evolutionary crisis! (Also ‘crisis’ in title is not my choice and I am not in the game of knowing the extent to which we face a ‘threat’/‘crisis’/‘challenge’)

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · Dec 2

interesting to see some of the easy, soundbite length explanations for falling birthrates challenged with counter-examples.

no definitive answers found here, but I always enjoy a good read in the category of “this seems obvious, but is it?”

Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 2

Adding to the noise on why birth rates are falling - a question that continues to stump the human evolutionary sciences unherd.com/2024/12/the-...

The truth about the fertility crisis

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thank you! :)

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 2

Adding to the noise on why birth rates are falling - a question that continues to stump the human evolutionary sciences unherd.com/2024/12/the-...

The truth about the fertility crisis

unherd.com

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Nov 29

The salmon hat article has that something something

Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · Nov 28

Hat, hat, salmon hat, salmon hat, hat made of salmon, hat made of a salmon which is a fish, after 37 years

www.sequencermag.com/salmon-hats-...

Salmon hats are back, baby!

We've waited 37 years for this moment.

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · Nov 29

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone

The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

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Jeanne Bovet @jeannebovet.bsky.social · Nov 28

We’ve extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the #EHBEA2025 conference (of course we know you’re still running your analyses😉)! New deadline: 16/12 www.ehbea2025.com
@ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych

a cartoon sheep says `` you 're welcome '' while standing next to another sheep .

Alt: Timmy from Shaun the Sheep says ``you're welcome''

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thanks to my fab collaborators and PhD supervisor @ceciliapad.bsky.social @gregoryfiorio.bsky.social
Ruth Mace

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Nov 18

Lots more in the paper including evidence that this relationship also holds between regions within countries, discussion of why it doesn’t hold with other measures of kinship intensity such as the kinship intensity index, and discussion of why our associations may be sex biased

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