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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 7d

📢 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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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 19d

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · Aug 14

Calling 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/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 44m

Happy to chat to any #ehbea member about the secretary role

just DM or email me at [email protected]

EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 21h

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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Thomas Pollet @tvpollet.bsky.social · 21h

With the help of some silicon friends, I built an open science escape room (works best on desktop) using Shiny and Shinylive in R. This is for a guest lecture to some 3rd years embarking on their thesis project. Give it a go if that's the sort of thing you like, tvpollet.github.io/shiny_live_o...

a kitten is sleeping in a cage .

ALT: a kitten is sleeping in a cage .

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 21h

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...

docs.google.com

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 1d

8/ for more info read the paper or the lead authors great thread... 🥳

Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 1d

7/ So, if your argument starts with “polygyny creates armies of involuntary bachelors” the numbers don’t back you up. 📝⚠️

a man wearing earrings and a jacket is sitting in front of a city skyline and says #fallontonight

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 1d

5/ Sooo what’s going on?

The authors suggest polygyny often coexists with strong pro-marriage norms which may explain why high-polygyny places don’t show a glut of single men 🧠🧩

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 1d

4/ The authors look at 84.1M census records from 30 countries (Africa/Asia/Oceania), from 1969 to 2016 🌎

Result?

Where polygyny is more common, the share of unmarried men is negative or null, not higher

So much for the “surplus bachelors” trope 🧪📈

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 1d

3/ this demographic model shows many real-world populations are female-skewed enough to support some polygyny without locking men out of marriage 🔍🧮

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 1d

2/ polygyny = one man, multiple wives 💍 (so we're talking about the same stuff)

A popular story is that polygyny leaves lots of men single, which fuels crime and conflict but this data-driven review challenges this 💽📊

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 1/ New paper from CCEs @rebeccasear.bsky.social led by @hggaddy.bsky.social with @anthrolog.bsky.social challenging some common assumptions about polygyny (there are many…)

it's open access 🔓 🧪 @brunelpsy.bsky.social

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market

www.pnas.org

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

www.pnas.org

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 6d

Here the bsky of the new project I’ve just started working on with @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social, @zachhorne.bsky.social, and @johnmartindale.bsky.social at the University of Edinburgh! We will investigate, from a cultural evolution perspective, the spread of heritage-based hostility on social media.

Weaponised Pasts @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to Weaponised Pasts! The website for our investigation into heritage-based hostility is now live at weaponisedpasts.org. Find out more about the project there.

Weaponised Pasts

weaponisedpasts.org

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4d

On 'The Politicization’ of Fertility to Achieve Non-Demographic Objectives', written in 1997: "The use of fertility (& population growth) related arguments to justify policies on matters which cannot be proved to be related to fertility without intervening assumptions is at least as old as Malthus"

The ‘Politicization’ of Fertility to Achieve Non-Demographic Objectives

Published in Population Studies: A Journal of Demography (Vol. 51, No. 1, 1997)

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughtful piece on the distinction between freedom of speech and academic freedom, and how the former is being mobilised to erode the latter:

"Under freedom of speech, the distinction between true and false is irrelevant. Academic freedom is about seeking truth or producing better knowledge"

Knowledges from the classroom | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, ...

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 7d

ACE Teaching Innovation Awards empower scholars to incorporate high-quality cultural evolution course materials into their teaching. This is a great opportunity for those from majority-world countries and ECR academics, but everyone can apply!

culturalevolutionsociety.org/grants-and-a...

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

A useful way to understand your statistical model and the power you might have in your analyses is to simulate data. This ⬇️
https://bsky.app/profile/joelpick.bsky.social/post/3lyv2m74y5c2d
is a tool that can help with that! Designed for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, but based on general […]

Original post on fediscience.org

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

On Tue 30th September, the Frontiers in Social Evolution seminar will be on "Writing for the Public". Info on speakers and how to join here:

Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 9d

Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion

Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371

YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Open call for 3-5 month Early Career Fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/becoming-a-fellow/wiko-early-career-calls/early-career-call-life-and-natural-sciences

deadline Nov 1

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Early Career Call Life and Natural Sciences

www.wiko-berlin.de

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 15d

Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · 22d

Why does Western Paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often use abbreviations? Our new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices using cognitive science experiments. A thread 1/n
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 15d

#HBES2026 abstract submissions are live! More exciting details to come soon.

Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social

@humbehevosoc.bsky.social

HBES2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social · 15d

We’re delighted to share that the 37th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference (HBES2026) website is now live!

#HBES2026

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 16d

Self-promotion (and cultural evolution specific...): acerbialberto.com/IBM-cultevo/

Individual-based models of cultural evolution

acerbialberto.com

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